Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research
Boston, Massachusetts
Elisa A. Hurley, PhD, is the executive director of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), leading the organization in the execution of its mission to advance the highest ethical standards in the conduct of research through educational, professional development, and public policy programs that serve the human subjects protections and animal care and use communities. In addition to directing the strategic, programmatic, and operational activities of the organization, Elisa writes, lectures, and teaches on a range of issues in research ethics. Prior to arriving at PRIM&R in December 2010 as its education director, she was an assistant professor of philosophy at Western University in London, Ontario, where her research and teaching focused on biomedical ethics, metaethics, and moral psychology. Elisa received a BA in philosophy from Brown University, a PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University, and held a Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. She is most recently author of “Modernizing the Common Rule: Public Trust and Investigator Accountability” in the American Journal of Bioethics (2017) and co-author of a chapter on public trust and biospecimens research in Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications (MIT Press, 2017). Elisa is a long-serving member of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute IRB, and is currently co-editing the 3rd edition of IRB Management and Function (Jones & Bartlett), forthcoming fall 2020.
Monday, December 12, 2022
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET