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Grand Rounds: Charles Weijer, MD, PhD to present on “Addressing vulnerability in cluster randomized trials involving people living with dementia in nursing homes”
Join us for Grand Rounds on November 17, 2022 at 12pm ET. Dr. Weijer will present on “Addressing vulnerability in cluster randomized trials involving people living with dementia in nursing homes.”
Thursday, November 17, 2022
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
Charles Weijer, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Philosophy
Dr. Weijer is a leading expert in the ethics of randomized controlled trials. From 2008 to 2013 Charles co-led a collaboration that produced the first international ethics guidelines for cluster randomized trials. His current work explores ethical issues in pragmatic randomized controlled trials that evaluate health interventions in real-world conditions to better inform patients, health providers and health systems managers. Charles led the writing team for the World Health Organization guidance on “Ethical Considerations for Health Policy and Systems Research,” published in 2019. In 2020, he served on the WHO Working Group for Guidance on Human Challenge Studies in COVID-19. He is currently a member of the Peruvian National Academy of Medicine Committee on Clinical Trials in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries. Charles held the Canada Research Chair in Bioethics from 2005 to 2019, and, in 2016, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
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Meeting ID: 973 4481 0673