Programme

OVERVIEW

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Pre-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME


 


Learn all the latest policies, critical issues, industry developments and strategies to enable you to maintain the highest ethical standards in healthcare research through our 6 unique tracks.

Tracks
 
(1)
Institutional Review Board / Ethics Review Board
 
 
This track is designed to provide a common platform for IRB / research ethics professionals to share their concerns, problems, strategies, and useful innovations pertaining to ethical review of human subject research. The sessions in this track will cover imperative issues from IRB framework and review tools, IRB education, accreditation, and self-assessment.
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Quality Management & Quality Improvement in Research
 
This track will provide an opportunity to learn and discuss how Quality Management and Quality Improvement (QM/QI) program can promote and improve compliance among investigators, IRBs and other research administration offices. This track will also deliver the practical knowledge of conducting and preparing for audits and developing and implementing a QM/QI program
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Regulatory & Legal Issues in Research
 
This track will provide an opportunity to learn and discuss the concepts and fundamentals of regulations pertaining to human subjects’ research, with representatives from various regulatory agencies in Asia Pacific. At the same time, the track provides an opportunity to enhance knowledge on the various legislations and legal requirement pertaining to human subject research in the Asia Pacific.
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Industry & Clinical Research Professionals
 
This track covers issues related to the planning and conduct of research, especially of complex clinical trials. The sessions will discuss study start-up, subject recruitment and retention in research. It also covers ethical and responsible conduct of research, good clinical practices, training and education for clinical research professionals from the perspective of both Sponsors and Sites (Investigators and Research Coordinators).
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Population Requiring Additional Protections
 
This track aims to provide an understanding of the concept and definition of vulnerable populations. The track will also introduce the delegates to non-conventional vulnerable populations. It will also discuss the key conceptual and ethical problems that may arise in research with vulnerable populations, and how extra protection can be implemented to protect population requiring additional protection.
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Hot Topics in Research Ethics
 
This track will cover in greater depth on a wide range of pressing issues in research ethics. The sessions are designed to cover a spectrum of crucial topics such as informed consent, special concerns in social and behavior research, research involving complementary medicine, tissue banking for research, phase I research and other issues that are avidly debated at all stratum of research ethics platform.
 

For more enquiries on programme, please email enquiries@aprec-nhg.com.sg