Walter E. Washington Convention Center

Jun 15, 2025 7:00 AM - Jun 19, 2025 3:00 PM

801 Allen Y. Lew Place, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3614, USA

DIA 2025 Global Annual Meeting

Research in Participants with Progressive Cognitive Impairment: Best Practices for Ensuring Continuing Informed Consent

Session Chair(s)

Karla  Childers, MS

Karla Childers, MS

Head, Bioethics-Based Science and Technology Policy

Johnson & Johnson, United States

The session will describe informed consent in research participants with cognitive decline, discussing behavioral cues and consent/assent requirements for ethical practices when participants lose the ability to provide informed consent during a study

Learning Objective : Understand the ethical and operational challenges of engaging participants with cognitive impairment; Describe ethical options for retaining participants with cognitive impairment in clinical trials; Review best practices for informed consent/ caregiver consent/participant assent when the ability to give consent is lost during the course of a trial

Speaker(s)

Linda  Reuter, MS

Sharing an IRB Perspective

Linda Reuter, MS

BRANY IRB, United States

Senior Director

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