John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor; Assistant Faculty Director of Online Education
Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBe, is the John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She is also Assistant Faculty Director of Online Educationin the Department, helping to lead Penn’s first online master’s degree, offered in health care innovation. Professor Fernandez Lynch’s scholarly work focuses on the ethics and regulation of research with human subjects, including payment to research participants, research with biospecimens, the use of social media in research settings, patient-engaged research, research risks to bystanders, and IRB effectiveness. She is also conducting a new line of research as a Greenwall Faculty Scholar, focused on pre-approval access to investigational products outside of clinical trials. She is the founder and co-chair of the Consortium to Advance Effective Research Ethics Oversight (www.aereo.org), established in 2018. Professor Fernandez Lynch served as member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) from 2014-2019 and continues to serve on a SACHRP subcommittee. She will join the PRIM&R Board in 2020.
Monday, November 18
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Monday, November 18
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Tuesday, November 19
10:15 AM – 11:30 AM