Discussion Topic: MRCT Center Faculty Director, Dr. Barbara Bierer, MRCT Center Executive Director, Sarah A. White, MPH and MRCT Center Senior Advisor David Strauss, MD discussing “The IRB’s Role in Achieving Diversity in Research” at the PRIM&R webinar “”The IRB’s Role in Achieving Diversity in Research.”
Discussion Topic: MRCT Center’s Leaning In webinar: Study Conduct (Recruitment, Retention). Our moderators included RADM Richardae Araojo, Associate Commissioner for Minority Health and Director of the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and MRCT Center Program Manager Laura Meloney, MSc, MPH. Guest speakers were Quita Beeler Highsmith, MBA, Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Genentech, and Anne Marie Inglis, PhD, Senior Director, Global Development Operations at Mallinckrodt.
Discussion Topic: The MRCT Center Leaning In webinar: Role of Data in Diversity: Genetics and Real World Data held on February 10, 2021 from 11am – 12noon ET. Our moderators were MRCT Center Faculty Director, Barbara Bierer, MD and Luther Clark, MD, FACC, FACP, Deputy Chief Patient Officer at Merck. Our guest speakers will be Nicole Richie, PhD, Global Head, Health Equity and Population Science at Genentech Roche and Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. cs