Clinical Research Conference Articles

Special Report: "The Crisis in Clinical Research"
Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the AFMR
April 14, 2009 in Washington, DC
Table of Contents

Where Do We Go? The State of Clinical Research in America
Alan L. Buchman, MD, MSPH, President, American Federation for Medical Research
Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Putting the Crisis into Perspective - the Investigator
Samuel Klein, MD, William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science
Washington University School of Medicine

Sharing My Story
Sabine Miller

Crisis in Clinical Research: Educating and Empowering Consumers to Question and Speak
Fran Drescher

The Crisis in Clinical Research: Encouraging Youth to Pursue Clinical Research by Publicizing the "Public Good"
Darrell Kirch, MD,, President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges

Crisis in Clinical Research: Panel Discussion I

The Impact of the Crisis in Clinical Research on New Drug Development
Barry Gertz, MD, PhD, Senior Vice President for Clinical and Quantitative Science
Merck & Co., Inc.

The Crisis in Clinical Research: Research and Ethics: The Industrial – Institutional - Investigator Interface
Timothy O. Lipman, MD, Chief, GI-Hepatology-Nutrition Section
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine

The Crisis in Training and Education a Future Generation of Clinical Investigators
Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, Dean, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

The Crisis in Clinical Research: Dollars and Sense: How Clinical Research Adds Up
Kevin A. Schulman, MD, Professor of Medicine and Business Administration
Duke University Medical Center

Crisis in Clinical Research: Panel Discussion II

The CTSA; What They Are and What They Will Accomplish for Whom
Anthony Hayward, MD, PhD, National Center for Research Resources, NIH

The FDA: Our Role in Clinical Research
Douglas Throckmorton, MD, Deputy Director Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA

The USDA: Our Role in Clinical Research and Commitment to a Healthy Lifestyle
Molly Kretsch, PhD, Deputy Administrator for Nutrition, Food Safety, and Quality, Agricultural Research Service, USDA

The DOD: More Than Just Protecting Our Troops
Ms. Ellen Embrey, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

In a World of GPS, Why a Roadmap and Is Translational Research a Two-Way Street?
Lawrence A. Tabak, DDS, PhD, Acting Deputy Director, NIH

Funding Clinical Research and Our National Priorities
Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA)

Crisis in Clinical Research: Panel Discussion III