ORI Conference | University of Minnesota

Conference on
Challenges and Tensions in International Research Collaborations

Speakers

	Ibrahim Abdel-Messih is a medical research scientist of the clinical epidemiology unit of the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Cairo, Egypt. He is also a consultant to the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean Rotavirus Surveillance Network. He has collaborated in Libya, Sudan, Morocco, Pakistan, Yemen, Jordan, Oman, Djibouti, Turkey, Qatar and Ghana.
	Philip G. Altbach is Monan Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. He serves as the editor of International Higher Education and as guest professor at Peking University in the Peoples Republic of China. Among his books are The International Academic Profession, and International Higher Education: An Encyclopedia. He was the project director of the Carnegie Foundation International study of the academic profession. He has worked in India, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, the UK, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.
	Kumar G. Belani is Professor of Anesthesiology at University of Minnesota. His research is in the areas of pediatric anesthesia and transplantation anesthesia, and he is the editor of Practical Reviews in Anesthesiology. He has collaborated in India, Japan, France and Austria.
	Richard Bianco served as Assistant/Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota from 1998 to 2007. He is a primary architect of the integrated compliance program at the University. He oversaw research compliance, including the Research Subjects Protection Program, served as the Institutional Official for Human Subjects Protection and the Animal Care Program, and directed the conflict of interest management program for the University of Minnesota. Richard Bianco is also Director of Experimental Surgery and Executive Vice Chairman of the Department of Surgery in the Medical School. He has been involved in research collaborations in Brazil, Israel, Denmark, Germany, Austria and the UK.
	Alexander Capron is University Professor at the University of Southern California, where he holds the Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics, and is Professor of Law and Medicine. He was the first director of Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Health Law at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He has served as the President of the International Association of Bioethics and Vice President of the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
	Robert Clark is Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Rochester. His most recent research is in the area of bionanoscience, specifically the development of instruments for the exploration of single-molecule mechanics and the control of materials at the nanoscale. He has been involved in collaborations in Australia, Germany, Taiwan, Switzerland and the U.K.
	Tianhong Cui is the Nelson associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research is in the area of nanotechnology, specifically micro/nano electro mechanical systems. He has collaborated in China, Germany and Japan.
	F. Gray Handley is the Associate Director for International Research Affairs at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health. In this position, he plans, oversees and coordinates NIAID's international policies and activities. He has served in similar positions at two other NIH Institutes, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Fogarty International Center. He also has been a Public Health Advisor in the U.S. Department of State and at WHO. From 2001-2006 he served as Health Attaché at U.S. Embassy Pretoria (South Africa) and Southern Africa Regional Representative for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). From 1992-1998 he served as Science Attaché at U.S. Embassy New Delhi (India) and HHS Representative in Southern Asia.
	Elizabeth Heitman is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Her research and teaching focus on ethical, cultural, and religious aspects of medicine, biomedical science, and public health. She is principal investigator of an NSF-sponsored study of international science graduate students’ experience of US standards of ethical research and heads a program sponsored by the Fogarty International Center to develop a collaborative research ethics education program for Costa Rican investigators and research ethics review committees.
	Emi Ito is Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Director of the Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota. Her research is on the reconstruction of past climate. Her recent NSF-supported work has been on interaction between hydrochemical evolution and environmental change on the Tibetan Plateau. She has collaborated on research projects in China, Mongolia, Argentina and Uruguay.
	Jeffrey Kahn is the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. He served as the Associate Director of the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. His research is in several areas of bioethics, including ethics in relation to human subject research, genetics, and biotechnology, as well as research ethics. Dr. Kahn has been involved in collaborations in China, Japan, Israel, Switzerland, Australia and Canada.
	Greg Koski is Senior Scientist in the Institute for Health Policy and an Associate Professor for the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He served as the first Director of the federal Office for Human Research Protections, where he remodeled the U.S. system for protection of human research subjects. Dr. Koski is on the Board of Trustees of the International Association of Clinical Research Professionals and the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians, where he serves as Vice President for Ethics and Professional Conduct.
	James Leckie is Professor of Environmental Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences at Stanford University. He has held a chair professorship at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His research is in the area of environmental chemistry with special emphasis on surface-chemical phenomena in aqueous systems. Dr. Leckie has collaborated in Singapore, China, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Canada, Korea and Germany.
	Stewart Lyman is owner and manager of Lyman BioPharma Consulting LLC. Dr. Lyman was previously Director of the Extramural Research program at Immunex Corporation. His group oversaw more than 2500 collaborations with over 1000 scientific research groups at institutions worldwide.
	Joseph Malone currently serves as Special Assistant for Research Program Integration and Mission Development to the Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy. Prior to this assignment, he was a medical officer, infectious diseases consultant, and laboratory director at the U.S. Department of State. He is the former Director of the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS). Dr. Malone has led extensive research collaborations in Egypt, Turkey, Djibouti, Yemen and Jordan.
	Patricia Marshall is Professor of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve. Her research has focused on multiculturalism and the application of bioethics practices, international research ethics and informed consent, HIV prevention among injection drug users, procurement practices for organ transplantation, and clinical ethics consultations. She has served on the executive board of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and the Society for Medical Anthropology. Dr. Marshall's research has involved India, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.
	Camille Nebeker is Director of the Division of Research Affairs at San Diego State University. She is responsible for oversight of research compliance and support programs for the research community, which involves development and implementation of institutional policies and practices to enhance the responsible conduct of research. She is principal investigator on federally funded projects (NIH and PHS), which focus on research integrity and ethical research practices. Her presentation will draw on her experiences with collaborations in Mexico, Russia, Thailand, South America and China.
	Jun Ni is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Deputy Director of the NSF-Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, and Co-Director of the Multi-Campus NSF Foundation Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems. He is an elected member of the advisory board for the Ministry of Science and Technology in China, and a member of the external review board of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has collaborated in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
	Prem Pais is Dean and Professor of Medicine at St. John's Medical College in Bangalore, India. He is the Academic Head of the Medical School. He is also the Head of the Clinical Trials Division at St. John's Research Institute. His research interests include epidemiology, clinical trials and prevention of cardiovascular disease.
	Marguerite Pappaioanou is the Executive Director of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. Her former appointments include Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota, Acting Deputy Director in the Office of Global Health at the Center for Disease Control, and Associate Director for Science and Policy at the Centers for Disease Control. She has collaborated in Malawi, South Africa, Kenya, Thailand, the Philippines, Bolivia, and Cameroon, with programmatic responsibilities in many other countries.
	Jonathan Ravdin is the Dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Ravdin is the former Nesbitt Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Special Advisor to the Dean for Strategic Development at the University of Minnesota Medical School. His current research focuses on mucosal immunity to amebic infection. His laboratory has numerous international field sites, including Egypt and South Africa.
	Barbara Sina is a program officer in the Division of Training and Research at the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, where she focuses on training both U.S. and international students for collaborative research. Her research is in the area of tropical diseases. Dr. Sina's work has spanned countries throughout Africa, Asia, South America and other parts of the developing world.
	Andy Stainthorpe leads the UK Research Integrity Office which provides support to the UK Research Integrity Panel. Before taking on this role he was research governance lead and Manager of Research Support Units with teaching hospitals with the UK National Health Service in Bristol and Salisbury. He has research interests in economics of Healthcare provision and in research policy development. He represented the UK in the OECD Global Science Forum initiative, leading work through the Co-ordinating Committee for Facilitating International Research Misconduct Investigations, drafting the model agreement for handling misconduct that all international research cooperative agreements to adopt. He was also rapporteur for the Expert Group to advise the European Commission in general and the EC Research Directorate. He is also set up and currently leads the European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO).
	Twila Tardif is Professor of Psychology and Faculty Associate in the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr. Tardif is also the Program Director for the Center for Human Growth and Development. Her research concerns relationships among language, culture and cognition, including early language learning in Mandarin and Cantonese. She has international research experience in China and Japan.
	Birgit Whitman leads the Research Governance Team at the University of Bristol. Dr. Whitman came to the UK from Germany and has worked for the Leonard Cheshire Foundation and the National Health Service prior to her appointment at the University. Her special interest is in the area of vascular and breast surgery, the history of medicine and research administration. She has experience of working with collaborators in the UK and other European countries (Germany, Belgium, Spain), New Zealand, South Africa and the US.