Current Grants

PA-R01 #050633 (Gong, Michelle, P.I.)
8/4/06-7/31/11
NIH, Surrogate Consent in Research This project examines the attitudes of patients and surrogates to allowing surrogate consent for research. This part of the study is conducted by asking for their responses to various protocols that would accept enrollment with only surrogate consent. The study also survey IRB policies for accepting surrogate consent to research. 

R01HL073387, NIH, Community VOICES (2): Community Views on Informed Consent in Emergency Situations (Richardson, Lynne, P.I.)
4/1/07-3/31/12
This project builds on a previous study of community attitudes towards research without informed consent. It aims at developing guidance and tools for conducting community consultation in emergency research without informed consent. 

RFA-RM-08-030 (Rhodes, Rosamond, PI)
9/24/09-8/31/2011
NIH, Office of the Director (OD) & National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) "Human Microbiome and the Social Fabric" This project brings together an interdisciplinary team of 25 academics and clinicians to develop policy recommendations related to issues raised by human microbiome research and to produce a book for informing researchers and the public about these issues. The Oxford University Press will be published this volume. 

1U34 DK084544-01 (MPI McGinn, Jabs)
07/01/09 - 06/30/11
Primary Care Provider Education on Common Disease Genetics The goal of this planning grant is to develop and evaluate a multi-component intervention to improve the education and communication skills of primary care physicians and patients regarding the genetics of complex adult-onset diseases.