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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
OFFICE OF RESEARCH ETHICS
TO: Ms. Alison Watt, Director
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FROM: Bruce Whittlesea, Chair
University Secretariat
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Research Ethics Board (REB)
RE:
Annual REB Senate Report
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DATE: September 21, 2004
2003/2004
Dear Ms. Watt:
In accordance with Policy R20.01, "Ethics Review of Research Involving Human
Subjects", section 3.6, I am submitting, on behalf of the Research Ethics Board, the annual
report to Senate. The report spans the time frame September 1, 2003 to August 31, 2004.
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Annual Report to Senate
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September 1, 2003 - August 31, 2004
Regular meetings are held on the third Monday of each month. The REB
(Research Ethics Board) Web site is located at:
http: I Iwww.sfu.calvp-research /
ethics/ index.hti-n
SFU Policy R20.01, "Ethics Review of Research Involving Human Subjects",
defines the REB as 12 voting members and the Director of the Office of Re,search
Ethics (DORE) as an
ex-officio
non-voting member. The 12 voting members are
composed of six members elected by each Faculty, 3 members elected by Senate
from the university at large, who may be faculty or staff, one student member
and two members elected by Senate from the community outside the university.
Members
Faculty Members (elected by Faculty)
Applied Sciences:
Charles Krieger (Vice-Chair)
School of Kinesiology
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Arts:
John McDonald
Department of Psychology
Business Administration:
Steven Kates
Bruce Whittlesea (Chair)
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Education
Vacant
Science:
Lynne Quarmby
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Three Members from the University Community At Large (Faculty or Staff)
Felix Breden
Biological Sciences
Adrienne Drobnies
Research Grants Facilitator
Faculty of Science
Maureen Hoskyn
Faculty of Education
Student Member:
Spencer McGrath
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
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Research Ethics Board
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Two Members from the Communit
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Outside of the University
Lynne Kennedy
William (Bill) Melville
Director, Office of Research Ethics
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Ethics Officer
Hal Weinberg ?
Barb Ralph
Resignations from the REB
Joanna Lemay, student member, resigned January 2004.
John Lowman, member of the University community at large, resigned June
2004.
Expiry of Term
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Bruce Brandhorst, Faculty of Science member, term expired May 2004
Rick Iverson, Faculty of Business member, term expired May 2004
Daniel Cohn, Faculty of Arts member, term expired May 2004
Re-appointed
Adrienne Drobnies, Faculty of Science
Lynne Kennedy, Community at large
Charles Krieger, School of Kinesiology
Bill Melville, Community at large
Bruce Whittlesea, Department of Psychology
Minimal Risk Applications Approved by the REB September
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to August 31, 2004
Faculty -116
Graduate Students - 173
Undergraduate Students - 67
Post Doctoral - 3
Staff - 6
Other - 4 (these include visiting professors, visiting students, research associates)
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Research Ethics Board
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Non-Minimal Risk Applications Approved by the REB September 1, 2003?
to August 31, 2004
faculty —6; graduate students —1
Courses Approved by the REB under Policy R20.01
The REB approved 40 course applications from September 1, 2003 to August 31,
2004.
Conscience
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Science: A Forum on Biotechnolog
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, Ethics and the Future -
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Up date
Conscience & Science: A Public Forum on Biotechnology, Ethics and the Future
was held at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue on April 28 and 29, 2004. The forum
focused on bridging the gap between the implications of cuffing edge research on
humans, and the concerns of thoughtful lawmakers and scientists with respect to
the current, potential and historical dilemmas of research ethics. Speakers
included Sir John Sulston, Ph. D, (Nobel laureate and author); Senator Wilbert
Keon, MD, FRCS©; (Cardiac Surgeon); David Suzuki, Ph.D. (Emeritus professor,
U BC); Arthur Kroeker, Ph.D. (Canadian Research Chair BC Cancer Agency);
Donald Riddle, Ph.D., (Chief Scientific Officer, Genome BC); Barry L. Beyerstein,
Ph.D. (associate Professor, SFU); Maureen McTeer, MA, LLB, LLM (Health)
(Barrister and Solicitor); Eugene Oscapella, LLB, LLM (Barrister and solicitor);
David Bollier (Author, Senior Fellow, Normal Lear Centre for Communication,
USC); Barbara McGillivray, MD, FRCS©, FCCMG (Professor, Medical Genetics,
U BC); Hal Weinberg, Ph.D. (Director of Office of Research Ethics, SFU, Emeritus
Professor, Kiniesiolgy & Psychology, SFU). The forum also included two
students who debated the Pharmaceutical Control of Behaviour. Web-casting
implemented by Apple Canada brought into the on-line discussions of students
from two B.C. High Schools.
Sponsors of the forum included: Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria;
Innovation and Science Council of BC; Apple Canada; MDS Metro; MSM
Medtech BC; CTF Systems, BC; Pasta Polo; and Science World.
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Actions and Issues
The REB may give approval to generic unspecified projects within a course but
will not give approval to multiple courses in the same application.
Projects using secondary data must include acceptable consent procedures in the
protocol of the original project that included the possibility of use of the data in
the way in which the current application for secondary use proposes, unless the
data is in the public domain.
If students are approached or tested on school grounds, permission of the school
district is required.
When a graduate or undergraduate student is shown as the principal
investigator of an application, the supervisor of the student is always the co-
investigator.
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Amendments, which do not convert minimal risk applications to non-minimal
risk, do not require REB ratification.
"Notification of REB requirements" letter will be sent to all applicants whose
applications were reviewed by the REB and approved with specific
contingencies. Compliance with contingencies is required within a specified
time, after which approval is suspended.
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