Speaker:
Luke Gelinas, Ph.D.
Advarra
Chairperson
Topic: Social Media and Human Subjects Research
Session Time: 2.30pm
Session Objectives:
• Consider the questions and concerns that arise for IRBs as they review studies that involve the use of social media for recruitment and data collection.
• Address how IRBs can help educate biomedical and social science researchers on the “rules” or ethical considerations of working in the social media space.
Speaker Bio:
Luke Gelinas joined Advarra IRB as a full-time Chairperson in 2017, where he provides oversight of ethical and regulatory issues related to human participant protection. Prior to joining Adavrra, Luke was a Senior Researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and a Harvard Catalyst Fellow in Research Ethics. Luke earned his PhD in 2014 from the University of Toronto, where he was a graduate fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics; he also has an MA in Religion summa cum laude from Yale Divinity School. Luke has also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and training in Clinical Ethics at Albany Medical College. Luke’s work in research ethics has been published in several academic journals, including New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Hastings Center Report.
Speaker Contact Details:
(703) 859-1305