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Research Ethics Cultivating Conversations

Cultivating Conversations is a series to discuss the ethical and social implications of emerging technologies in health research. The UC San Diego Research Ethics Program will convene a monthly 1-hour virtual session that is open to the UC San Diego community and collaborators.

2023-2024

Past events
Date Topic Guest Speaker

March 19, 2024

Harnessing Health Signals with Large-Scale Mobile Sensor Data: Applications in Opioids Addiction, Mental Health and Infectious Diseases 

Tauhidur Rahman

Assistant Professor - Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego

February 20, 2024

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POSTPONED

 

Cognitive and Socially Assistive Robots for People with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

Dr. Laurel Riek 

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego

January 16, 2024

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The Digital Therapeutics Real World Evidence Framework: An approach for guiding evidence-based DTx design, development, testing, and monitoring

 

Dr. Meelim Kim, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, HWSPH, UC San Diego

October 17, 2023

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The potential of digital health to improve brain health in older adults

 

Dr. Zvinka Zlatar, PhD 

Associate Professor, Psychiatry, UC San Diego

September 19, 2023

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Open Science practices to advance digital health/AI research; Balancing ethical and legal hopes and fears

 

 Olga Perski, PhD

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow - UC San Diego & Tampere University (Finland)

July 18, 2023

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Digital phenotyping in psychiatry: Exploring tensions between privacy and data sharing requirements

 

Raeanne Moore, PhD

Professor, Psychiatry, UC San Diego

Research Ethics Grand Rounds

The UC San Diego Grand Rounds Seminar Series met quarterly for faculty, staff, and students to discuss selected ethics topics.   

2022-2023

Past events 2022
Date Topic Guest Speaker

March 14, 2023

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Text Recycling (AKA “self-plagiarism”) in
research writing: complications and
best practices

Cary Moskovitz, PhD

Director of Writing in the Disciplines in the Thompson Writing Program, Duke University 

February 7, 2023

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Ethical sustainability:
Convergent systems engineering

Jon Wade, PhD 

Professor of Practice, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego

October 11, 2022

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Prevention, Progress, and Persistent Disparities: Ethical Dilemmas and Infant Mortality

Perri Klass, MD

Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University and Co- Director of NYU Florence