Cathy Zimmer


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	*Cathy Zimmer*

Catherine Zimmer, PhD, is a Senior Research Consultant at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science and Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Zimmer spends most of her time consulting on and teaching quantitative methodology, which is her role in the Center for Genomics and Society. During the past few years, she has collaborated with colleagues at UNC on the social construction of benefit in gene transfer research, which was funded by the ELSI Program of NHGRI.


	*Related Publications*

Henderson, G. E., Churchill, L. R., Davis, A. M., Easter, M. M., Grady, C., Joffe, S., Kaas, N., King, N. M. P., Lidz, C. W., Miller, F. G., Nelson, D. K., Peppercorn, J., Rothschild, B. B., Sankar, P., Wilfond, B. S., Zimmer, C. R. (2007). Clinical trials and medical care: Defining the therapeutic misconception. Public Library of Science- Medicine, 4 (11), 1735-1738.

Henderson, G. E., Easter, M. M., Zimmer, C., King, N. M. P., Davis, A., Rothschild, B., Churchill, L., Wilfond, B., & Nelson, D. (2006). Therapeutic misconception in early phase gene transfer trials. Social Science and Medicine, 62, 239-53.

Henderson, G. E., Davis, A. M., King, N. M. P., Easter, M. E., Zimmer, C. R., Rothschild, B. B., Wilfond, B. S., Nelson, D. K., Churchill, L. R. (2004). Uncertain Benefit: Investigators' views and communications in early phase gene transfer trials. Molecular Therapy, 10, 225-231.

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