Dan Nelson


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	*Dan Nelson*

Daniel Nelson, Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Pediatrics, and Director, Office of Human Research Ethics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Trained in medical physiology, Nelson previously held faculty appointments at the Mayo Clinic, with a fellowship conducting human studies in Europe; and the University of Rochester, where he was director of research in a clinical gastroenterology unit and chair of a hospital Institutional Review Board (IRB). His move to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998 represented a fulltime commitment to research ethics, and he now has global responsibility for 7 IRBs that oversee 4000 research studies. A national leader in the field of human research protections, Nelson is or has been past-president of the Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA); a charter member of the Council for Accreditation, Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) and the Council for Certification of IRB Professionals (CCIP); founding co-chair of the IRB-Sponsor Roundtable; consultant to the federal Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP); and a liaison to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC). In 2006 he was appointed to the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP, DHHS), and co-chairs a subcommittee to review and make recommendations on the regulations that govern this area (the “Common Rule”). Nelson is also a co-investigator on several NIH grants on issues surrounding research ethics, and frequently lectures on related topics.


	*Related Publications*

Henderson, G., Churchill, L., Davis, A., Easter, M., Grady, C., Joffe, S., Kass, N., King, N., Lidz, C., Miller, F., Nelson, D. K., Peppercorn, J., Rothschild, B., Sankar, P., Wilfond, B. and Zimmer, C. (2007). Clinical trials and medical care: Defining the therapeutic misconception. PLoS Medicine, 4(11), e324.

Henderson, G., Mahoney, D., Corneli, A., Nelson, D. K. and Mwansambo, C. (2007). Applying research ethics guidelines: The view from a sub-Saharan research ethics committee. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2(2), 41-48.

Nelson, D. K. and Amdur, R. J. (2006). Researcher Conflict of Interest. In: EA Bankert and RJ Amdur, eds. Institutional Review Board Member Handbook (2^nd ed.), Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

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.

Nelson, D. K. (2006). Conflict of Interest (three chapters). In: EA Bankert and RJ Amdur, eds. Institutional Review Board: Management and Function (2^nd ed.) Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

Lynn, M. R. and Nelson, D. K. (2005). Common (mis)perceptions about IRB review of human subjects research. Nursing Science Quarterly, 16, 264-270.

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.

Churchill, L. R., Nelson, D. K., Henderson, G. E., et al. (2003). Assessing benefits in clinical research: Why diversity in benefit assessment can be risky. IRB: Ethics and Human Research, 25, 1-8.

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