You’d think we keep our IRB reviewers so busy that they’d barely have time to manage the whole rest of their careers. But you’d be wrong, as shown by two of our reviewers.
Congratulations to Leah Eisenberg, J.D., M.A., HEC-C, on becoming one of the first bioethics experts in the United States to be certified by the Healthcare Ethics Consultant Certification Committee (HCEC) of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Ms. Eisenberg is an Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics and participates in the Clinical Ethics Consultation Service for UAMS and Arkansas Children’s. The certification is the first of its kind in the world, and with her expertise Ms. Eisenberg helped in the development of the HCEC certification exam. Certification helps set UAMS/ACH ethics consultation services apart from many in the country. I encourage faculty who would like help working through ethical concerns in their practice to page our stellar consulting team at 501-405-8134 for timely, expert guidance.
Dr. Parimal “Perry” Chowdhury, a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, has a full slate as an invited speaker this spring with two presentations at the 2019 Experimental Biology meeting in Orlando, Florida, in April and a poster presentation at the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) annual meeting in San Diego in May. Being selected to present at the AGA meeting is an honor, with an acceptance rate of just 20-25 percent. Read about Dr. Chowdhury’s presentations and the contributing authors here. Great work Dr. Chowdhury!