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ForwardAnnual Committee Members Educational Retreat - October 1, 2025- FREE (NO CE CREDIT)
NOTE - CE CREDIT IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR THE FREE SESSION. LEARNERS WISHING TO RECEIVE CE CREDIT MUST REGISTER FOR THE CE CREDIT OFFERING OF THIS ACTIVITY.
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THIS ACTIVITY IS BY INVITATION ONLY.
This activity will bring together experts, thought leaders, scientists and practitioners to explore regulatory and ethical challenges in providing oversight for animal and human research, discuss recent policy changes and advances that impact research, and establish best practice across the animal research and human research protection program at Houston Methodist (HM). This is a first of it's kind activity, that will facilitate collaborative interactions and engagement between the faculty that serve on the HM regulatory oversight committees with the goal of improving the research infrastructure at Houston Methodist.
Target Audience
Physicians, nurses, pharmacists that participate on regulatory oversight committees.
Learning Objectives
- Apply the regulatory requirements and ethical considerations when reviewing animal, human subjects, and safety research.
- Describe how the evolving regulatory guidelines, technologies (i.e. AI), ethical implications impact the regulatory review of animal, human subjects, and safety research.
- Identify how the regulatory principles and ethical considerations, when reviewing animal, human subjects, and safety research, contribute to the effective and efficient regulatory review of a protocol.
Annual Committee Education Retreat Agenda
Agenda Items
7:30 AM
Check-in/Registration
Breakfast
Retreat Logistics
8:30 AM-9:15 AM
Welcome & Strategic Initiatives
Edward A. Jones, MBA
President & CEO
Houston Methodist Research Institute (HMRI)
9:15 AM-10:15 AM
Keynote Address: "Use and Misuse of AI in Research"
Moderator: Stephen Wong, PhD
Keynote Speaker:
David B. Resnik, JD, PhD
Bioethicist, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Senior Advisor for Research Integrity, Office of Intramural Research - National Institutes of Health
10:30 AM-11:15 AM
Topic TBD
Speaker: TBD
10:30 AM-11:15 AM
Houston Methodist Key Research Initiatives
Moderator: Jenny Petkova, MD
Panelists:
Transplant Oncology (Sudah Kodali, MD -TBD)
R/sNAs (Jimmy D. Gollihar, PhD)
Digital Health (TBD)
12:30 PM-1:00 PM
Express Lunch (Grab n Go)
1:00 PM-2:00 PM
The Impact of Regulatory Changes on an Academic Medical Center (VIRTUAL)
Moderator: Susan Miller, MD, MPH
Kathryn Harris, PhD (NIH)
OHRP (TBD)
Nicolette Petervary, VMD, MS (OLAW)
Margaret Ochocinska, PhD (NIH)
Kristin West, JD (COGR)
2:15 PM-3:15 PM
Multi-Committee Panel Discussion
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Moderator: Stephen T. Wong, PhD
Panelists:
Dr. David Resnik (NIH)
Tom Inglesby, MD (Johns Hopkins) - TBD
Jordan Dale, MD (HM Chief Medical Information Officer) - TBD
Dr. Jiajie Zhang, PhD (UT Health)
3:30 PM-4:30 PM
Multi-Committee Panel Discussion
“Dementia Research & DPRIT Overview “
Co-Presenter & Co-Moderator:
Jun Li, MD – Chair, Neurology & Rebecca Hall, PhD – Vice President, Academic Affairs and Strategy
Panelists:
Kyuson Yun, PhD
Juan Toledo Atucha, MD, PhD
Sonia Villapol, PhD
4:30 PM-5:00 PM
Clinical Trials Efficiency Process
Presenter: Pauline Todd, MBA, BSN, RN, CCRP – VP Clinical Research Operations
Co-Presenter: Raquel Bunge, RN, BSN, CCRP - Director, Academic Office of Clinical Trials (AOCT)
5:00 PM
Closing & Awards
Edward A. Jones, MBA – President & CEO, HMRI
Social Hour to follow
LIVE (in-person attendance) will be held in the Houston Methodist Research Institute, 6670 Bertner Avenue, Houston, Texas 77030).
LIVESTREAM information will be provided to registered learners.
Available Credit
- 5.50 Attendance