Speakers/Panelists

The 2024 UNMC Protection of Human Subjects Conference

SPEAKERS/PANELISTS


Megan Singleton

Megan Kasimatis Singleton, JD, MBE, CIP is Associate Dean for Human Research Protections and Director of the Human Research Protections Program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In this role she is responsible for oversight and direction of JHM’s 8 IRBs. Ms. Singleton is a licensed attorney in Pennsylvania. She earned her law degree from Temple University and her Masters in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Singleton serves as a member of the SMART IRB Harmonization Steering Committee,  member of the PRIM&R Board of Directors, Chair of PRIM&R’s Nominations & Elections Committee and Co-Chair of PRIM&R’s Public Policy Committee. Ms. Singleton is also an AAHRPP, Inc. site visitor and Co-Chair of the AAHRPP Council.  She also serves as a member of the Steering Committee for AEREO, a consortium designed to advance effective research ethics oversight through empirical research. Ms. Singleton currently teaches at the graduate level at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, leading courses in research ethics and clinical trial management. She has developed research ethics curriculum and practical training in IRB administration tailored for national and international audiences.

Elizabeth Buchanan Elizabeth Buchanan, CIP, Ph.D. is a research ethicist and research administrator with over 25 years of professional experience. She received her Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Philosophy and English from Rutgers University (1992), after which she completed a Master of Library and Information Science (1996) and a multidisciplinary Ph.D. (1999) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Elizabeth has held numerous academic positions, including Assistant then Associate Professor; Director, Center for Information Policy Research (1999-2011, UW-Milwaukee); Endowed Chair in Ethics and Director, Center for Applied Ethics (2012-2020, UW-Stout); Senior Research Scientist and Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (2020-2023, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute), and currently, Associate Vice-President, Research Administration, University of Rhode Island. She is known for her scholarship in Internet research ethics, with one of the first scholarly handbooks in the field published in 2003. Her recent publications include: “How to Think About Online Research Ethics,” (Sage, 2022); co-author, “Navigating the Ethical and Methodological Dimensions of a Farm Safety Photovoice Project,” Bioethical Inquiry (2023); and co-author, “Capturing a Moving Target: Ethical Research Practices for Hashtag Activism,” in Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied: Case Studies on Social Justice Movements (Utah University Press, 2023). Her administrative experience began in 2014, and has included oversight of sponsored programs, IRB, IACUC, data and material transfer agreements, research navigation, and scientific writing.
A native of Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, Elizabeth now resides in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, with her husband, two kids (one a senior at UW-Eau Claire and one a freshman at University of Minnesota), two dogs, three cats, and lots of fish.
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