
Workshop on Responsible Conduct of Research in Psychological Science
April 13–14, 2004
Executive Summary
Faculty
Thomas E. Eissenberg, Virginia Commonwealth University
Celia B. Fisher, Fordham University
Mark Frankel, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Alan Harmon, U. S. Naval Academy
W. Brad Johnson, U. S. Naval Academy
Lora Kutkat, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Francis L. Macrina, Virginia Commonwealth University<
Eloise Malone, U. S. Naval Academy
Matthew McGue, University of Minnesota
Chris Pascal, DHHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
Marshall Narva, DHHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
Barbara H. Stanley, New York State Psychiatric Institute
June P. Tangney, George Mason University
Bios
Thomas E. Eissenberg, Virginia Commonwealth University
Thomas Eissenberg is Associate Professor of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he also directs the Clinical Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory. He received his B.A. in Psychology and English from Grinnell College in 1987 and his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from McMaster University (Canada) in 1994. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Human Behavioral Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He joined VCU's Department of Psychology and Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies in 1997, and holds affiliate appointments in the Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Psychiatry, and Internal Medicine; he is also a Member Scientist of VCU's Massey Cancer Center. Dr. Eissenberg has been the PI on numerous NIH-, pharmaceutical industry-, and foundation-supported grants. For the last several years his research has focused on tobacco and nicotine. He is currently funded by the NIH to examine gender differences in response to nicotine and to develop novel models for evaluating potential reduced exposure products for tobacco users.
Celia B. Fisher, Fordham University
Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D., the Marie Ward Doty Professor of Psychology and Director of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education has provided national leadership in developing ethical standards for the discipline of psychology and federal guidelines for human subjects research. She is a member of the DHHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) and the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Clinical Research Involving Children. Among her many professional and scientific contributions she has chaired the American Psychological Association's (APA) Ethics Code Task Force and the New York State Board for Psychology. Dr. Fisher has conducted ethics workshops and research on ethical practices involving vulnerable persons supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. She is a founding editor of the journal Applied Developmental Science and has published over 100 papers covering topics in professional and scientific ethics and in developmental psychology, including her most recent book Decoding the Ethics Code: A Practical Guide for Psychologists (2003) Sage Publications.
Mark Frankel, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Mark S. Frankel, Ph.D., is director of the Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where he develops and manages the Association's activities related to professional ethics, science and society, and science and law. He has directed several AAAS projects on research integrity and scientific misconduct, including the production of five videos on integrity in science used in hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the world. He was co-editor of a special issue of Science and Engineering Ethics (volume 9, no. 2, 2003) focusing on "The Role of Scientific Societies in promoting Research Integrity."
Alan Harmon , U. S. Naval Academy
Alan Harmon is the Technical Director in Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, MD. Mr. Harmon came to the Naval Academy in 1997 to engineer an institutional knowledge management platform for internal and DoD users. He is responsible for the data warehouse, metadata repository, and other assessment modeling tools used for institutional assessment. Prior to his work at USNA, Mr. Harmon worked for Westinghouse Space Communications in satellite command and control as well as spacecraft simulation development. Mr. Harmon also worked for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in cash management for the development of a secure, encrypted electronic funds transfer between major commercial and federally-chartered banking institutions. Mr. Harmon holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and The Johns Hopkins University in computer science.
W. Brad Johnson, U. S. Naval Academy
W. Brad Johnson is an Associate Professor of psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy, and a Faculty Associate in the Graduate School of Business and Education at Johns Hopkins University. He is also an adjunct professor at the Naval Post-Graduate School. A clinical psychologist and former Lieutenant Commander in the Navy's Medical Service Corps, Dr. Johnson served as a psychologist at Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Medical Clinic at Pearl Harbor where he was the division head for psychology. He is a fellow and supervisor of the Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in New York. Prior to joining the Naval Academy faculty, Dr. Johnson spent four years as a faculty member and director of research for the APA-approved clinical doctoral program at George Fox University. He has been a member of Oregon's Board of Bar Examiners and an oral examiner for Oregon's Board of Psychologist Examiners. Dr. Johnson has authored numerous articles and book chapters, as well as three books, in the areas of ethical behavior, mentor relationships, psychotherapy outcomes, and personality characteristics among distinct military populations. He is a contributing editor to several journals in the field of psychology, and is Associate Editor of the Division 19 journal, Military Psychology . He is currently president-elect of Division 19 of the American Psychological Association—the national association of military psychologists.
Lora Kutkat, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Lora Kutkat serves as a health science policy analyst in the Office of Science Policy and Planning, an office within the Office of the Director at NIH. In this role she focuses on policy issues concerning research ethics as they pertain to human subjects. Ms. Kutkat has been engaged in helping the health research community understand the Privacy Rule – Federal standards developed to satisfy the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Ms. Kutkat received her M.S. in Biotechnology from The Johns Hopkins University in 2000 and is also satisfying requirements for an M.P.H. in Administrative Medicine Policy from The George Washington University.
Francis L. Macrina, Virginia Commonwealth University
Frank Macrina is the Edward Myers Professor and Director of the Philips Institute, a research institute in the School of Dentistry at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Macrina's scientific interests are in the molecular pathogenesis of infectious diseases, and his research has been supported continuously by the National Institutes of Health for 27 years. He has authored over 100 scientific publications. Dr. Macrina has taught scientific integrity to graduate and postdoctoral trainees at Virginia Commonwealth University since 1986. He is the founding director of the VCU Scientific Integrity course, which has been offered every fall semester since 1991. He is invited to speak frequently on scientific integrity teaching, and has been involved in teaching workshops sponsored by PRIM&R, the American Society for Microbiology, Sigma XI, and the National Academy of Sciences. With Michael Kalichman, he is the co-founder of RCR101 a PRIM&R-sponsored workshop for training instructors in the field of research conduct education. He is a member of the ASM Ethics Committee, and has been a consultant to the HHS Office of Research Integrity. He has published scholarly papers and a textbook on scientific integrity. His text, Scientific Integrity, An Introductory Text with Cases is published by ASM Press and is now in its second edition. He has assisted faculty in setting up scientific integrity courses at several institutions, and has co-taught an undergraduate course at Virginia Union University. He has used a wide variety of teaching tools in the classroom including case studies, extended cases, drama and play-acting, video presentation, and survey analysis.
Eloise F. Malone, U.S. Naval Academy
Eloise Malone is a professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy. She teaches courses in research methodology and co-chairs the Academy's Institutional Research Board. Professor Malone worked as an opinion analyst at the U.S. Department of State and continues to conduct scholarly research involving multivariate analysis of opinion data. Professor Malone acts as the Naval Academy liaison to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and is actively involved in the Academy's institutional research activity.
Matthew McGue, University of Minnesota
Matt McGue is Professor of Psychology and Member of the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota. He is a behavioral geneticist who has been engaged in collaborative research with colleagues in the U.S., Denmark, and Germany for the past 20 years. His major research interests include the development of substance use disorders in adolescence and early adulthood, the genetics of aging, and quantitative genetics.
Marshall Narva, DHHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
Marshall Narva is an Expert Consultant to DIO, ORI, following eleven years of service, starting in 1992, as a Scientist-Investigator with DIO, ORI. overseeing most of the ORI cases involving the behavioral and social sciences. Prior to joining ORI, Dr. Narva spent twenty-six years as a Research Psychologist with the United States Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, where he was responsible for the conduct of intramural research and the administration of extramural research into human performance in systems. He was responsible for the planning, execution, and administration of applied research, analytical studies, and system evaluations in the areas of human factors of information acquisition and processing systems, educational concepts and technology, and methodologies for training device development and integration of human resources into system development. He was responsible for the administration of an extramural program of basic research related to human performance in systems, carried out primarily by contract with academic institutions. Dr. Narva holds a A.B. degree from Brown University in Psychology; a M.S. degree from Tufts University in Psychology; and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland in Applied Experimental Psychology.
Chris Pascal , DHHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
Mr. Pascal currently holds the position of Director, Office of Research Integrity, within the Office of Public Health and Science at the Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland. Mr. Pascal began his government career over 20 years ago by working as Chief Counsel for the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. After 15 years, he became Chief Counsel for the Office of Research Integrity within the U.S. Public Health Service, moving on three years later to become Director of the Division of Research Investigations. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Pascal assumed his present position. Mr. Pascal took his baccalaureate degree at Auburn University and his J.D. degree at Duke University School of Law. He did a postdoctoral fellowship in psychology and law in the Psychiatry Department at Duke University Medical Center.
Barbara H. Stanley, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Barbara Stanley, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology at City University of New York - John Jay College and the founder and first Director of the Forensic Psychology Doctoral Program. She is also a Research Scientist in the Department of Neuroscience at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the founder and first president of Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA), on the board of directors of PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research), and is a former Chair of the Committee for the Protection of Human Participants in Research for the American Psychological Association. She has served on several Institutional Review Boards and has been a consultant for the NIH Office of Protection from Research Risks. Dr. Stanley recently served as a consultant to NIMH in developing guidelines to investigators considering including suicidal patients in treatment trials. Dr. Stanley has published over 65 articles on research ethics, suicidal behavior, self-injury and borderline personality disorder and has been the recipient of several federal and private foundation grant awards. She is currently the principal investigator on two grants, one of which is a NIMH-funded psychosocial medication treatment trial for actively suicidal and self-injuring individuals.
June P. Tangney, George Mason University
June Price Tangney is Professor of Psychology at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia. She worked as an undergraduate with Dr. Joseph Masling at SUNY, Buffalo, and completed her doctorate in clinical psychology from UCLA under the direction of Dr. Seymour Feshbach. Coauthor (with Dr. Ronda Dearing) of Shame and Guilt, she is currently Associate Editor for Self and Identity. Her research on the development and implications of moral emotions has been funded by NIDA, NICHD, NSF, and the John Templeton Foundation. Currently, her work focuses on moral emotions among incarcerated offenders. She continues to enjoy being mentor and mentee.
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