Research Ethics in the Arab Region

This book addresses the pressing issues involved with the ethical conduct of research in one developing world region – the Arab Region. Clinical research has soared in the developing world -as pharmaceutical companies continue their search for regions with large, treatment naive populations - including the Arab region, and has profound implications for the health and the economies for the area. The ethical issues involved with the conduct of such research, however, have so far not been adequately addressed. This volume presents the issues regarding research ethics and research governance that have relevance for health authorities, regulators, industry, and academia. As a multi-authored volume it includes both international and local experts on ethical issues in research, representing all stakeholders, thus presenting a balanced view on this timely topic.

Henry Silverman, MD, MA, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. He divides his time between caring for patients in the intensive care units, teaching medical ethics to students, residents and faculty, chairing the hospital’s ethics committee, directing a training program in research ethics focused in the Middle East, and performing qualitative and quantitative research in research ethics. Dr. Silverman majored in biomedical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in 1974. He then studied medicine at The Johns Hopkins University (MD 1974) followed by a residency in internal medicine and a pulmonary and critical fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital (1983). He then became a faculty member at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. He received his MA Degree in Bioethics from Georgetown University in 1995. His teaching efforts have been recognized by several teaching awards, including the Senior Resident's Award for Teaching (1988),the Senior Medical Student's Award for Humanism in Medicine (2001), and the Master of Public Health Program Teaching and Mentoring Award (2013).