Faculty Development Workshop: Law in the Laboratory: A Primer for Scientists

This workshop, conducted by Robert P. Charrow, J.D. will address three areas—misconduct in science, human subjects and privacy, and financial conflicts of interest.  To help illustrate the application of the rules that pertain in each area, hypothetical case studies will be presented and discussed. Attendees should read the case studies beforehand and be prepared to discuss each during the workshop.

1. Describe scientific misconduct and its prevalence in the scientific community.
2. Understand the rules and regulations regarding human subjects in research.
3. Understand financial conflict of interest and the Federal rules with regard to PHS funded research.
4. Develop appropriate response and remediation actions misconduct occurs.

The University of Maryland School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Maryland School of Medicine designates this Live activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Speaker
Robert P. Charrow
General Counsel (OGC)
HHS Office of the Secretary

 Robert Charrow was sworn in as the General Counsel on January 2, 2018. Most recently, he was a principal shareholder in the Washington, D.C. office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, where he specialized in litigation arising under the Administrative Procedure Act, the federal regulation of healthcare (e.g., FDA, CMS, OIG), and federal appellate litigation. While in private practice, he represented academic and research institutions, hospital systems, learned societies, pharmaceutical companies, health care providers, and insurers, with respect to a broad range of issues arising under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the Affordable Care Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Public Health Service Act, HIPAA, the False Claims Act and other federal laws affecting or regulating the delivery of health care and research. He also counseled clients on campaign finance and government ethics issues. Before joining Greenberg Traurig in 2002, he was with Crowell & Moring from 1989-2002.

 From 1985-1989, he served as the Deputy and then Principal Deputy General Counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services and, as such, supervised the Chief Counsel for the various agencies within the Department, including the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS), Office of Inspector General, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Public Health Service (e.g., NIH, HRSA, CDC).

For many years, Mr. Charrow was a full-time law faculty member last serving as an associate professor of law at the University of Cincinnati. He has authored or co-authored three legal texts, one in its fifth printing, and over 100 articles in various journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of NIH Research, Columbia Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Georgetown Law Journal.

 He served on various boards including the advisory board of the Institute of Human Virology, which is a component of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, the Attorney General’s Task Force on Tort Reform, and the Secretary’s Task Force on Medical Malpractice Reform. He is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the Consultative Group for the Principles of Law, Government Ethics, and as an Adviser on the Restatement of the Law (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons. He also has served as an officer and member of various ABA sections.

 He received his law degree from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California.