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Charles Weijer

BMdSc, MD Alberta; BA(Hons), MSc, PhD McGill

  • Professor, Joint Appointment with Department of Medicine, Cross Appointment with Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Canada Research Chair in Bioethics
  • Member, Rotman Institute of Philosophy
  • Bioethics, Philosophy of Medical Science (especially clinical trials)

Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 80090

Email: cweijer@uwo.ca

Website: www.rotman.uwo.ca

Professor Weijer is on sabbatical leave until June 30, 2013.
 

Selected Publications

Books

Corrigan O, Liddell K, McMillan J, Richards M, Weijer C (eds.). Limits of Consent: A Socio-ethical Approach to Human Subjects Research in Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Articles

Gallo A, Weijer C, White A, Grimshaw JM, Baruch R, Brehaut JC, Donner A, Eccles MP, McRae AD, Saginur R, Zwarenstein M, Taljaard M. What is the role and authority of gatekeepers in cluster randomized trials in health research? Trials 2012, in press.

McRae AD, Weijer C, Binik A, et al.. When is informed consent required in cluster randomized trials in health research? Trials 2011; 12: 202.

Ivers N, Taljaard M, Dixon S, Bennett C, McRae A, Taleban J, Skea Z, Brehaut J, Boruch RF, Eccles M, Grimshaw JM, Weijer C, Zwarenstein M, Donner A.  Impact of the CONSORT extension for cluster randomised trials on quality of reporting and study methodology: review of a random sample of 300 trials from 2000 to 2008. British Medical Journal 2011; 343: d5886.

McRae AD, Weijer C, Binik A, et al.. Who is the research subject in cluster randomized trials? Trials 2011; 12: 183.

Binik A, Weijer C, McRae AD, et al.. Does clinical equipoise apply to cluster randomized trials in health research? Trials 2011: 12: 118. 

Weijer C, Grimshaw JM, Taljaard M, Binik A, Boruch R, Brehaut JC, Donner A, Eccles MP, Gallo A, McRae AD, Saginur R, Zwarenstein M. Ethical issues posed by cluster randomized trials in health research. Trials 2011; 12: 100.

Taljaard M, McRae A, Weijer C, et al.. Inadequate reporting of research ethics review and informed consent in cluster randomized trials: review of a representative sample of published trials. British Medical Journal 2011; 342: d2496.

Kimmelman J, Weijer C, Meslin EM. Helsinki discords: FDA, ethics, and international drug trials. Lancet 2009; 373(9657): 13–4.

Miller PB, Weijer C. Equipoise and the duty of care in clinical research: a philosophical response to our critics. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2007; 32(2): 117–33.

Miller PB, Weijer C. Fiduciary obligation in clinical research. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2006; 34(2): 424–40.

Miller PB, Weijer C. The trust-based obligations of the state and physician-researchers to patient-subjects. Journal of Medical Ethics 2006; 32(9): 542–7.

Weijer C, LeBlanc GJ. The balm of Gilead: is the provision of treatment to those who seroconvert in HIV prevention trials a matter of moral obligation or moral negotiation? Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2006; 34(4): 793–808.

Book Chapters

Weijer C, Lanata CF, Plowe CV. Ethical considerations in the conduct of vaccine trials in developing countries. In: Levine MM, Dougan G, Good MF, Liu MA, Nabel GJ, Nataro JP, Rappuoli R (eds.). New Generation Vaccines (4th edition). New York: Informa Health Care, Inc., 2010: 59–65.

Miller PB, Weijer C. Evaluating benefits and harms in clinical research. In: Ashcroft R, Dawson A, Draper H, McMillan J (eds.). Principles of Health Care Ethics (2nd ed.). London: John Wiley & Sons, 2007: 711–717.

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