IU School of Liberal Arts

Eric M. Meslin

Campus Address: EF 200
Phone: 278-4034
Fax: 278-4050
Email: emeslin@iupui.edu
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Appointments

Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Molecular and Medical Genetics
Assistant Dean for Bioethics, IU School of Medicine;

Education

B.A., York University, 1983
M.A., Georgetown University, 1985
Ph.D., Georgetown University, 1989

Academic Interests

Bioethics, applied ethics, research ethics, moral philosophy, health/science policy, international health research, transplantation, stem cell research

Publications

Books and Book Chapters JF Childress, EM Meslin, and HT Shapiro, eds. Belmont Revisited: Ethical Principles for Research with Human Subjects. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (2005) Meslin, EM. When Policy Analysis is Carried Out in Public: Some Lessons for Bioethics from NBAC’s Experience. In: James Humber and Robert Almeder, eds. The Nature and Prospect of Bioethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Humana Press: Totowa, NJ. 2003: pp. 87-111. Meslin, EM. Genetics and Bioterrorism: Challenges for Science, Society, and Bioethics. In: Jonathan D. Moreno. Ed. In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2003, pp. 199-218 Meslin EM, Salmon KR, Eberl JT. Eligibility for Organ Transplantation by Foreign Nationals: The Relationship between Citizenship, Justice, and Philanthropy as Policy Criteria. In Eds. K. Wailoo, J. Livingston, P. Guarnaccia. A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship. University of North Carolina Press. Articles Lavery, JV, McDonald M, Meslin EM. Research Ethics Across the 49th Parallel: The potential value of Pilot Testing “equivalent protections” in Canadian Research Institutions, Health Law Review.2005; 13: 85-96. Eckles RE, Meslin EM, Gaffney M, Helft PR Medical Ethics Education: Where are we? Where are we going?" Academic Medicine 2005; 80: 1143-1152. Shaffer DN, Greene JY, Kimaiyo S, Sidle J, Ballidawa J, Meslin EM, Yebei V, Tierney WM. Equitable treatment for HIV/AIDS clinical trial participants: A focus group study of patients, researchers, and health administrators in western Kenya. Journal of Medical Ethics 2006; 32: 55-60 Evans BJ and Meslin EM., Encouraging Translational Research Through Harmonization of FDA and Common-Rule Informed Consent Requirements for Research with Banked Specimens. Journal of Legal Medicine 2006; 27: 119-166 Sidle JE, Were E, Wools-Kaloustian K, Chuani C, Salmon K, Tierney WM, Meslin EM. A Needs Assessment to Build International Research Ethics Capacity. Journal of Empirical Research in Human Research Ethics 2006. 1(2): 23-38.

Service

Member, International Steering Committee, EuroBio, Paris (2006-present)) Chair, Special Emphasis Panel, “International Bioethics”, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, (2006) Member, International Scientific Review Committee, “Applied Genomics and Proteomics in Health” Competition, Genome Canada, Government of Canada, Montreal, May 22-24, 2006. Member, Peer Review Panel, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation/Swedish Research Council, New York, (2006) Member, Protocol Review Committee, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH (2005-present) Member, Board of Directors, Journal of Empirical Research in Human Research Ethics (2005-present) Co-Editor (with Richard Miller), “Bioethics and Humanities Series” Indiana University Press.

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