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—Professor Susan Wolf's work on return of results and incidental findings has made significant new impacts. On March 31, the Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council—the major funders of biomedical research in the…
—Professor Susan Wolf has been appointed to an expert panel on the role of population health in all professions, as part of an effort by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) to re-…
—Professor Susan Wolf appeared on Minnesota Public Radio's The Daily Circuit, along with Dr. Danielle Ofri of Bellevue Hospital, to discuss the current debate about…
—Professor Susan Wolf will speak at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., as part of a workshop on returning individual results from genome research using population-based banked specimens. The…
—Professor Susan Wolf will debate Professor Robert Green of Harvard Medical School on "Is genetic information different?" at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Both Green and Wolf are investigators…
—National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research led by Professor Susan Wolf, along with Professors Gloria Peterson (Mayo Clinic) and Barbara Koenig (UCSF), is featured in the latest issue of Science.…
—Professors Amy Monahan and Susan Wolf have been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and improve the…
—Professor Susan Wolf published an op-ed in the Star Tribune on the new Presidential Commission report addressing the challenge of incidental findings in medical care and biomedical research. Wolf's piece…
—The Presidential Commission on Bioethics has released its long-awaited report on incidental findings. The report quotes and cites heavily from NIH-funded projects led…
—Professor Susan Wolf will co-direct the first major international workshop on the controversial question of whether researchers should return individual results and incidental findings to people participating in…
—Professor Susan Wolf will speak at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego on Sunday, November 10. Wolf will present on "Incidental Findings and Return of Research Results: Genetics, Biobanks and…
—Professor Susan Wolf will present on "Improving Care Near the End of Life: Why It's Still So Difficult" at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (ASBH), Oct. 24-27, 2013, in…