Democratic Deliberation and Surrogate Consent for Dementia Research

Enrolling adults with decisional incapacity in dementia research based on surrogate permission (surrogate-based...

Therapeutic Misconception and Neurosurgical Trials with Sham Controls

Ethicists have raised concerns that elderly patients with a progressively debilitating disease such...

Capacity to Appoint a Proxy for Research Consent

This project examines whether persons with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) who are incapable of providing...

Book on Decision-Making Capacity

Dr. Kim is currently finishing a book on assessment of decision-making capacity, to be published...

Institutional Review Board (IRB) Reform

Although everyone agrees that IRB oversight of human subjects research is necessary and important,...