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Columbia University
The Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
New York, NY
David H. Strauss, M.D. is a special lecturer in the department of psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
Dr. Strauss heads the ethics unit of an NIMH Center grant, is an external advisor to Takeda Pharmaceutical’s Ethics Advisory Council and serves as senior advisor to the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is faculty on Fordham’s HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute, and he is a newly appointed member of the Microsoft Research IRB within Microsoft’s Ethics Review Program. Dr. Strauss is a longstanding member of the Subpart A subcommittee of the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections where he led the development of guidance the inclusion of individuals with impaired consent capacity in research, guidance on minimal risk, and guidance on the effects of research risk on non-subjects, among other work.
Previously, Dr. Strauss, held leadership positions at the NYS Psychiatric Institute and Columbia’s Department of Psychiatry over the course of a 30-year career there, including vice chair for research, director of research operations, IRB chair, clinical director, and chief of the schizophrenia research unit. At the University level, he chaired Columbia’s committee on the conduct of research. He is a former member of the board of directors of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research.
Dr. Strauss practices psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in NYC and Western Massachusetts. He teaches, lectures, and consults on matters of applied research and professional ethics.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET