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Effective leadership is inextricably coupled to ethical conduct. This is particularly evident during periods of an accelerated rate of technological change when decisions are made with increasing speed and expanding complexity. While ethical challenges will take different forms as technology accelerates and access to data expands, the foundation of ethical character are invariant.

The first component of Leadership at the Rate of Change is a consideration of the fundamentals of ethical conduct, sustaining that conduct under pressure and leading others in ethical choices. Building a strong foundation in the ethical conduct of translational research, clinical development and commercialization.

Course material for leadership and ethical conduct will be drawn from multiple scientific, media and contemporary sources e.g. World Economic Forum: How to be a leader in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Drug executives should take the Hippocratic Oath.

The course will also touch upon fundamental principles underlying the practice of biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences, including collaboration, conflict of interest, data acquisition, management, sharing and ownership, human subject protection, laboratory animal welfare, mentoring, peer review, publication, and ethical responsibilities of scientists will be addressed.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate