Volunteer committees

The study was approved by the Human Volunteer Committee at the Hennepin County Medical Center to include adults and children. 

Developing and promulgating sound consensus standards, recommended practices, and technical reports is one of ISA s primary goals. To achieve this goal the Standards and Practices Department relies on the technical expertise and efforts of volunteer committee members, chairmen and reviewers. 

People fresh from school rarely have the practical experience that an employer may be seeking. But as a career progresses, you will find that experiences gained from your participation on volunteer committees can sometimes be even more important than the experiences gained from your own salary-based job. Here is why ... 

The volunteer committee environment is one that you choose—as such, you are more likely to do a good job that is noticed by influential individuals. 

A volunteer committee provides opportunities to meet and learn from others with similar interests. Of course, you will contribute as well. 

ACS has the potential to play more of a leadership role in developing better communication on safety and security between chemical societies throughout the world. ACS has enormous resources, especially its strong volunteer committees that could be expanded to facilitate worldwide communication between chemical organizations. 

ANSI does not endorse the content of its standards. It merely provides a format, developmental and administrative procedures, and publishing service. Volunteer committees representing parties interested in a standard s subject matter write the contents. Other organizations sponsor some ANSI standards. For example, the American Society of Safety Engineers develops several safety and health standards under ANSI as does the American Industrial Hygiene Association." ... 

ASTM International This standards organization formerly was called the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). It operates much like ANSI, using volunteer committees from among interested companies, associations, and others. ASTM International publishes more than 12,000 standards. Some involve safety and health matters. 

Consider your own experience with task teams, both within your company and in other contexts such as industry associations, professional committees, or even non-professionai groups such as volunteer or community organizations. Review what worked and didn t work, what you liked and didn t like, and what you found rewarding or frustrating about each experience. This simple exercise helps identify potential pHMIs as well as successful techniques for managing a task team. 

Scientists volunteered en masse to help the revolutionary government. Eager for France to modernize and reform, many served on the wartime Committee of Public Safety. An astronomer became the first mayor of rev-... 

A protocol that described the work to be done and protected the rights of the volunteers in the dosimeter studies was developed for consideration by the Human Subjects Review Committee, University of California, Riverside. Paid volunteers were considered to be at "negligible risk." The approved protocol was designated HS-95-048. The document, including informed consent, was reviewed with participants at an orientation meeting prior to the study. 

Specific evidence, such as the exact temperature of the ocean, or statistics, such as how many volunteers you were up against when you won the Volunteer of the Year award, are also great details. By being precise, you draw your reader into further identification with your writing. And since your goal is to submit an essay that connects with at least one person on the admissions committee, use as many colorful, relevant details as possible. Remember, dialogue makes a great detail, too. 

The story goes that college admissions committees love well-rounded students, those who can achieve good grades, play on a varsity team or three, sing in the church choir, and volunteer at the local soup kitchen once a week. They look for applicants who have to staple additional pages into their applications to list all of their extra-curricular activities. 

It was Bancroft s opinion that to justify its existence, the division must produce results which could not be obtained otherwise, and that the best way to accomplish this was to select projects on the "borderlands" between chemistry and one or more of the other sciences (45). In accordance with this policy the majority of committees organized in the 1920s concerned these borderlands. One of the first to be formed was the committee on the chemistry of colloids, and in 1921 Bancroft published a list of 200 research projects in colloid chemistry for which volunteers were sought by the National Research Council (46). This committee published numerous monographs and arranged symposia on colloid chemistry, and was therefore influential in the establishment of an area of research within physical chemistry with large industrial importance. 

In theory, the notion had much to recommend it and when the Wolff Committee submitted its report in 1955, a research road map seemed clearly marked. Army Chemical Corps scientists were soon venturing into unexplored territory. Since Edgewood Arsenal had facilities for animal testing, an abundance of chemical expertise and a volunteer program that was nascent but capable of expansion, it was a natural choice as a location for LSD investigative work,... 

And expand it did, as the Wolff Committee report evolved into more concrete plans. Major General William Creasy played the role of fundraiser, mesmerizing Congress into believing that war without death might be more than a chemical pipedream. With funds and the go-ahead, volunteer studies began to proliferate. 

Meanwhile, members of the Medical and Related Problems Committee of the Chemical Corps Advisory Council were busy creating some of their own rules. They separated hazardous from non-hazardous experiments so that only the latter would require higher-level approval. They sought blanket approval for experiments already in progress, hoping to avoid unnecessary red tape. The Council made informed consent essential, however, and demanded sufficient evidence be made available to show that the soldier was tmly able to freely volunteer. 

In September 1955, the Commander of the Edgewood Arsenal Medical Laboratories formally requested permission to use volunteers in research involving nonlethal psychochemicals. This was largely a result of the Wolff Committee s final report, which included a detailed plan for field experiments involving small units. 

The Panel consists of 12 actively practicing volunteers representing medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. In the year 2000, a Safe Medication Use Committee will be elected to replace the ad hoc panel. For the first time, with the formation of this committee, a formal mechanism will be in place in the standards development process for the purpose of providing direct practitioner input to standards development for the safer use of pharmaceuticals. 

The study was performed in patients exposed to ionizing radiation after Chernobyl accident. Comparison groups included patients and healthy individuals exposed to the natural radiation levels. Control group included healthy volunteers who resided in Kyiv since Chernobyl accident Distribution by diagnosis is presented at table 1. Investigated persons were at the age of 43-72 (mean+SD for the exposed group 52,3 + 10,1 yrs for control group- 46,3 + 11,3 yrs). All studied persons participated by informed consent. Peripheral blood and bone marrow samples were obtained by a standard procedure (National. Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, 1991). Flow... 

It should always be remembered that the IB is not a promotional document aimed at presenting the NME in its best light on the contrary, it is intended to inform investigators and ethics committees about every aspect of the drug, to enable them to make wise judgements in the interest of study subjects, be they healthy volunteers or patients. The IB is necessarily a summary, but less than full disclosure of important information about the drug, whatever the source, is not acceptable and all documents should be referenced and made available on request. 

A protocol for the first and other early studies with a NME in man is similar to those for later studies in healthy volunteers and patients but has some particular features that are worth special consideration. The protocol should be written to satisfy not only the needs of regulatory authorities and personnel who will be involved in conduct of the study but also to facilitate the work of the lEC, which bears considerable responsibility in such cases. The nature of the scientific material contained in the protocol is often complex, highly specialised and quite unlike most protocols for clinical trials handled by such committees. 

Pharmaceutical companies frequently establish a committee of senior management to authorise the first study of a NME in humans, the review and approval generally being a prerequisite for submission to the external lEC. However, as stated in Section 4.3.4, the clinician responsible for the first study in humans must be personally satisfied that the preclinical data, relating to efficacy and safety, justify administration to man. A useful test is for the physician and other responsible personnel to ask themselves Would 1 be prepared to volunteer for this study and would 1 be happy for a loved-one to do so ... 

Most UK ethics committees will look for confirmation of the intention to apply the ABPl guidelines in the case of company-sponsored studies, even from non-member companies. Where the research is non-therapeutic, ABPl guidance provides for a contractual promise to be made to the volunteer to pay for injury sustained by reason of participation in the study (whether due to the experimental drugs used or to procedures required by the study protocol), irrespective of whether anyone conducting or responsible for the project was at fault. In therapeutic research, no such contractual relationship or obligation is required, and there are some limitations to the circumstances in which voluntary payment will be made. 

As was the case with our previous volumes, the current volume of Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry has been assembled entirely by volunteers to produce a high-quality scientific publication at the lowest cost possible. The Editor and the COMP Executive Committee extend our gratitude to the many people who have given their time to make this edition of Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry possible. The authors of each of this year s contributions and the Section Editors have graciously dedicated significant amounts of their time to make this Volume successful. This year s edition could not have been assembled without the help of Adrian Shell of Elsevier. Thank you one and all for your hard work, your time, and your contributions. 

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