5.8 You have been attending a meeting on eukaryotic growth factors and have just finished listening to Dr. Sidney Wolanski give his keynote address. His overview involved some clinical studies, and he showed slides of patients undergoing procedures as part of an institution-ally approved clinical trial. In all instances the faces of the patients were clearly visible. On two other slides there were clinical materials depicted, and these were labeled with the patient's name. One tissue sample was clearly labeled with a tag that read "Mrs. MacDonald." After the lecture you leave to make a phone call. As you return to the lecture, you are inter-cepted by Professor Susan Jeris, a colleague you know casually from an-other institution. Susan confides in you that one of the slides shown by Dr. Wolanski was a picture of her stepmother, Shirley MacDonald. She is agi-tated and claims that Dr. Wolanski's use of the picture and disclosure of her stepmother's name are a violation of her stepmother's privacy and in violation of accepted standards of clinical research. She claims that Dr. Wolanski's presentation is an egregious violation of human subjects re-search practices and thinks he should be punished. She asks you what she should do about this situation. What advice and guidance will your provide to Dr. Jeris?
