I guess I will talk a little bit about how ethics councils can improve clinical trials,

and I think this will be relevant to you all.

Of course, I think there's both types of errors.

There are many ethical studies, thousands, hundreds of thousands that we don't run, and we just don't get the information.

So that's one failure, but the other failure is we run many trials

that I think are deeply problematic.

I'll give you some examples of that.

Examples where I think the Ethics Committee,

the IRB, could have caught it and could have said,

we shouldn't do this study.

In terms of background, my background is,

I'm a practicing doctor in the States,

we do hematology and oncology.

And I did hematology and oncology.

My background is I'm from just outside Chicago, which is in Illinois.

I did my medical school University of Chicago, my residency in general medicine at Northwestern.

Then I did hematology oncology at the National Institutes of Health in DC.

I was on the faculty in Portland, Oregon for a few years.

Now I work at University of California, San Francisco,

where I'm a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

and also run a clinic.

And I will tell you more about this by the end.

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