Senior Staff
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David S. Wendler, MA, PhD
Head, Unit on Vulnerable Populations
Department of Bioethics
Academic Degrees
B.A., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Email: dwendler@nih.gov
Phone: 301-435-8726 |
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Biosketch
Dr. David Wendler’s current research focuses on the ethics of clinical research with individuals who are unable to provide informed consent. He has written widely on such topics as assent in pediatric research, assessing research risks systematically, research with stored biological samples, and protecting communities in biomedical research from exploitation.
Dr. Wendler coordinates the CC’s advance directives program and is a member of the Bioethics Consult Service and the IRB of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Actively sought out as a consultant and scholar, he has been a consultant on minimal risk for the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections, on research with wards of the state for the Division of AIDS of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and pediatric research for the Institute of Medicine. He also has been a visiting scholar in the Department of Bioethics, University of Virginia, and has lectured at the University of Bergen’s School of Medicine in Norway, Georgetown University, and at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Earning his bachelor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania and his master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He came to NIH in 1993 as a postdoctoral fellow with the Clinical Bioethics Program and became head of the Unit on Vulnerable Populations in 1996. He was a University fellow in Ethics at Harvard University from 2006 to 2007.
Selected Honors and Awards
2006 NIDA Special Service Award; 2007 Award for excellence in human research protection; Clinical Center Director’s Award, 2005; NIH Mentoring Award, 2005; NIH Clinical Center Special Service Award, 2001; NIH Clinical Center Special Recognition Award, 1998; NIAID Clinical Service Award, 1997; NIH Excellence in Research Ethics, 1996; NIH Citation for Education in Ethics, 1995; NIH Citation for Clinical Ethics, 1994; WARF Dissertation Fellowship, 1991; Outstanding Teaching Award, 1990
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Emanuel E, Crouch R, Grady C, Lie R, Miller F, Wendler D. The Oxford Textbook of Research Ethics. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Varma S, Wendler D. Research involving wards of the state: protecting particularly vulnerable children. Journal of Pediatrics 2008; 152:9-14.
Wendler D, Jenkins T. Facing research risks for the benefit of others: the views of children and their parents. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 2008; 162:9-14.
Shalowitz D, Garrett-Mayer E, Wendler D. How should we make treatment decisions for incapacitated patients, and why? PLoS Medicine. 2007; 4:e35.
Wendler D, Varma S. Minimal risk in pediatric research. Journal of Pediatrics 2006; 149:855-861.
Wendler D. One-Time General Consent for Research on Biological Samples. British Medical Journal 2006; 332:544-547.
Wendler D, Kington R, Madans J, Van Wye Heidi G, Christ-Schmidt H, Pratt LA, Brawley OW, Gross CP, Emanuel EJ. Are racial and ethnic minorities less willing to participate in health research? PLoS Medicine 2006; 3:e19.
Ravitsky V, Wendler D. Dissolving the dilemma over forced treatment. Lancet 2005; 365:1525-1526.
Wendler D. Can we ensure all research subjects give valid consent? Archives of Internal Medicine 2004; 164:2201-2204.
Wendler D, Forster H. Why we need legal standards for pediatric research. Journal of Pediatrics 2004; 144:150-153.
Shah S, Whittle A, Wilfond B, Gensler G, Wendler D. How do IRBs apply the federal risk and benefit standards for pediatric research? JAMA 2004; 291:476-482.
Wendler D, Prasad K. Core safeguards for clinical research with adults who are unable to consent. Annals of Internal Medicine 2001; 135:514-523.
Wendler D, Dickert N. The consent process for cadaveric organ procurement: how does it work? how can it be improved? JAMA 2001; 285:329-333.
