Elisa J Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 140309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisa J Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisa J |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0969-1998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Anthropology in and of Randomized Controlled Trials
Experimental trials are a type of research study design that are valued for their ability to produce reliable data for which validity and significance can be judged by peer reviewers. The randomized controlled trial (RCT) is one type of experimental trial that is considered the gold standard for biomedical research. In the early 21st century, as part of their response to the evidence-based medicine movement, medical anthropologists critiqued the …
Strengthening Research Ethics Capacity in West Africa, 2015–2024
This article reviews the development and evolution of Fogarty International Center-funded research ethics training programs in West Africa over the past decade. In response to local and global challenges in bioethics and biomedical research, these programs are fostering ethical awareness, shaping local and national ethics review systems, and enhancing bioethics capacity in the region. These efforts have expanded alongside increased democratic gov…
Ethical analysis examining the prioritisation of living donor transplantation in times of healthcare rationing
The transplant community has faced unprecedented challenges balancing risks of performing living donor transplants during the COVID-19 pandemic with harms of temporarily suspending these procedures. Decisions regarding postponement of living donation stem from its designation as an elective procedure, this despite that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services categorise transplant procedures as tier 3b (high medical urgency—do not postpone)…
Donor Designation Among Mature Latinas and Lay Health Educators ( Promotoras )
BACKGROUND: Despite positive public attitudes toward solid organ donation in the United States, some of the lowest rates of donor designation persist among older adults and Latinx populations. AIMS: ) and mature Latina (50+ years). METHODS: An explanatory sequential mixed-method design was employed, with telephone surveys followed by focus group interviews, to assess and understand the nuances of organ donation and donor designation knowledge, at…
Implementing culturally competent transplant care and implications for reducing health disparities
BACKGROUND: Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program (HKTP) is a culturally and linguistically competent intervention designed to reduce disparities in living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) among Hispanics/Latinos. The HKTP was introduced in two transplant programs in 2016 to evaluate its effectiveness. OBJECTIVE: This study assessed barriers and facilitators to HKTP implementation preparation. METHODS: Interviews and group discussions were conduc…
Ethical Considerations of Transplantation and Living Donation for Patients with Alcoholic Liver Diseases
Given organ shortages and social and cultural concerns about alcohol use, transplantation for patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) remains controversial.Ethical concerns pertain to equity and utility in the allocation of scarce resources and social stigmatization of patients with a disease that is thought to be self-inflicted [1][2][3][4][5].Moreover, patients with ALD have been subjected to additional protocols in the evaluation for trans…
Surgeons’ Perceptions of Public Reporting of Hospital and Individual Surgeon Quality
BACKGROUND: Hospital-specific and surgeon-specific public reporting of performance measures is expanding largely due to calls for transparency from the public and oversight agencies. Surgeons continue to voice concerns regarding public reporting. Surgeons' perceptions of hospital-level and individual-level public reporting have not been assessed. This study (1) evaluated surgeons' perceptions of public reporting of surgical quality; and (2) ident…
The Convergence of Research and Clinical Practice
WE SURVEYED IRB CHAIRS IN THE United States to ascertain whether their IRBs have clarity regarding their FDA-mandated role in reviewing humanitarian use device (HUD) applications, which are neither research devices nor fully tested treatments. Of 2,588 Chairs, 469 (18%) completed the survey, almost half of whom (44%) reported review of a HUD application within the previous five years. Findings suggest that many IRB Chairs are confused about what …
The political contexts of evidence-based medicine
Introduction
Trials and Tribulations of Navigating IRBs
Introduction The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects or "Common Rule" (1991) has undergone significant revision over the past decade, especially under the supervision of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), whose charter expired in October, 2001, and the Department of Health and Human Services. As a president-appointed committee designed to oversee the ethical dimensions of human subjects research, NBAC (2001) propos…
Competing Clinical Trials in the Same Institution
Elisa J. Gordon, Kenneth C. Micetich, Competing Clinical Trials in the Same Institution: Ethical Issues in Subject Selection and Informed Consent, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 2002), pp. 1-7
Extending the Boundaries of Care. Medical Ethics and Caring Practices
Extending the Boundaries of Care. Medical Ethics and Caring Practices. Tamara Kohn and Rosemary McKechnie. eds. New York: Berg, 1999. 206 pp
Patients' decisions for treatment of end-stage renal disease and their implications for access to transplantation
They Don't Have to Suffer for Me
In the present climate of organ shortage, high demand for kidney transplants, and better clinical outcomes from living donors, health care professionals expect and encourage patients to accept offers of living related donor (LRD) kidneys. When patients decide not to adhere to this course of treatment, scholars and policy makers may question why, given that it delays their chances of receiving a transplant. This article reports on patients' decisi…
Exotic Is in the Eye of the Beholder
When Oral Consent Will Do
Informed consent in research requires investigators to explain to potential participants the procedures, risks, benefits, and alternatives of a study through either oral or written consent. This article discusses cases when oral consent may be more appropriate to use than written consent. A proposal is presented for writing Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocols that incorporate both types of consent to protect the interests of participants a…
Preventing waste
To examine how sociocultural factors influence transplant professionals' decisions about placing patients on the national transplant waiting list, I observed discussions at 15 candidate selection meetings at one urban transplant center. Transplant professionals are uncertain about whether to place marginally suitable candidates on the waiting list. Uncertainty derives from competing cultural and ethical imperatives: ensuring equal access to trans…
The wounded storyteller
Introduction
Patients' decisions for treatment of end-stage renal disease and their implications for access to transplantation
They Don't Have to Suffer for Me
In the present climate of organ shortage, high demand for kidney transplants, and better clinical outcomes from living donors, health care professionals expect and encourage patients to accept offers of living related donor (LRD) kidneys. When patients decide not to adhere to this course of treatment, scholars and policy makers may question why, given that it delays their chances of receiving a transplant. This article reports on patients' decisi…
Trials and Tribulations of Navigating IRBs
Introduction The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects or "Common Rule" (1991) has undergone significant revision over the past decade, especially under the supervision of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), whose charter expired in October, 2001, and the Department of Health and Human Services. As a president-appointed committee designed to oversee the ethical dimensions of human subjects research, NBAC (2001) propos…
When Oral Consent Will Do
Informed consent in research requires investigators to explain to potential participants the procedures, risks, benefits, and alternatives of a study through either oral or written consent. This article discusses cases when oral consent may be more appropriate to use than written consent. A proposal is presented for writing Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocols that incorporate both types of consent to protect the interests of participants a…
Preventing waste
To examine how sociocultural factors influence transplant professionals' decisions about placing patients on the national transplant waiting list, I observed discussions at 15 candidate selection meetings at one urban transplant center. Transplant professionals are uncertain about whether to place marginally suitable candidates on the waiting list. Uncertainty derives from competing cultural and ethical imperatives: ensuring equal access to trans…
The political contexts of evidence-based medicine
The wounded storyteller
Exotic Is in the Eye of the Beholder
When Oral Consent Will Do
Informed consent in research requires investigators to explain to potential participants the procedures, risks, benefits, and alternatives of a study through either oral or written consent. This article discusses cases when oral consent may be more appropriate to use than written consent. A proposal is presented for writing Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocols that incorporate both types of consent to protect the interests of participants a…
Preventing waste
To examine how sociocultural factors influence transplant professionals' decisions about placing patients on the national transplant waiting list, I observed discussions at 15 candidate selection meetings at one urban transplant center. Transplant professionals are uncertain about whether to place marginally suitable candidates on the waiting list. Uncertainty derives from competing cultural and ethical imperatives: ensuring equal access to trans…
Patients' decisions for treatment of end-stage renal disease and their implications for access to transplantation
They Don't Have to Suffer for Me
In the present climate of organ shortage, high demand for kidney transplants, and better clinical outcomes from living donors, health care professionals expect and encourage patients to accept offers of living related donor (LRD) kidneys. When patients decide not to adhere to this course of treatment, scholars and policy makers may question why, given that it delays their chances of receiving a transplant. This article reports on patients' decisi…
Competing Clinical Trials in the Same Institution
Elisa J. Gordon, Kenneth C. Micetich, Competing Clinical Trials in the Same Institution: Ethical Issues in Subject Selection and Informed Consent, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 2002), pp. 1-7
Extending the Boundaries of Care. Medical Ethics and Caring Practices
Extending the Boundaries of Care. Medical Ethics and Caring Practices. Tamara Kohn and Rosemary McKechnie. eds. New York: Berg, 1999. 206 pp
Trials and Tribulations of Navigating IRBs
Introduction The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects or "Common Rule" (1991) has undergone significant revision over the past decade, especially under the supervision of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), whose charter expired in October, 2001, and the Department of Health and Human Services. As a president-appointed committee designed to oversee the ethical dimensions of human subjects research, NBAC (2001) propos…
The political contexts of evidence-based medicine
Introduction
The Convergence of Research and Clinical Practice
WE SURVEYED IRB CHAIRS IN THE United States to ascertain whether their IRBs have clarity regarding their FDA-mandated role in reviewing humanitarian use device (HUD) applications, which are neither research devices nor fully tested treatments. Of 2,588 Chairs, 469 (18%) completed the survey, almost half of whom (44%) reported review of a HUD application within the previous five years. Findings suggest that many IRB Chairs are confused about what …
Surgeons’ Perceptions of Public Reporting of Hospital and Individual Surgeon Quality
BACKGROUND: Hospital-specific and surgeon-specific public reporting of performance measures is expanding largely due to calls for transparency from the public and oversight agencies. Surgeons continue to voice concerns regarding public reporting. Surgeons' perceptions of hospital-level and individual-level public reporting have not been assessed. This study (1) evaluated surgeons' perceptions of public reporting of surgical quality; and (2) ident…
Ethical Considerations of Transplantation and Living Donation for Patients with Alcoholic Liver Diseases
Given organ shortages and social and cultural concerns about alcohol use, transplantation for patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) remains controversial.Ethical concerns pertain to equity and utility in the allocation of scarce resources and social stigmatization of patients with a disease that is thought to be self-inflicted [1][2][3][4][5].Moreover, patients with ALD have been subjected to additional protocols in the evaluation for trans…
Implementing culturally competent transplant care and implications for reducing health disparities
BACKGROUND: Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program (HKTP) is a culturally and linguistically competent intervention designed to reduce disparities in living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) among Hispanics/Latinos. The HKTP was introduced in two transplant programs in 2016 to evaluate its effectiveness. OBJECTIVE: This study assessed barriers and facilitators to HKTP implementation preparation. METHODS: Interviews and group discussions were conduc…
Donor Designation Among Mature Latinas and Lay Health Educators ( Promotoras )
BACKGROUND: Despite positive public attitudes toward solid organ donation in the United States, some of the lowest rates of donor designation persist among older adults and Latinx populations. AIMS: ) and mature Latina (50+ years). METHODS: An explanatory sequential mixed-method design was employed, with telephone surveys followed by focus group interviews, to assess and understand the nuances of organ donation and donor designation knowledge, at…
Ethical analysis examining the prioritisation of living donor transplantation in times of healthcare rationing
The transplant community has faced unprecedented challenges balancing risks of performing living donor transplants during the COVID-19 pandemic with harms of temporarily suspending these procedures. Decisions regarding postponement of living donation stem from its designation as an elective procedure, this despite that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services categorise transplant procedures as tier 3b (high medical urgency—do not postpone)…
Anthropology in and of Randomized Controlled Trials
Experimental trials are a type of research study design that are valued for their ability to produce reliable data for which validity and significance can be judged by peer reviewers. The randomized controlled trial (RCT) is one type of experimental trial that is considered the gold standard for biomedical research. In the early 21st century, as part of their response to the evidence-based medicine movement, medical anthropologists critiqued the …
Strengthening Research Ethics Capacity in West Africa, 2015–2024
This article reviews the development and evolution of Fogarty International Center-funded research ethics training programs in West Africa over the past decade. In response to local and global challenges in bioethics and biomedical research, these programs are fostering ethical awareness, shaping local and national ethics review systems, and enhancing bioethics capacity in the region. These efforts have expanded alongside increased democratic gov…
Medicine (17 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ethics in medical practice (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Organ Donation and Transplantation (6 works) · Surgery (6 works) · Ethics in Clinical Research (5 works)