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#507: Paying Fair: Regulatory and Ethical Challenges in Research Participant Compensation
Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:15am - 11:30am EDT
107AB
Component Type: Session
Level: Advanced
CE: ACPE 1.25 Application UAN: 0286-0000-26-557-L04-P; CME 1.25; RN 1.25

We will share case examples and trends from 24,000 records, analyze ethical challenges involved in paying participants, and discuss how protective policies or administrative practices can result in unjust treatment.

Learning Objectives

Explain the ethical considerations that govern payment to research participants; Evaluate the potential for institutional and administrative policies to inadvertently create unjust treatment of research participants; Apply the Belmont Principles of Beneficence and Justice to real-world cases involving payment to research participants and propose strategies for ethical decision-making.

Chair

Kelly Fitzgerald, PHD

Speaker

Panelist
Karla Childers, MS

Panelist
Wenora Johnson

Panelist
Sam Whitaker

Panelist
Robin Kuprewicz, MA


Speakers
avatar for Karla Childers

Karla Childers

Vice President, Bioethics, Policy & Partnerships, Johnson & Johnson, United States
Karla Childers is Vice President, Bioethics, Policy & Partnerships in the Johnson & Johnson Office of the Chief Medical Officer. Her primary responsibility is leading and coordinating various bioethics-based, science policy projects since 2013. Her longest running responsibility has... Read More →
avatar for Kelly FitzGerald

Kelly FitzGerald

Executive IRB Chair and Vice President of IBC Affairs, WCG , United States
Kelly FitzGerald is the IRB Executive Chair and Vice President of IBC Affairs at WCG IRB where she oversees the operation of both the IRB and several hundred institutional IBCs. Kelly is a certified IRB professional and holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of New... Read More →
avatar for Wenora Johnson

Wenora Johnson

Administrative Support & Research/Patient Advocate, United States
avatar for Robin Kuprewicz

Robin Kuprewicz

Clinical Trials Director, Georgetown University, United States
Robin Kuprewicz is the Clinical Trials Director for the Georgetown University Huntington's Disease Care, Education and Research Center. She holds a Masters in Medical Anthropology and has ten years of experience in clinical trials. She has helped Huntington's Disease participants... Read More →
SW

Sam Whitaker

Founder & CEO, Mural Health, United States
Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:15am - 11:30am EDT
107AB The Pennsylvania Convention Center 1101 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA
  02: ClinicalTrialOps-Innovation, Session

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