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Dr. Jonathan Hernandez, a surgical oncologist with the Surgical Oncology Program in the National Cancer Institute, was presented the NIH 2021 Distinguish Clinical Teacher Award (DCTA). The award is the highest honor bestowed on an NIH senior investigator, staff clinician or tenure-track investigator. As the 2021 DCTA awardee, Hernandez will delivered the John Laws Memorial Lecture in June 2022.
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 Watch the April Ethics Grand Rounds, "Using Leftover Clinical Samples for Research: When is it Ethical?"
Many clinical research studies struggle to find enough participants. Meanwhile, during their regular operations, clinicians, hospitals and clinics frequently see many patients. What if patient samples and information collected during their visits was used for research purposes? This issue was the focus of a recent Ethics Grand Rounds hosted by the NIH Clinical Center.
The April Ethics Grand Rounds, "Using Leftover Clinical Samples for Research: When is it Ethical?", posed a question: can the large amount of stored clinical samples from the on-site tests of asymptomatic NIH staff for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) be reused for research purposes? And if so, what guidance should researchers follow surrounding their research use?
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 Dr. Barbara Bryant
The Department of Transfusion Medicine and Center for Cellular Engineering has a new Chief, but she's no stranger to the NIH Clinical Center. Dr. Barbara Bryant joins the hospital from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston.
Dr. Bryant has four decades of experience, including 17 years in nearly every position possible in a blood bank before entering medical school. She was a Clinical Fellow in DTM from 2005-2007, staying on as a staff physician through 2008 and then working as a volunteer physician on the IRON protocol (Iron Replacement or Not) which maintained iron balance in routine blood donors. She worked with many colleagues, including 2020 Nobel Prize winner, Harvey Alter.
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