Research Ethics Workshop Held in Bahrain, January 5-7, 2014

A 3-day research ethics workshop was held at the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain, January 4-7, 2014.   More than 30 participants from Bahrain, Qatar, U.A.E., Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Oman attended this conference, which was organized by Dr. Adel M. Medhkour, Director of the Clinical Research Center at the Arabian Gulf University.  The faculty included Henry Silverman, Amal Matar, and Suhail Al-Amad, all from the The Middle East Research Ethics Training Initiative  – MERETI (www.mereti.net).  The training was focused on enhancing ethics review for members of research ethics committee in the Gulf Region.