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The Hospital Ethics Committee is constituted by Director, Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) under authority vested by Governing Council of the TMC. The Hospital Ethics Committee of TMC was established in 1996.
The HEC was established to formalize and specify the Institution’s commitment to promotion of high ethical standards in patient care, professional education, clinical research, and community interests.
In view of the tremendous growth of clinical research in the institution, the Director, TMC in 2008, constituted two Human Ethics Committees (HECs) to function as panels with the same purpose & SOPs to ease the work load. These two committees were renamed as Human Ethics Committee I and II to expedite and maintain high standard of ethical review
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Mandate |
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The HEC through its delegated sub-committees functions independently for maintaining consistent ethical framework in patient care and research, and in the integration of ethical values into practice, policy relationships, and organizational activities.
The purpose of HEC is to cultivate a pluralistic and democratic exchange of ethical values, concerns and to critically analyze them looking for opportunities to enhance the ethical integrity of the Institution
The mandate of HEC, TMC essentially targets patient care and ethical aspects of research and education. |
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The terms of reference for the HEC are as follows |
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To improve the standards of ethics practiced in TMC and to issue guidelines on dilemmas relating to patient care services at TMC
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To ensure that all proposed research projects conform to standard ethical guidelines.
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To initiate and commission research studies on ethical aspects of practice in TMC
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Continuing education in research bioethics and ethical aspects of clinical practice by seminars, workshops and interactive discussions for all categories of staff members including nursing and paramedical staff.
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To function as a forum for redressal of complaints on ethical issues, from patients and their families
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The Ethics committee endeavours to produce guidance on a broad range of topics.
Disclosures of diagnosis, diagnosis of brain death, indications for stopping resuscitation, true informed consent, etc. are some examples
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The committee does not address or interfere in matters of an administrative nature, nor does the committee function as a grievance cell for staff members.
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HEC has responsibility within the institution with the following objectives |
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- Clinical ethics consultation
- Education of professional, administrative, and support staff about ethical issues
- Creation, developing revising and implementing ethical guidelines (SOPs)
- Initiate studies in ethics
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Composition |
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Each committee is composed of a minimum of 7, and maximum of 15 members. The members are selected to have an equitable representation of all specialties in the institution.
It includes scientific and non-scientific, clinicians and non - clinicians, Clinical pharmacologist, members of the community, a lawyer/expert in ethics, a social worker / layperson / patient representative to represent different point of view.
Each committee comprises of a Chairperson, Co-Chairperson, a Member Secretary, and 7-15 active members who represent an appropriate balance of professional, ethical, legal, cultural, educational, and community interests
HEC- I meets at 8.30 am on the last Friday of every month unless otherwise specified
HEC- II meets at 8.00 am on the third Friday of every month unless otherwise specified |
HEC-I |
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Sr. No. |
Names |
Affiliation |
Gender |
Expertise |
1 |
Dr. Madhuri Gore
Chairperson |
Professor & Head,
Dept. of Surgery,
LTMG Hospital, Sion |
Female |
Surgeon |
2 |
Dr. R.C. Mistry
Co Chairperson |
Surgeon, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital |
Male |
Surgeon |
3 |
Dr. J. V. Divatia
Member Secretary |
Professor, Head Dept. of Anaesthesia, Tata Memorial Hospital |
Male |
Anaesthetist |
4 |
Dr. Tapan Saikia,
Member |
Medical Oncologist, Prince Aly Khan Hospital |
Male |
Medical
Oncologist |
5 |
Dr. N. Gogtay,
Member |
Associate Professor, Clinical Pharmacology, KEM Hospital |
Female |
Clinical Pharmacologist |
6 |
Dr. Pradnya Talawadekar,
Member |
Project Manager of Ojus Medical Institute, Juhu. |
Female |
Legal expert |
7 |
Ms. Viji Venkatesh,
Member |
Head, Max Station India & Asia Pacific Region Co ordinator |
Female |
Lay person |
8 |
Ms. Mrunal Marathe, Member |
Medical Counselor |
Female |
Social scientist |
9 |
Dr.S. K. Shrivastava,
Member |
Head, Dept. of Radiation Oncology and Secretary, TMC Scientific Review Committee. |
Male |
Radiation Oncologist |
10 |
Dr. HKV Narayan,
Member |
Medical Superintendent, TMH |
Male |
Medical
Superintendent |
11 |
Dr. Tanuja Shet,
Member |
Professor, Dept. of Pathology, TMH |
Female |
Pathologist |
12 |
Dr. Brijesh Arora, Member |
Associate Professor & Medical Oncologist, TMH |
Male |
Medical Oncologist |
13 |
Dr. S. N. Myatra,
Member |
Associate Professor, Dept. of Anesthesia, TMH and Jt. Secretary, Data Safety and Monitoring subcommittee, Tata Memorial Hospital. |
Female |
Anaesthetist |
14 |
Dr. R. Jalali,
Member |
Associate Professor, Dept of Radiation Oncology, TMH |
Male |
Radiation Oncologist |
15 |
Dr. A. Lobo Gajiwala, Member |
Head, Dept. of Tissue Bank, Tata Memorial Hospital |
Female |
Scientist |
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HEC-II |
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Sr. No. |
Names |
Affiliation |
Gender |
Expertise |
1. |
Dr.(Mrs) U. Thatte,
Chairperson |
Professor & Head,
Dept. of Clinical Pharmacology,
KEM Hospital |
Female |
Clinical pharmacologist |
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Dr. R. F. Chinoy,
Co chairperson |
Senior Consultant Histopathologist, Prince Aly Khan Hospital |
Female |
Pathologist |
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Dr. Medha Joshi, Member Secretary |
Head, Digital Lib. Scs., Tata Memorial Hospital |
Female |
Library Information Sc. |
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Dr. V.R Joshi,
Member |
Head, Rheumatology,
P.D. Hinduja Hospital & Research Centre, |
Male |
Clinician
Clinical research |
5. |
Dr. R. Munagekar, Member |
Pathologist and Medicolegal Consultant,
Sadhana Pathology Laboratory |
Male |
Medicolegal expert |
6. |
Dr. Rati Godrej,
Member |
Physician, US Consulate, Lincoln House |
Female |
Physician |
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Ms. Tessie George, Member |
Scientific Officer, BARC |
Female |
Social Scientist |
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Mr. P. K. Rao,
Member |
Founder/ Trustee of JASCAP, Jeet Association for support to Cancer patients since 1996 |
Male |
Lay Person |
9. |
Dr. Sarbani Ghosh
Member |
Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, TMH |
Female |
Radiation Oncologist |
10. |
Dr. Reena Nair,
Member |
Professor, Dept. of Medical Oncology, TMH |
Female |
Medical Oncologist |
11. |
Dr. Vani Parmar,
Member |
Associate Professor & Surgeon, Dept. of Surgery, TMH |
Female |
Surgeon |
12. |
Dr. Prathamesh Pai, Member |
Associate Professor & Surgeon, Dept. of Surgery, TMH |
Male |
Surgeon |
13. |
Dr. M.A Muckaden, Member |
Radiation Oncologist,
O/IC Palliative Care Services, TMC |
Female |
Radiation Oncologist |
14. |
Dr. Vikram GS
Member |
Clinical Pharmacologist,
ACTREC |
Male |
Clinical Pharmacologist |
15. |
Dr. Sandeep Tandon,
Member |
Associate Professor (Pulmonary Medicine), Dept of Gen. Medicine, TMH |
Male |
Clinician |
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