04/09/99
BIOGRAPHY OF ADIL E. SHAMOO, Ph.D.
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Department of Biochem. & Mol. Biol.
University of Maryland Baltimore
108 N. Greene Street
Baltimore Maryland 21201
Tel. (410) 706-3327
FAX (410) 706-3189
email: ashamoo at umaryland.edu
A research scientist with over 30 years experience in the laboratory with over
200 papers in the field of biophysics, biochemistry and ethics, science and public
policy. Currently, a professor and former chairman of Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a member of the graduate faculty of
Applied Professional Ethics, and affiliated with the Center for Biomedical Ethics
at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Dr. Shamoo consults on Ethics and
Science. He chaired seven international conferences on ethics in research and
public policy. The last two conferences he chaired in 1995 and 1998 were on
Research and Decisional Capacity. Dr. Shamoo has testified on this issue before
Congressional Committees and the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. Dr.
Shamoo served from 1995-1998, on the Maryland Attorney General’s Task force
to propose legislation to protect the decisionally impaired human subjects in
research. In this regard, Dr. Shamoo when serving on the Board of Directors of
the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), he was the principal author of
their 1997 Code of Ethics for enrolling mentally ill in research.
Dr. Shamoo’s involvement in public service spans over twenty years. He has
been president of the Board of Directors of Howard County Mental Health
Authority (HCMHA) since its inception in 1997. He co-led four years efforts in
Maryland to pass the first and most comprehensive Mental Health Parity Law in
the nation in 1994.
In addition to serving on the HCMHA Board, Dr. Shamoo currently also serves as a
member of the Board of Directors of Friends Research Institute, a national
research and philanthropic organization, Citizens for Responsible Care and
Research (also serves as first Vice-president). In the past, he had served on
numerous Boards and councils at the local, state, and national level.
Dr. Shamoo is the founder and Editor-in-Chief in 1988 of the journal
"Accountability in Research." He has given talks on these topics worldwide. Dr.
Shamoo has held visiting professorship in notable institutions such as Institute
for Political Studies in Paris, France and East Carolina University. His current
interests in the area of Ethics, Science, and Public Policy are in: development of
good research practices, ethics and public policy, objectivity and conflict of
interest, and the use of humans in research especially persons with mental
illness. Dr. Shamoo teaches graduate students on "Responsible Conduct of
Research" and hold workshops on ethics in research. Dr. Shamoo has been cited
and/or appeared frequently in local and national media in print, radio, and
television such as The New York Times; The Boston Globe; The Dallas Morning
News; The LA Times CBS; CNN as well as The Baltimore Sun and local television.
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