Greater Nashville Area

SOCRA Greater Nashville Regional Chapter

Informed Consent and Consenting Practices: Regulatory and Practical Considerations in the Digital Era

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026

Time: 12 – 1 p.m. CST | Location: Virtual

Meeting Information & Registration: To register for the meeting, please click here to complete the REDCap survey. Upon registration completion, a meeting password and the link will be sent to the email entered on the survey.

Speakers: Xuewen Gong, BS, CIP, Single IRB Manager and James Arrington, BA, CIP, Lead Regulatory Compliance Analyst, Health Sciences 2 Committee RDRC and Compliance Team Leader VUMC Human Research Protections Program (HRPP)

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the required elements of informed consent
• Demonstrate how to communicate and document consent discussions that support participant comprehension, voluntariness, and informed decision making.
• Identify considerations when consenting vulnerable populations
• Describe federal guidelines on electronic consent and identify when would additional Part 11 compliance apply

Continuing Education (CE): 

Actual attendance will be documented via emailing kate.vonwahlde@vumc.org during or immediately following the meeting. Following the meeting:
1. SOCRA members who meet the required minimum of 50 minutes of attendance for a one-hour meeting will receive 1 CEU. The SOCRA Executive Office will email their attendance certificate via email from the SOCRA Executive Office.
2. Non SOCRA members can track attendance via VUMC CME website and/or their own CE tracking method.
3. A unique VUMC CME code will be provided during the meetings, the code is valid for 24 hours.

Complete meeting details and disclosures

If you have any questions, please contact Annette McCoy Oeser (annette.oeser@vumc.org) 

Accreditation: Vanderbilt University Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Vanderbilt University Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Commercial Support:  This activity received no commercial support.

Financial Disclosures:  Faculty and planners for this event have the following disclosures:

Name of individual Individual's role in activity Name of commercial interest/Nature of relationship
Annette Oeser, MA Bioethics, MLAS, BS, CIM, CCRP Faculty: Nothing to disclose – 07/03/2025
Xuewen Gong, BS, CIP Faculty: Nothing to disclose – 02/06/2026
James Arrington, BA, CIP Faculty: Nothing to disclose—3/25/2026

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