Ethics Committee

The Ethics Committee (EC) is inspired by the values and founding principles of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where it was established in 1988 and today, with the establishment of the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli Institution, it wants to be an even more integrating service in clinical and health care work to achieve excellence in the care of every person who is a guest and a user of our facilities. The EC is an advisory body, whose members come from different areas of experience. They are mainly asked to assess the ethical conditions of testing protocols and to verify that safety, integrity and rights of the patients involved are safeguarded. The aims of the Ethics Committee can be traced back to three main directions:

• Ensuring the respect of life – from conception to natural end, taking account of health and rights of the person in the context of clinical practice and research;
• helping patients in their choices and facilitating the collaboration with patients in the informative-deliberative process, especially in particularly difficult cases;
• overcome the fragmentation and the complexity of medical specialties through their reading in the anthropological unity of the human person and in particular of the suffering person, in the aim of the best quality of health care and research.

Finally, our Ethics Committee is one of the seven ethics committees authorized by the Lazio Region, according to the DM 08/02/2013 (GU n.96 of 24/04/2013) which has introduced new criteria for the composition and the functioning of the ethical committees.

Members – List of Members of the Ethics Committee 2018 – 2021 Download

Calendar of part-session 2019/2020 Download

Rates and Bank Details Download

Regulations Download

Useful Documents – Clinical trial