Elena Salvaterra
Title: The role of nurses in research biobanking: from informed consent explanation to participant moral support
Biography
Elena Salvaterra
is a Jurist Doctor with a Master degree in General Psychology (2020) and a PhD
in Bioethics (2004). She worked in several universities in Italy and abroad and
then passed to University Hospitals (2005) where she was a researcher in
Bioethics and Biolaw with a focus on human biobanking. Director of the Biolaw
unit at the Biological research Centre of the Polyclinic University Hospital of
Milano (2005), she moved to a pediatric research centre in 2009 where she conducted
research on ethics of pediatric biobanking. Since 2014 she worked as
independent researcher and consultant by collaborating with CROs and Industries
of the biotech sector. She founded an educational line in biobanking in 2019 at
Sintesy. She is currently working as Professor of Medical English at Kern
Global which is a para-university based in Milano and dedicated to alternative
medical disicplines. Author of several publications she continues to give
lectures to international conferences mostly in the field of biobanking ethics
and law.
Research Interest
General
Psychology
