Deborah Zarin is a program director at the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital and

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. She was formerly a scientist at the

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and the director of

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. Zarin has a reputation as an advocate for

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. In 2014 Zarin accepted a visiting scholar appointment at the Stanford University School of Medicine to research the quality of scientific investigations.

Bibliography

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Is a Trial For You?
, an article from 2005 in ''

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