Clint D. Hermes

Clint Hermes draws on his deep experience as general counsel at two academic medical centers to advise clients on regulatory, contracting and corporate governance matters. He also offers clients practical advice and insights on all regulatory and contracting aspects of human subjects research. Clint has extensive experience with – and has been widely published on – biomedical research regulatory matters involving:

• The Common Rule.
• INDs and IDEs.
• Clinical trial registration.
• Conflicts of interest.
• Research misconduct.
• Federal grant funding.
• The use and sharing of research data and biospecimens.
• Human research protection program design and implementation.
• Expanded access to investigational products.

Through his counsel, Clint enables clients to engage in productive partnerships by structuring contracts among the various parties needed to carry out a clinical trial or other research collaboration both domestically and in foreign jurisdictions. His work across continents has included the following:

• Advising a research institution in establishing a clinical trial in Eastern Zimbabwe, including site evaluation, training of local research staff, and establishment and education of a community advisory board in Mutare.
• Working in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Vietnam on behalf of NIH- and USAID-funded projects.
• Structuring a tissue collection research project in Thailand.
• Providing extensive advice regarding healthcare delivery, research, and medical education in the Arabian Gulf.
• Contracting with international affiliates of a U.S. hospital throughout Latin America and the Middle East.

Before joining Bass, Berry & Sims, Clint experienced first-hand the unique needs of academic medical centers with large research programs and a global reach. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and then served as General Counsel and Board Secretary of Sidra Medicine, an academic medical center in Doha, Qatar, affiliated with Cornell University. In those roles, Clint led legal affairs, technology transfer/licensing, ethics and compliance, board management, and an Institutional Review Board.

Prior to his in-house leadership roles, Clint was an attorney with international law firm Ropes & Gray LLP where he  advised many of the top academic medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, and device companies across the country on research collaborations, research regulation and funding, international programs, nonprofit governance, compliance program design and implementation, HIPAA, and conflicts of interest.