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"IRB 250: At Your Doorstep" Now On Your Desktop

PRIM&R's IRB Resource Guide Available on eWorkplace

PRIM&R, Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research, is the primary organizational body for IRB and IACUC professionals. With the goal of advancing the highest ethical standards in the conduct of biomedical, social science, behavioral, and educational research, PRIM&R offers educational and certification opportunities for those involved in human subjects and animal research. Rather than send a few IRB members and staff to PRIM&R's annual conferences, Academic Affairs' Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) invited PRIM&R to Baystate so that the entire research community could benefit from learning about the latest ethical, regulatory, and policy-related developments affecting research. On September 16th PRIM&R presented "IRB 250: At Your Doorstep" at Baystate Medical Center.

Susan Kornetsky of Children’s Hospital Boston and Jeffrey Cohen of HRP Associates Present the Latest Research Developments at IRB: 250

More than 80 people, including Principal Investigators, clinical research staff, and IRB members and staff, attended this comprehensive full day program where Jeffrey Cohen of HRP Associates and Susan Kornetsky of Children’s Hospital Boston presented a variety of topics including:

• Criteria for the Approval of Research

• HIPAA

• Informed Consent

• INDs and IDEs

• Research with Biological Specimens. 

Materials from this session, titled "PRIMER: IRB Resource Guide," are available on the IRB's eWorkplace page under the IRB Resources sub-head.

Positive Feedback, Requests for Follow-up Programs

Of interest may be "Surviving an FDA Audit", another educational session sponsored by the HRPP on November 21st at noon in Chestnut 1A/B.  Dr. Richard Brown, Chief of Baystate's Infectious Disease Division, and Dr. Patrick Lee, Chief, Surgical Critical Care and Clinical Research, will describe their recent experience with a FDA audit of a clinical trial for which they served as the local Investigators. Lunch will be served.