Assistant Coordinator, Human Research Protection Program
The Committee on Human Research (CHR) is UCSF's Institutional Review Board (IRB). An Institutional Review Board is a committee, operating under Federal regulations, State laws, and Institutional policy, that reviews research involving human subjects to ensure the ethical and equitable treatment of subjects. The CHR is comprised of four panels that share equal authority and responsibility. As Assistant Coordinator for the Mt. Zion panel, I process Modifications and Continuing Reviews for Full Committee/Greater than Minimal Risk and Expedited/Minimal Risk studies and Initial Reviews for Expedited and Exempt review at Laurel Heights. I write stipulations to PIs for revision, assign reviews to Chairs, Vice Chairs, Members, and staff, and generate bi-monthly meeting agendas. During the meetings, I facilitate discussion between Members while navigating our projected online agenda. After our meetings, I summarize controverted issues for the minutes and write additional stipulations to Investigators, if needed, and process their responses. I process Emergency Use Authorizations, Public Records Requests and special projects.I serve as the point of contact for collaborative studies conducted at multiple UC campuses under the UC MOU using the UC IRB Reliance Registry. I communicate with PIs, UC IRBs and UCOP ensuring adequate review and approval by the reviewing and/or relying campus(es). I am responsible for processing all submissions for all research using the UC MOU on an Expedited basis across all four panels of the UCSF CHR, for coordinating the submissions that require review by the Full Committee and for tracking and submitting all approvals via the UC IRB Reliance Registry.I teach the Advanced iRIS Submissions course, report iRIS errors, generate weekly reports and serve as the point of contact for the CITI Human Subjects Protection Training.One afternoon per week, as Analyst of the Day, I receive all general calls to the CHR and answer questions.