Dear COEHD Principal Investigators, Faculty, and Graduate Students:

The Office of Institutional Integrity is planning two educational sessions this spring semester focused on completing IRB forms for new submissions, continuing reviews, or modifications. One session will be provided at the main campus on February 5, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. in the JPL Assembly Room 4.04.22 (Side A). A second similar session will be provided to PIs at the downtown campus on February 19, 2015 in Room 1.322 of the Buena Vista Building. The session will begin at 6:00 p.m. We are trying to reach as many students and faculty at each campus realizing that for some departments, day sessions are better while for other departments, evening sessions are more ideal. A second set of sessions will also be provided that focus on special issues that arise in some studies (e.g., special targeting of participants, special populations, non-human vs. human research, non-regulated vs. regulated research). These sessions will be offered in March 2015.

Last semester we responded to individual invitations by faculty to visit their classes and provide presentations on our new forms, procedures, and policies. We were overwhelmed by the number of requests with only a limited staff available to provide those presentations. We prefer to reach as many people as possible rather than the few in isolated classes. Please forward this announcement to all principal investigators, faculty, and graduate students in your respective Colleges and encourage them to attend.

Sincerely,

Amaury Nora, Executive Director for Research Integrity

Marcie Isaacs, Senior Research Compliance Coordinator

Tammy Lopez, Research Compliance Coordinator