Central (External) IRB Models

Event Date: 

Thu, Apr 02, 2015 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm

Event Location: 

HP Smith Conference Room (W256 GH)

Pre-registration is recommendedclick the link to register. 

In December, 2014, the National Institutes of Health announced a draft policy to promote the use of a single Institutional Review Board (IRB) for multi-site clinical research studies.   Staff in the UI Human Subjects Office and IRB Chairs have been working diligently for the past year to work out the details and implement agreements with several other IRBs for certain studies to use a central IRB.  This could be for a UI research study to be covered by a central IRB, such as the National Cancer Institute Central IRB (CIRB), the Stroke Network (StrokeNet) or Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), OR for the UI IRB to serve as the central IRB for multiple study sites.

Dixie Ecklund, IRB Chair and Associate Director of the UI Clinical Trials Data Management Center, will describe first-hand experience working with central IRBs and Kelly O’Berry will provide an overview of local agreements that are in place or in progress with outside IRBs for oversight of UI research.

*Note: The UI has a longstanding contract with Western IRB (WIRB) to review industry sponsored/industry initiated research.  This presentation will not address issues related to WIRB review of UI research.

HP Smith conference room (W256) location in General Hospital at the north end of UIHC