NWABR and the Conference Planning Committee
present

2006 Human Subjects Research Regional Conference
October 11-12, 2006
Red Lion Hotel Downtown Seattle

Program Highlights

• “A Day in the Afterlife of Ellen Roche: Tragedy and Recovery at Johns Hopkins” by Dr. Greg Koski, Former Director, Office of Human Research Protections
  
• “Accreditation Step by Step” by Dr. Marjorie Speers, Executive Director, Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs and a related session describing the accreditation process from an organizational standpoint.
  
• “OHRP Update”, “Non-Human Subjects Research, Exempt, Expedited and Full Board Reviews”, and “Serious Adverse Events and Protocol Deviation: Reporting and Preventing Reoccurrence” by Elyse Summers, JD; Education Coordinator, Division of Education and Development, Office of Human Research Protections
  
• Concurrent Intensive Sessions: Flexible, discussion-based sessions for new IRB members and staff, and experienced officials targeting biomedical and social/behavioral research.
  
• Mock IRB Sessions: Four different sessions allow attendees to select the session that best suits their needs from basic to experienced and social/behavioral to biomedical.
  
• Breakout sessions for new and expanding IRB’s including “Organizational Innovation: Doing More with Less” and “Constructing an Effective IRB”
  
• Opportunities to ask an expert administrator
  
• A full menu of breakout sessions including “Tissue and Data Repositories”, “Effective Interaction between IRO and Compliance Offices and Principle Investigators”, “Ethics and the IRB”, “Children in Research”, “Why Can’t We Just Get Along? The 10 Dumbest Things IRB’s Ask Investigators”, “What Role do Subjects’ Circumstances Play in Research Ethics? Lead Paint, Pesticides and Living in Uganda”, and “Research or Quality Assurance?”

Who Should Attend

• Institutional officials
• IRB members, staff, administrators, chairs and managers
• Non-Scientific/public members
• Principle investigators
• Research Directors/coordinators
• Support staff

Sponsorship Opportunities

• General Information
• Sponsorship Levels
• Category Opportunities
• Standards for Commercial Support

Online registration will be available this summer.

Contact Laurie Hassell, NWABR Regional Manager, at 206-465-4691 or lhassell@nwabr.org for more information.

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