IRB (Institutional Review Board)

IRB Analyst Brown Bag Sessions

January 26: IRB Analyst Q&A

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

McDonald Auditorium

Moderated by Melinda Allie

Join us for a Q&A session with all your favorite analysts! If you've talked or emailed your analyst but never met them, now is the perfect time to greet them face to face. They will be available to answer general questions or walk you through a particular problem.

February 23, Minimal Risk Research

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
McDonald Auditorium

Melinda Allie and Stacie Fujisaki

Want to learn more about submitting your minimal risk study to the IRB? Then this brown bag is for you. Topics covered include:

Minimal risk, or expedited, research
Exempt research
Non-human subjects research
Anonymous, coded, and identifiable data
Basic submission requirements

March 22, PI Eligibility and Research Collaborations

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
McDonald Auditorium

Andrea Johnson and Kara Drolet

This session will address various issues that arise in developing collaborative research projects, both within and outside OHSU. Common questions to be discussed include:

Who can be a Principal Investigator (PI)?
Who needs to be listed as a co-investigator on my submission?
When do I need an IIA? How about an IAA? What's the difference?
Are there any special requirements for international collaborations?

What is Human Subject Research?

The Code of Federal regulations defines Research as:

"A systematic investigation, including research development, testing and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge." [45 CFR 46.102(d)]

and defines Human Subjects as:

"...living individual(s) about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains (1) data through intervention or interaction with the individual , or (2) identifiable private information." [45 CFR 46.102(f)(1-2)]