Research Administration

Institutional Review Board (IRB)

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) is a committee made up of physicians, scientists and community members who ensure that research involving human research subjects is well planned and ethical.

All research that involves human subjects or their identifiable data must be reviewed by the IRB.

Research is defined as "a systematic investigation, including research development, testing and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge".

"Human subjects means a living individual about whom an investigator conducting research obtains data through intervention with the individual, or identifiable information."

Rhode Island Hospital IRB

Committee on the Protection of Human Subjects
Federal Wide Assurance FWA00001230, Assurance date 2005
Chairperson: James Linakis, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Chairpersons, Panel #1: Christine Ryan, Ph.D. and Ronald Seifer, Ph.D.
Associate Chairperson, Panel #2, William Sikov, M.D. and Jennifer Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
Manager: Patricia E. Houser, RN, MSJ
Coordinator, Panel #1: Dawn Roux
Coordinator, Panel #2: Adrienne McParlin

For information, please call 444-6246.
Send all correspondence to Aldrich 507.

The Miriam Hospital IRB

Clinical Research Review Board
Federal Wide Assurance FWA00003538, Assurance date 2005
Chairperson: Maria Mileno, MD
Associate Chairperson: Jennifer Mitty, M.D.
Manager: Patricia E. Houser, RN, MSJ
Coordinator: Adrienne McParlin

For information, please call 444-3527.
Send all correspondence to Aldrich 511.

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