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Membership
Bruce Koch (Chair)
A. Daktari Alexander
Shawn Bell (IRB Coordinator, ex-officio)
Deirdre Bowen
Bonnie Buchanan
Carolyn Coffin
Lori Cray
Michelle DuBois
Paul Holland (Ad-hoc/Prisoner Advocate)
Colette Hoption
Andrea McDowell, Ph.D. (IRB Administrator, ex-officio)
Patrick Murphy
Bill O'Connell
Stefan Shipman (External Member)
Samuel Song
Galen Trail
Purview
The Seattle University Institutional Review Board (IRB) is charged with approving research proposals involving human subjects for the purpose of ensuring that the rights of these subjects are protected.
Authority
The IRB is accountable to the Provost who appoints the chair and the members.
Meetings
The IRB will meet on a monthly basis during the academic year. A meeting may be cancelled at the discretion of the IRB chair if no full board protocols are to be reviewed. Meeting dates will be announced on the IRB Website.
Membership
The membership of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) is constituted so as to assure a broad range of competencies and includes at least one non-scientist member and one external member who has no direct relationship to the University. The IRB members are appointed for three-year terms. Due to the nature of the work and the complexity of federal rules and regulations for research involving human subjects, IRB members can be reappointed to additional three-year terms indefinitely at the discretion of the Provost.
Reports To
Provost
Minutes Distribution
Meeting minutes are on file in the Office of Research Services.
Chair or Contact Person/Telephone Number
Bruce Koch, IRB Chair/x5815/kochb@seattleu.edu
Shawn Bell, IRB Coordinator/x2597/bellsh@seattleu.edu
History
The IRB, formerly known as the Human Subjects Committee, has been in existence since 1993. Researchers involved in human subjects research submit protocols to the IRB for the appropriate review based on the Seattle University IRB policies and procedures.