Webinar on Quality Improvement in Human Research Protection Programs

Training Options  Duration: 60 Minutes 
Wednesday, May 31, 2017   |   10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

Overview: his webinar will discuss how implementing a targeted quality assessment and quality improvement program for a human research protection program and IRB can greatly improve efficiency, compliance, and consistently. While auditing and quality improvement are not regulatory requirements, they are considered best practice that are usually an important part of any program at an organization. HRPP accreditation programs have standards requiring audit and quality improvement which can be useful templates for any HRPP. Many examples of potential areas of QA/QI targeted issues will be discussed. In addition, the discussion will include the development and use of metrics as part of your QA/QI program.

A strategy will be presented to develop metrics for any IRB function, including metrics that cover quality, efficiency and compliance. Quality assessment and improvement can help ensure regulatory compliance of IRBs and investigators. But beyond compliance, a QA/QI program in your HRPP/IRB can promote a better use of organizational resources, more efficient and standardized reviews to benefit researchers, and stronger and more consistent protections for research participants. IRBs will be enhanced with better committees, better efficiency and more consistency in reviews, decisions making, and approvals. Better human research protection programs go hand-in-hand with better science.

Why should you Attend: Without a quality assessment and improvement program, a human research protection program and IRB can easily become inefficient and inconsistent. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably get there, to the detriment of your investigators, research participants, your research program and your organization.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Why quality improvement of an HRPP/IRB is important
Who should conduct QA/QI activities?
Areas of quality improvement
Periodic evaluation of the HRPP
Review times
Evaluation of an IRB meeting
Evaluation of IRB Members and Staff
Non-compliance
Documentation
Education of Investigators
Audit of investigators
Development and use of metrics
Strategy to develop metrics for any IRB function

Who Will Benefit:
IRB Staff
Institutional Officials
IRB Managers, IRB Administrators and IRB Coordinators
IRB Chairs
IRB Members
QA/QI Staff

Speaker Profile
Dr. Peter Vasilenko is the President of his HRPP/IRB consulting company, Apex Ethical Services, LLC. Previously, Dr. Vasilenko was the Program Director at the Alion HRPP Accreditation Services program and the Vice President for Accreditation at the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP). Dr. Vasilenko also spend 19 years at Michigan State University, including roles as IRB Chair and Director of the HRPP, as well as a Full Professor and researcher in the MSU-College of Human Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology.

Dr. Vasilenko is internationally recognized for his leadership and expertise in education and regulations related to human research protections. He has had extensive experience as an IRB Chair and IRB Member in both the university and hospital setting. In his work with the two accreditation programs, Dr. Vasilenko helped develop Standards for human research protection used worldwide and worked with hundreds of clients to evaluate and improve their HRPPs and IRBs. He is an author on 39 published articles, 67 published abstracts, and 261 presentations.

Price: $139.00

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