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Letter from the Director - 2019 Q4

Dear NIH Community,

The end of the year is frequently a time for pause and reflection, so I wanted to share with you some of what we have accomplished in the past year and where we are headed.  2019 was a busy year for OHSRP with lot of change across the clinical research landscape of the NIH Intramural Research Program.  Some of the accomplishments of the past year are highlighted below.

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• New monthly NIH wide OHSRP education series
• Implemented regular education and training for IRB operations staff, IRB members and Chairs training

What’s in store for 2020?

The upcoming year will focus heavily on process improvement.  Now that the new IRB and IRB office are overseeing all research, we can direct our efforts to streamlining the review process and assuring that all protocols have the required regulatory determinations made and documented.  Our goal is to minimize unnecessary burden on investigators and the IRB to allow for our energy to be focused on what matters, performing high quality reviews to make sure the best research moves forward ethically, efficiently and in a way that is compliant with all the regulatory requirements.

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