Institutional Review Board (IRB)

Responsibilities and Functions:

Primary review of all research protocols that involve human participants.
Authority to approve, require modifications, or disapprove research activities that involve human participants.
Authority to suspend or terminate approval of research that involves human participants that is not conducted in accordance with requirements.
Coordinates ethics-related educational activities.
Determines level of review for each study that involves human participants (full board, expedited, exempt, not research).
Communicates with reviewers, committee members, investigators, and study staff.
One committee oversees biomedical studies and the other committee oversees studies that are considered social and behavioral sciences research.
Ensures that committee membership conforms to current federal regulations and federal agency requirements.

John C. Smith, MSW, CIM, CIP
IRB Director
Hugh Gloster 122
404-752-1973
josmith@msm.edu

Research