You are invited to a

CReSS Workshop!
"Crucial Conversations
with the IRB"

Date: Friday, Jan. 11 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. (Registration is required:

https://training.vcu.edu/course_detail.asp?ID=16994)

Presenters: John Horigan, MA, CIP; VCU Director of Human Research Protection
Program Christine Davison, MBE, CIP; Associate Director, Human Subjects Protection

Location: McGlothlin Medical Education Center (MMEC), 11th floor, room 101-102

Target audience: Clinical research professionals, including coordinators, regulatory

and study activation specialists, research administrators, research nurses, and
principal investigators.

Learning objectives:
1. To describe required IRB communications for study reporting (including for
reliance/single IRB), protocol amendments, and participant re-consenting.
2. To identify applicable institutional clinical research SOPs and IRB working
policies and procedures.
3. To apply best practices for IRB communication pathways through the use of
scenarios.

Register now at: training.vcu.edu (keyword: clinical research, select the course
date/time preferred) or register directly at this link. (Space is limited for each session;
please register early and ensure that at least one representative from your clinical
research area attends. Please bring an ID card for attendance log in and a laptop, if
available.)

A Certificate of Attendance will be provided for continuing education hours

documentation.

This workshop is part of the new Clinical Research Skills Series (CReSS), coordinated
b y the VCU Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research. The purpose of the
CReSS is to provide the clinical research professional with skills and knowledge for the
conduct of clinical research according to b est practices. Thank you to VCU Massey
Cancer Center and VCU School of Medicine for their contrib utions to CReSS.

For more information please contact Shirley Helm at: shirley.helm@vcuhealth.org, 804-
628-2942

Translational Workforce Development Program

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