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  • Sunday, Dec 3rd
    8:30 AM – 9:45 AM ET
    [IN-PERSON/LIVESTREAMED]: Welcome Remarks from SBER23 Planning Committee Co‐Chairs and Keynote Presentation by D. James Greiner, JD, PhD, Faculty Director, Access to Justice Lab; Honorable S. William Green Professor of Public Law, Harvard Law School
    Location: Room 146 ABC
    Moderator: Andrew Hedrick, MPA, CIP – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Tonya Ferraro, MEd (she/her/hers) – Boston Children's Hospital
    Keynote Speaker: D. James Greiner, PhD – Harvard Law School
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchSBEREmerging Research Challenges and Breaking Issues
  • Sunday, Dec 3rd
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET
    A01 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED]: When Politics Collide With Research
    Location: Room 152B
    Speaker: Ann Johnson, PhD, MPH – University of Utah
    Speaker: Michelle C. Stickler, DEd, CIP – The University of Texas at Austin
    Speaker: Nicole Vouvalis, J.D. (she/her/hers) – Utah State University
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchHRPP/IRB Administration/Management and ProcessLegal Considerations in Research OversightSBEREmerging Research Challenges and Breaking IssuesResearch Oversight Leaders and Institutional Officials
  • Sunday, Dec 3rd
    1:45 PM – 3:00 PM ET
    [IN-PERSON/LIVESTREAMED] Plenary Session: In Community‐‐Research, Partnerships, and the IRB
    Location: Room 145 AB
    Moderator: Colleen Kohashi, MA, CIP (she/her/hers) – UC Berkeley
    Panelist: Allen Ratliff, PhD, MSW (they/them/theirs) – University of Nevada, Reno
    Panelist: Coco Auerswald, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
    Panelist: Joseph Kunkel (he/him/his) – MASS Design Group
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchCommunication With the PublicHRPP/IRB Administration/Management and ProcessSBERFlexibility and Innovation in Research Oversight Processes
  • Sunday, Dec 3rd
    3:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    C03 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] Plenary Session Follow‐Up: Continuing Discussion on "In Community‐‐Research, Partnerships, andthe IRB"
    Location: Room 159 AB
    Moderator: Colleen Kohashi, MA, CIP (she/her/hers) – UC Berkeley
    Speaker: Coco Auerswald, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
    Speaker: Joseph Kunkel (he/him/his) – MASS Design Group
    Speaker: Allen Ratliff, PhD, MSW (they/them/theirs) – University of Nevada, Reno
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchCommunication With the PublicHRPP/IRB Administration/Management and ProcessSBERFlexibility and Innovation in Research Oversight Processes
  • Sunday, Dec 3rd
    3:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    C05 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] Avoiding “Research Tourism”: Considerations for IRB Review of Research with Unhoused Participants
    Location: Room 158 AB
    Speaker: Ruth McKeogh – Worcester Polytechnic Institute -WPI
    Speaker: John Heldens, CIP (he/him/his) – University of Colorado, Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchEducation, Qualifications, and TrainingHRPP/IRB Administration/Management and ProcessPopulations Requiring Additional ProtectionsSBER
  • Monday, Dec 4th
    10:30 AM – 11:45 AM ET
    [IN-PERSON/LIVESTREAMED] Plenary Session: Beyond Evaluating Risk: Now We Must Navigate Sociopolitical Events in Research
    Location: Hall E
    Moderator: Neal W. Dickert, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
    Panelist: Michelle L. McGowan, PhD (she/her/hers) – Mayo Clinic
    Panelist: Heather H. Pierce, JD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Association of American Medical Colleges
    Panelist: Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA – Johns Hopkins University
    Emerging Research Challenges and Breaking IssuesPopulations Requiring Additional ProtectionsAdvancing Equity and Justice in Research
  • Monday, Dec 4th
    1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
    A01 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] Power Dynamics: Gearing Up to Do Research‐‐Conducting Research With People, Not on Them
    Location: Ballroom C
    Speaker: Starlette M. Sinclair, PhD (she/her/hers) – Florida Gulf Coast University
    Speaker: Doretha Walker, MPA, PhD – Florida Gulf Coast University
    Speaker: Hila F. Berger, MPH, CIP, CHC (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    Co-Author: Donna H. Odierna, DrPH, MS, CIP – Life Chiropractic College West
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchCommunication With the PublicHRPP/IRB Administration/Management and ProcessPopulations Requiring Additional ProtectionsSBER
  • Monday, Dec 4th
    2:15 PM – 3:15 PM ET
    B02 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] Grappling With “Classic” Research Ethics Cases: An Exercise in Humility and Course Correction
    Location: Room 143 AB
    Speaker: Mose A. Herne, MPH, MS (he/him/his) – Indian Health Service
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchCommunication With the Public
  • Monday, Dec 4th
    2:15 PM – 3:15 PM ET
    B15 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] The IACUC Experience in Underrepresented Minority (URM)‐Serving Institutions
    Location: Room 206
    Speaker: Paulnisha D. Granger-Koonce, M.S. (she/her/hers) – North Carolina Agricultural &Technical State University
    Speaker: Ingrid K. Tulloch, PhD (she/her/hers) – Morgan State University
    Advancing Equity and Justice in Research
  • Monday, Dec 4th
    3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET
    C17 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] Reducing Barriers to Participation in Nonhuman Animal Research and Animal Care and Use Programs
    Location: Room 204C
    Speaker: Joey Ramp-Adams (she/her/hers) – Empower Ability Consulting, Inc.
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchEducation, Qualifications, and TrainingIACUC Administration/Management and ProcessACU Program Management
  • Monday, Dec 4th
    3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET
    C02 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] Decolonizing Science for Justice: Closing the Research Loop
    Location: Room 147 AB
    Speaker: Hollee A. McGinnis, PhD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Speaker: Tonya Ferraro, MEd (she/her/hers) – Boston Children's Hospital
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchCommunication With the PublicSBER
  • Monday, Dec 4th
    3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET
    C22 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] Situational Vulnerability and Power Dynamics in the Research Sphere
    Location: Room 206
    Speaker: Shannon Ramsey, CPIA, RLAT (she/her/hers) – Allen Institute
    Speaker: Andrea Dragan, MPH, CIP (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    Speaker: John D. Horigan, MA, CIP (he/him/his) – National Institutes of Health
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchShared Research Oversight Challenges
  • Tuesday, Dec 5th
    1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
    D05 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] Accessibility by Design: Operationalizing Full Commitment to the Americans With Disabilities Act in Clinical Research Practice
    Location: Room 152B
    Speaker: Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, DrPH (she/her/hers) – Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard
    Speaker: Bonnielin Swenor (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center
    Speaker: Cecile Gonzalez-Cerimele (she/her/ella) – Eli Lilly & Company
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchEmerging Research Challenges and Breaking IssuesPopulations Requiring Additional ProtectionsLegal Considerations in Research Oversight
  • Tuesday, Dec 5th
    2:30 PM – 3:45 PM ET
    [IN-PERSON/LIVESTREAMED] Plenary Session: It's About Time: Inclusion of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Clinical Research
    Location: Hall E
    Moderator: Christina N. Dragon, MSPH, CHES (she/her/hers) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Panelist: Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, DrPH (she/her/hers) – Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard
    Panelist: Amy Ben-Arieh, JD, MPH – The Fenway Institute
    Panelist: Keith Dawson, DNP, MS (he/him/his) – Genentech
    Populations Requiring Additional ProtectionsAdvancing Equity and Justice in ResearchHRPP/IRB Administration/Management and ProcessPharma/Biotech Perspectives
  • Tuesday, Dec 5th
    4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    E07 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] Whose Job Is it Anyway? The Role of the IRB in Increasing Protections of Vulnerable Populations
    Location: Room 202 AB
    Speaker: Elisa M. Butler, MA – Stanford University
    Speaker: Winona Wynn, Ph.D – Heritage University
    Speaker: Heather Miller, PhD, CIP (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Resource Person: Michael Grippaldi, Esq., CIP (he/him/his) – The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), DHHS
    Populations Requiring Additional ProtectionsAdvancing Equity and Justice in ResearchHRPP/IRB Administration/Management and ProcessSBER
  • Tuesday, Dec 5th
    4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    E08 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] CARE: A Model for the Integration of Cultural Humility into Human Subjects Research
    Location: Room 140 AB
    Speaker: Sana Loue, JD,PhD, MPH, MSSA, MA, LISW-S (she/her/hers) – Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
    Speaker: Andrea Dragan, MPH, CIP (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchPopulations Requiring Additional ProtectionsSBERTransnational Research Collaborations
  • Tuesday, Dec 5th
    4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    E22 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] Foundational Understandings on Indigenous Sovereignty, Settler‐Colonialism, and Research
    Location: Room 143 AB
    Speaker: Chelsea M. Mead, PhD (she/her/hers) – Minnesota State University, Mankato
    Speaker: Davis E. Henderson, Ph.D., CCC - SLP (he/him/his) – Northern Arizona University
    Speaker: Farina King, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Oklahoma
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchEducation, Qualifications, and TrainingIRB BasicsSBER
  • Tuesday, Dec 5th
    4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
    E23 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) and Impact on Staffing in Research Oversight Programs
    Location: Room 158 AB
    Speaker: Crystal H. Johnson, DVM, MPH, DACLAM (she/her/hers) – Georgetown University Medical School
    Speaker: Donna M. Jarrell, DVM, DACLAM (she/her/hers) – Speculo Coaching LLC
    ACU Program ManagementAdvancing Equity and Justice in ResearchHRPP/IRB Administration/Management and ProcessIACUC Administration/Management and ProcessIACUC ChairsIRB ChairsLeadership Skills DevelopmentShared Research Oversight Challenges
  • Wednesday, Dec 6th
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET
    F09 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] Are We Doing Enough? Creating a Sense of Belonging and Opportunities for HRPP Professionals
    Location: Room 152A
    Speaker: Ramya Turaga, Ph. D., CIM – Arizona State University
    Speaker: Lara N. Sloboda, PhD (she/her/hers) – Dana Farber Cancer Insititute
    Speaker: Aaron Kirby, MSc (he/him/his) – Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center and SMART IRB
    Speaker: Sequoia L. Young, MS, CIP, CIM (she/her/hers) – The Valley Hospital
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchLeadership Skills Development
  • Wednesday, Dec 6th
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET
    F14 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] The Ethical Conduct of Cell and Gene Therapy Research: Novel Challenges for Industry and the IRB
    Location: Room 152B
    Speaker: Missy Heidelberg, B.S., M.S. Bioethics (she/her/hers) – Takeda Pharmaceuticals
    Speaker: David H. Strauss, MD – Columbia University
    Speaker: Susan Z. Kornetsky, MPH – Boston Children's Hospital
    Pharma/Biotech PerspectivesAdvancing Equity and Justice in ResearchEmerging Research Challenges and Breaking IssuesResearch Involving Data and Biospecimens
  • Wednesday, Dec 6th
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET
    F04 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] Supported Decision‐Making: From the Law to the Bedside
    Location: Room 144 AB
    Speaker: Benjamin C. Silverman, MD – Mass General Brigham
    Speaker: Leslie Francis, PhD, JD (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    Legal Considerations in Research OversightAdvancing Equity and Justice in ResearchInformed ConsentPopulations Requiring Additional Protections
  • Wednesday, Dec 6th
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET
    F13 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] Bringing the IRB to the People, and the People to the IRB
    Location: Room 145 AB
    Speaker: Stuart Horowitz, PhD, MBA (he/him/his) – Institution Insights
    Speaker: Emily E. Anderson, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, Loyola University Chicago
    Speaker: Ann Johnson, PhD, MPH – University of Utah
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchCommunication With the PublicFlexibility and Innovation in Research Oversight ProcessesHRPP/IRB Administration/Management and ProcessIRB Chairs
  • Wednesday, Dec 6th
    10:15 AM – 11:15 AM ET
    F18 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] Addressing Implicit, Unconscious, and Conscious Biases: Leadership, Investigators, and Ethics Boards Throughout the Lifecycle of Research Initiatives
    Location: Room 151 AB
    Speaker: Doretha Walker, MPA, PhD – Florida Gulf Coast University
    Speaker: Margaret Rankovic, BA, MEd – CITI Program
    Speaker: Heather Miller, PhD, CIP (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchShared Research Oversight Challenges
  • Wednesday, Dec 6th
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
    G13 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] Adding "A" to our Diversity Alphabet: Accessibility is Key to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
    Location: Room 152B
    Speaker: Christine Wallace, MA (she/her/hers) – Pace University
    Speaker: Antoinette Kohlman, MHROD, MA, PhD (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Speaker: Cecilia Brooke Cholka, PhD, CIP (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Populations Requiring Additional ProtectionsAdvancing Equity and Justice in ResearchEducation, Qualifications, and TrainingHRPP/IRB Administration/Management and Process
  • Wednesday, Dec 6th
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
    G19 - [IN PERSON ONLY] Collaboration through Communication: Building Rapport with your Working Partners
    Location: Room 158 AB
    Speaker: Joel Seah, BSc – National University of Singapore
    Speaker: Kevin Nellis, MS, MT(ASCP), CIP (he/him/his) – SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
    Speaker: Jerry Poling, B.S. (he/him/his) – Eli Lilly and Company
    Leadership Skills DevelopmentCommunication With the PublicIACUC BasicsAdvancing Equity and Justice in Research
  • Wednesday, Dec 6th
    1:45 PM – 2:45 PM ET
    H12 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] Methods for Improving Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) in Research Administration and Oversight
    Location: Room 151 AB
    Speaker: Mae Lu, MA, MEd (she/her/hers) – University of California, Davis
    Speaker: Susan Z. Kornetsky, MPH – Boston Children's Hospital
    Speaker: John R. Baumann, PhD (he/him/his) – Indiana University
    Speaker: Myra Luna-Lucero, EdD (she/her/hers) – Teachers College, Columbia University
    Advancing Equity and Justice in ResearchHRPP/IRB Administration/Management and Process
  • Wednesday, Dec 6th
    1:45 PM – 2:45 PM ET
    H04 - [IN-PERSON/RECORDED] Eliminating Financial Barriers to Clinical Study Participation: The Need for Industry and Academic Partnership for a Sustainable Solution
    Location: Room 144 AB
    Speaker: Matt Stafford, MPH (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Speaker: Lindsay McNair, MD, MPH, MSB (she/her/hers) – Equipoise Consulting, LLC
    Speaker: Jaime O. Hernandez, JD, M.Be. (he/him/his) – Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
    Pharma/Biotech PerspectivesAdvancing Equity and Justice in Research