B18 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] Keeping the Peace: Preventing and Addressing Conflict in the IACUC

This session is being held in-person only at PRIMR23. It will not be recorded for on-demand access or for the PRIMR23/SBER23 Virtual Meeting.

For many institutions, the IACUC chair is often perceived as the leader of the animal care and use program. In that role, the IACUC chair is required to balance programmatic oversight with research productivity with nonhuman animals and this balancing act often requires a unique set of skills to detect and prevent issues before they fester into full-blown problems. Many of the problems faced by IACUC chairs deal with conflict among members of the IACUC, during the IACUC meeting itself, or even among different interacting committees. This session will use scenarios to explore strategies for coping with conflict resolution in an IACUC meeting.