Instructors are faculty from Northwestern, U. of Minnesota

Instructors for the Feb. 6 research workshop are Don Workman, Ph.D., executive director of the Office for the Protection of Research Subjects, Northwestern University; and J. Michael Oakes, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. The morning session (IRB 101) will address how the federally mandated IRB system developed within the United States; the underlying ethical principles and procedures for reviewing research involving protection of human subjects; and key components of the regulations that govern IRB operations. The afternoon session (IRB 250) delivers a focused and topic-specific educational program in human research protections and insight into some of the many hot topics related to human subject protection programs.