The HS IRB reviews research protocols involving medical interventions or procedures where medical expertise is required for evaluation.
Contact: Nichelle Cobb, Ph.D., Director, HS IRB Office, 608-263-2362, website
IRB Chair: Yoram Shenker, M.D., Professor of Medicine, 608-263-9221
The MR IRB reviews primarily research protocols that present
minimal risk to subjects and that involve medical interventions or procedures
requiring medical expertise or that require knowledge of the health care
setting (e.g., medical records research, research database and tissue banking
projects, survey and interview research, and exemption applications). The MR
IRB can review more than minimal risk research, when the committee consists of
members with the appropriate expertise or ad hoc consultant(s) are
appointed, should additional expertise be necessary.
Contact: Gretchen Anding, M.A., Manager,
MR IRB, 608-263-4170, website
IRB Chair: Peter Rahko, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, 608-263-8838
The SBS IRB reviews social, behavioral, and non-medical health research. It does not have appropriate expertise for review of medical research, but may review research protocols involving minimal risk health-related studies, such as those involving exercise, tape sensors, and single venipuncture, where medical training is not necessary for the evaluation of risk to research participants. The SBS IRB reviews all non-medical prisoner protocols. The SBS IRB also reviews certain types of social and behavioral science genetic research protocols, as described in the SBS Review of Genetic Research Policy.
Contact: Lillian Larson, Assistant Director, SBS IRB, 608-265-4312, SBS IRB website
IRB Chair: Lyn Turkstra, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communicative Disorders, 608-262-7583
The ED IRB specializes in education research. It does not have appropriate expertise for review of medical research, but may review research protocols involving minimal risk health-related studies, such as those involving exercise, tape sensors, and finger sensors, where medical training is not necessary for the evaluation of risk to research participants.
Contact: Michael Bingham, Assistant Director, ED IRB, 608-262-9710, ED IRB website
IRB Chair: Bradford Brown, Ph.D., Professor of Educational Psychology, 608-262-0838
The HRPP Advisory Committee is responsible for oversight of the UW-Madison’s HRPP, including the UW-Madison IRBs. The Advisory Committee advises the UW-Madison Institutional Official and IRBs on issues relating to human research protection, including the suspension of research privileges and reporting to federal authorities of noncompliance, unanticipated problems and suspension and termination of research. It approves all HRPP policies and communicates those policies to the UW-Madison community. It oversees campus-wide communications and training regarding human research protections. It also hears investigator appeals from decisions of the UW-Madison IRBs on issues of noncompliance, unanticipated problems and suspensions and terminations of research and reviews matters referred to it by the IRBs.
Contact: Lois Kallunki, J.D., Graduate School, 608-262-1224, website
Advisory Committee Chair: William Mellon, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research Policy, 608-262-1044