October 2009 Announcements

• "Jogging through the Regs" coming in November 2009
• HRPP/IRB, Phone numbers, address & submission times
• CITI Education Requirements
• Research Pharmacy Agreements Required

"Jogging through the Regs"

We are planning a series of lunchtime educational sessions starting in November. The sessions are designed to help investigators, coordinators, and regulatory personnel correlate LSUHSC-S HRPP/IRB Standard Operating Procedures with the federal regulations for research. As soon as possible, please send us an email to let us know if you want to meet on Tuesdays or Thursdays. SHIRBStaff@lsuhsc.edu.

The HRPP/IRB Directory of Phone Numbers

The HRPP/IRB Address

The HRPP/IRB has moved to Chevyland. Our new physical and mailing address is:

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport
Institutional Review Board
2627 Linwood Avenue, Building 2
Shreveport, LA 71103

IRB Protocol Submission Hours

The IRB will be accepting submissions from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. We will no longer close from 11:00 to 2:00 each day. However, we will stop accepting admissions at 12:00 noon on the days that IRB meetings are held. The meetings are held on the first Wednesday and the second Monday of each month. Please refer to the IRB Calendars for more specific meeting dates.

Weekly Submission Drop-off at Main Campus

The IRB will be on the main LSUHSC-S campus in room 2-414 of the medical school (next to stairwell) each Thursday from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. to collect your IRB submissions. Log sheets will be posted on our website on the forms page so that you will be able to fill out the log sheets ahead of time. If you have questions, concerns, or need assistance with your submissions, we ask that you please come visit us at our new location.

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)

CITI completion reports are now required for all IRB submissions. The IRB is unable to process any research applications for initial review, continuing review, or modification requests if CITI research education has not been completed by all research personnel involved in the conduct of the study. Prior education courses completed through the Compliance Office are no longer valid. Follow this link to CITI: http://www.citiprogram.org/default.asp

Mandatory Use of Research Pharmacy

All outpatient study drugs are required to be stored and dispensed by the Research Pharmacy. This policy became effective September 1, 2009.  A Research Pharmacy Service Agreement will need to be in place for each study that involves the use of study drugs. Please contact Randy McKnight, RPh, Pharmacist-in-Charge, 318.813.1197 for more information.

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Please contact Aliese Seawright at jseawr@lsuhsc.edu or 318.675.7811; or Donna Singleton at Dsingl1@lsuhsc.edu or 318.675.5925 if you need additional information regarding any of these announcements.

Archived Announcements:
April 2009
May 2009
July 2009
August 2009
September 2009