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Members of the Human Studies Review Board

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  • Chair
  • Vice Chair
  • Members
  • Consultants to the Board
  • Membership Process
  • Membership Responsibilities
  • Orientation Program for New and Existing HSRB Members
  • Ethics Training for Special Government Employees
  • Confidential Financial Disclosure Form (3110-48)

Chair

Liza Dawson, Ph.D.
Research Ethics Team Leader
Division of AIDS National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)
Bethesda, MD

Vice Chair

Edward Gbur, Jr., Professor
Agricultural Statistics Laboratory
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR


Members

Jennifer Cavallari, ScD, CIH
Assistant Professor
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
 
Alesia Ferguson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
University of Arkansas
Little Rock, AR
 

Kyle L. Galbraith, Ph.D.
Research Integrity Officer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL

Walter T. Klimecki, DVM, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

Randy Maddalena, Ph.D.
Physical Research Scientist
Indoor Environment
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, CA

Jun Zhu, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics and of Entomology
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI
 

Consultants to the Board

Kendra L. Lawrence, Ph.D., BCE, PMP
Health Sciences Product Manager
U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity

Fort Detrick, MD


Membership Process

2017

  • Request for Nominations to the Human Studies Review Board, 2017

2016

  • Short List of Candidates for the EPA Human Studies Review Board (Comments requested by June 1, 2016)

2015

  • FR Notice Request for Nominations of HSRB Members 
  • Short List of Candidates for the EPA Human Studies Review Board

2014 

  • FR Notice Request for Nominations of HSRB Members

2013​

  • FR Notice Request for Nominations of HSRB Members 

2012

  • May 16, 2012 - Short List of Candidates for the EPA Human Studies Review Board

2011

  • July 19, 2011 - Short List of Candidates for the EPA Human Studies Review Board
  • June 14, 2011 - FR Notice Request for Nominations of HSRB Members

2010

  • May 15, 2010 - Short List of Candidates for the EPA Human Studies Review Board
  • March 5, 2010 - Request for Nominations to the EPA Human Studies Review Board

2009

  • August 19, 2009 – Short List of Candidates for the EPA Human Studies Review Board

2008

  • October 9, 2008 – FR Notice Requesting Nominations of HSRB Members

2007

  • July 24 , 2007 — Short List of Nominees
  • May 24, 2007 — FR Notice Seeking Nominations in the Areas of Human Health Risk Assessment
  • May 22, 2007 — Short List of Nominees
  • March 26, 2007 — FR Notice Seeking Nominations in the Area of Biostatistics

2006

  • March 2006 — Short List of Nominees
  • January 2006 — FR Notice Seeking Nominations of HSRB Members

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