1. November Faculty Senate Meeting
James Tomasek, PhD OUHSC Vice President for Research November 16, 2017

2. IRB In-House Training Program
Current Structure
All faculty, staff, residents, fellows, and students engaged in human subjects research must attend the half-day in-person IRB In-House Training Program once.
Held Tuesday mornings, 8:30-1:00
Scheduling problem for residents, fellows, and students
Revised Structure
In-House Training will be entirely a web-based system
Content will be focused on OUHSC HRPP/IRB specific information
In-House Training will need to be done by all faculty, staff, residents, fellows, and students engaged in human subjects research
There will be required updated In-House Training - still to be determined is frequency and content of updated training

3. Information Technology Security
Current policies causing issues for researchers
Have established a standing Information Technology Research Committee

4. Information Technology Research Committee
Research data must be maintained in a secure environment that is in compliance with state and federal law and contract obligations. Information Technology (IT) Security is responsible for developing policies to maintain research data security that is in compliance with these entities and to assist researchers in complying with these policies. However, it is important that the impact these policies have upon research, including the regulatory obligations placed upon researchers to comply with these policies, be considered and minimized as much as practical. In addition, it is important to have input from researchers and others regarding how these policies may be able to support and enhance the research enterprise.
 To meet these objectives, it is critical that communication and cooperative interaction occur between IT Security and researchers. To promote and provide for coordination of this interaction, a new committee of researcher representatives, the Information Technology Research Committee (ITRC), is hereby created. The role of the ITRC is to work with IT Security on policies concerning research data security to ensure that any impact upon research, including any regulatory obligations placed upon researchers to comply with these policies, is taken into consideration and minimized as much as practical and to review ways these policies could support and enhance the research enterprise. In addition, the ITRC will bring forward to IT Security specific issues researchers are having with complying with policies so that solutions that resolve, or at least minimize, the impact on the research mission can be achieved.

5. Information Technology Research Committee
Committee Member
College
Membership
Appointment
Austin Bernard
College of Medicine
Ad Hoc Member
1 year appointment (August July 2018)
Kari Boyce, PhD
College of Allied Health
Member
2 year appointment (October 2017-July 2019)
Janis Campbell, PhD
College of Public Health
Kathleen Dwyer, PhD, RN
College of Nursing
Willard Freeman, PhD
1 year appointment (August 2017-July 2018)
Allison Gillaspy, PhD
Sharukh Khajotia, BDS, PhD
College of Dentistry
W. Michael McShan, PhD
College of Pharmacy
Ashlee Rempel, MBA
OU School of Community Medicine Tulsa
Lawrence Rothblum, PhD
Chair

6. Information System and Data Classification Policy
Revision of policy
Research data that is unpublished and is not regulated or under contractual obligations for protection is no classified as Category C – Confidential
No longer requirement that unpublished research data be consolidated into one of the Universities designated enterprise data centers
Category A
Prohibited
Category B
Restricted
Category C
Confidential
Category D
Public
Human Participant Research Data (Includes any of the following:)
Participant Name
Street Address
City
County
First 3 of Zip Code
Telephone Number
Address
Social Security Number
Medical Record Number
Health Plan Beneficiary Number
Account Numbers
Certificate/License Numbers
Vehicle Identifiers, serial numbers, including license plate numbers
Study device identifiers and serial numbers
Web URLs associated with participant
IP Addresses associated with participant
Biometric identifiers, including fingerprints and voiceprints
Full face photographic images and other comparable images
Any other unique identifying numbers, characteristics, or codes
Restricted Animal Data (Veterinary records, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
Records)
Unpublished Research Data (including animal research data)
Published Research Data (Authorized by Funding Agency as Public)
Information Security Risk Assessment Policy

7. Ethics in Research Policy
Revised Ethics in Research Policy
Approved at the October 2017 OU Regents Meeting
Should be posted soon
Research Integrity Officer
Revised Ethics in Research Policy has Research Integrity Officer
Appointed by and reports directly to the Vice President for Research
Primary responsibility of overseeing OUHSC Ethics in Research Policy and implementing procedures associated with this policy, as well as inquiries and investigations
New RIO starting December 11 – Michelle Staudt, PhD

8. HSC Research Strategic Plan: 2015-2020
1. Provide an environment that advances excellence in discovery, creativity, and technology development
2. Advance team-based research
3. Accelerate translational research
4. Expand research in thematic areas
a. Cancer/Tobacco Use and Prevention
b. Diabetes/Metabolic, Vascular Disease
c. Vision/Neuroscience
d. Geroscience
e. Immunology/Infectious Diseases