Office of Research Administration Re-Structuring
September 14, 2009
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce an organizational restructuring within the Office
of Research Administration (ORA). Effective September 1, 2009 the former Office
for the Protection of Research Subjects (OPRS) has been replaced by two offices
focused separately on human and animal research administration: the Office of
the Human Research Protection Program (OHRPP) and the Office of Animal Research
Oversight (OARO).
The OHRPP and OARO Directors will each report directly to Marcia Smith,
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Administration, with a direct line to the
Institutional Official, Vice Chancellor for Research Roberto Peccei, for
compliance issues.
Kathy Wadsworth will serve as Director of OARO. Ms. Wadsworth has served as
Associate Director in charge of animal research administration requirements for
over five years, successfully directing and overseeing the administrative
operations supporting the animal research program and the Chancellor’s Animal
Research Committee.
Sharon Friend will serve as Director of OHRPP. Ms. Friend has served as HRPP
Operations Director since June 2008 and led the successful UCLA effort to earn
national accreditation of our Human Research Protection Program. Before joining
the UCLA research administration team, Ms. Friend developed and implemented the
HRPP at the University of California, San Francisco.
This reorganization is part of the ongoing efforts led by ORA to streamline
research administration operations, improve services, enhance communication and
increase accountability. While OHRPP and OARO contact information, including
telephone numbers and addresses, will be unchanged, we will over the course of
the next several months update websites and documentation to replace references
to OPRS and reflect the new organizational identities.
We welcome your suggestions and comments on this reorganization as well as on
other ORA initiatives.
Sincerely,
Roberto Peccei
Vice Chancellor for Research |
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Marcia Smith
Associate Vice Chancellor
Research Administration |
