Hsienying Shine Chen

Health Care Associate
ROPES & GRAY LLP
Shine.Chen@ropesgray.com

Shine practices health care law, working with a variety of clients, including universities, academic medical centers, hospitals, medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies regarding a broad range of compliance, regulatory and transactional issues. Within the health care law arena, Shine focuses her practice in the area of clinical research. She has experience in drafting research misconduct policies, as well as advising clients in legal issues related to research misconduct. Shine is a health care associate at the Boston-based law firm, Ropes & Gray LLP.

Joanne Cono, MD, ScM,

Director of the Office of Science Quality, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the Director,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Joanne Cono is the Director of CDC's Office of Science Quality and is CDC's Research Integrity Officer. A board-certified pediatrician trained at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Dr. Cono completed a Community Pediatrics and Child Advocacy fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has practiced pediatrics in the New York City homeless shelter system and at Egleston Children's Hospital in Atlanta. She has a Master of Science degree in Vaccine Science and International Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, was a fellow in public health genetics at CDC, and a visiting faculty member at the University of Tartu in Estonia, teaching Epidemiology and Pediatrics. Dr. Cono joined CDC in 2000 as a medical epidemiologist in the National Immunization Program where she worked on childhood vaccine-preventable diseases and an Associate Director for Science. She also has been an Associate Director for Science and Senior Medical Officer in the CDC Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, as well as in the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program of the National Center for Infectious Diseases where she was a lead for CDC's smallpox vaccination and preparedness, as well as other bioterrorism preparedness activities. She was the lead of the Clinician Communications Team in CDC’s Emergency Communications System (ECS), developing emergency clinical guidance for medical and health professionals across the nation. More recently, Dr. Cono served as Senior Advisor for Global Health and as Senior Advisor for Science to the Director of CDC's former Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, and as Senior Advisor for Science Integration to the Director of the current Office of Infectious Diseases. She has participated in multiple CDC public health emergency responses and led the Epidemiologic Response Team during the U.S. monkeypox outbreak response of 2003, and was Chief Health Officer in CDC’s 2010 earthquake response in Haiti.

Aurali Dade, PhD

Assistant Vice President for Research Integrity & Assurance
George Mason University
adade3@gmu.edu

Aurali Dade is the Assistant Vice President for Research Integrity & Assurance at George Mason University. She has over 15 years of experience in compliance and research administration. As Assistant Vice President for Research Integrity & Assurance, Dade provides direction for the following programs: human subjects protection, animal care and use, export compliance, conflict of interest, research misconduct, and responsible conduct of research education and training. She has served as a Research Integrity Officer for nearly eight years. She also previously directed laboratory safety and environmental compliance programs. Dade has a Ph.D. in Environmental Science. She teaches courses in policy and risk and conducts research related to research ethics. She is also lead editor and author of two chapters for the upcoming volume: Implementing a Comprehensive Research Compliance Program: A Handbook for Research Officers.

Rahel H. Denboba, JD

Accountability and Compliance Specialist
University of Maryland
rdenboba@umaryland.edu

Rahel H. Denboba, JD is currently an Accountability and Compliance Specialist with the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) Office of Accountability and Compliance. Since 2013, she has assisted in handling allegations of research misconduct and conducting investigations of such allegations, including conducting interviews, collecting evidence, and drafting reports. Prior to her position at UMB, Ms. Denboba worked on several matters involving regulatory compliance for Huron Consulting Group and as a Program Manager in the Montgomery County Public School system. Ms. Denboba obtained her Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia, PA in 2009 and is licensed to practice law in the state of Maryland. During law school and upon graduation, she has worked in a variety of legal fields including criminal court, immigration, and corporate counsel for a continuing care retirement community. Ms. Denboba also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Temple University.

Richard A. Gemeinhart, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics and Bioengineering and UIC Research Integrity Officer
Departments of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Bioengineering, and Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
The University of Illinois
rag@uic.edu

Professor Richard A. Gemeinhart earned his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Purdue University from the Department of Interdisciplinary Engineering (now engineering Education) conducting research in the Laboratory of Renewable Resource Engineering. For his doctoral (PhD) education, Prof. Gemeinhart moved to the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University with Prof. Kinam Park focusing the interface of materials science and drug delivery. Upon completion of his PhD, Prof. Gemeinhart joined Prof. W. Mark Saltzman in the School of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University focusing on ocular drug delivery, in vitro transfection, and tissue engineering. Prof. Gemeinhart is currently an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics and Bioengineering, with a primary appointment in Biopharmaceutical Sciences and secondary appointments in Bioengineering and Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. For his research accomplishments (h-index = 18), Prof. Gemeinhart was named Society For Biomaterials Young Investigator, AACP New Investigator and Vahlteich Scholar at UIC. Prof. Gemeinhart has been funded by the NIH, DOD, NSF, and several foundations and been an active reviewer for the NIH (BTSS Study section member and ad hoc), NSF, and other agencies. Prof. Gemeinhart is a member of the Editorial board of three journals. Prof. Gemeinhart’s laboratory focuses on bioinspired materials, with emphasis on cancer drug delivery and mesenchymal stem cell-based regenerative medicine for which he is currently funded by the NSF and DOD. Prof. Gemeinhart has been actively engaged in graduate education having served as the Director of the Biopharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program (2005-2011) and Director of Graduate Education for the College of Pharmacy (2012-2014). Prof. Gemeinhart was recently (2014-) appointed the Research Integrity Officer for the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Anita K. Gianotto

Research Operations Office-EES&T, LDRD Program Manager, Research Management System Lead
Idaho National Laboratory
anita.gianotto@inl.gov

Anita Gianotto is currently serving as the Research Operations Manger and Research Management System Lead at Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho. In her existing role she performs the activities associated with the Research Integrity Officer. Prior to her current role she managed the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program for Idaho National Laboratory. Anita obtained a Masters of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from Idaho State University which enabled her to be a hands-on-researcher at Idaho National Laboratory prior to her career in Research Operations. In her role as a researcher she has published greater than 40 peer-reviewed publications and numerous scientific presentations with an emphasis in mass spectrometry.

Harold M. Ginzburg, M.D., J.D., M.P.H

Staff Psychiatrist, Research and Development Coordinator, Research Integrity Officer
Jack C Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Harold.Ginzburg@va.gov

Harold M. Ginzburg, M.D., J.D., M.P.H. is currently employed by the Jack C Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Muskogee, Oklahoma, as a Staff Psychiatrist and as the Research and Development Coordinator and Research Integrity Officer. He previously was the Director of Psychiatry for the Cherokee Nation’s Behavioral Health Services in Oklahoma. Prior to that, he was in full-time private practice, in Metairie, Louisiana where his forensic psychiatric practice primarily involved evaluating and treating patients who had developed psychiatric or neuropsychiatric problems as a result of physical injury, chronic illness, or traumatic incidents; he continues to maintain a part-time private practice using his medical and legal education and experience. He was an active duty commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Public Health Service for more than two decades; he concluded his full-time Federal government service in 1993. His last career Federal government assignment was as the Senior Medical Consultant, Office of Emergency Preparedness, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, the United States Public Health Service. He was tasked with developing emergency medical and mental health response programs for the Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMATs) sponsored by the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS).

Gearoid P. Griffin, Esq.

Research Integrity Officer
Harvard University | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
gearoid_griffin@harvard.edu

Gearóid P. Griffin ("Griff") has served as the Research Integrity Officer and Export Control Officer for the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University since August 2010. Prior to his current roles he was a Grants & Contracts Officer for the university. His other work experience includes working as an attorney for the law firm WilmerHale, where his primary practice focused on IP litigation and pharama product liability. Prior to that, he worked at a number of biotech/pharma companies including Merck Sharp & Dohme, Cytogen Corporation and American Biogenetic Sciences where he was involved in both the research and manufacture of FDA approved drugs. Originally from Dublin Ireland, Griff immigrated to the United States in 1992 after earning a BA and MA in Microbiology from Trinity College Dublin and a BS in Genetics from the Queens University of Belfast. In 2000 Griff obtained his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.

CR Matthew Hodgson, MA, MS, CCRP, CHRC

Director of the Office of Research Compliance and Regulatory Affairs
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
HODGSONM@email.chop.edu

CR Matthew Hodgson, MA, MS, CCRP, CHRC is the Director of the Office of Research Compliance and Regulatory Affairs at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP); he is responsible for the human subject protection program, the post approval monitoring program for human and animal subjects, and the overall research compliance program. Mr. Hodgson began his career in clinical research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2003. In 2010 he relocated to the Upper Valley in New Hampshire where he directed the Dartmouth Clinical Trials Office at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth College. In 2014, Mr. Hodgson joined CHOP as the Director of the Clinical Research Support Office to reorganize the existing Clinical Trials Office. His experience in clinical research spans medical writing, regulatory affairs, project management, and administration. He currently resides in Drexel Hill, PA.

Corinna Kashuba, D.V.M., Ph.D., DACLAM

Compliance Officer, Attending Veterinarian, Research Integrity Officer,
Northern Illinois University
ckashuba@niu.edu

Corinna Kashuba is the Compliance Officer and Attending Veterinarian at Northern Illinois University and acts as alternate Research Integrity Officer to RIO Shannon Wapole. Board-certified in laboratory animal medicine with a background in rodent pathology, cryobiology, and embryonic stem cell research, she provides veterinary care and facility oversight for research animals on campus, serves on the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and Institutional Biosafety Committee, lectures, and conducts research in the Department of Biological Sciences. Originally from Rumsey, Alberta, Dr. Kashuba previously worked as a veterinary officer for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. She holds a D.V.M. from the University of Illinois and completed her Ph.D. and Comparative Medicine residency at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Bonnie M. Muschett

Director of Title IX Compliance
University of Maryland
bonnie.muschett@umaryland.edu

Bonnie M. Muschett is the newly appointed Director of Title IX Compliance at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and, as a senior member of UMB’s Office of Accountability and Compliance, has been assisting UMB's Research Integrity Officer in the administration of the research misconduct process since 2013.

Bonnie earned her Juris Doctor from UMB’s Francis King Carey School of Law; Master of Business Administration from Georgia State University, and Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey.

A licensed attorney, Bonnie has also served as in-house legal counsel for a national educational services provider, delivering compliance training to K-12 educators nationwide. She also has significant compliance experience to complement her work in education. Prior to entering law school, Bonnie worked as a business consultant, analyst, and paralegal in both corporate and law firm settings, where she assisted clients with business and legal risk management in due diligence reviews, corporate reporting, and large-scale transaction closings.

Thomas O. Obisesan, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine
Associate Vice President and Designated Institutional Official
Regulatory Research Compliance
Howard University
tobisesan@howard.edu

Dr. Obisesan is a Professor of Medicine and Board Certified Clinician. He is the Associate Vice President for Regulatory Research Compliance, Research Integrity Officer, and Designated Institutional Official for Howard University. He is also the Director of the Clinical Research Unit (CRU) of the Georgetown-Howard University Center for Clinical Translational Science (GHUCCTS). Previously, he served as the Chair of the Howard University Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Dr. Obisesan received his medical education from the University of Lagos in Nigeria. After residency in Family Medicine, he completed a Fellowship Training in Geriatrics, and concurrently, a Master’s Degree in Public Health both from the George Washington University. As a Geriatrician, he received clinical training in Alzheimer’s disease. Through the National Institute of Health (NIH) support, Dr. Obisesan received post-doctoral training in lipids metabolism, cardiovascular aspects of exercise physiology and genetics at the University of Maryland, and currently an NIH funded Investigator. For over 1½ decades, he examined the epidemiologic, physiologic, genetic and biologic mediators of cardiovascular disease (CVD), conducted clinical trials on Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and informed the overlap of cardiovascular disease with AD risk. He is now probing the physiologic, metabolic and molecular pathways mediating the effects of fitness adaptation on neurodegeneration, using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to characterize lipids’ biological and functional roles, and molecular genetics to probe the downstream effects of CVD risk on hypoxia and on related gene expression on memory.

Dr. Obisesan served on review panels for the World Health Organization (WHO) and on National Examination Board, currently a member of several NIH study sections, and an editor of peer reviewed journals. In recognition of his national repute, Dr. Obisesan twice received research leadership awards from the Alzheimer’s Association, and Outstanding Service and Clinician Award from the Howard University Hospital; and served on the Board of Directors of the National Caucus and Center on Black Aged, and St. Mary’s Court. Dr. Obisesan, is a member of the Steering Committee for the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiatives, and the Georgetown-Howard University Clinical Translational Science Program at Howard University, guiding ground-breaking research. He is recognized nationally and internationally for his research, and as a leader.

Elysia Oudemans, MSW, LCSW-C

Director of Research Integrity and Compliance
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
oudemans@PIRE.org

Elysia Oudemans has been with Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) since 2000, and serves as the Institute’s Director of Research Integrity and Compliance. She brings with her a long history of clinical practice, supervision, and administration. She has worked for more than two decades in the prevention and early intervention field, including having served as field instructor for masters level social work students. Prior to joining PIRE, she was the director of a community-based youth and family services center, working with children, adolescents, and families through counseling, designing and implementing various prevention and early intervention programs, serving on community boards, and serving as both program and clinical supervisor. She has also worked closely with several community coalitions and lead agencies to establish, implement, and maintain strong collaborative, multi-disciplinary community- and school-based programs.

Ms. Oudemans coordinates and administers PIRE’s compliance with research integrity regulations, and plans and implements PIRE's response to emerging research integrity issues, including human subjects protection. Her work in human subjects protection includes managing PIRE’s three Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), developing IRB procedures, and acting as liaison between the IRBs and researchers and between PIRE and various federal agencies. She also served as Project Director for PIRE’s Human Subjects Protection Enhancement Grant received from NIH.

Brian J. Weimer

Research Integrity and Research Compliance Officer
Tulane University
bweimer1@tulane.edu

Brian J. Weimer is the Research Integrity and Research Compliance Officer for Tulane University in New Orleans. In addition to serving as RIO, Mr. Weimer acts to oversee and ensure compliance across the university with research-related regulations, policies, and accreditation standards applicable to the use of human subjects, use of animals, biosafety, grants administration, export controls, and financial conflicts of interests.

Mr. Weimer has a BA in English and History and a JD from Louisiana State University. Prior to joining Tulane in 2008, Mr. Weimer spent one year clerking for a federal district judge and five years as a litigator in private practice.

Outside of his professional role, Mr. Weimer enjoys the crescent city’s culture, history, music, food, and its people, as well as community service activities such as serving as the chair of the board of directors for a network of six public charter schools (elementary and high school) in Orleans Parish.

Pat Weitzel, PhD

Special Assistant to the AIRIO
Office of Intramural Research
National Institutes of Health

Pat Weitzel has been detailed since January to the NIR Office of Intramural Research to assist the current AIRIO, Dr. Melissa Colbert. Previously, he specialized in marrow transplant immunology as a postdoctoral research fellow in John Tisdale’s lab in NHLBI. In addition, he teaches a popular graduate-level molecular medicine course at NIH and pursues his interests in research and publishing ethics by engaging with various policy and ethics interest groups around campus. A Hoosier by birth, he attended Indiana University and later received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University in 2010.