The Rockefeller University
New York, NY
Dr. Rhonda G. Kost is the Clinical Research Officer, Vice-Chair of the Rockefeller Institutional Review Board, and Associate Professor of Clinical Investigation at the Center for Clinical Translational Science, at The Rockefeller University She led the development of the Research Participant Perception Survey (RPPS), a validated questionnaire that provides evidence-based outcome measures of participants’ research experiences – such as informed consent, voluntariness, respect, and clear communication – that reflect values expressed by participants during its development. She is the Principal Investigator for Empowering the Participant Voice (EPV), a mutli-site NIH/NCATS-funded project that created and shares infrastructure to make it easier for organizations to routinely collect feedback from participants using the RPPS. Standards and tools help organizations send RPPS surveys, analyze results, examine inter-group differences, act on findings, measure impact, and benchmark within and across institutions.
Dr. Kost also serves as Co-Director of the Rockefeller Community Engaged Research Core, and is the site PI in their collaboration with the Vanderbilt-led Recruitment Innovation Center (CHOIR). She was a committee member and co-author of the July 2018 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Committee Report, Returning Individual Research Results to Participants: Guide for a New Research Paradigm.
Dr. Kost received her B.S. from Yale and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She completed internal medicine residency training at Yale and infectious diseases subspecialty training at Case Western Reserve and served as a Medical Staff Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, NIAID, in the Virology Section. Before joining Rockefeller, she conducted research on HIV/AIDS at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center.
Monday, November 18, 2024
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT