Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA
Susan Z. Kornetsky, MPH, is the Senior Director of Clinical Research Compliance at Boston Children’s Hospital. For the past 40 years, her responsibilities have included: Directing an IRB administrative office, educating principal investigators regarding IRB regulations, assisting investigators with protocol development, assuring institutional compliance with all federal and state regulations pertaining to human research, establishing appropriate policies and procedures, and overseeing a quality improvement program for human research protections. In May of 2010, she completed a medical ethics fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She was a past Chair of PRIM&R’s Board of Directors and was on the PRIMR Board for 16 years. She helped develop and teaches PRIMR’S IRB administrator courses and lectures at many national meetings, in addition to PRIM&R’s conferences and other educational programs. Ms. Kornetsky is a past member of SACHRP and served as a co-chair for Subcommittee on Children. She currently serves on the SACHRP Subpart A Subcommittee. She is a past board member and was a site visitor for AAHRP.. She is a former member of the IOM’s Committee on Clinical Research Involving Children. She served as a consultant for federal agencies. She is faculty for educational programs run internationally through Harvard Medical School Office of Global education and was a faculty member for a Fogarty international grant. She has taught in London, Turkey, Portugal, Poland and China. She teaches a research Ethics course for the Masters of Clinical Investigation at Harvard Medical School. Ms. Kornetsky serves on the steering committee of SMART IRB and has participated in some of their subcommittees and she frequently participates in the Bioethics Collaborative for the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials. She currently serves on the Scientific and Research Advisory Committee for the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress.
Monday, November 18, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM PT
General Session: 50 Years of PRIM&R: Pioneers, the Present, and the Path Forward
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT
F01 - PLENARY: Risk Associated With Human Subjects Research: Whom Are We Obligated to Protect?
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM PT