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PRIM&R
Longboat Key , FL
Joan Rachlin, JD, MPH, has been the executive director of PRIM&R since 1975. During those almost four decades, she has worked with the staff, board, and the wider subject protections community to create the premier educational organization for those conducting and reviewing human subjects and animal research both in the United States and internationally. Ms. Rachlin has contributed to the development of more than 200 conferences, short courses, webinars, and e-learning platforms; the creation of AAHRPP, the establishment of PRIM&R’s certification initiatives—CIP® and CPIA®—and the newly launched People & Perspectives, PRIM&R’s archive of stories from and about those working in the field. Among her proudest accomplishments is the growth of PRIM&R’s membership community, which numbers more than 4,000 research professionals from around the world. A health lawyer by training, Ms. Rachlin holds a JD from the Suffolk University School of Law and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. As a practicing lawyer, she worked on cases involving women’s health and criminal defense. Ms. Rachlin has also taught and lectured extensively at Boston-area universities on research ethics, women’s health, and health law. Ms. Rachlin will step down from her post in April of 2014 and pursue a second career as an oral historian. Ms. Rachlin is the recipient of PRIM&R’s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Research Ethics, which will be presented on November 9 at 8:15 AM.
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