The conduct of research at Children's Wisconsin is deeply connected to the institution's mission of CARE:
• Advocacy – speaking up and protection children
• Research – finding cures to the illnesses that affect children
• Education – Sharing what we learn and teaching others to care for kids
The Children's Wisconsin Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) is committed to protecting human subjects participating in research.
Human Subject Protection is a system of ethical principles, federal and state laws, local institutional policies, Federal and state oversight agencies, institutional safety committees, and institutional departments, all working together to safeguard the rights and welfare of humans participating in research. This is done by ensuring research conducted at our institution:
- protects the rights and welfare of subjects in human research
- is guided by the ethical principles of the Belmont Report
- Respect for persons
- Beneficence
- Justice
- is conducted with the highest level of expertise and integrity
- complies with applicable laws and institutional policy
Institutional Review Boards (IRB's, sometimes called "ethics boards") are an essential component in the system of Human Research Protection. The IRB is an ethical oversight committee that reviews initial and ongoing research. Their primary responsibility is to ensure the rights and welfare of human subjects are protected during their participation in research. Before approving research, the IRB must consider whether ethical principles and applicable laws regarding the protection of human subjects are adequately applied in specific research projects. They scrutinize each proposed research study and revision to existing studies to ensure that:
- research methods are ethical
- patients' rights are protected
- patients' give adequate informed consent for their participation
- any possible benefits are commensurate with the risks involved
- researchers maximize the safety of subjects once they are enrolled in a study
The Children's IRB is made up of two committees, each meeting once a month. These boards are diverse in their membership, made up of physicians and scientists from a variety of specialty areas, non-scientists and community representatives.
HRPP Contact Information
Call or send us an email.
IRB office Phone: (414) 337-7133 Fax: (414) 266-4925 |
General IRB questions: |
Mailing address: |
Reliance agreements & deferral requests: |
Research resources and tools
IRB Leadership
Children's Research Institute
Lori Roesch, CIM, CIP
Children's Research Institute
(414) 337-7705
lroesch@chw.org
Brandon Woodruff
IRB Executive Assistant
Children's Research Institute
(414) 337-7133
bwoodruff@chw.org
Michelle Martin, JD, CCRP, CIP
HRPP Quality and Operations Specialist
Children's Research Institute
(414) 266-7454
mmartin@chw.org
Megan Hinrichsen, PhD
IRB Analyst
(414) 337-7811
mhinrichsen@chw.org
IRB Analyst
IRB Reliance Point of Contact
Children's Research Institute
(414) 337-1174
cbaumgart@chw.org
Laura Bezler, MS, CCRC
IRB Analyst
Children's Research Institute
(414) 337-7694
lbezler@chw.org
Alexa Williams, RN
IRB Analyst
Children's Research Institute
(414) 337-0417
awilliams@chw.org
Human Research Protection Program