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Complete Your Profile by Friday, 7/30/2021

July 28, 2021
Dear SOM Clinical Research Community, If you have not yet completed your personnel profile in the new SOM Personnel Profile and Training System (PaTS), please take a few minutes to do so by the end of this week: https://crso.unc.edu/pats Thank you to all who have already completed a profile –...

FAQs for PaTS System Profiles

July 20, 2021
Dear SOM Clinical Research Community, Please take a moment to review the information about the PaTS system in prior announcements and complete your profile at https://apps2.research.unc.edu/crso/. All SOM faculty and staff involved in the conduct of human subjects research are asked to complete a profile no later than July 30th....

ATTENTION SOM Clinical Research Personnel: Complete Your Profile Now

July 15, 2021
Dear SOM Clinical Research Community, We are pleased to announce the release of the new Clinical Research Personnel Profile and Training System (PaTS)! The PaTS will serve to collect standardized information about clinical research personnel, offer directed training activities and resources specific to individual responsibilities, and maintain easily accessible records...

Business Associate Agreements

July 8, 2021
As clinical research professionals, we focus on maintaining privacy, confidentiality, and data security for our participants. To ensure appropriate handling of Protected Health Information (PHI) and HIPAA compliance when sharing PHI with external parties, be sure to assess whether a business associate agreement (BAA) is required!

Protocol Builder is Now Available at (NRP Listserv)

June 30, 2021
Protocol Builder is now available at ! Protocol Builder is an online tool designed to help investigators develop clinical protocols with all of the elements needed for efficient scientific and ethical review by the Scientific Review Committee and IRB. Anyone with a ONYEN, including affiliates at...

Announcement on Cassie Myers Departure (NRP Listserv)

June 29, 2021
It is with great sadness that I write to let you know that effective June 11, Cassandra (Cassie) Myers will be stepping down as Director of the Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) and departing the University to begin a new role with the HR Consulting Group. The Office of...

Partial Return of Monitoring Visits to IDS (NRP Listserv)

June 29, 2021
Clinical Research Community, In the setting of pandemic restrictions beginning to be relaxed by Health, Investigational Drug Services (IDS) plans to begin to allow select onsite monitoring visits. Please refer to the attached memo for additional details. This policy is in effect as of June 29th, 2021...

Important Update: SOM Guidelines for Clinical Research

June 17, 2021
Dear SOM Clinical Research Community, In accordance with revised Health policies, SOM personnel reporting to H clinical areas are no longer required to document a daily wellness screening in one of the e-portals. All employees must continue to monitor their own wellness and not report to campus if feeling...

UPDATE: FDA Clinical Trial Reporting Rule Enforcement Action

June 9, 2021
Important Update: On April 28th, the FDA issued a notice of non-compliance to an industry sponsor for failure to submit required results information to ClinicalTrials.gov. If the required information is not submitted within 30 days, the FDA may seek civil monetary penalties consisting of an initial $12,316 fine followed by...

Centralized BCA and Charge Review Process Reminders (NRP Listserv)

May 28, 2021
WE ARE 7 WEEKS INTO THE NEW BCA AND CHARGE REVIEW PROCESSES AND WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING REMINDERS: When creating a new CRMS record, setting the study status to “New” triggers the central coverage analysis process. If you do not yet have a protocol, you should wait until...