In accordance with Human Subjects in Research Assurance FWA00000921, the California Pacific Medical Center Institutional Review Board (IRB) serves the California Pacific Medical Center, the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry (UOP), and the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (SKERI). 
The California Pacific Medical Center IRB holds the primary responsibility for the oversight of the protection of human subjects recruited to participate or actively participating in research projects conducted by or under the auspices of California Pacific Medical Center, UOP, and SKERI.
The IRB has the authority to approve, require modifications in or disapprove research and serves an important role in the protection of the rights and welfare of human research subjects.
Every research study involving humans must be approved prior to initiation, and then reviewed at least every year, or more often as indicated, by the IRB. The IRB's primary responsibility is the protection of human subjects from undue risk and from deprivation of personal rights and dignity.
Current composition of the IRB Committee at CPMC
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