IRB Staff

Our main telephone line is 352-273-9600 or email our Office Email Account

Name

Request/Question Type

E-mail

Direct Phone #

Maya Andrade, BS

Research Regulatory Analyst III

  • New study assistance
  • Revisions assistance
  • myIRB assistance
  • IRB 02 Tabled/Contingent letters to investigators
  • Informed consent assistance

 

 

maya.andrade@ufl.edu 352-273-9601
Jennifer Berthy
IRB OPS Assistant
  • myIRB assistance
  • Continuing Reviews submissmailto:brooke.bonkowski@ufl.eduions
  • Study Closures/Status Report submissions
  • Status updates
  • Training Status updates
  • Full Board sign-in assistance
irb@ufl.edu 352-273-9600
Renée Collins, B.S.

IRB-01 Vice Chair

  • Banking, Data/Chart Review submissions
  • New study assistance
  • Revision assistance
  • sIRB assistance
rbcollins@ufl.edu 352-273-9605
Kaitlin Sovich, B.A.

Research Regulatory Analyst III

  • Quality assurance/quality improvement (random and directed audits, informed consent audits)
  • Reporting: adverse events, deviations
  • Full Board support
  • Research conduct
  • Data destruction
ksovich@ufl.edu 252-273-9606
B. Dianne Farb, J.D.

IRB-01/IRB-02 Vice Chair

  • Regulatory Support
  • IRB -01 and IRB -02 exempt, expedited, and IRB 02 full board studies
  • Informed consent assistance
dfarb@ufl.edu 352-294-8670
TBD

Research Regulatory Analyst III

  • New study assistance
  • Revision assistance
  • myIRB assistance
  • sIRB assistance
  • Social/behavioral quality assurance/quality improvement
Emilie Schmidt, MS
Research Regulatory Analyst III
  • New study assistance
  • Revisions assistance
  • myIRB assistance
  • General research education/questions
eschmidt10@ufl.edu 352-273-9609
Margaret Hamer, J.D.

Research Regulatory Analyst III

  • Non-Human/Exempt Submissions
  • sIRB assistance
  • myIRB assistance
  • Informed consent assistance
  • New protocol assistance
mjn18@ufl.edu 352-273-9607
Nastasia James, M.S., CCRC

Research Regulatory Analyst III

 

  • Quality assurance/quality improvement (random and directed audits, informed consent audits)
  • Reporting: adverse events, deviations
  • Full Board support
  • Research conduct
  • Data destruction
najames@ufl.edu 352-273-4820
Michael Mahoney, B.S.

Director of Research Operations and Services

  • IRB administration, IACUC administration, Research IT, Research Facilities
  • Institutional Agreements (IAAs, MOUs)
  • IRB-01 Review of Exemption for Sponsored Studies
mmahoney@ufl.edu 352-294-2744
Cindy Montero, M.S., CCRC

Research Regulatory Manager

  • New study assistance
  • Board member trainingmailto:cmont329@ufl.edu
  • General research training
  • Informed consent assistance
  • myIRB assistance
cmont329@ufl.edu 352-273-6093
Becky McFerrin, B.A.

Research Regulatory Assistant

  • myIRB assistance
  • Continuing Review submissions
  • Study Closures/Status Report submissions
  • Revision submissions
  • Status updates
  • Training status updates
  • Full Board sign-in assistance
 bmcferrin@ufl.edu 352-273-9600
Ivana Simic, Ph.D., CIP

Associate Director,

UF IRBs

  • Policies and Procedures
  • Regulatory Consults for New Studies
  • Institutional Agreements (IAAs, MOUs)
  • Single IRB arrangements
  • WIRB liaison
  • myIRB assistance

 

isimic@ufl.edu 352-273-9604
Elvis Gutierrez, BS
Research Regulatory Analyst II
  • New Study and revisions assistance
  • myIRB assistance
  • Tabled Letters to Investigators
  • Contingency Letters to Investigators
  • Miscellaneous Letters to Investigators
  • Needs Reply Letters
  • Approval Letters
  • Full Board Meeting Minutes
e.gutierrez@ufl.edu (352) 273-6085
Tonia Toon, MPS, CCRP

AAHRPP administrator

  • International Research
  • Education
  • Reliance (ceded submissions, UF sIRB0
  • AAHRPP application
tonia.toon@ufl.edu 352-273-5865
Shelsy Vargas, BS

IRB OPS Assistant

 

  • myIRB assistance
  • New protocols approvamailto:benjamin.lewis@ufl.edul letters
  • Approval letters for revisions with Consent Forms
  • Full Board meeting
irb@ufl.edu 352-273-9600
Lori Wojciechowski, J.D.

Research Regulatory Analyst II

  • New Study and revisions assistance
  • myIRB assistance
  • Departing PI notifications
  • Tabled Letters to Investigators
  • Contingency Letters to Investigators
  • Miscellaneous Letters to Investigators
  • Needs Reply Letters
lwojo@ufl.edu
352-294-8481
Katie Pope, BS
Research Regulatory Analyst II

 

  • New Study and revisions assistance
  • myIRB assistance
  • Tabled Letters to Investigators
  • Contingency Letters to Investigators
  • Miscellaneous Letters to Investigators
  • Needs Reply Letters
  • Approval Letters
  • Full Board Meeting Minutes
kpope2@ufl.edu