IRB - Human Participants Committee Membership
Committee Composition
Federal regulations require that membership of the IRB include at a minimum, one member whose primary concerns are in scientific areas, one member whose primary concerns are in nonscientific areas, numerous members representing more than a single profession, and at least one individual not affiliated with Cornell.
Because Cornell is a large institution, additional members are included to provide adequate representation of the diverse research community and to accommodate the workload associated with reviewing large numbers of applications. Membership beyond the minimum required by regulation is drawn from faculty and staff primarily from the social, behavioral and biological sciences.
The membership of the IRB at Cornell is comprised of twelve to eighteen voting members. The current IRB membership includes the following:
- Professor David Dunning, Psychology Department
- Professor Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Development Sociology
- Professor Jennifer Gerner (Chair) , Policy, Analysis & Management
- Susan Miller, M.D., Gannett Health Services
- S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla, Sr., ILR-Employment & Disability
- Professor Carole Bisogni, Nutritional Sciences
- Professor Michael Shapiro, Communication
- Professor Robert Strawderman, Biological Statistics & Computational Biology
- Professor Deborah Trumbull, Education
- Professor Virginia Utermohlen, Nutritional Sciences
- Professor Brian Wansink, Applied Economics & Management
- Professor Elaine Wethington, Human Development
- Steve Davey, Nonaffiliated member*
- William Demo, Non-scientist and nonaffiliated member*
- Frank Cantone, Ph.D., Biosafety Officer, Environmental Health and Safety
Members are appointed by the President, upon recommendation of the Dean of Faculty in consultation with the Vice Provost for Research. Membership terms vary from one to three years (except for the Biosafety Officer who is ex officio with voting privileges). The committee chair is appointed from the faculty membership and will serve for a term of one to three years.
Note: A quorum will be a majority (greater than 50 per cent) of the voting members of the IBC. For reasons other than conflict of interest, abstentions do not alter the quorum, or change the number of votes required.