Happy Holidays from the Pearl team

Over the past two weeks, the Pearl team celebrated the holiday season with various “12 Days of Christmas” activities. Events ranged from reindeer racing to gingerbread house building with plenty of company pitch-ins along the way. As 2016 winds down and you reflect...

Pearl IRB’s co -chair, Dr. Gretchen Parker published in Cureus

Gretchen Parker, PhD, RAC, CIP, and Pearl IRB Co-Chair, has completed another article published by Cureus.  The title of the article is “A Framework for Navigating Institutional Review Board (IRB) Oversight in the Complicated Zone of Research”.  The article provides...

IRB holiday schedule 2015

Pearl IRB has a Full Board meeting scheduled for December 16. There will be no meetings on December 23 or 30. The regularly scheduled Full Board meetings will resume on January 6, 2016. If you have an urgent IRB concern, please contact us at least two weeks in...

HHS investigates FDA in 2016

According to Zachary Brennan of RAPS, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General will be investigating FDA on post-marketing requirements, supply chain exchanges, hospital medical device oversight, and three additional programs on food and...

Pearl Pathways hires Patti Hunker

Pearl Pathways is excited to add Patti Hunker to their team as the senior leader in clinical research and management of foundation as Clinical Research Advisor. Hunker has over 10 years of clinical research experience in both drug and device trials. Previously, she...