Research Compliance Committee

The Research Compliance Committee (RCC) meets quarterly with a goal of building and cultivating an integrated approach to research risk mitigation and advancing ethical, safe, and compliant practices of researchers, staff, and students.

Among other things, participation provides an opportunity for the separately functioning and distributed research compliance offices at the University to come together and discuss the program’s effectiveness and critical risk areas.

Guiding Principles

• To encompass all research compliance areas to support the University’s commitment to research.
• To collaborate with the research community of the University to develop consistent, clear, and well integrated compliance policies and processes.
• To ensure that research compliance expectations are communicated to the entire research community.
• To provide reports to leadership that are comprehensive and provide a clear and accurate assessment of the health of research compliance at the University.

Members

Danielle Rintala, Chair, Research Risk and Compliance Team Director
Michael Oakes, Interim Vice-President for Research
Linnea Anderson, Human Research Protection Program/ Institutional Review Board
Pat Briscoe, Export Controls
Adam Krajicek, Environmental Health and Safety
Ilana Cohen, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
April Coon, Sponsored Projects Administration
Jill Cordes, Fairview Research Administration
Jon Guden, Office of Institutional Compliance
Carol Grutkoski, Technology Commercialization
David Hagen, Effort Certification
Nate Koewler, Research Animal Resources
Joseph Klancher, Research Laboratory Safety
Kelly Kuhns, Internal Audit
Betty Kupskay, Biosafety & Occupational Health
Kelly McCormick, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Jodi Ogilvie, Research Laboratory Safety
Erica Orcholski , Masonic Cancer Center
Gregory Park, Biotechnology Activities Oversight
Nicole Pilman, Sponsored Financial Reporting
Amy Rollinger, Sponsored Projects Administration
Natascha Shawver, Office of Information Technology
Jessy Thomas, Human Research Protection Program/Quality Assurance
Joyce Trost, Gillette Children's Hospital
Brian Vetter, Radiation Safety
Lauren Popp, Health Information Privacy & Compliance Office
Andrew Kimball, Research Safety- Duluth
Laura Lott, Public Health- Duluth
Sarah Averbeck, Medical School