Institutional Review Board

Institutional Review Board is required by Federal regulations to ensure that appropriate procedures are in place to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects participating in research. In order to comply with these regulations, the IRB meets to review research protocols and materials to be used in all research involving human subjects. All individuals interested in conducting research that involves human subjects, either retrospective or prospective in nature, must submit their research proposal and study design to ARMC’s IRB. Under the Department of Health and Human Services, human subjects are defined as a living individual about whom an investigator conducting research obtains data through intervention or interaction with the individual; or identifiable private information.

All submissions need to be via ARMC-IRB@armc.sbcounty.gov one month prior to the meeting. Incomplete submissions will not be accepted, this includes missing signatures and NIH certificates. Any late submissions will go onto the following meeting’s agenda.