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Main Office Information
Staff Information
* PLEASE NOTE: Though direct phone numbers for staff are provided below, general calls should be directed to the main ORP number at 814-865-1775 in order to receive the best service possible. Direct phone numbers should only be used once communication has been established with a particular staff member.
Administrative Staff
Conflict of Interest (COI) Staff
Educational Staff
Compliance and Monitoring Staff - Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Compliance Staff - Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) and University Radioisotopes Committee (UIC)
View our Organizational Chart (PDF)
 Candice Yekel
ORP Director
Phone: 814.865.1775
Email: cay3@psu.edu
- Provides direct ORP operational oversight
- Provides leadership to the different research compliance programs and five compliance committees, including monitoring compliance activities to ensure the University maintains compliance with federal regulations
- Oversees and directs the inquiry/investigation of non-compliance
- Serves as the University Conflict of Interest Officer for both individual and institutional conflict of interest
- Serves as the University Research Integrity Officer, and the Senior Vice President's designee on all misconduct committees charged with investigating allegations
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 Michelle Stickler
Associate Director
Phone: 814.865.5437 * (see note)
Email: mmc115@psu.edu
- Manages day to day compliance operations of the office
- Provides leadership in the development of the compliance programs
- Serves as a resource person to assure safety and protection of research participants, humane care and use of animal subjects, and the safe use of biohazardous and radioactive materials
- IRB Administator for the Social Science and Biomedical IRB
- Coordinates the review for adverse events
- Monitors and audits ongoing Biomedical and Social Science research
- Promotes and maintains customer service
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 Jodi Rodgers
Administrative Assistant to the Director
Phone: 814.865.7956 * (see note)
Email: jer30@psu.edu
- Provides calendar, scheduling and project support to the Director
- Serves as the budget contact for the ORP (budget reporting, Pcard holder, IBIS processing, supply and inventory, etc.)
- Travel coordinator for ORP staff
- Human Resources liaison
- Office manager - Office planning, OPP service contact, emergency contact
- Search Committee Coordinator
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 Lacey Auman
Assistant to the Director
Phone: 814.865.7958 * (see note)
Email: lda1@psu.edu
- Provides backup calendar, scheduling and project support to the Director and Assistant to the Director
- Provides administrative assistance with ad Hoc Research Misconduct committees
- Provides administrative assistance to the Individual Conflict of Interest Committee
- Provides administrative assistance to the Institutional Conflict of Interest Committee
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 Debra Thurley
Conflict of Interest Program Coordinator
Phone: 814.865.2955 * (see note)
Email: djd116@psu.edu
- Leads and manages the day-to-day operations of the Conflict of Interest Program
- Performs administrative review of all significant financial or business interest disclosures
- Provides administration and oversight to all approved conflict of interest management plans on behalf of the Conflict of Interest Committee
- Maintains and develops the University's research administration conflict of interest policies, procedures, guidelines and forms and strives to ensure the University is in compliance with all federal, state and local regulations governing financial conflicts of interest related to research
- Presents seminars and workshops on conflicts of interest and significant financial or business interest disclosures to faculty, staff and students
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 Susan Seman
Conflict of Interest Assistant
Phone: 814.865.0000 * (see note)
Email: sls426@psu.edu
- provides direct administrative support to the Conflict of Interest Program Coordinator
- assists with the management and review of individual and institutional conflict of interest disclosures
- provides support to the Conflict of Interest Committees
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 Sharon Shriver
Education Specialist
Phone: 814.867.2130 * (see note)
Email: sps10@psu.edu
- Schedules and presents live training for individuals or groups of faculty, staff and students on ORP topics such as research ethics, research misconduct, conflict of interest, data integrity and responsible authorship
- Ability to schedule presentations on human participants and animal research for internal or external training outside of Penn State organizations
- Develops all ORP publications for both internal and external learning
- Develops online training modules for faculty, staff and students
- Ability to find answers to ORP training questions and HIPAA-related research questions
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Multimedia Specialist
Vacant
- Provides technical support on the ORP website and web-based training modules
- Designs, distributes and posts various ORP publications and online training modules to the web
- Writes newsletter articles for ORP newsletter
- Develops internal databases for ORP staff
- Processes ORP publication requests (can send suggestions for topics and/or requests to be placed on mailing list)
- Provides details on the ORP workshop/training schedule and has the ability to assist in the scheduling of presentations on various ORP training topics
- Serves as ORP public communications contact
- Serves as the technical contact for videoconferencing equipment
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 Kara Thomas
Education Assistant
Phone: 814.863.1441 * (see note)
Email: kxb37@psu.edu
- Provides administrative assistance to the Education Program
- Schedules and maintains registration for educational programs
- Inputs training and education class participant data into electronic database
- Maintains ORP Teaching Tools webpages
- Tabulates and creates reports on workshop/training evaluation data
- Scans human participant protocols into appropriate electronic document folders. Ensures accuracy of document placement
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 Jodi Mathieu
Assistant Director of IRB Operations
Phone: 814.865.7954 * (see note)
Email: zjc2@psu.edu
- Prescreens and reviews new applications and modifications for social science and biomedical research at the exempt, expedited and full review level
- Meets with investigators to discuss research involving human participants & meeting compliance with the federal regulations
- Presents seminars and workshops on the protection of human participants in research to faculty, staff, students and the community
- Assists in the development of policies, guidelines and applications for the protection of human participants
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 Sara Hartman
Research Compliance Coordinator II
Phone: 814.865.3696 * (see note)
Email: sjh246@psu.edu
- Coordinates the review of social science and biomedical applications for the use of human participants in research at the exempt and expedited review levels
- Coordinates and reviews new applications for secondary data applications
- Coordinates and reviews non-human/non-research applications
- Meets with investigators to discuss research involving human participants and meeting compliance with the federal regulations
- Presents seminars and workshops on the protection of human participants in research to faculty, staff, students and the community
- Assists in the development of policies, guidelines and applications for the protection of human participants
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 Tracie Kahler
Research Compliance Coordinator II
Phone: 814.865.7955 * (see note)
Email: tlk14@psu.edu
- Coordinates the review of Biomedical and Social Science applications for the use of Human Participants at the full review level
- Coordinates the review of Biomedical and Social Science applications for the use of Human Participants at the continuing review progress reports level
- Coordinates and reviews new applications for secondary data applications
- Coordinates and reviews non-human/non-research applications
- Meets with investigators to discuss research involving human participants and meeting compliance with the federal regulations
- Presents seminars and workshops on the protection of human participants in research to faculty, staff, students and the community
- Assists in the development of policies, guidelines and applications for the protection of human participants
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 Dolores "Dee" Maney
Research Compliance Coordinator II
Phone: 814.865.8459 * (see note)
Email: dwm3@psu.edu
- Coordinates the review of social science and biomedical applications for the use of human participants in research at the exempt and expedited review levels
- Coordinates and reviews new applications for secondary data applications
- Coordinates and reviews non-human/non-research applications
- Meets with investigators to discuss research involving human participants and meeting compliance with the federal regulations
- Presents seminars and workshops on the protection of human participants in research to faculty, staff, students and the community
- Assists in the development of policies, guidelines and applications for the protection of human participants
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 Joyel Moeller
Research Compliance Coordinator II
Phone: 814.865.7957 * (see note)
Email: jdm35@psu.edu
- Coordinates the review of social science and biomedical applications for the use of human participants in research at the exempt and expedited review levels
- Coordinates and reviews new applications for secondary data applications
- Coordinates and reviews non-human/non-research applications
- Meets with investigators to discuss research involving human participants and meeting compliance with the federal regulations
- Presents seminars and workshops on the protection of human participants in research to faculty, staff, students and the community
- Assists in the development of policies, guidelines and applications for the protection of human participants
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 Andrea Seisler
Research Compliance Coordinator II
Phone: 814.867.2129 * (see note)
Email: ars17@psu.edu
- Coordinates the review of social science and biomedical applications for the use of human participants in research at the exempt and expedited review levels
- Coordinates and reviews new applications for secondary data applications
- Coordinates and reviews non-human/non-research applications
- Meets with investigators to discuss research involving human participants and meeting compliance with the federal regulations
- Presents seminars and workshops on the protection of human participants in research to faculty, staff, students and the community
- Assists in the development of policies, guidelines and applications for the protection of human participants
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 Laura Young
Research Compliance Coordinator II
Phone: 814.863.1459 * (see note)
Email: lfs105@psu.edu
- Coordinates the review of social science and biomedical applications for the use of human participants in research at the exempt and expedited review levels
- Coordinates and reviews new applications for secondary data applications
- Coordinates and reviews non-human/non-research applications
- Meets with investigators to discuss research involving human participants and meeting compliance with the federal regulations
- Presents seminars and workshops on the protection of human participants in research to faculty, staff, students and the community
- Assists in the development of policies, guidelines and applications for the protection of human participants
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 Stephanie Krout
Research Compliance Coordinator
Phone: 814.865.2935 * (see note)
Email: sqk2@psu.edu
- Responsible for regulatory concerns associated with the review and approval of research proposals involving human participants
- Acts as liaison between research compliance committees and investigators
- Coordinates the review of full review Biomedical and Social Science modification requests and continuing reviews
- Oversees committee operations for both Institutional Review Boards
- Presents seminars and workshops on the protection of human participants in research to faculty, staff, students, and the community
- Assists in the development of policies, guidelines and applications for the protection of human participants
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 Joanna "Josy" Lyons
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and Post-approval Review Programs
Phone: 814.865.2953 * (see note)
Email: jlm38@psu.edu
- Develops and plans proactive, educationally-oriented post-approval review program of Social Science and Biomedical research investigations
- Implements post-approval review program, including site visits and record reviews
- Develops and conducts quality assurance on the research protections program
- Assists in developing and conducting educational activities for faculty and staff, in response to ongoing needs assessment process during post-approval reviews
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William Greer
Compliance Coordinator II - Animal Care and Use, Radioactive and
Biohazardous Materials
Phone: 814.865.8897 * (see note)
Email: wgg3@psu.edu
- Coordinates the review of Animal Care and Use Applications that propose the use of vertebrate animal subjects as part of any University activity
- Coordinates the review of application requests to utilize biological hazards as part of any University activity
- Coordinates the review of a request for authorization to utilize radioactive materials at Penn State University
- Prescreens completed applications and assists investigators with concerns prior to the compliance committee's review
- Meets with investigators to discuss compliance with the federal regulations and assist in the completion of IACUC, IBC and UIC applications
- Presents to faculty, staff, students and the community, seminars and workshops on research activities involving vertebrate animals, biological hazards or radioactive materials
- Assists in the development of policies, guidelines and applications relative to the use of vertebrate animals, biological hazards and radioactive materials at the Penn State University
- As required, assists investigators in expediting reviews of the University Committees (IACUC, IBC and UIC)
- Serves as the investigator's liaison to the IACUC, IBC and UIC
- Monitors and audits University activities involving vertebrate animals, biohazardous materials and radioactive materials
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Cecelia Irvin
Research Compliance Coordinator
Phone: 814.867.0193 * (see note)
Email: cui2@psu.edu
- Responsible for regulatory concerns associated with the review and approval of research proposals involving animals and hazardous materials
- Acts as liaison between research compliance committees and investigators
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