Cutting Red Tape ~ Improving Animal Welfare

Register Now!Cancellations received on or before September 1, 2017 will receive a full refund less $20 processing fee.  If you cancel after September 1, 2017 or  are a "no show," no refund will be granted, and if you selected to “Pay by Check” you will be responsible for the full payment.   NJABR reserves the right to deny registration for any reason.

On September 22, 2017, the New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research (NJABR) is pleased to offer its 24th Annual IACUC Conference - the region's premier training conference for Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee members, lab animal veterinarians, animal welfare compliance specialists and lab animal research team members.

This year's conference will focus on opportunities to improve laboratory animal welfare, while reducing regulatory burdens, cutting red tape and creating efficiencies within institutions.   

IACUC 24 will open with a keynote presentation from Jim Welch, Executive Director of the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation about the importance of safe work practices, biosecurity, and collaboration among organizations and institutions seeking to advance scientific discovery.  The morning session will also feature presentations and a moderated panel discussion with regulatory experts in the field, including William S. Stokes, ACLAM, DACAW, BCES, FATS, Assistant Director, Animal Welfare Operations, USDA, APHIS; Patricia Brown, VMD, MS, Director, NIH, OLAW.  Highlighting the morning plenary session will be a presentation on institutional animal welfare compliance led by NJABR member institution representatives.

The conference will also offer a selection of afternoon workshops led by morning session speakers and other leading professionals in the laboratory animal welfare field.  Among this year's workshops are sessions addressing animal welfare compliance monitoring, common animal care and use committee scenarios, a legal update, statistics and study design, as well as workshops designed to help improve reproducibility and translation.  An "ask the experts" and IACUC 24 review session will again close the event.

Link to Sponsorship and Vendor Registration Site 

Registration Options and Fees

 

NJABR Member Institution Rate	$365
Member Group Rate (4 Registrations)	$1340
Non-Member Institution Rate	$425
Non-Member Institution Group Rate	$1580

Program Agenda

Morning Session

7:30  AM

Registration and Breakfast

8:00  AM

NJABR Annual Meeting (open to all conference attendees)

8:30  AM

Opening Remarks

8:35  AM

Morning Keynote

Jim Welch, Executive Director
Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation

9:20 AM

Hot Topics in Regulatory Compliance

Patricia Brown, VMD, MS

Director, Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare

9:50 AM

Networking Break and Vendor Browsing

10:20 AM

Regulatory Insights with the USDA

William Stokes, DVM, DACLAM, DACAW, BCES, FATS
Assistant Director, Animal Welfare Operations, USDA, Animal Care

10:50 AM

Animal Welfare Oversight - Institutional Approaches

Panel:

• Pharmaceutical: Lisa Stanislawczyk, Bristol-Myers Squibb
• CRO: Mary Ann Jacobs, Envigo
• Academic: Greg Reinhard, MBA, DVM, University of Pennsylvania 

11:20 AM

Moderated Q &A Panel

Moderator: Stuart Leland, DVM, Director, Research Integrity & Assurance
Princeton University

Panel:

• OLAW: Patricia Brown, VMD, MS
• USDA: William S. Stokes, DVM, DACLAM, DACAW, BCES, FATS
• AAALAC: Richard B. Huneke, DVM, Council Member Emeritus

12:10 PM

Networking Lunch

Afternoon Session

 

1:05 – 2:05 PM

Workshop Session One 

2:10 – 3:10 PM

Workshop Session Two

3:15 – 4:15 PM

Workshop Session Three

4:15 – 5:00 PM

Ask the Experts and IACUC 24 Recap

Workshop Selections

AAALAC Perspectives on Occupational Health & Safety Programs

Presenter: Richard B. Huneke, DVM
Council Member Emeritus

 

Animal Care & Use Committee Scenarios: You Make the Call 

Presenter: Pam Straeter, RLATG, Asst. Director, Research Integrity and Assurance
Princeton University

 

Legal Update: USDA, Animals and the Law                                

Presenter: Nancy Halpern, DVM, Esq., Attorney
Fox Rothschild

New IACUC Member - Double Session    

Presenter: Amy Salem, PhD, Associate Director of Operations and Training for Animal Welfare
Merck

Ask the Regulators                                                                     

Presenters:

• Patricia Brown, VMD, MS, Director, Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
• Tonya Hadjis, DVM, Supervisory Animal Care Specialist, Northeast Area
• USDA, APHIS, Animal Care
• John F. Lopinto, DVM, Veterinary Medical Officer, USDA, APHIS, Animal Care
• Ashley C. McIntosh, DVM, Veterinary Medical Officer, USDA, APHIS, Animal

Reproducibility & Relatability of Animal Research to Human Research

Panelists:

• Damir Hamamdzic, DVM, PhD, Research and Regulatory Affairs,
  Post-Approval Monitoring Compliance Administrator
  Rutgers University

• Sarah E. Robertson, PhD, Director, Sponsored Projects and Research
  University of the Sciences
  
  
• Laszlo Szabo, Esq., Director, Research and Regulatory Affairs,
  Rutgers University

• Andrew Gow, Ph.D., Professor and IACUC Chair
  Rutgers University

• Elizabeth Dodemaide, BVSc, MA, MANZCVS, Director Comparative Medicine Resources
  Rutgers University

• Gregory Reinhard, DVM, Director, Animal Welfare
  University of Pennsylvania

Strategies to Enhance Animal Welfare Compliance Monitoring 

Presenters:

• Pharmaceutical: Lisa Stanislawczyk
• Bristol-Myers Squibb, CRO: Mary Ann Jacobs, Envigo
• Academic: Greg Reinhard, MBA, DVM, University of Pennsylvania

The Role of the Statistician in Study Design, IACUC Protocol Preparation Data Analysis

 

Presenter: Alfred Barron, Associate Director, Nonclinical Statistics/TMEDS
Janssen Research & Development

 

 

Register Now!Cancellations received on or before September 1, 2017 will receive a full refund less $20 processing fee.  If you cancel after September 1, 2017 or  are a "no show," no refund will be granted, and if you selected to “Pay by Check” you will be responsible for the full payment.   NJABR reserves the right to deny registration for any reason.