IACUC 24: The Charge & The Challenge
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:
11:20 AM
Moderated Q &A Panel
Moderator: Stuart Leland, DVM, Director, Research Integrity & Assurance
Princeton University
Panel:
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
Animal Care & Use Committee Scenarios: You Make the Call
Presenter: Pam Straeter, RLATG, Asst. Director, Research Integrity and Assurance
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:
Reproducibility & Relatability of Animal Research to Human Research
Panelists:
Strategies to Enhance Animal Welfare Compliance Monitoring
Presenters:
Presenter: Alfred Barron, Associate Director, Nonclinical Statistics/TMEDS