Appointments
Penn State Intercom......September
13, 2001
Compliance
Office adds
3 new regulatory coordinators
The Office for Regulatory Compliance has added three new compliance coordinators to focus on specific regulations and research areas and to offer faculty members, staff and students better service.
The new compliance coordinators are Karen E. Blair, who covers biomedical research involving human subjects and research involving biohazardous material; Jodi L. Mathieu, who covers research involving vertebrate animals and radioactive materials; and Staci Schreiber, who covers behavioral and social science research involving human subjects.
Blair, who earned master's and doctoral degrees at Penn State from the College of Health and Human Development, works with the Biomedical Institutional Review Board on compliance and regulatory issues and the Biosafety Committee on the handling of biohazardous materials. She also assists faculty members, staff and students to prepare research protocols and conducts workshops and training sessions on human subject compliance. She previously served the University as acting administrative manager of the University Park General Clinical Research Center and clinical research manager for the chemical engineering and bioengineering departments.
Mathieu, who holds a bachelor's degree in labor studies and industrial relations from the University, assists faculty members, staff and students in developing research protocols for the humane care and use of animals and the handling of radioactive isotopes. She also provides training workshops and seminars on these topics and initiates inquiries into non-compliance concerns.
Mathieu served the compliance office for two years before being promoted into her new post and was instrumental in developing current training programs and animal applications. She also helped to prepare the successful Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International accreditation application. In her new post she is responsible for procedures and records to maintain that accreditation.
Schreiber holds a bachelor of science degree in human development and family studies and a master of education degree in counselor education from the University. She provides support to the Behavioral and Social Science Institutional Review Board on compliance and regulation issues. She also assists behavioral and social science faculty members, staff and students in preparing research protocols and conducts workshops and training sessions related to human subjects compliance. Previously Schreiber was a graduate assistant with Penn State Career Services and a teaching assistant for the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Director named for
Animal Resource Program
Mary J. Kennett, formerly
acting director of
the Office of Laboratory Animal Medicine at the University of Missouri,
has been appointed director of the Animal Resource Program for the office
of the vice president for research and associate professor in the Department
of Veterinary Science.
Kennett will provide leadership and vision planning for the research and instructional animal care and use program. She will oversee the operation of the expanding centralized animal care and use program for six administrative units at University Park and the Commonwealth College which involves nine facilities, a stand-alone, 40,000-square- foot central animal facility and more than 12,000 research animals.
In May 1999, Kennett became the assistant director of the Office of Laboratory Animal Medicine at the University of Missouri, and served as the acting director from 2000-2001. From 1993 to 1999, Kennett was a molecular biology fellow and completed a laboratory animal medicine residency as well as a doctoral program in pathobiology at the University of Missouri. She has previously held positions as a tenured instructor of biology, relief veterinarian, visiting professor and mixed-practice veterinarian.
Kennett earned a bachelor of science degree in veterinary science in 1981 and a doctoral degree in veterinary medicine in 1984 from Washington University; a master's degree in biology from Walla Walla College in 1987; and a doctoral degree in pathobiology in 1999 from the University of Missouri.