Dr. Joanne Rojas to serve as Chair of UK’s Nonmedical Institutional Review Board

HDI’s Dr. Joanne Rojas, co-Principal Investigator of Child Care Aware of Kentucky, will serve as the Chair of the Nonmedical Institutional Review Board at the University of Kentucky. In this role, she will help to assure that the university protects human subjects involved in research. This is both an honor and commitment to the highest principles in carrying out research at the university. Dr. Rojas will serve a three-year term which begins July 1.

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