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2025-2026 Winter Closure

The IRB & SCRO offices will be closed during Stanford’s Winter Closure from Monday, December 22, 2025, through Friday, January 2, 2026, and will resume operations on Monday, January 5, 2026. View Submission Deadline information for IRB/SCRO review prior to the upcoming Winter Closure.

Archived Presentations to the IRB

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DatePresentations Provided to IRB Members
Aug 2015  • Non-compliance
July 2015  • Component Analysis
June 2015  • Children's Findings Signature Requirements
May 2015  • Children's Findings
Apr 2015  • Recruitment
Mar 2015  • Additional Documentation Needed for Approval
Feb 2015  • Non-Significant Risk Devices
Jan 2015  • Scientific & Scholarly Validity
Dec 2014  • IRB Member Conflicting Interests
Nov 2014  • CoI: Action Reports & Management Plans
Oct 2014  • Waiver of Documentation of Consent (waiver of signature)
Sept 2014  • Waivers and Alterations of Consent
Aug 2014  • HIPAA
July 2014  • Privacy vs. Confidentiality (pdf)
June 2014  • Expedited Review
May 2014  • Unanticipated Adverse Device Effect (UADE)
Apr 2014  • IRB Member Conflict of Interest (CoI)
Mar 2014  • Non-Significant Risk Devices
Feb 2014  • Conflict of Interest: Action reports & Management plans
Jan 2014  • Scientific Review & Scholarly Validity
Dec 2013  • Mobile Medical Apps
Nov 2013  • Recruitment
Oct 2013  • Waiver of Informed Consent
Sept 2013  • Waiver of Documentation (or signature) of informed consent
Aug 2013  • Preparing For AAHRPP: Criteria for Approval (Part 2)
July 2013  • Preparing For AAHRPP: Criteria for Approval (Part 1)
June 2013  • Preparing For AAHRPP: Unanticipated Problems
May 2013  • Preparing For AAHRPP: Non-Compliance
Apr 2013  • Preparing For AAHRPP: Expedited Review
Mar 2013  • Preparing For AAHRPP: the Role of the IRB Member
Feb 2013  • Preparing For AAHRPP: Introduction
Jan 2013  • Waiver of Documentation
Dec 2012  • Equitable Selection
Nov 2012  • Criteria for IRB Approval of Research (Part 2)
Oct 2012  • Criteria for IRB Approval of Research (Part 1)
Sept 2012  • Recruitment
Aug 2012  • Expedited Review Revisited (pdf)
July 2012  • Clinical Radiation Safety - Research with Children
May 2012  • Human Subjects Protocols: Privacy Considerations (pdf)
April 2012  • Children's Findings – Assent and Permission (pdf)
  • Children's Findings – Assent and Permission
March 2012  • Expanded Access (pdf)
  • Expanded Access
Feb 2012  • Pregnant Women (pdf)
  • Pregnant Women
Jan 2012
  • Phone Scripts, Questionnaires and Waivers of Documentation of Consent (pdf)
  • Phone Scripts, Questionnaires and Waivers of Documentation of Consent
Dec 2011

  • Regulations for SCRO Clinical Trials and ClinicalTrials.gov (pdf)

  • Additional Element of Consent: ClinicalTrials.gov (pdf)
  • Additional Element of Consent: ClinicalTrials.gov

Nov 2011
  • Informed Consent Requirements and Elements - Revisited (pdf)
  • Informed Consent Requirements and Elements - Revisited
Oct 2011
  • Provenance in Stem Cell Research (pdf)
Aug 2011
  • Issues with Tissues (pdf)
  • Issues with Tissues
Jul 2011
  • Events & Information that Require Prompt Reporting to the IRB (pdf)
May 2011
  • Unanticipated Problems (UPs) & Adverse Events (AEs) "more info" (pdf)
Apr 2011
  • Informed Consent Scenarios (Medical, pdf) 
  • Informed Consent Scenarios (Non-Medical, pdf)
Mar 2011  • Genetic Research: Basic Vocabulary and Terminology (pdf)
Feb 2011  • Data Safety Monitoring and the IRB (pdf)
Jan 2011  • Scientific and Scholarly Review (pdf)
Dec 2010  • Criteria for IRB Approval of Research (pdf)
Nov 2010  • Prisoner Research and the IRB (pdf)
Oct 2010  • Vulnerable Populations and Human Subjects Review (pdf)
Sept 2010  • Research Involving Children and Radiation Exposure (pdf)
Aug 2010

  • (A) Determination of Human Subject Research; 
    (B) Exempt Categories (pdf)

  • [SCRO] Updates to Stem Cell Research Oversight (pdf)

Jul 2010  • Certificates of Confidentiality (CoC) (pdf)
Jun 2010  • IRB Quiz (pdf)
May 2010  • Children in Research (Medical, pdf)
  • Children in Research (Non-Medical, pdf)
Apr 2010  • Expedited Review (pdf)
Mar 2010

  • Guidance on Unanticipated Problems (UPs) and Adverse Events (AEs)
    (Medical, pdf)
  • Guidance on Unanticipated Problems (UPs) and Adverse Events (AEs)     
    (Non-Medical, pdf)

  • CIRM Disease Team MPP Grants (Presentation to IRB 3/SCRO, pdf)

Feb 2010  • Ethnographical Research (Non-Medical, pdf)
Jan 2010

  • General Requirements for Informed Consent (Medical, pdf)
  • General Requirements for Informed Consent (Non-Medical, pdf)

  • SCRO Consent Requirements (pdf)

  • Stem Cell Terminology (pdf)

Dec 2009

  • Short Form Consent Process (pdf)

  • Sponsor-Investigator Research [SIR] and Investigational New Drugs [INDs] (pdf)

Nov 2009

  • Criteria for IRB Approval of Research (Medical, pdf)
  • Criteria for IRB Approval of Research (Non-Medical, pdf)

  • A Guide for the Combined IRB/SCRO (pdf)

Oct 2009

  • IRB Member Orientation (pdf)

  • Resources Supporting the HRPP (pdf)

Sept 2009  • Funding Research (pdf)
Aug 2009  • HIPAA (pdf)
July 2009  • Understanding Waivers & Alterations of Consent (pdf)
Jun 2009  • Laboratory Employees and Students as Research Subjects (pdf)
May 2009  • Belmont Report - History, Principles and Application (pdf)
Apr 2009  • IRB Determinations about Parental Permission (pdf)
Mar 2009

  • Additional Protections for Pregnant Women, Fetuses and Neonates (pdf)

  • Survey Research in Public Schools (PPRA Regulation, pdf)

Jan 2009  • AAHRPP Site Visit - December 2008 (pdf)