As the IRB Reliance & QA/QI Specialist, Julie is responsible in working to provide front-line guidance to Harvard Longwood Medical Area Schools (including Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Dental Medicine) faculty, staff, and students. Along with maintaining a working knowledge of the Harvard IRB procedures, guidelines and policies for research, Julie serves as a liaison for external collaborators and acts as a point of contact for those interested in pursuing reliance agreements with Harvard Longwood area staff.
Prior to this role, Julie worked at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, as a Senior IRB Specialist with a focus on greater than minimal risk studies. While there, Julie was instrumental in starting the IRB Knowledge and Navigation (IKAN) program, which provided additional education and resources to the Mayo Clinic researchers, specifically in understanding the federal regulations and institutional policy as it related to their research. Before joining Mayo Clinic, Julie worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago in Special Infectious Diseases and Cardiac Critical Care.
Julie is both a Certified Clinical Research Professional (CCRP) and Certified IRB Professional (CIP) and is currently obtaining her Masters in Public Health at George Washington University.
To contact Julie, please email her at jchamberlin@hsph.harvard.edu or by phone at 617-432-2143.
