Scientific Reviewers If you are the primary or secondary reviewer, feel free to contact the PI in advance to clarify  questions or to request materials. Always contact the RCA for the committee if you receive new documents from the PI.  Any revisions made by the PI prior to the meeting should be either sent to the committee in  advance (via yourself or the RCA) or brought to the meeting for all members to review. Complete the reviewer form in entirety and sign it. This becomes a part of the official record  and is our documentation that regulations were met in the review process. You may alternatively complete the reviewer form on line (go to the For IRB Members link). Assign a of risk for the protocol and provide justification of that level of risk on the  reviewer form. If you have any questions, please contact the RCA for your committee, the Chair, or the  Education Coordinator. E‐mail (with signature page hardcopy) and/or give the completed and signed reviewer form  to the RCA at the IRB meeting. Speak up at the meeting on any issues.  Non‐Scientific Reviewers (“Community Members”) The non‐scientific members are a key and valuable component of each IRB committee.  Indeed, the IRB committee is not properly constituted without a non‐scientific member present and voting cannot take place. Your expertise is your layperson’s review and impressions of the studies that come to the  IRB committee. We invite all members to consider and speak‐up on local cultural aspects to consider in the conducting of research, also. If you are the 2nd Reviewer on a protocol, the focus of your review will be on the consent  form from a layperson’s perspective (please see the section on consent form issues). Complete the reviewer form in entirety and sign it. You may indicate that you do not feel  qualified to answer certain questions that require a scientific background. This becomes a part of the official record and is our documentation that regulations were met in the review process. You may choose to complete the reviewer form on line (go to the For  IRB Members link). E‐mail (with signed hardcopy) and/or give the completed and signed reviewer form to the  RCA at the IRB meeting. If you have any questions completing the reviewer form, please contact the RCA for  your committee, the Chair, or the Education Coordinator. Speak up at the meeting on any issues. 
Scientific Reviewers  If you are the primary or secondary reviewer, feel free to contact the PI in advance to clarify questions or to request materials.  Always contact the RCA for the committee if you receive new documents from the PI.  Any revisions made by the PI prior to the meeting should be either sent to the committee in advance (via yourself or the RCA) or brought to the meeting for all members to review.  Complete the reviewer form in entirety and sign it. This becomes a part of the official record and is our documentation that regulations were met in the review process. You may alternatively complete the reviewer form on line (go to the For IRB Members link).  Assign a of risk for the protocol and provide justification of that level of risk on the reviewer form.  If you have any questions, please contact the RCA for your committee, the Chair, or the Education Coordinator.  E‐mail (with signature page hardcopy) and/or give the completed and signed reviewer form to the RCA at the IRB meeting.  Speak up at the meeting on any issues. Non‐Scientific Reviewers (“Community Members”)  The non‐scientific members are a key and valuable component of each IRB committee. Indeed, the IRB committee is not properly constituted without a non‐scientific member present and voting cannot take place.  Your expertise is your layperson’s review and impressions of the studies that come to the IRB committee. We invite all members to consider and speak‐up on local cultural aspects to consider in the conducting of research, also.  If you are the 2nd Reviewer on a protocol, the focus of your review will be on the consent form from a layperson’s perspective (please see the section on consent form issues).  Complete the reviewer form in entirety and sign it. You may indicate that you do not feel qualified to answer certain questions that require a scientific background. This becomes a part of the official record and is our documentation that regulations were met in the review process.  You may choose to complete the reviewer form on line (go to the For IRB Members link).  E‐mail (with signed hardcopy) and/or give the completed and signed reviewer form to the RCA at the IRB meeting.  If you have any questions completing the reviewer form, please contact the RCA for your committee, the Chair, or the Education Coordinator.  Speak up at the meeting on any issues.
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