Steering Committee

The RCN Steering Committee is a group of members who volunteer their time to help guide, coordinate, and facilitate RCN activities. Current steering committee members are:

Stephanie deRijke, Emory University

Stephanie has worked in HRPP quality assurance activities at Emory for 15 years. She started the QA program at Emory IRB for accreditation in 2007 and later started a new clinical trials QA department in 2010. She is nationally known for developing an electronic audit tool with trending capabilities to inform educational initiatives at Emory in 2012 and a CAPA flow process in 2014. Stephanie is a nurse and served as a research nurse practitioner at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda before returning to her alma mater, Emory, in 2007.

Bethany Hansen, University of Minnesota

Bethany has worked on the HRPP Quality Assurance team at the University of Minnesota for eight years with a primary focus on the experience of research participants, including responding to concerns/complaints, developing participant-facing resources, and conducting participant satisfaction surveys. Bethany brings to this work 20+ years of experience providing direct service and leadership in nonprofit programs serving families and individuals facing a range of physical and mental health challenges.

Sana Khoury-Shakour, Chair, University of California, Santa Cruz

Sana currently serves as the Director of Research Compliance Administration at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In this capacity, she provides oversight for the HRPP, IACUC, research misconduct, and export control programs.

Prior to this Sana served as the HRPP Associate Director at the University of Michigan, where she was responsible for HRPP operations, strategic planning, accreditation, policy development, quality assurance and quality improvement. Sana also an AAHRPP site visitor. She is an epidemiologist by training She received her masters in epidemiology from Michigan State University, Ph.D from the Technion, and completed a research fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Kelly Lynn Dornin Koss, University of Pittsburgh

Kelly serves as the director of the Education and Compliance Support for Human Subject Research (ECS-HSR) Division at the University of Pittsburgh. As the first staff person hired in the ECS-HSR in 1996, Kelly was instrumental in the development of the investigator site auditing/monitoring program at the university. She also serves as the project manager for maintaining the institution’s accreditation through the Association for Accreditation for Human Research Protection Program (AAHRPP). Kelly holds Bachelors degrees in Nursing and Information Management and a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Management.

Neala Lane, Indiana University

Since 2014, Neala has called Indiana University home. There, she oversees the post-approval auditing program, serves as the institutional liaison for all FDA Clinical Investigator inspections, and regularly participates in the institution’s efforts to plan and provide education to Sponsor-Investigators, Principal Investigators, and Research Coordinators. Prior to joining IU, her research experience included study coordination, regulatory submissions, and study monitoring.

Cara Reed, The Ohio State University

Cara currently serves as a Post-Approval Monitoring & Regulatory Support Specialist for the Ohio State University. The focus of her work includes researcher education, post approval monitoring, internal QA activities, and quality improvement. Cara holds a Bachelors degree in Human Biology from Michigan State University and a Masters Degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan – Flint.