The Care and Feeding of an IACUC (eBook, ePUB)

The Organization and Management of an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Second Edition
Redaktion: Petrie, Whitney Kayla; Wallace, Sonja Lea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Maintaining its user-friendly approach, this new edition of a bestseller summarizes information necessary for the effective and efficient operation of an IACUC. The book covers training programs and discusses professional certifications for IACUC administrative and animal care staff. It provides pointers to principal investigators, discusses interactions between IACUCs and other compliance panels, and addresses occupational health and safety programs and the role they play in the overall animal care and use program. It also delves deeply into bioethics to explore how IACUCs can ensure that each proposal to use animals in research includes an ethical review.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040072516
• Artikelnr.: 72282091

Autorenporträt

Whitney Petrie is an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) specialist at the University of California, Davis, where she is responsible for protocol and amendment review, facility and laboratory inspections and the completion of various regulatory reports. She received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry, summa cum laude, from the University of New Mexico in 1994. As an undergraduate, she worked in a laboratory within the Toxicology and Pharmacology Department where she researched skin cancer. She remained at the University of New Mexico until 2008, at which time she completed her PhD in biomedical sciences concentrating on cell biology within the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. She then moved to the University of California, Davis where as a postdoctoral fellow she researched breast cancer. Dr. Petrie also sits on various subcommittees within the IACUC. She is certified as an American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS)-registered laboratory animal technologist and a certified professional IACUC administrator. Sonja L. Wallace is the training specialist in the Veterinary Service Center in the Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford University, responsible for the development and implementation of animal care and use training programs for faculty and staff. Ms. Wallace received an AAS in animal health technology from Colorado Mountain College in 1981 and a BA in biological science from California State University East Bay in 2000. Ms. Wallace worked for over 20 years in pharmaceutical research as a veterinary surgical technician, cardiovascular researcher, toxicology biologist, training and compliance specialist, and IACUC manager. She also served for 5 years as the Associate Director of the Administrative Panel on Laboratory Animal Care in Stanford's Research Compliance Office. Ms. Wallace is a Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT), AALAS-registered Laboratory Animal Technologist (RLATG), and Certified Professional IACUC Administrator (CPIA).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the IACUC: Its Purpose and Function. Role of the IACUC,
Bioethics and Scientific Review, Essential Environment for IACUC Success.
Institutional Policies, Guidelines, and Procedures. Protocol
Processing: From Submission to Approval. Elements of the Protocol Form: How
to Complete and Review. Semiannual Program Evaluation, Facility
Inspections, and Postapproval Monitoring: All Part of the Same Thing. IACUC
Oversight of Training and Qualification in Animal Care and Use. Navigating
the Search for Alternatives. The Relationship between the IACUC and
Principal Investigators. Interactions with Other Institutional Panels. The
IACUC and Laboratory Animal Resources. International IACUCs and Outside
Collaborations. IACUCs from an Academic Perspective. IACUC Issues in
Industry. Perspectives of an IACUC Chair. Perspectives of a
Nonaffiliated/Outside Member. Managing a Proactive Progressive Animal Care
and Use Program. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Appendices.