Key Contacts
Caren J. Frost, PhD, MPH
Dr. Frost is the Associate Vice President for Research Integrity and Compliance. She is a section counselor for the Ethics in the American Public Health Association and is the NSF Responsible Conduct of Research Officer for the University of Utah. She has an MPH in Population and Family Health and a PhD in Applied, Cultural, and Medical Anthropology. She is a fellow with the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Dr. Frost has extensive research experience on qualitative and mixed methods research conducted in the U.S., Ghana, Japan, and Morocco. Dr. Frost is a Research Professor in the College of Social Work and an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Family & Preventive Medicine.
Please contact Heather Sudbury (801-581-7170) for scheduling requests, including events and presentations.
Jahn Barlow, MPA
Director
Resource for Genetic Epidemiology (RGE)
Research Ethics Consultation
Debbie Eckert, PhD
Director
Institutional Biosafety Committee
Biosafety Officer
debbie.eckert@ehs.utah.edu
801-585-9325
Zach Mitchell is the University’s Research Integrity Officer (RIO). He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Utah in 2010 and has since supported University research compliance and integrity through roles in clinical study coordination, regulatory affairs, project management, clinical study monitoring, quality assurance, and research integrity.
Dr. Jesse Morris is the Associate Director of the Office of Research Education (REd). He is responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of grant writing and research compliance classes across campus. Dr. Morris graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina and received his MS and PhD degrees at the University of Utah, with a focus on forest disturbance ecology. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Kansas State University, and University of Idaho and was a visiting scholar at Australian National University.
Dr. Morris has extensive experience in climate change research in forest systems in the U.S., Finland, Russia, and Tasmania. He held a teaching faculty position at Weber State University before returning to the University of Utah 2018 to work as a grant specialist in the Office of the Vice President for Research. He also holds an appointment as a Research Associate Professor in the Geography Department.
Emily Ostrander is the Director of the Conflict of Interest (COI) Office. The Conflict of Interest Office supports the University community in identifying and managing financial conflicts of interest related to research and scholarly activities, business transactions, and intellectual property.
Emily has worked at the University in research for over a decade, serving in a wide-range of clinical research capacities at Huntsman Cancer Institute, and in the COI Office as an Associate Director, Task Force on Foreign Influence member, Operations Manager, and Senior Research Analyst. She has been nominated for an Administration District Staff Excellence Award. Her academic background includes subjects such as mediation, healthcare administration, office management, medical terminology, patient education, and law.
Ms. Annie Risenmay, MPA, CIP, is the Director at the University of Utah IRB. Since the start of her employment at the IRB in 2009, she has filled the role of Coordinator, Compliance Administrator, Operations Manager, and Associate Director, including several years of auditing, overseeing the IRB Quality & Compliance Team, and Single IRB processes and reliance relationships. Annie finds satisfaction in working at the IRB because it suits her yearning for rule-following combined with her passion for helping people and solving complex, nuanced puzzles.
