iSession | No Therapy Needed: Managing Conflicts and Mitigating Risk

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Encore | A Series of Annual Meeting iSessions

This session will review opportunities to align conflict of interest (COI) and conflict of commitment (COC) disclosure, review, and management processes, paying particular attention to recent federal guidelines around disclosure of COC and foreign entity involvement. The session will also review how systems can be used by research administration stakeholders to mitigate foreign influence risk.

Learning Objectives:

Understand considerations for aligning COI and COC disclosure and review.
Obtain a framework to strengthen policies related to COC and COI to reduce compliance and reputation risk.

Knowledge Level: Intermediate

Individual Registration:	Group Registration:
Member Rate: $99	Member/Non-Member Rate: $350
Chapter/Non-Member Rate: $165
Register online or submit the Individual Registration Form.	Submit the Group Registration Form. Group Registration is not available online.

Contributors

Amanda Ferguson, JD, Higher Ed Consulting Director, Huron Consulting Group

Amanda has nearly a decade of experience supporting academic medical centers, universities, and healthcare systems with healthcare compliance, research compliance, and research administration. She specializes in conducting compliance program reviews, regulatory compliance investigations, research administration transformation, and navigating conflicts of interest and commitment and foreign influence concerns. She has worked with multiple clients to evaluate institution-wide conflicts of interest and commitment programs, including research, non-research financial, and commitment disclosures and prior approvals, including advising on best practices for information across stakeholder offices involved in managing foreign influence risk. She has also assessed foreign influence risk management programs, including working with stakeholders across the institution to review existing controls and data, recommend additional controls and internal reporting and data review mechanisms to inform proactive monitoring efforts. Prior to joining Huron, Amanda worked with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSCH) in the Office of Institutional Compliance, where she conducted internal investigations, facilitated the university risk assessment, and supported the conflicts of interest program. Prior to joining UTHSCH OIC, Amanda worked with UTHSCH Sponsored Programs Administration, where she negotiated sponsored research contracts.

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Contributors

Amanda Ferguson, JD, Higher Ed Consulting Director, Huron Consulting Group