Katie Bode-Lang is the Director of Education and Outreach for the Office for Research Protections (ORP) at Penn State. Her team oversees University research integrity education and responsible conduct of research requirements; training and communication initiatives for research compliance; and a University certification program for research administrators at Penn State.  Katie has worked in research integrity and training since 2014. Previously, she was the assistant director of a research center and taught in the College of Liberal Arts. She has presented at national conferences on her work on research ethics education and on communicating effectively with researchers.

Christopher DiTeresi, PhD, is Associate Vice President for Research Integrity and Assurance and University Affiliate Faculty of Philosophy at George Mason University. Chris serves as Research Integrity Officer and leads the Office of Research Integrity and Assurance, which administers George Mason’s compliance programs for human subjects protection (IRB), animal care and use (IACUC), export control, COI/COC, research security and RCR training and education. He holds a PhD in history and philosophy of science, MA in philosophy and MS in developmental biology, all from the University of Chicago.

Jake Earl is a philosopher and bioethicist. He completed his doctorate at Georgetown University in 2017 and a bioethics fellowship at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in 2019. Jake currently works as a bioethicist with the U.S. government, and previously worked as a bioethicist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and as a clinical ethicist at Inova Health System. He serves as an adjunct lecturer in philosophy at Georgetown University, and his research and teaching interests include various topics in research ethics, clinical ethics, and reproductive ethics.

Tristan McIntosh is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Bioethics Research Center at Washington University School of Medicine in the Division of General Medical Sciences. Dr. McIntosh earned her Master’s and PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology with a minor in Quantitative Psychology at the University of Oklahoma, where she specialized in ethical decision-making, innovation, and leadership. Currently, Dr. McIntosh leads federally-funded and foundation-funded research on ethical, professional, and social issues in science and medicine that arise at individual, team, and institutional levels.

Her research spans three primary domains: 1) the responsible conduct of research, including the creation of supportive research environments to support scientific excellence, 2) neuroethics, including responsibly navigating industry-academia partnerships in the development and commercialization of brain technologies, and 3) preventing and responding to egregious wrongdoing by physicians, with special emphasis on the role of state medical boards. Dr. McIntosh also has expertise in designing, delivering, and assessing educational programming on the aforementioned topics. She is the co-director of Compass, a leadership and management training and mentoring program for early-career researchers, and serves on the editorial boards of Accountability in Research and Ethics & Behavior.

Dr. Jamie Mohler is Associate Vice President of Scientific Integrity and Research Compliance (AVPSIRC), Research Integrity Officer (RIO) and professor of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University. As AVP, Jamie provides executive leadership and coordination for the integrity, compliance and care units that support and safeguard research.

Tracy Wilson-Holden has been with the Case Western Reserve University Office of Research Administration since 2005. She is the university’s research integrity officer. She directs the human subjects research and responsible conduct of research training programs, as well as oversees the work of the Conflict of Interests committee and the Research Security Program. Tracy is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Bioethics, teaching the graduate course “On Being a Professional Scientist.” She serves as vice president of the national organization the Association of Research Integrity Officers (ARIO). In addition, she was the principal investigator of a federal grant from the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and continues to collaborate with the agency to develop training programs and educational events for the national research integrity community. 

She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication science and disorders and a master’s degree in audiology, both from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to working in Research Administration, Tracy spent 11 years working as an intraoperative neurophysiologist in a private practice in Northeast Ohio and at Washington University in St. Louis.

Chris Lehmann serves as the Research Integrity Officer within the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He coordinates campus-level Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) education. He is a Clinical Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and a Research Affiliate with the Illinois State Water Survey in the Prairie Research Institute. His expertise is in air pollution, drinking water testing, and laboratory quality management. Chris received his BS in Civil Engineering from Valparaiso University, and his MS and PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Chris serves as the current Coordinator of the Big Ten Academic Alliance – Responsible Conduct of Research (BTAA-RCR) Collaborative. He is a member of the Association of Research Integrity Officers (ARIO).

Heather Mc Fadden works at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. With over 15 years’ experience as a research integrity administrator, she has developed and implemented curriculum responsive to federal agency mandates, actively participated in policy analysis and development, and has worked with colleagues at peer institutions to foster an increased understanding of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR). Heather is actively involved in the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) RCR Collaborative, which advances best practices for RCR education. She has a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis with a concentration in Higher Education from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Jiin-Yu Chen, Ph.D., serves as Lead for Research Compliance in the Office of Research at Baylor College of Medicine. Jiin-Yu joined BCM in February 2021. Prior to joining BCM, she was Director of Research Integrity at Boston College. She was also the Research Program Coordinator for the Program on Ethics in Clinical Practice at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She has experience in numerous areas related to research integrity and the ethical conduct of research, including Responsible Conduct of Research education programs, research misconduct, and conflict of interest. Her areas of interest include reflecting on the ethical practice of research through a virtue ethics framework and examining ways in which institutional and systemic structures can support or hinder the practice of research and integrity.

Julie Simpson, PhD, is the Director of Research Integrity Services (RIS) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and an Affiliate Assistant Professor of College Teaching and of Education. RIS administers UNH’s human subjects protections and the IRB, humane care and use of animals and the IACUC, and RCR program and RCR Committee, as well as UNH’s financial conflict of interest in research and HIPAA programs. Julie is UNH’s Research Integrity Officer (RIO). She co-developed and co-teaches UNH’s GRAD 930: Ethics in Research and Scholarship, a cross-disciplinary graduate seminar that has been offered since 2005. Julie is the Fellow for the Online Ethics Center’s (OEC) Scholars, Educators, and Administrators Fostering Research Integrity (SEAFRI) Community of Practice (CoP).