Cooper University Health Care and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Cooper University Health Care

Rowan University and CUH have an IRB reliance agreement governing human subjects collaborative research projects when the research project involves both institutions. This agreement reduces administrative burden for Rowan University faculty and staff, as well as ensuring CMSRU students can participate and be engaged in human subjects research projects, whose PI's are employees of CUH.

Any Rowan University faculty and/or staff conducting research in collaboration with CUH employees, access and use of CUH data for research purposes, or conducted at CUH facilities should complete and submit a Cooper Rowan Engagement Assessment form for review by the Rowan and Cooper IRBs. This assessment form is necessary to help and guide faculty and staff research to identify the IRB they should submit to for a review of their research project.

Question: When is a Cooper Rowan Engagement Assessment Form necessary?

Answer: When a Principal Investigator or research/study staff do not hold a dual appointment and the proposed research activities are conducted at both institutions.

Example 1: Rowan PI faculty, who does not have an appointment with CUH, wants to conduct recruitment and enrollment activities at CUH locations/sites.

Example 2: Rowan PI faculty, who does not have an appointment with CUH, wants to access and use patient medical chart data or enroll CUH patients as research subjects.

Example 3: CUH PI, who does not have an appointment with CMSRU, wants to access and use student educational records and class/course information or enroll CMSRU students as research subjects.

Example 4: CUH PI, who does not have an appointment with CMSRU, wants to conduct research activities at CMSRU sites and locations.

Cooper Rowan Engagement Assessment Form

CMSRU students that participate in human subjects research conducted at CUH facilities or when the Principal Investigator is a CUH employee, that does not have a dual appointment at CMSRU, or involves use of CUH data, may participate in research as a researcher. Such projects, including all participating in research, must be submitted to the CUH IRB. All policies and procedures of CUH and the CUH HRPP/IRB must be followed by all engaged in the above scenario. CMSRU students may not be PI at CUH.

CMSRU students conducting human subjects research where there is no involvement of CUH employees, CUH locations or use of CUH data must find a Rowan/CMSRU faculty to be the Principal Investigator project and submit their proposed study to the Rowan IRB. 

Click here to contact Cooper University Hospital IRB

For assistance with Rowan-Cooper engagement, contact Katelynn Huff. 

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) - Office of Medical Education (OME)

When submitting a Cayuse IRB application where educational data and records will be used, please contact Office of Medical Education Administration to discuss the project and data that is available. The contact for the Office is Dr. Susan Perlis.

Use the form below to review data that the Office of Medical Education can provide in relation to a Rowan Cayuse IRB submission. The data to be obtained should also be listed as a separate document and attached in the Rowan Cayuse IRB submission as a data collection sheet.

Available Data from OME - Click here to view data.