Category Archives: Investigators

Release of Veritas IRB’s Investigator’s Manual: An Essential Resource for Clinical Trial Investigators’ Everyday Practice

Canada’s second National Health Ethics Week is being held from March 2 to March 8, 2015. This event is being coordinated by the Canadian Bioethics Society (CBS), in collaboration with various organizations across Canada. In conjunction with this event, Veritas IRB Inc. is releasing the iBook version of The Investigator’s Manual, a Complete Guide to […]

So you want to be a Clinical Investigator!

The desire to contribute to our current understanding of drugs, disease and the human body is very noble. Along with this desire must be a commitment to become qualified to conduct clinical research properly. You can’t learn on the job When I began managing clinical research studies 25 years ago, a Clinical Investigator was a […]

Why does the IRB/REB request Investigator qualification information?

Clinical research is an increasingly complex enterprise, which requires knowledge and skills that are outside the traditional training of physicians and other healthcare professionals. The investigator must, for instance, understand what are the responsibilities of screening research participants, obtaining free and informed consent and supervising a trial. Although it is primarily the sponsor or CRO’s […]