Join Cecilia Brooke Cholka at PRIM&R's Annual Conference!

PRIM&R Annual Conference (PRIMR23) | December 4-6
2023 SBER Conference (SBER23) | December 3
Washington, DC | Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Cecilia Brooke Cholka serves Weill Cornell Medicine as a Human Research & QA Manager and is a consultant for the PEER Consulting Group. She works to demystify IRB processes and expectations so that researchers and the IRB can work together collaboratively to ensure ethical conduct of research. Brooke is a Certified IRB Professional and has 10 years of experience in research administration (human and animal research) including as the head of the training and education components of a Human Research Protections Program (HRPP), achieving and maintaining accreditation, and programmatic redesign. She is co-founder and co-facilitator of the SBER Network, a professional community for social, behavioral, and educational research IRB professionals. As part of her passion for IRB, she has presented at several national conferences including Advancing Ethical Research (AER) Conference, Social, Behavioral, and Educational Research (SBER) Conference, AAHRPP Annual Conference, and is a contributing author to the third edition of IRB Management and Function by Bankert, Gordon, Hurley, and Shriver (Eds). In addition to her work in IRB, she has a PhD in Health Communication and has 17 years of research experience. Her research interests include human sexuality, health disparities, and health risk behaviors, particularly in Latinx communities. Research projects include exploring relationship negotiations and safer sex practices with people who identify as polyamorous, early education experiences and their impact on health in later life with older American Indians using Community Based Participatory Research methodologies, and representations of mental health in communication research.