University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Bruce Gordon is Assistant Vice-Chancellor for Regulatory Affairs, and Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Dr. Gordon has been a member of the UNMC Institutional Review Board since 1992, served as chair since 1996, and as executive chair since 2011.
He has served on a variety of national committees and task forces, including the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections Subpart A Subcommittee, the American Society of Clinical Oncology Task Force on Oversight of Clinical Research, the NIH Regulatory Burden Advisory Group Human Research Subcommittee, the AAMC Informed Consent Working Group, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Best Practices Working Group for IRB Review of Disaster and Emergency Related Public Health Research. He was the first chair of the National Cancer Institute Pediatric Central IRB.
Dr. Gordon served on the Board of Director’s for Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research (PRIMR) from 2015 to 2021. He has been a faculty member at almost every ARENA/PRIMR national meeting since 2002, and was the co-chair for the 2009 Advancing Ethical Research Conference. He was co-developer and speaker at PRIMR’s “Investigator Responsibility” pre-conference workshop, “Collaborating for Compliance” workshop, “IRB Chairs Boot Camp” program, and the “Vulnerable Subjects” program.
Dr. Gordon serves on the Council on Accreditation for the Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP), and has been a faculty member at numerous AAHRPP conferences and a frequent AAHRPP team leader and site visitor. He is a founding member of the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) and served on the Executive Advisory Committee for the program. He is the author of two modules for the Human Subjects Research course. He co-developed a course related to research involving vulnerable subjects, and is the author of three modules for that course.
Dr. Gordon is the author of numerous original papers, chapters, review articles, and abstracts regarding human subjects protections and research ethics, and is the co-editor of the third edition of “IRB: Management and Function,” the definitive reference work for IRB and Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) professionals.
WS1 - Biomedical IRB: The Basics and More
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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Saturday, November 8, 2025
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