Meet the IRB Chairperson for all Rutgers IRB Committees
Cheryl Ann Kennedy, MD, DLFAPA, FASAM
Cheryl A. Kennedy, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, has been on the Faculty for 30 years. She has served the disenfranchised mentally ill and substance using population of Newark and NJ for over 30 years with her expertise in General and Emergency Psychiatry, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Conditions, Trauma & Disaster Medicine, Addiction Medicine and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has worked in former war zones. Dr. Kennedy’s research and expertise in clinical work have spanned HIV/AIDS, PTSD, Huntington’s Disease, mood disorders in children, transplant medicine, community trauma, and quality measures in psychiatric care. She is frequently sought out for Clinical Consultations; has many peer-reviewed publications and often gives invited scholarly presentations. She is known to mentor students and residents in active research projects or other scholarly activities.
She is the Faculty Advisor for the student-run NJMS Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network with the Rutgers Law Project, and serves on several Community Based Organizations’ Boards of Directors. She has received many awards and honors and is an elected member of the American College of Psychiatrists, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of The American Society of Addiction Medicine. She is President of the Tri-County Chapter of the NJ Psychiatric Association.
MY THOUGHTS ABOUT being IRB Chair:
Of the wide-variety of my medical school academic activities: administrative, clinical, educational or scholarly, being an active IRB member and being able to Chair many full board meetings is among my favorite. I joined the IRB in the early 1990’s and was fortunate enough to learn and contribute to the growth and development of the IRB at New Jersey Medical School (not without good IRB-mentoring!) and subsequently, University-wide. It has been a great privilege and honor to work with such a talented and knowledgeable staff of extremely well trained individuals and the many faculty and community reviewers from so many different disciplines and professions! For me, it is a continuous learning experience (really thrilling for me as an inquisitive physician!) and it really fills me with enormous respect for our researchers at all of our schools and how diligently they work to fulfill the academic mission!!!
Thank you all!
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