INTRODUCTION

The CAMRIS Committee works to establish policies and procedures for the research use of MR scanners within the Department of Radiology. It’s mission is to review proposed research protocols involving human or animal studies. This process has two major goals.

1. To ensure all research performed on the MRI Research facilities complies with CAMRIS policy, University policy and Federal Regulations.

2. To determine that CAMRIS can maintain the resources to carry out each research protocol: including personnel, software, hardware and scan time.

CAMRIS consists of the following

1.5T Clinical Research Scanner computer facility	Larry Dougherty	215-349-5274	doughel@uphs.upenn.edu
Chief of CAMRIS technical staff	Norman Butler	215-349-5298	mr5research@uphs.upenn.edu
Regulatory Compliance	Katie Zaifert Malitsky	215-573-5295	katiez@mail.med.upenn.edu
CAMRIS policy manual and web management	Alex Kilger	215-349-5470	alex.kilger@uphs.upenn.edu
CFN policies, web and calendar management	Margaret Ryan	215-614-0630	ryanm@mail.med.upenn.edu
Manager Coordinator services and Monitoring Specialist	Kathleen McCarthy	215-746-0352	mccarthk@uphs.upenn.edu
Experimental pulse sequences and software	Hee Kwon Song	215-662-6265	hsong@uphs.upenn.edu
Electronics and RF Laboratory experimental coils	Thomas Connick	215-662-6671	rfmail1@mail.mmrrcc.upenn.edu
Faculty Administrator for Glenolden 3T MRI	Jim Pilla		jpilla@mail.med.upenn.edu
7T research scanner	Mark Elliot	215-898-9357	mark@ginger.mmrrcc.upenn.edu
Medical Advisor	Ron Wolf	215-349-5184	ron.wolf@uphs.upenn.edu

CAMRIS is governed by a committee made up of the Facilities Managers listed above, CAMRIS staff and representatives from the user community. A full membership is included on this web site. The committee is chaired by Mitchell Schnall M.D., Ph.D. The CAMRIS committee is charged with overseeing the day-to-day operations of all of the research facilities listed, providing information regarding the use of these facilities to the research community at the University of Pennsylvania, and providing information regarding institutional policies ( IRB, UPCC, DSMc, CTSRMC, etc) and ensuring that the research community is in compliance with these policies.

The following sections describe the policies regarding safety, human and animal use, and provide guidelines for the use of each of these facilities.

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last updated 3-26-08ak