Deirdre Lombardi Columbia University Medical Center, USA

Deirdre Lombardi is a manager for two Institutional Review Boards in the Human Research Protection Office at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY. She received her MPH degree from Southern Connecticut State University (2013) and graduated cum laude from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts in metropolitan studies and public health and policy (2010). Her current work focuses on ensuring that all human subjects research conducted at her institution is implemented in an ethical manner and in compliance with federal, state, local, and institutional regulations and policies, thus protecting subjects who volunteer to participate in research studies while also facilitating pivotal and innovative research.