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John Lacey, a spokesperson for HMS, wrote in an e-mail that the federal audit was “routine,” indicating that the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP), the branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which launched the investigation in March, had not been prompted by any initial suspicions of procedural failures...
Under Koski’s leadership, the OHRP commissioned a study by the Institute of Medicine to assess the current systems for protecting human research subjects and to make recommendations for improvements. Koski cited the completion of that report as motivation in his decision to step down...
Vera Hassner Sharav, the president and founder of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP), gave Koski credit for his willingness to hear differing points of view in his role at OHRP. AHRP is a non-profit group that works to raise public awareness about the use of human subjects in research...
Before taking on the leadership of the OHRP, Koski spent 30 years at Harvard and was involved in research, teaching and patient care. In 1989 he joined the Subcommittee on Human Studies at MGH and he later served as director of Human Research Affairs at Partners HealthCare, an organization which oversees major Boston-area hospitals including MGH and Brigham and Women’s Hospital...
...role as director of the OHRP gave Koski the opportunity to advocate for the rights of human research subjects on a national level...