Department of Veterans Affairs
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Washington, District of Columbia
Charlotte K. Jeans, PhD, CCRN, CIP is the Director for Regulatory Affairs for the Office of Reserach Protections, Policy, and Education in the Office of Research and Development (ORD) at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA). In her current VA position, she has primary responsibility for development of human subjects protections policies in VA research and facilitation of educational programs for VA researchers. She has served in multiple regulatory and education roles related to human subjects protections in VA for 19 years. She also maintains a position as an ICU nurse practitioner at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Dr. Jeans has held prior positions at UAMS as an Assistant Professor at UAMS in the College of Nursing as well as a critical care nurse specialist and research compliance director. She has also been an Investigator or research staff member for over 100 clinical trials on therapies for septic shock and pulmonary diseases. She received her PhD in Nursing from UAMS in 2010. Her current research focuses on development of a validation model for evaluating human research protection programs.