Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Tonya Ferraro is a Senior IRB QI Consultant in the Education and Quality Improvement Program (EQuIP) at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her responsibilities include educational outreach, investigator trainings, and study review/audits. She also assisted in the Children’s reaccreditation effort and is an AAHRPP Site Visitor.
Prior to joining Children's she was a Senior IRB Administrator at Harvard University. In this role she reviewed for the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School, while leading a team of administrators supporting other University-Area schools. From 2008-2015, Tonya was a Project Manager and programmer for the Health Behavior Research Center at the University of Vermont developing technologies to engage patients in their medical care.
Tonya is a member of Harvard Catalyst’s subcommittees: Emerging Technologies, Ethics, and Research and QA/QI. She has served on PRIM&R’s SBER Conference Planning Committees (2019, 2021) and the Diversity Advisory Group. In addition to her IRB work, she is a Boston Korean Adoptees, Inc. Board Member and has created a novel research education program that serves the adoptee community.
She has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level in varying disciplines, including metalsmithing, counseling psychology, and expository writing. Her educational background includes studying Studio Art at Northeastern University and an interdisciplinary M.Ed. from the University of Vermont focusing on research methodologies. Tonya was a Bioethics Fellow at Harvard Medical School (2021-2022), exploring bioethical considerations of human subjects research through the lens of structural injustice and intersectionality. She is particularly interested in creative approaches to research education, accessibility, and fostering partnerships within the research community.
A New Hope: IRB Jedi Unite—Exploring Regulations, Guidance, and Institutional Polices
Monday, December 12, 2022
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET