{"id":1445,"date":"2024-05-08T12:08:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/iacuc\/?page_id=1445"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:16:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:16:45","slug":"policy-for-reporting-animal-welfare-concerns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/iacuc\/policy-for-reporting-animal-welfare-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy for Reporting Animal Welfare Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reviewed and Adopted on February 8, 2024 by IACUC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <em>Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals <\/em>(<em>Guide<\/em>, page 24) states that a program for reporting animal welfare concerns should be available.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UMES IACUC guaranteed the Concerns raised by users or spectators of the facility are held in confidence by the IACUC Chair and Institutional Official.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We ensure anonymity and multiple points of contact for reporting concerns.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anonymity refers to a process by which there are no identifying values collected that can link the information provided to the individual submitting the concern.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multiple points of contact include senior management, the IO (Dr. Rondall Allen, <a href=\"mailto:reallen@umes.edu\">reallen@umes.edu<\/a>), IACUC Chair (Dr. Victor Hsia, <a href=\"mailto:vhsia@umes.edu\">vhsia@umes.edu<\/a>), Lab Animal Technician (Caroline Maahs, <a href=\"mailto:jcmaahs@umes.edu\">jcmaahs@umes.edu<\/a>), and AV (Dr. Kimberly Braxton, <a href=\"mailto:kabraxton@umes.edu\">kabraxton@umes.edu<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The names are subjected to administrative changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Institutional Official will guarantee that raising such concerns will not be a source of reprisal or retaliation toward the person raising such concerns by any other campus official.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Institutional Official will guarantee that raising such concerns will not be a source of reprisal or retaliation toward the person raising such concerns by any other campus official.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To maintain anonymity and protection against reprisal to the individual(s) in good faith, reports an animal welfare concern shall be addressed to UMES Office of Sponsored Program and Research (<a href=\"mailto:research@umes.edu\">research@umes.edu<\/a> ) followed by relaying the information to personnel in 3b.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed and Adopted on February 8, 2024 by IACUC&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/iacuc\/policy-for-reporting-animal-welfare-concerns\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Policy for Reporting Animal Welfare Concerns<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2248,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-1445","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/iacuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/iacuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/iacuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/iacuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/iacuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/iacuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/iacuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/iacuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}