LOS ANGELES, May 3, 2004 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announces that it has been fully accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc. (AAHRPP), for all research involving the protection of patients. Cedars-Sinai is the only Medical Center in the state of California to be accredited by AAHRPP, a Washington, D.C., based non-profit organization that uses a voluntary, peer-driven, educational model to accredit institutions engaged in research involving human subjects.

Good for three years, accreditation was received after a 10-month process requiring Cedars-Sinai to conduct a rigorous self-assessment and to participate in an AAHRPP on-site evaluation. During this process, all of the Medical Center's policies, practices, staffing expertise, and resources related to the protection of the rights and welfare of research participants were examined.

"Being accredited reflects our commitment to protecting patients involved in clinical research at Cedars-Sinai," said Shlomo Melmed, M.D., Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and the Director of the Burns and Allen Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai. "This is a responsibility that the Medical Center and its Institutional Review Board takes very seriously and we undertook it because it was the right thing for us to do to ensure that the quality and continued improvement of on-going clinical research at Cedars-Sinai goes above and beyond regulatory requirements. We view voluntary accreditation as an outstanding peer-driven reflection of Cedars-Sinai's commitment to excellence in both the scientific rigor of our research, as well as the uncompromising protection of the rights of our research subjects."

As one of the largest state-of-the-art clinical research facilities of any private hospital in the nation, the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Cedars-Sinai serves to protect the rights and welfare of patients participating in research at the Medica
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Contact: Kelli Hanley
kelli.hanley@cshs.org
310-423-3674
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
4-May-2004

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