Joerg Heber, Ph.D.
Research Integrity Officer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Previous positions held include editorial director at Public Library of Science (PLOS) and editor-in-chief at PLOS ONE; executive editor of Nature Communications

Joerg Heber is the Research Integrity Officer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and head of its Research Compliance Office. He oversees the research integrity, research security, export control, and conflicts of commitment and conflicts of interest programs at the Lab.

Joerg has a PhD in physics from Imperial College London, UK. Following postdoc positions at Bell Labs, NJ, and the University of Marburg, Germany, Joerg joined Springer Nature in 2005 as a manuscript editor at the journal Nature Materials. In 2015 Joerg became the Executive Editor of the journal Nature Communications. He was appointed Editor-in-Chief of PLOS ONE in 2016 and subsequently became PLOS’ Editorial Director. Joerg joined Berkeley Lab in 2020.

Ann Gabriel, Senior Vice President
Global Strategic Networks Elsevier Publishing

Anne Gabriel has held a variety of positions at the forefront of scholarly communication, most recently as
Elsevier’s Publishing Director for journals in Computer Science and Engineering, as well as electronic product development roles with Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform. Her current work focuses on outreach and partnerships related to scientific impact; open science;
sustainability; and diversity and inclusion. She was previously at Cambridge University Press.  She is a member of the AAP PSP Executive Committee. Ann holds a master’s degree in communications from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kaia Motter

Kaia Motter, Head of Academic Affairs, North America, Springer Nature Publishing

Ms. Motter leads academic affairs in the US and Canada, building relationships and collaborating with funders, institutions, and other non-profit organizations in the region.  She joins Springer Nature from Wiley where she was involved in open research policy and outreach, research assessment reform, and various open science and open metadata initiatives.

Mohammad Hosseini

Mohammad Hosseini, PhD., is an assistant professor at the Northwestern University
Department of Preventive Medicine (Chicago, USA). He collaborates with the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence
in Medicine. Dr. Hosseini is a guest lecturer of research ethics and integrity, an associate editor of the journal of Accountability in Research and a member of the Global Young Academy.

Kirstin Morningstar, MBA, CIP, CPIA
Senior Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington

Kirstin Morningstar serves as the Senior Director of Regulatory Services at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA).  Kirstin received a B.S. in Biomedical Science from Texas A&M University, and an MBA from UTA. She has 20+ years of experience in research compliance and holds CIP certification in IRB administration, and CPIA certification in IACUC administration.  She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Texas Society for Biomedical Research (TSBR). Her office is responsible for oversight and coordination of programs for the IRB, IACUC, IBC, research conflicts of interest, export control, research misconduct, foreign influence, and responsible conduct of research.

Rebecca Keiser, Ph.D.
Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy, National Science Foundation

Rebecca Spyke Keiser is the Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy (CRSSP) at the National Science
Foundation (NSF). Keiser is the first CRSSP, a position established in March 2020 to ensure the security of federally funded research while maintaining open international collaboration. In this role, Keiser provides the NSF director with policy advice on all aspects of research security strategy. She also leads NSF’s efforts to develop and implement efforts to improve research security and the agency’s coordination with other federal agencies and the White House.

Until March 2020, Keiser was the head of the Office of International Science & Engineering (OISE) at NSF. Keiser had served as head of OISE since coming to NSF in 2015. The office promotes an integrated, international strategy and manages internally focused programs that are innovative, catalytic and responsive to a broad range of NSF and national interests.

Prior to NSF, she was a special advisor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) administrator and an executive-in-residence at American University. She held several positions with NASA, including associate deputy administrator for strategy and policy, associate deputy administrator for policy integration, and executive officer to the deputy administrator.

Keiser also served as assistant to the director for international relations at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she provided policy guidance to the president's science advisor. Her experience covers science and technology policy, agreements and other cooperative efforts. She is a board member of Women in Aerospace and a member of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. She has a bachelors degree in Japanese studies from Wellesley College; a masters degree in politics of the world economy from the London School of Economics; and a doctorate in international studies from the University of South Carolina. She speaks Japanese and Spanish.

Susan Martinis
Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Susan Martinis, Ph.D, is Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she provides leadership for the campus-wide interdisciplinary research
institutes, promotes new research initiatives, and oversees the administrative and business processes
that ensure the safe, ethical, and productive conduct of research at Illinois.   Martinis, the Stephen G. Sligar Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, studies the mechanisms, evolution, and biomedical applications of protein synthesis and RNA-protein interactions. She is a successful researcher, engaged in entrepreneurial and corporate partnerships, a committed educator, and an experienced administrator.  

She earned her B.S. from Washington State University (1985) and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois (1990). She then trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow. She was hired in 1993 at a start-up biotechnology company, Cubist
Pharmaceuticals, where she was awarded the company’s first U.S. patent and National Institutes of Health SBIR grant, before moving to academia at the University of Houston in 1997.

Martinis contributed significantly to the founding of the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, which offers a paradigm-shifting approach to teaching medicine that is engineering-based.  She served as the Interim Director of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering on the Dean’s inaugural leadership team.   Dr. Martinis was elected to the Executive Committee of the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities Council on Research and has served as President of the Association of Medical and Graduate Departments of Biochemistry across North and Central America. She has served as an inaugural member of the National Institutes of Health Molecular Genetics A study section, as well as participated in Review Panels for the National Science Foundation, and was an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of
Biological Chemistry for five years.

Kris West, JD, MS,
Director, Research Compliance and Ethics, Council on Governmental Relations (COGR)

Kris West, J.D., M.S., is the Director for Research Compliance and Ethics at the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR). COGR is an association of research-intensive universities, colleges, independent research institutions, and health care institutions that supports its members in the areas of research administration, compliance, financial oversight, and intellectual property. As a member of COGR’s staff she provides information, regulatory analysis, policy perspective and advice to COGR’s members.

Prior to joining COGR, Ms. West worked for Emory University for many years, first as Senior Associate General Counsel and later as Chief Compliance Officer. At Emory she provided compliance guidance and oversight for research and non-research areas. She also served as Emory University's Privacy Officer and
Research Integrity Officer.

Ms. West is an active member of the Georgia Bar. She attended the University of Maryland and Mercer University School of Law and also holds a M.S. degree in drug regulatory affairs from the University of Florida.

• ORI 2023 Notice of Proposed New Rulemaking for Research Misconduct Regulations - Sheila Garrity, JD, MPH, MBA, Director, DHHS Office of Research Integrity
• National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33) Research Security Program Standards - Rebecca Keiser, Ph.D., Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy, National Science Foundation

Tracy Arwood, MS,
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer & Associate Vice President, Clemson University

Tracy Arwood, MS, is currently the Associate Vice President and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at Clemson University. In this role, she manages an enterprise-wide compliance and ethics program that provides guidance and oversight with respect to the vast range of legal requirements affecting institutions of higher learning.

Formerly, she was the Assistant Vice President for Research at Clemson University. In that role, she managed the operations of the Office of Research Compliance, to include the IRB (Human Subjects), IBC (Biosafety/rDNA) and IACUC (Animal), and the Office of Research Safety (Lab Safety, Chemical Safety, Biosafety, Radiological Safety and Hazardous Waste Management). As the University's Research Integrity Officer, Ms. Arwood also provided oversight for the handling of research misconduct allegations and the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training program.

Previously, Ms. Arwood was the Director of Regulatory Compliance at Mississippi State University (MSU). While at MSU, she also served as the prisoner representative on the MSU IRB based on her experience as
an Ombudsman within the Virginia Department of Corrections.

Ms. Arwood is a regular presenter at a national meetings of organizations like National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), University Risk Managers and Insurance Association (URMIA), Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research's (PRIMR) and National Council of University Research Administrators’ (NCURA). She is also the co-author of various Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) social and behavioral science modules. Ms. Arwood holds a BS and a MS in Criminal Justice from Radford University in Virginia and is a certified paralegal.

Etta Ward
Senior Director of Faculty Mentoring and Leadership
Indiana University Indianapolis

Etta Ward is the Senior Director of Faculty Mentoring and Leadership at Indiana University in Indianapolis (IUPUI). As a National Research Mentoring Network certified facilitator for mentor training and recently
designated Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research Principal Facilitator, Ward has built a body of work around effective mentorship—especially, targeting minoritized populations. She promotes competency-based and culturally aware mentoring strategies that bolster inclusive mentoring cultures. Ward views this work as her professional calling, with potential to impact mentoring generations into the future.

Ward leads many diversity and inclusion programs focused on ways to bring people safely to and help sustain conversations on race and inclusive excellence. She has designed programming that helps leaders
develop tactics that foster inclusive engage, identify and leverage privilege for inclusion, shape inclusive climates where all are valued and feel a sense of belonging, and create a culture of effective mentorship across differences.

Ward is the recipient of several awards, to name a few, Fulbright Scholar Award to France with the Council for International Exchange for Scholars, APLU Council on Research Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in University Research Award, the IUPUI Multicultural Staff Impact Award, the IU Martin Luther King Jr. Building Bridges Award, and the United Way Diversity Advocate Award.

David Resnick, J.D., Ph.D.,

Bioethicist, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health

David Resnick, JD, Ph.D., CIP, is a bioethicist at the National Institute of Environmental health Science, National Institutes of Health. He earned his B.A. in philosophy from Davidson College, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his J.D. from Concord University School of Law. Dr. Resnick was an Associate and Full Professor of Medical Humanities at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University (ECU) from 1998-2004, and an Associate Director of the Bioethics Center at ECU and University Health Systems from 1998-2004. Dr. Resnick was Assistant and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wyoming (UW) from 1990-1998, and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Ethics at UW from 1995-1998.

Dr. Resnick has published over 250 peer reviewed articles and 10 books on various topics in philosophy and bioethics and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on several editorial boards and is an Associate Editor of the journal Accountability in Research. Dr. Resnick was Chair of the NIEHS Institutional Review Board (IRB) from 2008-2019 and is a Certified IRB Professional.