{"id":49622,"date":"2011-11-04T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=49622"},"modified":"2011-11-08T09:39:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T13:39:42","slug":"uconn-honored-for-best-compliance-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/11\/uconn-honored-for-best-compliance-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Honored for Best Compliance Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Research compliance monitor Gustavo Fernandez (right) accepts the Best Compliance Practices Award for Monitoring Financial Conflict of Interest in Research on behalf of the UConn Health Center from Dr. Mark Pastin of the Health Ethics Trust. (Photo provided by Health Ethics Trust)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Connecticut has been recognized with two Best Compliance Practices Awards from the Health Ethics Trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UConn won the category of \u201cGovernance, Oversight and Self-Assessment,\u201d and the Health Center won \u201cMonitoring Financial Conflict of Interest in Research.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really proud of both of these awards,\u201d says Mike Walker<\/a>, UConn\u2019s chief audit and compliance officer. \u201cThe committee award recognizes the structure and oversight of the Joint Audit and Compliance Committee<\/a> (JACC). The best practice is having a board-level committee that has functional oversight, of the audit and compliance function,\u00a0\u00a0 independent from management. The reporting structure within our office is to the Audit Committee, and administratively to the President. That gives us sufficient independence to write reports and do investigations without intervention, and gives us validity with what we write, unbiased, at arm\u2019s length from the administration. We are fortunate to operate in a supportive environment with President Herbst and Trustee Nayden (chair of the JACC) being strong advocates of compliance operations and our audit function.\u201d<\/p>\n

With respect to the conflict of interest in research monitoring program, Walker says avoiding the appearance of conflict of interest is crucial to the Health Center\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to encourage contact with industry and also ensure it is conducted in a transparent way that avoids a perception or actual conflict of interest,\u201d Walker says. \u201cThe COI award is a tribute to Gus Fernandez and Dr. Joan Caron. They\u2019ve really worked hard on that and have done a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caron is the director of the Office of Research Compliance and Fernandez is a research compliance monitor. The Office of Research Compliance reports through the Health Center\u2019s Compliance Office managed by Iris Mauriello, the compliance integrity\/privacy officer.<\/p>\n

Fernandez and Walker accepted the awards at the 14th Annual Healthcare Compliance Best Practices Forum in Washington, D.C., Oct. 24 and 25.<\/p>\n

The Health Ethics Trust\u2019s mission is to assist healthcare organizations committed cope with compliance requirements. It is a division of the nonprofit Council of Ethical Organizations<\/a> of Alexandria, Va.<\/p>\n

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UConn was recognized for \u201cGovernance, Oversight and Self-Assessment,\u201d and the Health Center for \u201cMonitoring Financial Conflict of Interest in Research.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":49623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57,2010],"class_list":["post-49622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 22:16:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49727,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49622\/revisions\/49727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/49623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49622"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=49622"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=49622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}