Tonya Ferraro, MEd
<p>Senior IRB QI Consultant, Education and Quality Improvement Program, Boston Children’s Hospital</p>
Tonya Ferraro is the senior IRB QI consultant of the Education and Quality Improvement Program (EQuIP) at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). Her responsibilities include educational outreach, new/transfer PI trainings, study reviews/audits, and assisting in BCH’s reaccreditation effort.
Prior to BCH, Tonya served as a senior IRB administrator at Harvard University. In this role, she guided the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School through IRB review, and led a team of IRB administrators who provided support to the other university area schools. Before her focus on research ethics, 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. She has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level in varying disciplines, ranging from metalsmithing to 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. She is a member of Harvard Catalyst’s subcommittees: Emerging Technologies, Ethics, and Research and QA/QI, and also serves on PRIM&R’s Diversity Advisory Group. In addition to her IRB work, she is a Boston Korean Adoptees, Inc., Board Member (Research Coordinator), providing educational programming on adoptee related empirical research. Tonya is particularly curious about intersectionality, creative approaches to research design and compliance, and fostering partnerships within the research community.