IRB Members

Each Carilion Clinic Institutional Review Board (IRB) has at least five members, with varying backgrounds to provide adequate review of research activities commonly conducted at Carilion. Members include scientists, non-scientists and individuals who are not affiliated with the institution. The unaffiliated member represents the perspective of research subjects when reviewing submissions before the IRB. 

If you have questions about Carilion Clinic IRB membership, please send us an email at irb@carilionclinic.org.

Chair of the Carilion Clinic IRB

Charles J. Schleupner, MSc, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA
IRB Chair
540-981-7490
cjschleupner@carilionclinic.org
Contact Dr. Schleupner for information regarding human research subjects' protections or rights.

Dr. Schleupner is professor of Internal Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. He is on the medical staff at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and the Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He has received numerous grants for research studies in virology and infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland and completed his internal medicine residency and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Utah Medical Center. He received a master’s degree in microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.