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Institutional Review Board

IRB Members

2024-2025 Members

About

  • Dr. Tammy Sonnentag is an Associate Professor in Xavier's School of Psychology. Her research interests include topics related to individuals’ social-emotional and moral development, with a focus on the factors that influence relatively young individuals’ willingness to stand up for their own beliefs and values despite social pressure not to do so. 
  • Dr. Morrie Mullins is a Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology.  His research interests lie in the areas of Personnel Selection, Training, and Assessment Practices.
  • Dr. Heidrun Schmitzer is a Professor in the Department of Physics.  Her research field is plasmonics and polarization optics. Some of her projects with students involve cavitation in fluid dynamics, saccadic motion of the eye and Haidinger’s brushes, an optical illusion created within the eye.

  • Dr. Burdette is an Assistant Professor/Program Director in Xavier’s College of Nursing MSN MIDAS program. Her areas of interest include the role of interprofessional education and the integration of social determinants of health in nursing education to impact population health outcomes.  

  • Dr. Kathleen Hart has been a member of the IRB since its inception. Dr. Hart is a Professor in Xavier's Psychology Department and specializes in Clinical Child Neuropsychology / Forensic Assessment; her research interests are child forensic issues and factors related to juvenile delinquency. Master's of Education in Agency and Community Counseling program.
  • Ms. Christine Shimrock is an adjunct professor at Xavier University in Criminal Justice and has worked as a chaplain at  Lebanon and Warren Correctional Institutions since 2003.  Christine holds an M.S. Criminal Justice and an M.A. in Theology from Xavier University and serves as the Prisoner Advocate on the Institutional Review Board.
  •  Dr. James Loveland is an Associate Professor in BAIS. He has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Tennessee, and a PhD in Marketing from Arizona State University. His research interests include personality, career development, analysis of social media data, and consumer analytics.

  • Dr. Thomas Wagner is a Professor and Chair of the Communication Department. His research includes effective teaching methods in communication education and the impact of social media on close relationships.

  • Dr. Brian R. Russ serves as an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Department at Xavier University. His research focuses on counseling marginalized individuals, including adolescent populations and individuals with substance use disorders, with a particular emphasis on opioid use disorder and medication-assisted treatment. He maintains a strong interest in qualitative research methodology.