Mary Webb is a research coordinator in BBARC.
She is an invaluable member of the clinical research team at the Brain, Body, and Appetite Research Collaborative (BBARC), where she directs recruitment efforts across multiple large studies and is the team’s regulatory and IRB specialist.
Through these roles, Mary expertly balances the needs of the studies with regulatory guidelines, team constraints and needs, and inclusion of both research volunteers and study staff, all while maintaining the utmost professionalism, willingness to problem solve, and a balanced energy.
Mary consistently illustrates examples of how to communicate around sensitive topics when interacting and working with our research volunteers. She is the first point of contact with potential research participants, and works to improve the recruitment methods to be inclusive of all potential research volunteers. This is done through specific language changes, sensitivities to participant backgrounds or circumstances, and ensuring the study provides equitable resources for participants.
She exemplifies teamwork and collaboration. She interacts with multiple entities across UW and manages to engender a sense of teamwork amongst all these entities so that the team effectively works together across physical and institutional distances to achieve the goals of their studies.