The Institute for Clinical Social Work is aware of and endorses both its professional ethical responsibility and the federal mandates to safeguard the rights and welfare of human subjects in all research which fall under the auspices of the of the institution. The Institute meets its federal mandates for protecting human subjects by mandating that all research involving human subjects must by reviewed and approved both initially and in an ongoing annual review by the formal Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB shall be comprised of six members: five ICSW affiliated members and one outside member. At least three of the six members will have a PhD and all are appointed by the Chief Academic Officer of ICSW. One member shall be the chair. The current members of the IRB are:

Daniel Rosenfeld, LCSW, Chair:

Daniel Rosenfeld, is the former president of the Illinois Society for Clinical Social Work and the former chair of Committee on Standards and Inquiry. He is a member of the faculty of the Institute for Clinical Social Work, where he is the chairman of the Institutional Review Board. He has served on the National Association of Social Workers Committee on Inquiry for fifteen years. He is currently in private practice in Evanston Illinois, specializing in the treatment of children and adolescents.

Steven Batten, PhD

Steve Batten, a graduate of the Institute for Clinical Social Work, is a Lecturer at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago and the Human Services and Counseling Program at DePaul University. He has presented numerous workshops on the local, state and national level on the impact of traumatic loss, homicide, group therapy, transference and countertransference issues, and sexuality and diversity. Dr. Batten is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years experience in private practice in Chicago where he specializes in psychodynamically oriented individual, group, and couples therapy with adults.

Linda Freedman, PhD

Linda Freedman is a graduate of the University of Illinois doctoral program. She is a family systems and relationship therapist specializing in anxiety and depressive disorders in children and adults. Her most recent research is in the area of school sexual assault prevention programming.

Elizabeth Fung, PhD

Elizabeth Fung received her MSW at Simmons College School of Social Work, certificate in family therapy from Smith College School for Clinical Social Work and PhD at Institute for Clincial Social Work. She is a senior social worker at Children's Memorial Hospital and maintains a private practice. She was a lecturer at Loyola University and served on National Hemophilia Foundation Board. Currently, she serves on NASW's specialty practice section (Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult). Her most recent research study was on the impact of a bleeding disorder on the siblings.

Kathleen Murphy, PhD, MLIS

Kathleen Murphy received her MSW at Loyola (1983) and PhD at Jane Addams (1988) and was in the private practice for 18 years where she specialized in working with families and children with chronic disease, disability, and terminal illness. She was a former faculty member at the ICSW where she taught Research Methods. She is a frequent speaker on the topic of coping with special needs, as well as ethical issues in social work practice. She completed her Master's in Library and Information Science in 2005 and currently works as the Social Science Data Services Librarian at Northwestern University Library.

Cynthia Stone, PhD

Cynthia Stone, Ph.D. has been a faculty member of the ICSW since 1985 and has served on the IRB board for many years. She is now faculty emeritus but continues her private practice and clinical consultation in Evanston with special interests in women's issues and spirituality.