Jill Matzat RN, BSN, Cert.CRA, CCRT of Medical Research Management has been the recipient of the 2008 Certificate of Merit for "Best Practice - Quality Monitoring" from the Health Improvement Institute (www.hii.org).

The Award for Excellence in Human Research Protection is established to encourage and to recognize excellence and innovation in human research protection.

The Institute has established the following 3 categories of Award: Best Practice, Innovation, and Life Time Achievement. The Best Practice is given to a research institution, a unit, or an individual that has the best way, one of the best ways, or a proven way to achieve, or to contribute toward achieving, the protection that is the specified purpose of the practice. The founding sponsor of the Award program was the Office for Human Research Protections, US DHHS.