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III. Comments 

Interested persons may submit either 

electronic comments regarding this 

document to http://www.regulations.gov 

or written comments to the Division of 

Dockets Management (see ADDRESSES). It 

is only necessary to send one set of 

comments. Identify comments with the 

docket number found in brackets in the 

heading of this document. Received 

comments may be seen in the Division 

of Dockets Management between 9 a.m. 

and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 

will be posted to the docket at http:// 

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IV. Electronic Access 

Persons with access to the Internet 

may obtain the document at http://

www.fda.gov/Drugs/

GuidanceCompliance

RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/

default.htm, http://www.fda.gov/

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GuidanceCompliance

RegulatoryInformation/default.htm, or 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

Dated: April 2, 2015. 

Leslie Kux, 

Associate Commissioner for Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08015 Filed 4–6–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE CODE 4164–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Privacy Act of 1974; Report of an 

Altered System of Records 

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA), Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS or 

Department). 

ACTION: Notice of an Altered System of 

Records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974 

(5 U.S.C. 552a), the Health Resources 

and Services Administration (HRSA) is 

publishing notice of a proposed 

alteration of the system of records 

entitled and numbered ‘‘Public Health 

and National Health Service Corps 

Scholarship Program (NHSC SP), 

National Health Service Corps Loan 

Repayment Program (NHSC LRP), 

Students to Service, (S2S), NHSC 

Student/Resident Experiences and 

Rotations in Community Health 

(SEARCH), NURSE Corps Loan 

Repayment Program (NURSE Corps 

LRP) formerly the Nursing Education 

Loan Repayment Program (NELRP), 

NURSE Corps Scholarship Program 

(NURSE Corps SP) formerly the Nursing 

Scholarship Program (NSP), Native 

Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program 

(NHHSP), and Faculty Loan Repayment 

Program (FLRP), Applicants and/or 

Participants Records System, HHS/

HRSA/BHW,’’ No. 09–15–0037. The 

proposed alterations affect the system 

name, system location, categories of 

records, purposes, routine uses, 

safeguards, records retention and 

disposal, system manager title and 

address, as well as minor editorial 

corrections and clarifications. 

DATES: HRSA filed an altered system 

report with the Chair of the House 

Committee on Government Reform and 

Oversight, the Chair of the Senate 

Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs, and the 

Administrator, Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) on 

March 30, 2015. To ensure all parties 

have adequate time in which to 

comment, the altered system, including 

the routine uses, will become effective 

30 days from the publication of the 

notice or 40 days from the date it was 

submitted to OMB and Congress, 

whichever is later, unless HRSA 

receives comments that require 

alterations to this notice. 

ADDRESSES: Please address comments 

to: Associate Administrator, Bureau of 

Health Workforce (BHW), Health 

Resources and Services Administration 

(HRSA), 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11W– 

37, Rockville, MD 20857, telephone 

(301) 594–4130, or FAX (301) 594–4076. 

Comments received will be available for 

inspection at this same address from 

9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard 

Time Zone), Monday through Friday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

BMISS System Manager, Bureau of 

Health Workforce, Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA), 5600 

Fishers Lane, Room 11W–37, Rockville, 

MD 20857, Telephone: 301–443–1587. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Explanation of Changes 

• The system of records notice name 

has been shortened to ‘‘HHS/HRSA/

BHW Scholarship and Loan Repayment 

Program Records.’’ 

• The Nursing Scholarship Program 

(NSP) has been renamed the NURSE 

Corps Scholarship Program (NURSE 

Corps SP), and the Nursing Education 

Loan Repayment Program (NELRP) has 

been renamed the NURSE Corps Loan 

Repayment Program (NURSE Corps 

LRP) and all associated records have 

been merged into a new central database 

system as noted below. 

• A new information system, BHW 

Management Information System 

Solution (BMISS), has replaced Bureau 

of Health Care Delivery and Assistance 

NET (BHCDANET), and serves as the 

central database for information 

concerning the, NHSC SP, NHSC LRP, 

S2S, NURSE Corps SP, NURSE Corps 

LRP, FLRP, and NHHSP. 

• The system location section has 

been updated to indicate that electronic 

records and electronic copies of paper 

records for applicants and participants 

under various programs are now stored 

in BMISS and to include locations of 

records not stored in BMISS (for 

example, Ambassador records are 

electronic but currently maintained in 

an online Web site directory while a 

BMISS database is being designed and 

built, at which point the records will be 

merged into BMISS). 

• The categories of records have been 

updated to include ‘‘information 

concerning educational loans.’’ 

• The purpose(s) section has been 

updated to consolidate certain 

descriptions (i.e., to combine the loan 

repayment and scholarship program 

monitoring activities previously 

described in purpose 4 with the other 

program selection and monitoring 

activities previously described in 

purpose 8), and to include intra-agency 

transfers of information previously 

described as routine uses by mistake 

(i.e., transfers to HHS’ debt and 

financial management systems). 

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• The routine uses have been revised 

for editorial clarity and otherwise 

updated as follows: 

Æ Former routine use 15, pertaining 

to preparation of financial management 

and accounting documentation and 

information to be provided to the 

Department of the Treasury, has been 

deleted and is instead covered in the 

SORN for the ‘‘Unified Financial 

Management System,’’ System No. 09– 

90–0024, which receives information 

from this system for that purpose. 

Æ Former routine uses 17, 18, 21 and 

22, and a portion of what is now routine 

use 16 (formerly 14 and 24), pertaining 

to collection of delinquent federal debts, 

have been deleted because they are 

included in the SORN for the ‘‘Debt 

Management and Collection System,’’ 

System No. 09–40–0012 (see 7, 10, 11, 

13), which receives information from 

this system for those purposes. 

Æ Routine use 8 has been updated to 

specify that the information that may be 

disclosed includes a participant’s name, 

Social Security number (SSN), mailing 

address, email address, phone number, 

health professions school, residency 

training, specialty, program status, 

award years, service start and end dates, 

and service site address and phone 

number. 

Æ Routine use 11 has been updated 

allowing HHS to release to the 

participant’s service site information 

from the participant’s file, including but 

not limited to, his/her allegations 

concerning conditions at the site, 

disputes with site management, or 

circumstances surrounding his/her 

resignation/termination for the purpose 

of monitoring the program participant’s 

compliance with the service obligation, 

including fact-finding to calculate 

service credit, to decide transfer 

requests, or to make default 

determinations. 

Æ Routine use 14 has been added to 

allow HHS to disclose information 

consisting of name, address, SSN, health 

professions license number, and place 

of employment to a state or local 

government agency, including any agent 

thereof, maintaining criminal, civil, or 

administrative violation records, or 

other pertinent information such as 

records regarding the investigation or 

resolution of allegations involving a 

program participant. The purpose of this 

disclosure is to enable HHS to monitor 

compliance with program requirements 

and make determinations regarding 

administrative actions or other 

remedies, including default 

determinations. 

Æ Routine use 15 has been added to 

allow HHS to disclose Ambassador 

information consisting of name, email 

and social network address(es), phone 

number(s), employment information, 

and professional biographies to current 

and prospective participants in BHW 

programs and other interested 

individuals. The purpose of this 

disclosure is to allow these individuals 

to contact Ambassadors who serve as 

mentors and local resources for the 

NHSC programs. 

Æ Routine use 17 (formerly 16) has 

been updated to allow HHS to disclose 

information to loan servicing agencies 

for the purposes of obtaining payoff 

balances on educational loans and 

determining whether loans are eligible 

for repayment under the programs. 

Æ Routine use 19 (formerly 20) has 

been updated to allow HHS to disclose 

information to the Department of the 

Treasury to determine if the applicant’s 

name appears on the Do Not Pay List for 

program integrity/applicant eligibility 

purposes. 

• The safeguards section has been 

updated to include encryption, 

intrusion detection, and firewalls. 

• The retention and disposal section 

has been expanded and updated to 

include records created in BMISS or 

digitized and migrated into BMISS, and 

to cite applicable disposition schedules. 

• The system manager contact 

information has been updated. 

• The notification procedure has been 

revised to reflect the information that 

must be included in a notification 

request made by mail. 

• The record source categories have 

been revised to include these additional 

sources: System for Awards 

Management (SAM) (formerly the 

Excluded Parties List System); HHS 

Office of Inspector General Web site 

listing individuals excluded from 

Medicare, Medicaid, and all other 

federal health care programs; and HHS 

database of Health Professional Shortage 

Areas. 

• Other minor editorial corrections 

have been made to reflect the 

elimination of the Bureau of Clinician 

Recruitment and Services (BCRS) and 

the transfer of its functions to the newly 

established Bureau of Health Workforce 

(BHW). 

II. The Privacy Act 

The Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) 

governs the means by which the U.S. 

Government collects, maintains, and 

uses information about individuals in a 

system of records. A ‘‘system of 

records’’ is a group of any records under 

the control of a federal agency from 

which information about an individual 

is retrieved by the individual’s name or 

other personal identifier. The Privacy 

Act requires each agency to publish in 

the Federal Register a system of records 

notice (SORN) identifying and 

describing each system of records the 

agency maintains, including the 

purposes for which the agency uses 

information about individuals in the 

system, the routine uses for which the 

agency discloses such information 

outside the agency, and how individual 

record subjects can exercise their rights 

under the Privacy Act (e.g., to seek 

access to their records in the system). 

Dated: March 31, 2015. 

Mary K. Wakefield, 

Administrator. 

System Number: 09–15–0037 

SYSTEM NAME: 

HHS/HRSA/BHW Scholarship and 

Loan Repayment Program Records 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

Unclassified 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

The servers for the central database 

(known as the Bureau of Health 

Workforce (BHW) Management 

Information System Solution (BMISS)) 

are located at the Center for Information 

Technology, National Institutes of 

Health, 12 South Drive, Room 1100, 

Bethesda, Maryland 20892, and are 

accessed from computer workstations in 

program offices listed below. Paper 

copies of records included in the central 

database, and any paper or electronic 

records not included in the central 

database, are also stored in the program 

offices listed below: 

• Native Hawaiian Health 

Scholarship Program (NHHSP) records 

are located at the BHW, Health 

Resources and Services Administration 

(HRSA), U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS), 5600 Fishers 

Lane, Room 9–105, Rockville, MD 20857 

and at Papa Ola Lokahi, 894 Queen St., 

#706, Honolulu, HI 96813. 

• Ready Responder electronic records 

are located at BHW, HRSA, HHS, 5600 

Fishers Lane, Room 15W–21D, 

Rockville, MD 20857. 

• NHSC Student/Resident 

Experiences and Rotations in 

Community Health (SEARCH) records 

are located at BHW HRSA, HHS, 5600 

Fishers Lane, Room 7–100, Rockville, 

MD 20857. 

Additional records (e.g., spreadsheets 

created to perform their duties) are kept 

by contractors who assist with the 

implementation of the NHSC LRP, 

NHSC SP, NURSE Corps LRP (formerly 

NELRP), NURSE Corps SP (formerly 

NSP), FLRP, and are maintained at the 

below contractor locations: 

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• Customer Care Center, Teletech, 

8123 South Hardy Dr., Tempe, AZ 

85284; 

• Futrend Technology, Inc., 8605 

Westwood Center Dr., Suite 502, 

Vienna, VA 22182; 

• Sapient Government Services, 1515 

N. Courthouse Rd., 4th Floor, Arlington, 

VA 22201. 

Because contractors may change, a 

current listing of contractors and 

locations (if different from above) is 

available upon request by contacting the 

Policy-Coordinating Official. Archived 

records (including scanned paper files 

that have been merged into BMISS) are 

stored at the Washington National 

Records Center, 4205 Suitland Road, 

Suitland, MD 20746. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

The system contains information 

about the following categories of 

individuals: 

• Individuals who have applied for, 

who are receiving, or who have received 

awards under the following programs: 

the National Health Service Corps 

Scholarship Program (NHSC SP), the 

National Health Service Corps Loan 

Repayment Program (NHSC LRP), 

Students to Service (S2S), the NURSE 

Corps Loan Repayment Program 

(NURSE Corps LRP) formerly the 

Nursing Education Loan Repayment 

Program (NELRP), the NURSE Corps 

Scholarship Program (NURSE Corps SP) 

formerly the Nursing Scholarship 

Program (NSP), the Native Hawaiian 

Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP), 

and the Faculty Loan Repayment 

Program (FLRP). 

• Individuals who have applied to 

participate, are participating, or have 

participated in the NHSC Student/

Resident Experiences and Rotations in 

Community Health (SEARCH) Program. 

• Individuals who are current or 

former Ambassadors, Alumni, or Ready 

Responders. 

• Individuals who indicate an interest 

in employment in or an assignment to 

a medical facility located in a Health 

Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) or a 

medically underserved population area, 

including public and federal medical 

facilities, such as Bureau of Prisons 

medical facilities, Indian Health Service 

health care facilities, and other federally 

sponsored health care facilities. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

Records include the individual’s 

name, address(es), telephone number(s), 

email address(es), Social Security 

number (SSN); scholarship, loan 

repayment, Ambassadors, Alumni, 

Ready Responders or SEARCH 

application and associated forms/

documents, contracts, employment data, 

professional performance and 

credentialing history of licensed health 

professionals; preference for siteselection; personal, professional, and 

demographic background information; 

academic and/or service progress 

reports (which include related data, 

correspondence, and professional 

performance information consisting of 

continuing education, performance 

awards, and adverse or disciplinary 

actions); commercial credit reports, 

educational data including tuition and 

other related education expenses; 

educational data including academic 

program and status; information 

concerning educational loans; 

employment status verification (which 

includes certifications and verifications 

of service obligation); medical data, 

financial data, payment data and related 

forms, deferment/placement/

suspension/waiver data and supporting 

documentation; repayment/delinquent/

default status information, 

correspondence to and from Program 

applicants and participants and/or their 

representatives, Claims Collection 

Litigation Reports for default cases 

referred to the Department of Justice 

(DOJ). 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

• Section 333 of the Public Health 

Service (PHS) Act, as amended (42 

U.S.C. 254f), Assignment of Corps 

Personnel; 

• Section 225 of the PHS Act (42 

U.S.C. 234), as in effect on September 

30, 1977, PH/NHSC Scholarship 

Training Program; 

• Section 409(b) of the Health 

Professions Educational Assistance Act 

of 1976, (42 U.S.C. 295g), PSASP; 

• Sections 338A–H of the PHS Act, as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 254l-q), NHSC 

Scholarship and Loan Repayment 

Programs; 

• Sections 336(c) and 331(b)(1) of the 

PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 254h-1(c) and 

254d(b)(1)), SEARCH; 

• Section 846 of the PHS Act, as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 297n), NURSE 

Corps Loan Repayment Program 

(formerly the Nursing Education Loan 

Repayment Program) and NURSE Corps 

Scholarship Program (formerly the 

Nursing Scholarship Program); 

• Section 10 of the Native Hawaiian 

Health Care Improvement Act, as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 11709), NHHSP; 

• Section 738(a) of the PHS Act (42 

U.S.C. 293b(a)), Faculty Loan 

Repayment Program; 

• Section 202 of Title II of Pub. L. 92– 

157 (42 U.S.C. 3505d), National Health 

Professional Shortage Clearinghouse; 

• 31 U.S.C. 7701(c), Debt Collection 

Improvement Act of 1996, Requirement 

That Applicant Furnish Taxpayer 

Identifying Number; 

• Section 215(a) of the PHS Act, as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 216(a)), pertaining 

to PHS commissioned officers, and 5 

U.S.C. 3301 pertaining to civil service 

employees, both of which authorize 

verification of an individual’s suitability 

for employment. 

PURPOSE(S): 

Relevant agency personnel use 

records about individuals from this 

system on a need to know basis for the 

following purposes: 

1. To obtain marketing and 

recruitment information concerning 

individuals who registered to complete 

an online application, but did not 

submit or complete an application. 

2. To identify and select qualified 

individuals to participate in the aboveidentified Programs. 

3. To maintain records on and to 

verify Program applicants’ or 

participants’ credentials and 

educational background, and previous 

and current professional employment 

data and performance history 

information to verify that all claimed 

background and employment data are 

valid and all claimed credentials are 

current and in good standing from 

selection for an award through the 

completion of service. 

4. To assist the HHS Program Support 

Center (PSC), the DOJ, and other 

government entities in the collection of 

Program debts. 

5. To respond to inquiries from 

Program applicants and participants, 

their attorneys or other authorized 

representatives, and Congressional 

representatives. 

6. To compile and generate 

managerial and statistical reports. 

7. With respect to the PH/NHSC and 

NHSC SP, NHHSP, NURSE Corps SP 

(formerly NSP), NHSC LRP, NURSE 

Corps LRP (formerly NELRP), and FLRP: 

(a) to select and match scholarship 

recipients, loan repayors, and other 

individuals for assignment to or 

employment with a health care or other 

facility appropriate to the Programs’ 

purposes; (b) to perform loan repayment 

and scholarship program administrative 

activities, including, but not limited to, 

payment tracking, deferment of the 

service obligation, monitoring a 

participant’s compliance with the 

service requirements, determination of 

service completion, review of 

suspension or waiver requests, default 

determinations, and calculation of 

liability upon default; and (c) to monitor 

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the services provided by the Programs’ 

health care providers. 

8. With respect to the SEARCH 

Program: (a) to track recruitment of 

SEARCH participants for the NHSC 

Scholarship and Loan Repayment 

Programs; and (b) to determine how 

many non-obligated SEARCH 

participants ultimately practice primary 

health care in a Health Professional 

Shortage Area (HPSA). 

9. With respect to the Ambassador 

and Alumni activities: (a) to advocate 

for more health professions students to 

choose primary care; (b) to mentor 

students and clinicians; and (c) to 

recruit students and clinicians for the 

NHSC Scholarship and Loan Repayment 

Programs, and to train community 

leaders and local clinicians to care 

about and for people in need. 

10. To transfer records of delinquent 

federal debts to System No. 09–40–0012, 

Debt Management and Collection 

System, for debt collection purposes. 

11. To transfer information to System 

No. 09–90–0024, Unified Financial 

Management System (UFMS), for 

purposes of effecting payment of 

program funds (through the Department 

of the Treasury) and preparing and 

maintaining financial management and 

accounting documentation related to 

obligations and disbursements of funds, 

(including providing notifications to the 

Department of the Treasury) related to 

payments to, or on behalf of, awardees. 

Information transferred to UFMS for 

these purposes is limited to the 

individual’s name, address, SSN and 

other information necessary to identify 

him/her, the funding being sought or 

amount of qualifying educational loans, 

and the program under which the 

awardee is being processed. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

In addition to the disclosures 

authorized by the Privacy Act at 5 

U.S.C. 552a(b)(2) and (b)(4)-(b)(11), 

information about an individual may be 

disclosed from this system of records to 

parties outside HHS, without the 

individual’s prior, written consent, for 

these routine uses: 

1. HHS may disclose to a Member of 

Congress or to a Congressional staff 

member information from the record of 

an individual in response to a written 

inquiry from the Congressional office 

made at the written request of that 

individual. 

2. HHS may disclose information from 

this system of records to the Department 

of Justice (DOJ) or to a court or other 

tribunal when 

a. HHS, or any component thereof, or 

b. Any HHS employee in his or her 

official capacity, or 

c. Any HHS employee in his or her 

individual capacity where the DOJ (or 

HHS, where it is authorized to do so) 

has agreed to represent the employee, or 

d. The United States Government, is 

a party to litigation or has an interest in 

such litigation, and by careful review, 

HHS determines that the records are 

both relevant and necessary to the 

litigation and that, therefore, the use of 

such records by the DOJ, court, or other 

tribunal is deemed by HHS to be 

compatible with the purpose for which 

the records were collected. 

3. In the event that a record on its 

face, or in conjunction with other 

records, indicates a violation or 

potential violation of law, whether civil, 

criminal, or regulatory in nature, and 

whether arising by general statute or 

particular program statute, or by 

regulation, rule or order issued pursuant 

thereto, disclosure may be made to the 

appropriate public authority, whether 

federal, state, local, tribal, or otherwise, 

responsible for enforcing, investigating 

or prosecuting such violation or charged 

with enforcing or implementing the 

statute or rule, regulation or order 

issued pursuant thereto, if the 

information is relevant to the 

enforcement, regulatory, investigative, 

or prosecutorial responsibility of the 

receiving entity. This includes, but is 

not limited to, disciplinary actions by 

state licensing boards against current or 

former Program participants. 

4. HHS may disclose information 

consisting of names, SSN, disciplines 

and/or medical specialties, current 

mailing addresses, dates of scholarship 

support, and dates of graduation of 

NHSC SP, NURSE Corps SP (formerly 

NSP) and NHHSP scholarship recipients 

to: (a) designated coordinators at each 

health professions school participating 

in the scholarship program for the 

purpose of determining educational 

expenses and resulting levels of 

scholarship support, and for the 

purpose of guiding and informing these 

recipients about the nature of their 

service obligation; and (b) schools 

attended by scholarship recipients who 

have taken a leave of absence from 

school, have terminated enrollment or 

been dismissed from school, or are 

repeating coursework, for the purpose of 

determining their academic status and 

whether their scholarship support 

should be suspended or resumed, as 

appropriate. 

5. HHS may disclose information 

consisting of name, address, discipline 

and/or medical specialty, and SSN from 

this system of records to a Program 

participant’s health professions school, 

residency program, or other 

postgraduate training program, for the 

purpose of ascertaining the participant’s 

enrollment status and training 

completion or graduation date. 

6. HHS may disclose records 

consisting of names, disciplines and/or 

medical specialties, current business or 

school mailing addresses, email 

addresses of the Programs’ scholarship 

and loan repayment participants to 

contractors, Ambassadors, Alumni, and 

professional organizations in 

underserved communities for the 

purpose of supporting these clinicians 

in the course of their service obligation 

in a HPSA, school of nursing, or critical 

shortage facility. 

7. HHS or its contractors may disclose 

records consisting of a SEARCH 

participant’s name, mailing address, 

email address, phone number, health 

professions school, residency training 

and specialty to state Primary Care 

Offices (PCOs) and Primary Care 

Associations (PCAs) and site 

representatives for the purpose of 

matching participants to potential 

employment sites. 

8. HHS may disclose records 

consisting of a participant’s name, SSN, 

mailing address, email address, phone 

number, health professions school, 

residency training, specialty, program 

status, award years, service start and 

end dates, and service site address and 

phone number to Department grantees, 

contractors and subcontractors who 

assist with the implementation of the 

above-identified Programs, for the 

purposes of collecting, compiling, 

aggregating, analyzing, or refining 

records in the system, or improving 

Program operations. Grantees and 

contractors maintain, and contractors 

are also required to ensure that 

subcontractors maintain, Privacy Act 

safeguards with respect to such records. 

9. HHS may disclose biographical 

data and information supplied by 

Program applicants or participants: (a) 

To references listed on the application 

and associated forms for the purpose of 

evaluating the applicant’s or 

participant’s professional qualifications, 

experience, and suitability; (b) to a state 

or local government licensing board 

and/or to the Federation of State 

Medical Boards or a similar nongovernment entity for the purpose of 

verifying that all claimed background 

and employment data are valid and all 

claimed credentials are current and in 

good standing; and (c) to prospective, 

current or former employers, or to site 

representatives, PCAs, and PCOs for the 

purpose of appraising the applicant’s 

professional qualifications and 

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suitability for site assignment or 

employment. 

10. HHS may disclose an applicant’s 

or participant’s name, mailing address, 

email address, phone number, SSN, 

health professions school, residency 

training, and specialty to Department 

grantees, site representatives, 

contractors, and subcontractors who 

assist with the implementation of the 

above-identified Programs, for the 

purpose of recruiting, screening, 

evaluating, and matching, placing, or 

assigning health professionals to a 

service site appropriate to the relevant 

Program’s purposes. In addition, 

Department grantees, contractors and 

subcontractors may disclose 

biographical data and information 

supplied by Program applicants, 

participants, or references listed on the 

application and associated forms: (a) To 

other references for the purpose of 

evaluating the applicant’s or 

participant’s professional qualifications, 

experience, and suitability; (b) to a state 

or local government licensing board 

and/or to the Federation of State 

Medical Boards or a similar nongovernment entity for the purpose of 

verifying that all claimed background 

and employment data are valid and all 

claimed credentials are current and in 

good standing; (c) to the System for 

Awards Management (formerly 

Excluded Parties List System) for the 

purpose of determining whether 

applicants or participants are 

suspended, debarred, or disqualified 

from participation in covered 

transactions; (d) to the National 

Practitioner Data Bank for the purpose 

of determining whether applicants or 

participants have information on their 

reports; and (e) to prospective 

employers, or to site representatives, for 

the purpose of appraising the 

applicant’s or participant’s professional 

qualifications and suitability for site 

assignment or employment. Grantees 

and contractors maintain, and 

contractors are also required to ensure 

that subcontractors maintain, Privacy 

Act safeguards with respect to such 

records. 

11. HHS may disclose records 

consisting of name, mailing address, 

email address, phone number, SSN, 

specialty, and requested or actual 

placement site(s) to State Loan 

Repayment Grantees, state PCOs and 

PCAs, and site representatives to 

facilitate PCO, PCA and site activities 

related to recruitment and placement of 

Program participants at service sites. For 

the purpose of monitoring the program 

participant’s compliance with the 

service obligation, including factfinding to calculate service credit, to 

decide transfer requests, or to make 

default determinations, HHS may 

release to the participant’s service site 

other information from the participant’s 

file, including but not limited to, his/her 

allegations concerning conditions at the 

site, disputes with site management, or 

circumstances surrounding his/her 

resignation/termination. 

12. HHS may disclose records to a 

state or local government licensing 

board and/or to the Federation of State 

Medical Boards or a similar nongovernment entity which maintains 

records concerning: (a) An individual’s 

employment history; (b) the issuance, 

retention, suspension, revocation, or 

reinstatement of licenses or registrations 

necessary to practice a health 

professional occupation or specialty; (c) 

disciplinary action against the 

individual or other sanctions imposed 

by a state or local government licensing 

board; or (d) the individual’s attempts to 

pass health professions licensure 

exam(s). This disclosure may include 

the applicant’s or participant’s name, 

address, SSN, employment history, 

educational data, accreditation, 

licensing, and professional qualification 

data, and facts concerning any clinical 

competence, unprofessional behavior, or 

substance abuse problem of which HHS 

is aware. The purposes of this 

disclosure are: (1) To enable HHS to 

obtain information relevant to a 

decision concerning a health 

professional’s accomplishments, 

professional and personal background 

qualifications, experience, and any 

licensure sanctions related to substance 

abuse, to determine the individual’s 

suitability for employment, retention, or 

termination as a health services 

provider at a health care facility 

approved by the relevant Program; and 

(2) to inform health professions 

licensing boards or the appropriate nongovernment entities about the health 

care practices or conduct of a practicing, 

terminated, resigned, or retired health 

services provider whose professional 

conduct so significantly failed to 

conform to generally accepted standards 

of professional practice for health care 

providers as to raise reasonable concern 

for the health and safety of patients. 

13. HHS may disclose information 

consisting of name, address, SSN, health 

professions license number, and place 

of employment from this system of 

records to federal, state, or local health 

agencies and law enforcement regarding 

a program participant who has a 

physical or mental condition that is, or 

has the potential to become, a risk to 

patients or to the public at large, or 

whose aberrant behavior poses such a 

risk (e.g., commission of a sexual 

assault, illegal use or distribution of 

narcotics). 

14. HHS may disclose information 

consisting of name, address, SSN, health 

professions license number, and place 

of employment to a state or local 

government agency, including any agent 

thereof, maintaining criminal, civil, or 

administrative violation records, or 

other pertinent information such as 

records regarding the investigation or 

resolution of allegations involving a 

program participant. The purpose of this 

disclosure is to enable HHS to monitor 

compliance with program requirements 

and make determinations regarding 

administrative actions or other 

remedies, including default 

determinations. 

15. HHS may disclose Ambassador 

information consisting of name, email 

and social network address(es), phone 

number(s), employment information, 

and professional biographies to current 

and prospective participants in BHW 

programs and other interested 

individuals. The purpose of this 

disclosure is to allow these individuals 

to contact Ambassadors who serve as 

mentors and local resources for the 

NHSC programs. 

16. HHS may disclose information 

from this system of records to a 

consumer reporting agency, as defined 

in 31 U.S.C. 3701(a)(3), for the following 

purposes: 

a. To obtain a commercial credit 

report to assess the creditworthiness of 

a scholarship or loan repayment 

applicant; 

b. To verify information provided on 

the scholarship or loan repayment 

application concerning whether the 

applicant has ever defaulted on a federal 

or non-federal obligation, or had 

delinquent federal or non-federal debts 

or judgment liens; 

c. To determine and verify the 

eligibility of loans submitted for 

repayment; 

d. To assess and verify ability of a 

debtor to repay debts owed to the 

federal government; and 

e. To provide an incentive for debtors 

to repay federal debts by making these 

debts part of their credit records. 

Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3711(e)(1)(F), 

the information disclosed to the 

consumer reporting agency is limited to 

(i) information necessary to establish the 

identity of the person, including name, 

address, and taxpayer identification 

number; (ii) the amount, status, and 

history of the claim; and (iii) the agency 

or program under which the claim 

arose. 

17. HHS may disclose information 

about NHSC LRP, S2S, NURSE Corps 

LRP (formerly NELRP), and FLRP 

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applicants or participants to lending 

institutions and loan servicing agencies 

for the purpose of obtaining payoff 

balances on educational loans and 

determining whether loans are eligible 

for repayment under the Program. 

Disclosure will be limited to the 

applicant/participant’s name, address, 

SSN, the loan account number(s), the 

pre-verified loan balance, account 

status, and other information necessary 

to identify the LRP applicant/

participant and his/her loans for this 

purpose. 

18. HHS may disclose information to 

the Department of the Treasury, Internal 

Revenue Service (IRS), about an 

individual applying under the aboveidentified Programs to find out whether 

the applicant has a delinquent tax debt. 

This disclosure is for the sole purpose 

of determining the applicant’s eligibility 

for funding and/or creditworthiness and 

is limited to the individual’s name, 

address, SSN, other information 

necessary to identify him/her, and the 

program for which the information is 

being obtained. 

19. HHS may disclose information 

from this system of records to another 

federal, state, or local agency or private 

employer to whom a Program defaulter 

has applied for federal grant funds, 

federal scholarship, loan, or loan 

repayment funds, or employment 

involving federal funds, for the purpose 

of ensuring that the Program defaulter 

does not receive federal funds for which 

he/she is ineligible. Disclosure will be 

limited to the defaulter’s name, address, 

SSN, inclusion on the Do Not Pay List, 

and any other information necessary to 

identify him/her. 

20. HHS may disclose information 

from this system of records to the DOJ 

and applicable state agencies in order to 

exclude a debtor from all federal health 

care programs, as defined in 42 U.S.C. 

1320a–7b(f), including Medicare and 

Medicaid, or to conclude a settlement 

agreement staying such an exclusion. 

21. HHS may disclose information 

from this system of records to other 

federal, state, and local agencies, and 

public and private entities that provide 

scholarship and/or loan repayment 

funding or include bonus clauses in 

employment contracts, for the following 

purposes: (a) to curtail fraud and abuse 

of federal funds by identifying 

individuals who have applied for, or 

accepted, funding from another source 

for performance of the same service; and 

(b) to determine if an applicant has an 

existing service obligation to another 

federal, state, local, or other entity. 

22. HHS may disclose to federal, state, 

and local agencies, and public and 

private non-profit entities for research 

purposes, the name, address(es), SSN, 

discipline and service sites of applicants 

and participants in the above-identified 

Programs when the Department: 

i. has determined that the use or 

disclosure does not violate legal or 

policy limitations under which the 

record was provided, collected, or 

obtained; 

ii. has determined that a bona fide 

research/analysis purpose exists; 

iii. has required the recipient to: 

• establish strict limitations 

concerning the receipt and use of 

applicant- and participant-identified 

data; 

• establish reasonable administrative, 

technical, and physical safeguards to 

protect the confidentiality of the data 

and to prevent the unauthorized use or 

disclosure of the record; 

• remove, destroy, or return the 

information that identifies the applicant 

or participant at the earliest time at 

which removal or destruction can be 

accomplished consistent with the 

purpose of the research project, unless 

the recipient has presented adequate 

justification of a research nature for 

retaining such information; and 

• make no further use or disclosure of 

the record except as authorized by HHS 

or when required by law; and 

iv. has secured a written statement 

attesting to the recipient’s 

understanding of, and willingness to 

abide by these provisions. 

23. Disclosure may be made in 

response to a subpoena from another 

federal agency having the power to 

subpoena other agencies’ records, such 

as the IRS or U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights. 

24. Disclosure of information from 

this system of records may be made to 

the HHS/PSC/Federal Occupational 

Health contract physicians to review 

and provide a written opinion of the 

medical documentation submitted by 

scholarship and loan repayment 

Program participants seeking a 

suspension or waiver of their service or 

payment obligation. 

25. Disclosure to the U.S. Department 

of Homeland Security (DHS) if captured 

in an intrusion detection system used by 

HHS and DHS pursuant to a DHS 

cybersecurity program that monitors 

Internet traffic to and from federal 

government computer networks to 

prevent a variety of types of 

cybersecurity incidents. 

26. HHS may disclose records to 

appropriate federal agencies and 

Department contractors that have a need 

to know the information for the purpose 

of assisting the Department’s efforts to 

respond to a suspected or confirmed 

breach of the security or confidentiality 

of information maintained in this 

system of records, when the information 

disclosed is relevant and necessary for 

that assistance. 

Because, as described in the Purposes 

section, certain information from this 

system of records is transferred to HHS’ 

financial and debt management systems, 

those systems’ SORNs should be 

consulted for additional routine use 

disclosures that may be made without 

the individual’s consent. See Unified 

Financial Management System, System 

No. 09–90–0024, and Debt Management 

and Collection System, System No. 09– 

40–0012. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM— 

STORAGE: 

Records are maintained in electronic 

database servers and backup servers, file 

folders, and for NHHSP records, backup 

tapes. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Records are retrieved by an 

individual’s name, Social Security 

number, or other identifying numbers or 

characteristics. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

a. Authorized Users: Passwordprotected access is limited to persons 

authorized and needing to use the 

electronic records, which includes 

system managers and their staff, BHW 

headquarter officials and staff, HRSA 

Division of Regional Operations staff, 

financial and fiscal management 

personnel, Office of the General 

Counsel, Office of Information 

Technology personnel, and at Papa Ola 

Lokahi (POL), an entity which 

collaborates with HRSA/BHW in the 

administration of the Native Hawaiian 

Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP) 

through a Cooperative Agreement to 

assist with the implementation of the 

NHHSP. POL is physically located at 

894 Queen St., Honolulu, HI 96813. 

b. Additional Authorized Users: 

Password-protected access is also 

provided to applicants, participants, 

and service sites for the purpose of 

inputting data, uploading documents, or 

submitting queries through BMISS. 

c. Physical Safeguards: Rooms where 

records are located are locked when not 

in use. During regular business hours, 

rooms are unlocked but are controlled 

by on-site personnel. Security guards 

perform random checks on the physical 

security of the offices (storage locations) 

after duty hours, including weekends 

and holidays. 

Servers and other computer 

equipment used to process identifiable 

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data are located in secured areas and 

use physical access devices (e.g., keys, 

locks, combinations, card readers) and/ 

or security guards to control entries into 

the facility. All facilities housing HRSA 

information systems maintain fire 

suppression and detection devices/

systems (e.g., sprinkler systems, 

handheld fire extinguishers, fixed fire 

hoses, and or smoke detectors) that can 

be activated in the event of a fire. 

With respect to NHHSP records 

located at Papa Ola Lokahi (POL), an 

entity HRSA/BWH collaborates with to 

administer the NHHSP, the building in 

which POL’s office is located is publicly 

accessible but secured, with limited 

accessibility before and after work 

hours. Security guards visit the building 

at night. NHHSP’s office suite is kept 

locked during work hours and 

individual offices are also locked when 

vacant. Applicant and participant files 

are kept in a locked cabinet in a locked 

office. Access to these files is limited to 

approved staff members, and when the 

area the files are in is not under the 

direct control of NHHSP staff, the office 

and cabinet are kept locked. The file 

server is behind a locked office door in 

a locked server cabinet. Backup tapes 

are stored in a locked, fireproof floor 

safe, and a secure, confidential off-site 

vault. 

Technical safeguards: Encryption, 

intrusion detection and firewalls are 

utilized. Scans are run against the 

BMISS platform for web and 

architecture vulnerabilities. Complex or 

strong passwords are required and are 

changed frequently. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Records are retained and disposed of 

as follows: 

• Files concerning participants who 

complete their obligations or whose 

obligations are waived, cancelled, or 

terminated are transferred to the 

Washington National Records Center in 

Suitland, Maryland and are destroyed 6 

years after final payment, under 

disposition schedule HSA B–351 3. 1. 

• HRSA has digitized and uploaded 

paper files concerning active 

participants in BHW scholarship and 

loan repayment programs into BMISS. 

The paper files are stored at the 

Washington National Records Center 

and are destroyed 15 years after 

closeout, under disposition schedule 

N1–512–92–01, item 25P 1 and 2. 

• Unfunded or withdrawn applicant 

records are destroyed 6 months after the 

close of each fiscal year application 

period, under disposition schedule N1– 

512–92–01, item 25P 1. 

• Currently, all records migrated to 

BMISS or created in BMISS are retained 

indefinitely, pending NARA’s approval 

of a revised schedule. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

The System Manager for the system of 

records is the following PolicyCoordinating Official: 

Director, Division of Policy and 

Shortage Designation, Bureau of Health 

Workforce (BHW), Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA), 5600 

Fishers Lane, Room 11W–42, Rockville, 

MD 20857. 

Points of contact for specific 

programs/activities: 

• NHSC SP and NHSC LRP 

Applications/Awards; Participant 

Placement/Assignment; Ready 

Responders: Director, Division of the 

National Health Service Corps, BHW, 

HRSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 8C–26, 

Rockville, MD 20857. 

• NURSE Corps LRP (formerly 

NELRP), NURSE Corps SP (formerly 

NSP), and FLRP Applications/Awards; 

Participant Placement/Assignment: 

Director, Division of Health Careers and 

Financial Support, BHW, HRSA, 5600 

Fishers Lane, Room 9–105, Rockville, 

MD 20857. 

• NHSC SP, NHSC LRP, S2S, NURSE 

Corps LRP (formerly NELRP), NURSE 

Corps SP (formerly NSP), and FLRP 

Participants’ service from matching 

through service completion: Director, 

Division of Participant Support and 

Compliance, BHW, HRSA, 5600 Fishers 

Lane, Room 15W–50, Rockville, MD 

20857. 

• Suspension/Waiver/Default 

Determination for all BHW Programs: 

Chief, Legal and Compliance Branch, 

BHW, HRSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 

8–73, Rockville, MD 20857. 

• NHHSP: Administrator, Papa Ola 

Lokahi, 894 Queen St., # 706, Honolulu, 

HI 96813. 

• SEARCH and Ambassadors: 

Director, Division of External Affairs, 

BHW, HRSA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 

7–100, Rockville, MD 20857. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

To find out if the system contains 

records about you, contact the PolicyCoordinating Official, Director, Division 

of Policy and Shortage Designation, 

Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW), 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA), 5600 Fishers 

Lane, Room 11W–42, Rockville, MD 

20857 who will refer you to the 

appropriate Point of Contact for the 

program/activity. 

Requests in person: A subject 

individual who appears in person at a 

specific location seeking access to or 

disclosure of records relating to him/her 

shall provide his/her name, current 

address, Social Security Number or 

other identifying information (e.g., date 

of birth), the name of the Program(s) in 

which the individual participated (or 

applied but was not selected), and at 

least one piece of tangible identification, 

such as driver’s license, passport, or 

voter registration card. Identification 

papers with current photographs are 

preferred but not required. (A federallyissued picture ID is required to access 

many federal facilities such as the 

Parklawn Building.) If a subject 

individual has no identification but is 

personally known to an agency 

employee, such employee shall make a 

written record verifying the subject 

individual’s identity. Where the subject 

individual has no identification papers, 

the responsible agency official shall 

require that the subject individual 

certify in writing that he/she is the 

individual who he/she claims to be and 

that he/she understands that the 

knowing and willful request for or 

acquisition of a record concerning an 

individual under false pretenses is a 

criminal offense subject to a $5,000 fine. 

Requests by mail: A written request 

must contain the name and address of 

the requester, Social Security number or 

other identifying information, and his/

her signature which is either notarized 

to verify his/her identity or includes a 

written certification that the requester is 

the person he/she claims to be and that 

he/she understands that the knowing 

and willful request for or acquisition of 

records pertaining to an individual 

under false pretenses is a criminal 

offense subject to a $5,000 fine. In 

addition, the following information is 

needed: the name of the Program(s) in 

which the individual participated (or 

applied but was not selected), and the 

requester’s current status (e.g., in 

training, in deferment, in service, or in 

default). 

Requests by telephone: Because 

positive identification of the caller 

cannot be established, telephone 

requests are not honored. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Same as notification procedure. 

Requesters may also ask for an 

accounting of disclosures that have been 

made of their records, if any. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

Same as notification procedure. 

Contact the Policy-Coordinating 

Official; specify the information being 

contested, the corrective action sought, 

and the reasons for requesting the 

correction, along with supporting 

information to show how the record is 

inaccurate, incomplete, untimely, or 

irrelevant. 

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RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Records are obtained directly from the 

subject individuals, or from the 

following sources: educational 

institutions; internship and/or residency 

training programs; employers; NHSCapproved service sites; critical shortage 

facilities; schools of nursing; lending 

institutions and loan servicing agencies; 

health professional associations; 

National Practitioner Data Bank; System 

for Awards Management (formerly 

Excluded Parties List System); HHS 

Office of Inspector General Web site 

listing of individuals excluded from 

Medicare, Medicaid, and all other 

federal health care programs; HHS 

database of Health Professional Shortage 

Areas; HHS grantees and contractors/

subcontractors; consumer reporting 

agencies/credit bureaus; other federal 

agencies, including but not limited to 

the Department of the Treasury, IRS, 

and the U.S. Postal Service; state health 

professions licensing boards and/or the 

Federation of State Medical Boards or a 

similar non-government entity; and 

third parties who provide references or 

other information concerning the 

subject individual. 

SYSTEM EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS

OF THE ACT: 

None. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Findings of Research Misconduct 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) 

has taken final action in the following 

case: 

Teresita L. Briones, Ph.D., Wayne 

State University: Based on the report of 

an inquiry conducted by Wayne State 

University (WSU) and additional 

analysis conducted by ORI in its 

oversight review, ORI found that Dr. 

Teresita L. Briones, former Associate 

Professor, College of Nursing, WSU, 

engaged in research misconduct in 

research supported by National Institute 

of Nursing Research (NINR), National 

Institutes of Health (NIH), grants P30 

NR009014, R01 NR005260, and R01 

NR007666. 

ORI found that Respondent 

intentionally, knowingly, and recklessly 

engaged in research misconduct by 

falsifying and/or fabricating data that 

were included in five (5) publications 

and three (3) grant applications 

submitted to NINR, NIH: 

Behavioural Brain Research 279:112–22, 

2015 Feb 15 (hereafter referred to as 

‘‘BBR 2015’’) 

• Journal of Neuroinflammation 11:13, 

2014 Jan 22 (hereafter referred to as 

‘‘JNI 2014’’) 

• Journal of Neurotrauma 26(4):613–25, 

2009 Apr (hereafter referred to as 

‘‘JNT 2009’’) 

• Journal of Neurotrauma 28(12):2485– 

92, 2011 Dec (hereafter referred to as 

‘‘JNT 2011’’) 

• Neuroscience 262:143–55, 2014 Mar 

14 (hereafter referred to as ‘‘NS 2014’’) 

• R01 NR011167–01 

• R01 NR011167–01A1 

• R01 NR 011167–01A2 

ORI found that Respondent falsified 

and/or fabricated data by falsely 

reporting the results of Western blot 

experiments that examined 

neuroinflammation, amyloidogenesis, 

and/or cognitive impairment in a rat 

model of cerebral ischemia. Specifically, 

Respondent duplicated, reused, and 

falsely relabeled Western blot gel images 

and claimed they represented different 

experiments in: 

• BBR 2015, Figures 2E and 5D 

• JNI 2014, Figures 2A and 2C 

• JNT 2009, Figures 2B and 5 

• JNT 2011, Figure 2 

• NS 2014, Figure 4 

• R01 NR011167–01, Figures 5 and 6 

• R01 NR011167–01A1, Figures 4A and 

4B 

• R01 NR011167–01A2, Figures 4A and 

4B 

As a result of this Agreement, 

Respondent will request that the 

following publications be retracted: BBR 

2015, JNI 2014, JNT 2009, JNT 2011, and 

NS 2014. 

Dr. Briones has entered into a 

Voluntary Exclusion Agreement 

(Agreement) and has voluntarily agreed 

for a period of three (3) years, beginning 

on March 12, 2015: 

(1) to exclude herself from any 

contracting or subcontracting with any 

agency of the United States Government 

and from eligibility for or involvement 

in nonprocurement programs of the 

United States Government referred to as 

‘‘covered transactions’’ pursuant to 

HHS’ Implementation (2 CFR part 376 et 

seq) of OMB Guidelines to Agencies on 

Governmentwide Debarment and 

Suspension, 2 CFR part 180 (collectively 

the ‘‘Debarment Regulations’’); 

(2) to exclude herself voluntarily from 

serving in any advisory capacity to the 

U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) 

including, but not limited to, service on 

any PHS advisory committee, board, 

and/or peer review committee, or as a 

consultant; and 

(3) to request that the following 

publications be retracted: BBR 2015, JNI 

2014, JNT 2009, JNT 2011, and NS 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Acting Director, Office of Research 

Integrity, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 

750, Rockville, MD 20852, (240) 453– 

8200. 

Donald Wright, 

Acting Director, Office of Research Integrity. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Findings of Research Misconduct 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) 

has taken final action in the following 

case: 

Ryousuke Fujita, Ph.D., Columbia 

University: Based on the report of an 

investigation conducted by Columbia 

University (CU) and additional analysis 

conducted by ORI in its oversight 

review, ORI found that Dr. Ryousuke 

Fujita, former Postdoctoral Scientist, 

Taub Institute for the Aging Brain, 

Departments of Pathology and Cell 

Biology and Neurology, CU Medical 

Center, engaged in research misconduct 

in research supported by National 

Institute of Neurological Disorders and 

Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of 

Health (NIH), grant R01 NS064433 and 

National Institute of Aging (NIA), NIH, 

grant R01 AG042317. 

ORI found that Respondent engaged 

in research misconduct by falsifying and 

fabricating data for specific protein 

expressions in human-induced neuronal 

(hiN) cells derived skin fibroblasts of 

Alzheimer’s disease patients and 

unaffected individuals in seventy-four 

(74) panels included in figures in the 

following two (2) publications and one 

(1) unpublished manuscript: 

• Cell 146:359–371, 2011 (hereafter 

referred to as ‘‘Cell 2011’’). 

• Nature 500:45–53, 2013 (hereafter 

referred to as ‘‘Nature 2013’’). 

• ‘‘Human induced neuron models of 

APOE4-associated Alzheimer’s disease 

display altered APP endocytosis and 

processing.’’ Unpublished manuscript. 

ORI found that Respondent engaged 

in research misconduct by knowingly 

and intentionally fabricating and 

falsifying research in seventy-four (74) 

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