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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear Investigators and Research Personnel,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">With the new electronic IRB system, UTSW ETHOS, going live on Monday, December 23, 2024, the Velos eResearch system
will be unavailable from <b><u>5:00 p.m., Friday, December 20, 2024, until 6:00 a.m., Monday, December 23, 2024</u></b><u>.</u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Additional Systems Impacted During Downtime:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.5pt;mso-ligatures:none">EPIC: During the upgrade weekend, research procedures/visits cannot be scheduled for new research participants in EPIC unless they are registered and associated
in Velos <b>by 5:00 p.m., Friday, December 20.</b><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.5pt;mso-ligatures:none">IRB: As the IRB system will also be down during this period, no new studies can be sent from Velos to the IRB system, and no study updates will be received
from the IRB system during the downtime.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For questions, please submit a ticket in
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.5pt;mso-ligatures:none">Office of Clinical Research (OCR)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.5pt;mso-ligatures:none">UT Southwestern Medical Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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