Jessica Fritter

Dr. Jessica Fritter is a clinical assistant professor of practice at The Ohio State University College of Nursing for the Master of Clinical Research and Undergraduate Clinical Trials Sciences Certificate programs where she teaches and creates courses that are fundamental to clinical research education. These include fundamentals of medical product development and regulation, management of clinical and preclinical studies, data management and informatics, project management for healthcare and clinical research, clinical trials from concept to launch and clinical trials data management and monitoring.

Through her years in clinical research, she has overseen very robust and always evolving infrastructures and has managed multimillion-dollar infrastructures and clinical trial budgets along with overseeing a core infrastructure of regulatory affairs, clinical research training, compliance, business operations, clinical trial management systems, feasibility and program management.

Dr. Fritter currently serves as chapter president for the ACRP, Ohio chapter and vice president for the Consortium of Academic Programs in Clinical Research. She has multiple publications around workforce development, diversity and clinical research operations.

Dr. Fritter received her Doctor of Health Science degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School, her master's of applied clinical and preclinical research from The Ohio State University, and her bachelor’s in communication studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is also an Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP)-certified clinical research professional.