Within the Good Research Practice Research Center, Dr. Littrell consults with research core facilities and individual investigators in establishing best practices that support data quality, transparency and reproducibility. Dr. Littrell’s background includes training as an academic research scientist and quality assurance auditor in laboratory research compliance. In particular, Dr. Littrell has extensive experience identifying facility gaps with respect to federal (FDA) requirements and implementing quality management systems in the university setting. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in the field of neuroscience as well as communications on voluntary quality management application in research. These include a contributing chapter “Costs of Implementing Quality in Research Practice” to the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology¹ – a guide that provides a framework for assessing the costs and benefits to quality inadequacies and quality management, respectively, and highlights both tangible and often overlooked costs and benefits to investing in research quality. Dr. Littrell is a lead instructor for a certificate-granting training program offered routinely by the Center to the research community, which is also available by request. She enjoys weightlifting and bird watching.

¹Littrell OM, et al., Good Research Practice in Non-Clinical Pharmacology and Biomedicine, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology 257,: 399-423. PMID:31541322.