{"id":61450,"date":"2026-01-12T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/research\/?page_id=61450"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:46:03","slug":"assistant-vice-provost-for-animal-care-sally-thompson-iritani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/research\/or\/associate-vice-provosts\/assistant-vice-provost-for-animal-care-sally-thompson-iritani\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Vice Provost for Animal Care \u2013 Sally Thompson-Iritani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"info-box info-box-large\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2344 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sally-Thompson-Iritani-headshot-small.png\" alt=\"Sally Thompson Iritanis profile picture\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Sally Thompson-Iritani<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Assistant Vice Provost for Animal Care<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:sti2@uw.edu\">sti2@uw.edu<\/a><br \/>\nGerberding Hall G80<br \/>\nBox 351202<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sally Thompson Iritani, DVM, PhD, is Assistant Vice Provost for Animal Care, Outreach, and the 3Rs in the Office of Research. She serves as the Institutional Official for the University\u2019s animal care and use program and provides direct oversight of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.uw.edu\/oawrss\/\">Office of Animal Welfare<\/a>, the Attending Veterinarian function, and the Center for Laboratory Animal Resources. She also provides joint infrastructure oversight of the Department of Comparative Medicine and the Washington National Biomedical Research Center, working collaboratively to support scientific excellence, animal welfare, and regulatory compliance across the University\u2019s research enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Thompson Iritani provides strategic leadership to advance ethical, rigorous, and innovative research practices. Her work emphasizes the integration of the 3Rs, Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement, Novel Alternative Methodologies, and emerging technologies to strengthen rigor, reproducibility, and translational impact. She leads institution wide initiatives that promote a culture of care, openness in science related to the use of animals in research, and the incorporation and applicability of the 3Rs and NAMs.<\/p>\n<p>A nationally recognized leader, Dr Thompson Iritani represents the University of Washington in national and international advisory and leadership roles and is a frequent invited speaker on research integrity, animal welfare, workforce resilience, and openness in science.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sally Thompson-Iritani Assistant Vice Provost for Animal Care sti2@uw.edu Gerberding Hall G80 Box 351202 &nbsp; Sally Thompson Iritani, DVM, PhD, is Assistant Vice Provost for Animal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"parent":1689,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-builder-units-small-hero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61450","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Assistant Vice Provost for Animal Care \u2013 Sally Thompson-Iritani - UW Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/research\/or\/associate-vice-provosts\/assistant-vice-provost-for-animal-care-sally-thompson-iritani\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Assistant Vice Provost for Animal Care \u2013 Sally Thompson-Iritani - UW Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sally Thompson-Iritani Assistant Vice Provost for Animal Care sti2@uw.edu Gerberding Hall G80 Box 351202 &nbsp; 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