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The personnel who operate a biomedical biobank should function as a unit to efficiently manage the numerous types of biospecimens that are to be utilized for both clinical and research purposes. Therefore, new staff must be appropriately trained before becoming fully integrated into the work environment. This chapter focuses on several key aspects to this training that should be completed by all personnel. This first step is an orientation where the new trainee is provided with the priorities and expectations of the biobank. The next and perhaps most important step is training on the various safety precautions. The trainee should learn how to protect patient privacy if human biospecimens are involved. They should gain a basic understanding of different types of biospecimens and their vulnerabilities to suboptimal storage conditions. The trainee must learn the various aspects of the day to day work which encompasses the methods and equipment needed for procuring, labeling, handling, tracking, storing, disbursing, and shipping biospecimens. They should become familiar with aspects of quality assurance.
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This work was supported in part by NIH:NCI P50-CA211015, NIH:NIMH U24 MH100929, the Art of the Brain Foundation, and the Henry E. Singleton Brain Cancer Research Program.
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Williams, R.R., Gupta, D., Yong, W.H. (2019). Orientation and Training of New Biobank Personnel. In: Yong, W. (eds) Biobanking. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1897. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8935-5_6
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