UC San Francisco’s chief ethics and compliance officer (CECO), Brian Smith, JD, MBA, will retire August 1 after 11 years of service to the university and health system, including more than seven years in the campus’s top compliance role.

Smith was appointed CECO in October 2019 and had served as interim since 2017. As senior associate vice chancellor for research infrastructure and operations, he serves in the Chancellor’s Cabinet.

As CECO, Smith oversees a broad portfolio that includes research integrity, conflicts of interest, regulatory support, export control and research security, and whistleblower and retaliation complaints. His office also manages internal investigations and helps ensure the university follows federal and state laws, as well as UC policies. 

Smith also oversees key components of UCSF’s research enterprise, including human and animal research oversight, the Laboratory Animal Resource Center, research cores, and environment, health and safety. He also serves as UCSF’s research integrity officer, and as the institutional official for human subjects research and laboratory animal research. 

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