Paul Newton is an Oregon attorney with over 20 years of experience in law and litigation, investigation, trials and appeals, regulatory affairs, ethics and compliance, bioethics, institutional review board oversight (IRB), regulatory experience in animal research care and protection (IACUC), intellectual property, and visas.  He has been an attorney since 1989 and first received his professional IRB certificate (CIP) in 2006. He is a certified medical ethicist at Legacy Health, receiving consult requests from Emanuel Medical Center and Unity Center for Behavioral Health.

Since beginning work in the IRB field in 1998, he has served on numerous IRB ethics committees, including Oregon Health Division IRB, Oregon Health Sciences University IRB, Legacy Research Institute IRB, Western IRB, Portland State University IRB, Hummingbird IRB, and IPA IRB.  He has been the Senior Research Regulatory Specialist at Legacy Health since 2014, which entails overseeing IRB, IACUC, IP and Visa programs for Legacy Research Institute.  As a result of reviewing thousands of research proposals and protocols for ethical review, he has taught and trained others on all aspects of research methods and design, protocol writing, ethical issues in research, informed consent, research scandals, and ethical issues in the medical field and biomedical issues in general.