role contact person role A role inhering in a person who is a designated contact for some other agent. J. Neil Otte The subclasses of 'contact person role' distinguish two types: a contact person who has been designated by an organization for others (primarily patients and human research subjects in clinical settings) to contact, and a contact person whom an agent has specified for an organization to contact in the event that the organization needs to contact the patient. Examples of the latter include 'emergency contact' persons, who are frequently specified in a form.