Clinical Trials Groups
Clinical Trials Unit
Executive Director: Risa Ramsey, PhD, EMBA, BSN, RN, CCRC
Medical Director: Csaba Kovesdy, MD, FASN
Industry Funded Clinical Research Support. Provides full-study administrative support or a-la-carte services based on investigator needs
- Locations/Facilities: Research space both at UTHSC and Methodist University Hospital; can provide traveling support in MD offices. Investigational product and specimen storage, lab equipment, exam rooms, and investigator/staff touch-down space
- In-house Services: Contract, budget, regulatory, nurse coordinator, data, and invoicing support, clinical trial management system
Office of Preventive Medicine Clinical Research
Medical Director: Karen Johnson, MD, MPH
Director/Manager: Beate Griffin, RN, BSN
Phone: 901.448.8405
Epidemiologic, behavioral, health-services, investigator initiated NIH clinical trials, industry sponsored clinical trials, and translational/ community research. Provides proposal review, space and equipment, and coordinator support
- Locations: Clinical research space at 66 Pauline and in East Memphis (756 Ridge Lake). Exam rooms, procedure rooms, laboratory processing and storage, administrative space, and investigational product storage
- In-house Services: Grant proposals, biostatistics, regulatory, nurse coordinator, database development and data management, subject recruitment, investigator and staff education
Dental Clinical Research Center
Medical Director: Franklin Garcia-Godoy, DMD
Research Coordinator: Colette Stewart, RDH, MSOL
Dental/Oral Clinical Research. Provides coordinator support for dental trials
- Location: College of Dentistry. Dental chairs/units, consultation area, and operative area with radiology capabilities
- In-house Services: Space provision and administrative support
University Clinical Health (UCH) Research Unit
Director: Courtney Love
UTHSC-affiliated practice group conducting their own clinical research. Provides support for research conducted by certain UCH employed clinicians
- Location: 1407 Union Avenue, Suite 700, Memphis, TN 38104
- In-house Services: study support in the outpatient or inpatient setting for their physicians (no dedicated clinical research space)
Clinical Research Center
Medical Director: Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD
Director/Manager: Ruben Cuervo, MD
Patient-oriented publicly funded and/or translational research. Provides proposal review, shared space and equipment, and coordinator support
- Location: Independent research space within Methodist University Hospital. Eight exam rooms, bionutrition lab, exercise physiology room/equipment, DEXA scanner, IP storage, and sample processing laboratory
- In-house Services: Regulatory, nurse coordinator, research nutrition, laboratory testing, invoicing, and clinical trial management system
Pediatric Clinical Research Unit (PCRU)
Medical Director: Dennis Black, MD
Director/Manager: Sheon Lynch
Pediatric clinical research. Provides proposal review and full study administrative support for pediatric trials
- Location: The CFRI (Children’s Foundation Research Institute) Research Tower of LeBonheur Children's Hospital. Exam rooms, laboratory, administrative space, and pharmacy
- In-house Services: Grant preparation and submission, biostatistics, biomedical informatics, budgeting, contracting, regulatory, medical writing, nurse coordination, data management, subject recruitment, phlebotomy services, laboratory testing, invoicing, and clinical trials management system
Nephrology Clinical Outcomes and Clinical Trials Program (COCTP)
Director: Csaba P. Kovesdy, MD
Manager: Junling Lu, MD, CCRP
Clinical epidemiology and outcomes research, and clinical trials in the fields of nephrology, transplantation medicine and general internal medicine. Provides research proposal reviews, apprentice training related to outcome research and clinical trials, study coordination from contract/budget negotiation to patient’s care
- Location: 66 North Pauline, Suite 300 for clinical trials. VA Medical Center G403 for outcome research
- In-house Services: Mentoring or education on establishing a sound research hypothesis and study design. Budget/contract negotiation, regulatory submission, trial coordination, human subject recruitment, data management. Provide training on preparing regulatory submission