Programs > Clinical Research Center > Services > Services Description
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The CRC nursing units are highly specialized patient care inpatient wards and outpatient units where researchers can learn about and conduct patient and disease-oriented research. In addition, the nursing staff is charged with administering patient care and patient care protocols that apply to the research participants. The nurses are trained to make complex research-related observations, perform precise collections of specimens, as well as data collection and documentation while providing exemplary patient care.
The CRC nurses incorporate the philosophy of translational and clinical research by promoting evidence-based practice through interdisciplinary collaboration amongst researchers, clinicians and nurses. They demonstrate the ability to synthesize and integrate nursing standards and clinical skills in order to achieve research goals.
The CRC nursing units are also research-training sites for nursing students who wish to advance their clinical research nursing knowledge as well as guide improvements in health services and patient care. Nurses learn to develop and design nursing procedures for research protocols in conjunction with clinical staff and researchers. They assume direct and continuing responsibility for the nursing care of research patients and develop analytical skills necessary to successfully identify clinical and research problems.
For additional information on services, or rates for industry-sponsored and intensive studies, please contact:
Hector Vizoso, RN, MSN
Administrative Nurse Manager – SFGH Site
415-206-3317
hvizoso@sfghgcrc.ucsf.edu
The CRC Nutrition Core supports and promotes a wide variety of nutrition research services within the CTSI. Nutrition services are currently available on 12 Moffitt, Mount Zion, the Pediatric CRC, SFGH, and CHORI in Oakland. A staff of research dietitians and dietary assistants provide nutrition services to investigators with CRC approved protocols. We accommodate both inpatients and outpatients and provide the following specific services:
Services are offered on a cost-sharing or cost-recovery basis.
For additional information on services, or rates for industry-sponsored and intensive studies, please contact:
Cewin Chao, MS, RD, MBA
Nutrition Research Manager
415-476-9234
Chaoce@gcrc.ucsf.edu
The CTSI body composition and exercise laboratories provide a wide variety of services for measuring body composition and functional performance outcomes and consulting on use of these measurements in clinical studies. At the Moffitt and SFGH sites, CTSI-supported personnel are available to perform testing. We also offer training to PIs and study coordinators in the performance of some tests.
Assessment of body composition and bone mineral density by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry is available at Moffitt, SFGH, CHORI, Kaiser DOR, and VAMC. Other techniques available on a site-by-site basis include bioelectrical impedance analysis and anthropometry.
The Moffitt CRC has a fully equipped exercise laboratory that is staffed by a full-time ACSM-certified exercise specialist. The laboratory is equipped with a Quinton variable speed/grade treadmill that is interfaced with a 12-lead stress ECG system and a computerized respiratory gas analysis system. Bicycle and upper body ergometers are also available. Muscle function testing can be performed using a computerized Biodex isokinetic muscle testing machine. Other testing services include 6-minute walk test, gait-speed, shuttle walk, and similar tests, which can either be performed by CTSI personnel or study coordinators with training from CTSI personnel. These latter tests require minimal equipment and study coordinators can be trained to perform these tests at any CTSI site. In addition, an Acuson Sequoia C512 ultrasound machine is available for use by investigators who supply their own probe and study personnel.
Indirect calorimetry for measurement of resting and energy expenditure and substrate utilization is available at SFGH, Moffitt, CHORI, and Kaiser DOR.
Other specialized equipment for measurement of body composition, functional performance, and energy expenditure is available on a site-by-site basis.
Services are offered on a cost-sharing or cost-recovery basis.
For further information regarding the exercise lab, or rates for industry-sponsored and intensive studies, please contact:
Kathleen Mulligan, PhD
Director
kmulligan@sfghgcrc.ucsf.edu
The CRC Sample Processing Laboratories perform high quality and consistent specimen processing in support of protocols performed at the various CRC Sites.
The Sample Processing Laboratories provide investigators with skilled and consistent processing of blood, urine and other research samples. These services are customized to the needs of each individual protocol, and include state-of-the-art specimen tracking and inventory.
For additional information on services, or rates for industry-sponsored and intensive studies, please contact:
Elise A. Sambrano, M.A.
Sample Processing Laboratory Director
415-476-2509
sambranoe@gcrc.ucsf.edu
The ICN and Pediatric Heart Center have a large population of potential subjects for clinical research. In addition, an extensive neonatal clinical database, designed specifically to facilitate research, represents more than 30 years of morbidity and mortality data and is available for use by clinical investigators. The CTSI Pediatric Critical Care Clinical Research nurses facilitate research in both of these units by providing support in the following areas:
The Research nurses screen patients, identify potential study subjects, and identify the appropriate project for them to participate in (based on eligibility criteria and the accrual guidelines created by the coordinating committees (see below)).
Both the ICN and Pediatric Heart Center are closed research units. Each unit has its own coordinating committee to provide rapid screens of preliminary potential research proposals from investigators who want to use the ICN or Pediatric Heart Center patient population. The coordinating committees make decisions about the appropriateness of the trial and its feasibility of successful accomplishment. They base their decisions on the current studies being performed in the units, the best use of resources, potential enrollment conflicts with other studies, and the potential for collaborating or bundling studies with other studies. The coordinating committees are responsible for determining how patients enter studies when several studies using the same patient population are ongoing in the unit. The coordinating committees assist investigators in planning and carrying out their studies.
Currently the ICN and Pediatric Heart Center are supporting projects from the following subspecialties: pediatric anesthesia, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, immunology, genetics, GI, neonatology, neurology, nursing, obstetrics, ophthalmology, pediatric surgery, radiology and the Fetal Treatment Center.
If you would like to conduct a research study utilizing ICN or Pediatric Heart Center patients, you will need to follow the following steps:
For additional information on services, or rates for industry-sponsored and intensive studies, please contact:
Nancy Newton, RN
415-476-9823;
NewtonN@peds.ucsf.edu
Ron Clyman, MD
415-
476-4462;
ClymanR@peds.ucsf.edu
Phil Moore, MD
353-4143
Phillip.Moore@ucsf.edu
The CTSI Pediatric Critical Care Clinical Research nurses facilitate the research process through support of multidisciplinary investigators in the conduct of innovative clinical research in the UCSF Neonatal (NICU) and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care (PCICU) Units. Research projects represent pediatric anesthesia, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, immunology, genetics, GI, neonatology, neurology, nursing, obstetrics, ophthalmology, pediatric surgery, radiology and the Fetal Treatment Center. An extensive neonatal clinical database, designed specifically to facilitate research, represents more than 30 years of morbidity and mortality data and is available for use by clinical investigators.
A novel aspect of the critical research nurses’ expertise has been the development of technological systems, such as an MRI neonatal incubator, and procedures to take complex patient monitoring and support systems from the intensive care units to procedural areas within the medical center. These methods are now enabling access to research technologies, such as neuroimaging, which has become a major outcome measure in new research protocols.
Expert research nurses, skilled in the care of critically ill infants, provide support in the following areas:
For further information please contact:
Nancy Newton, RN, MS
newtonn@peds.ucsf.edu
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Dr. Rita Jeremy provides a variety of neuropsychological assessments for children who participate in research under the auspices of the UCSF PCRC as well as Children’s Hospital in Oakland. In addition, she is available to provide consultation on study design and to participate in the dissemination of study findings. The availability of Dr. Jeremy’s expertise allows the careful analysis of neuropsychological primary endpoints for multiple studies unique to a pediatric population and prospective in nature.
Rita Jeremy, PhD
Phone 415-502-5398
Fax 415-502-5401
Email: jeremyr@peds.ucsf.edu