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Volume 7, Issue 5 (Suppl) J Clin Trials, an open access journal
ISSN:2167-0870 Clinical Trials 2017
September 11-13, 2017
September 11-13, 2017 San Antonio, USA
4th International Conference on
Cl inical Tr ial s
Innovations from a family medicine department engaged in clinical trial research
Lindsay Lowe, Shane Gavin, Abuu Diwani, Susan Standridge, Lindsay Shade and Hazel Tapp
Carolinas HealthCare System, USA
C linical trials actively engage participants in their healthcare, exposing them to innovative treatments that may improve
their condition and help others. Effective programs select studies that positively impact their patients’ health. Carolinas
HealthCare System (CHS) is one of the nation’s largest healthcare systems. The CHS Department of Family Medicine Clinical
Trials Division is home to the Mecklenburg Area Partnership for Primary Care Research, a practice-based research network.
The research group is physically collocated within a family medicine residency training program, offering convenient access
to providers and patients within a network of 6 ambulatory primary care practices with 30 faculty physicians, 69 resident
physicians, and 5 advanced care practitioners, caring for 22,000 patients. A unified electronic medical record provides seamless
communication amongst the large multidisciplinary research team and referring providers. Partnerships with the healthcare
system’s advanced analytics and research finance departments support screening and fiscal efforts respectively. Over the past
8 years, the department has generated over 10 million dollars in revenue, brought on 14 clinical trials and enrolled nearly 600
participants. The team has maintained high rates of retention as a result of exceptional participant and teammate satisfaction.
Most clinical studies have been phase 4 trials, funded by federal agencies and pharmaceutical companies, studying diabetes,
hypertension, dementia, chest pain, retinopathy, and gastroesophageal reflux disease. Having varied funding source has
allowed for low turn-over of team members, which maintains continuity for the study participants, and has enabled growth
within the department.
Biography
Lindsay Lowe currently serves as a Research Coordinator for the Department of Family Medicine. She has been with Carolinas HealthCare System for nine years
and spent the last three years working in research on medication and software studies. She has a BS degree in Exercise Science from the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte.
Lindsay Lowe et al., J Clin Trials 2017, 7:5 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-0870-C1-019