Medical Research on the Internet/Expert Profile

Expertise

My over 20 years experience enables me to answer questions relating to Research Consent in Medical Research. Subject's rights are not discussed enough and it is an area the general public is not aware of in that great effort and many FDA and institutional guidelines and rules carry the ethics in which research is guiding the individuals experience in research.

Experience in the area

Varied experience (Institutional Review Board Administrator and Board Participant, Research Monitor, Research Coordinator, Clinical Trial Data Manager, Research Interviewer) in many forms of research; cancer clinical trials; Alzheimers Disease; psychiatric adolescent research and epidemiology (colon and lung cancer). I have created protocols and carried them out in the field, the hospital setting and on the phone and in the field as an interviewer. I have been an administrator in three NYC Institutional Review Boards, reviewing protocols with knoweledge of the FDA research regulations. Also, I have been on the Institutional Review Board of a well known university hospital here in NYC. Most recently, created a Standard of Practice for a Department of Orthopaedics here in NYC as a Department Research Coordinator.

Organizations

ACRP; Association of Clinical Research Professionals

Education/Credentials

BA in Sociology from CUNY. Various certificates including Good Clinical Practices, Alzheimers Cognitive Impairment Scale among others

Past/Present Clients

Columbia Univesity, Mount Sinai Hospital, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

You have rights as a research subject/participant regarding the knowledge of the following: being a volunteer; medical insurance and cost to you; adverse events; who to call in case of an emergency; length of time you will be in the research; what is requested of you when you say "yes" to participating; your privacy and so much more including, what goes on "behind the scenes" for your protection.