Therapeutic Areas

Genetic Disease
Psychiatry/Psychology
Sleep

Center Overview

Dedicated Private Research Facility headed by Susanna Goldstein, MD. She has been conducting clinical trials since 1984.

Our caring staff of investigator, four clinical coordinators and one dedicated regulatory coordinator has extensive experience with a wide range of behavioral and medical disorders.

Our facility is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, easily accessible to more than 10 million people in the New York metropolitan area.

Clinical Research Experience

Over 89 clinical trials have been conducted to date in the areas of:

• Major Depressive Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder
• Geriatric Depression
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Insomnia (adult and elderly)
• Panic Disorder
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Social Anxiety
• Pain
• PMS/PMDD
• Sexual Dysfunction (Female)
• Smoking Cessation
• Schizophrenia
• Genetic immune dysfunction
• Psychometric Validation of FAD Questionnaire

We also have expertise in ADD/ADHD (including adult), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Obesity and Pain.

We have worked with most major pharmaceutical companies and CROs including:

• AstraZeneca
• Bristol Myers
• Cephalon
• Covance
• Eli Lilly
• Forest Research Institute
• GlaxoSmithKline
• ICON
• Merck
• Neurosearch
• Novartis
• Pfizer
• PPD
• Quintiles
• Regeneron
• Repligen
• Sanofi-Aventis
• Sepracor
• Solvay
• TAP
• Takeda
• Wyeth
• Lundbeck
• Otsuka

Facility Description

Medical & Behavioral Health Research has outpatient facilities in a private medical office conveniently located in Manhattan right near Central Park.

We are easily accessible by public transportation. Closest Subway station is on the 1 or 9 lines at 66th and Lincoln Center.

We have ECG machine on site, basic laboratory equipment and licensed phlebotomists on staff.

Investigator Experience

Principal Investigator: Susanna Goldstein, M.D., the founder and medical director of Medical & Behavioral Health Research, P.C., is board-certified in Psychiatry/Neurology and Geriatric Psychiatry in the USA and Israel and is a Certified Clinical Research Investigator by ACRP. As a research fellow at Columbia P&S Psychiatric Institute, she participated in the development and field testing of various psychometric instruments. She is experienced in training psychiatric residents and research staff in the use of structured interviews, and in implementing inter-rater reliability programs in multi-center NIMH-funded research studies. Dr. Goldstein also completed a research fellowship in Biological Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine focusing on the biological factors of the female reproductive life cycle that affect mental health.

She has been conducting clinical trials since 1984, first as a principal investigator in academic settings and then in 1991, she founded MBHR, a private clinical research site. MBHR completed over 89 research studies.

Dr. Goldstein is personally involved with all trials from the first contact with the sponsor until the study ends. Study coordinators are highly trained, meticulous, and personable. She prides herself on both sponsor and patient satisfaction, which has led to a steadily growing number of projects performed at her site and high number of patient referrals.

Staff Expertise

Francis Mas M.D. DFAPA- Sub-Investigator

Frances Lee M.D.- Sub-Investigator

Anisoara Cotarlan, B.Pharm, MS, CCRC– Director of Research

Ioana Petruta CCRC - Regulatory Coordinator

Cristina Pasat-Karasik M.D.- Clinical Research Coordinator

Iuliana Petrescu M.D.– Clinical Research Coordinator

Patrycja Puchala– Research Assistant

Marisol Aviles– Medical Assistant

Joanna Pizzo- Grants Administrator and Office Manager

Denada Ramnishta– Director, Business Development

Vlad Cotarlan,M.D.- Cardiologist Consultant

Dov Goldstein, M.D.- Gynecologist Consultant

Patient Demographics

Patient recruitment is a key component in conducting a clinical trial. Medical and Behavioral Health Research, P.C., takes a "patient friendly" approach to patient accrual, communication to target patients an understanding of their fears, motives, needs and concerns.

Our facility is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, easily accessible to more than 10 million people in the New York metropolitan area. Our potential patient base is therefore enormous, and includes diverse communities of virtually every conceivable ethnic and racial group.

Patient recruitment relies on these primary sources:

• Direct advertising (newspapers, radio, direct mail, Internet, etc.)
• Investigators' private practices
• Physician referral
• Community organizations

In recruiting patients and increasing patient participation, we rely on these effective strategies and tools:

• Carefully developed telephone screening techniques
• Sensitivity toward patient's motivation
• Flexible appointment hours
• Reimbursement for patient travel expenses when needed
• Caring and dedicated personnel

Other Information

MBHR is able to utilize central IRB which gives us the ability to turn around new studies quickly.

All patients are treated with care and consideration. We provide a free follow up program to all patients who complete participation in a study.