Research Center Profile:
Clinical Physiology Associates
Dermatology
Devices
Endocrinology
Family Medicine
Gastroenterology
Healthy Volunteers
Infections and Infectious Diseases
Internal Medicine
Neurology
Nutrition and Weight Loss
Obstetrics/Gynecology (Women’s Health)
Oncology
Rheumatology
Sleep
Urology
Vaccines
Clinical Physiology Associates, a multispecialty research group,
has been conducting clinical trials for the pharmaceutical and
medical device industries for 29+ years. The use of central IRBs
and laboratories are preferred. Turn around time for regulatory
documents is less than 3 days.
Number of Studies Conducted:
525 Regulatory Submission Turn-Around Time:
3 Business Day(s) Average Percent of ‘Completed’ Studies that met Enrollment Goals:
85% EDC Capabilities:
Yes
CPA Studies by discipline
Numbers within ( ) refer to the number of different medicines
studied. Some medicines were studied in more than one protocol
Pharmaceutical Companies worked with:
Contract Research Organizations Worked With:
1978-Present
Barton & Polanski
Besselaar Associates
BioCLin
BioDecision Laboratories
BioPharm Clinical Services
Clinical Research Consultants
Clinical Research Group
Clinical Research Institute
Clinimetrics
Clinical Trial Management Services, Inc.
ClinTrials
Constella
Coromed
Covalent Research Alliance
Covance
Drug Research and Analysis Corporation
Health Decisions
i3 Research
IBRD
ICON Clinical Research
INC Research
Ingenix
Institute of Clinical Pharmacology
MDA Pharma
MDS Pharma Services
Medex
Medical and Technical Research Associates
Metropolitan Research Associates
Minnesota Clinical Study Center
Omnicare
Oxford Research International
PACT
Paragon Biomedical
Parexel
Pharmaco
Pharmaceutical Product Development
Pharmaceutical Resource Corp.
PharmaKinetics Laboratories, Inc.
PharmaNet
Phoenix International
PPD Development
PPD Pharmaco
Quintiles
Radiant Development
Resource Solutions
Scirex
Examination rooms (4)
Laboratory work areas (2)
Conference rooms [monitor work areas] (3)
Double locked limited access drug storage room with
Shelves
Counter tops
Refrigerator/ freezer
Steel locked controlled substance cabinet
Physician dictation area with X-ray view box
Computer room (on line data entry)
Coordinators’ offices (5)
Administrative offices (3)
Spacious waiting room
Rest rooms (3)
SPECIALIZED SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT
Urology
Dantec Urodyn 1000 urine flowmeter (2)
Diagnostics Ultrasound Bladder Scan (2)
Rigiscan Plus (with computer interface)
Infusion Equipment (IMED Gemini PC-1) (2)
Cardiovascular
Parks Penilab V (non- invasive vascular lab)
Parks hand-held transcutaneous Doppler flowmeter
Parks photoplethysmograph and miscellaneous instruments to
perform non-invasive assessments of the peripheral and penile
circulations
Hokanson automatic cuff inflator
Nihon Kohden Cardiofax V [12 lead EKG] (2)
Novametrix transcutaneous oxygen monitor (2 channel)
Omron digital blood pressure monitor (3)
Quinton Exerdop™
Anthropometry
Gynecology
Vabra endometrial biopsy aspirator & related
instruments
Pulmonary
KoKo Spirometer with computer interface
Laboratory (dry ice is available daily)
Refrigerator/ freezer -20 degrees Celsius (various)
Clinical centrifuges
Refrigerated centrifuge (Jouan CR412)
Test tube shaker
Leitz binocular optical microscope
Temp-Blok module heater
Corning Biotrack 516
Photographic
Computers & Related Items
DSL line (all coordinators have internet access)
intra- office network
Computers: Dell
Facsimiles
Xerox WorkStation 390
Sharp FO-4500
HP 1010
Copy machines
Minolta DiALTA with sorter
Demographics of the area (July 2009 University of Florida BEBR)
Population estimate: 625,124
Persons 65+ years of age: 150,029
Females 18+ years of age: 255,050
Study Center Database: 7008
# female patients 4,563
# male patients 2,361
# of persons 65+ years of age: 2,245
# of male patients 65+ years of age: 1029
# of female patients +65 years of age: 1,197
Ronica Kluge, MD.
Board Certified Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases
B. Koneru, MD.
Board Certified Internal Medicine & Oncology
Douglas Newland, MD. Certified Neurology
Mary Yankaskas, MD.
Board Certified Obstetrics & Gynecology
Kevin M. Fleishman, MD.
Board Certified Obstetrics and Gynecology
Adam Heller, MD.
Board Certified Psychiatry & Neurology
Jack Clark, DO
Board Certified Rheumatology
The study center is staffed with full time study coordinators,
coordinators’ assistants and administrative personnel. All
coordinators and their assistants are trained in shipping
infectious & biological substances as per 49 CFR section
172,702 & IATA regulations. All staff members are trained in
basic life support (CPR), HIPAA guidelines for clinical researchers
and the protection of human research subjects.
Institutional Review Boards Utilized
Chesapeake Research Review, Inc.
Coast Institutional Review Board
Copernicus Group
Essex Institutional Review Board
Independent Investigational Review Board, Inc.
Integ Review Ethical Review Board
Institutional Review Board for Clinical Physiology Associates
(disbanded 1993)
Lee Memorial Health System Institutional Review Committee
New England Institutional Review Board
Quorum Review
RCRC Institutional Review Board
Research Consultants Review Committee Institutional Review
Board (RCRC IRB)
Schulman Associates Institutional Review Board
St. Davids Human Research Review Board
Sterling Institutional Review Board
Western Institutional Review Board
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