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Clinical Research Services is a department within St. Alexius Medical Center fully dedicated to providing research support services to physicians within our region and the valued patients they serve. St. Alexius Medical Center is a tertiary care facility affiliated with PrimeCare, a network that includes over 150 physicians both in private and institutional practice. We have been conducting clinical trials for over 25 years. This collaboration between our experienced investigators and highly motivated clinical research team allows us to offer the latest research medicines and treatments to our patients along with the highest quality service to our patients and sponsors.
Our office consists of 5 full-time employees and provides comprehensive research services and personalized care to research patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week (in addition, 9 clinical pharmacists with residency training have extensive experience as study coordinators). Responsibilities of our dedicated staff include placement of studies with appropriate investigators, regulatory and IRB document submission, study tracking, finalizing contracts and budgets, patient recruitment, providing study coordination and completing case report forms.
Careful precautions are taken to ensure the protection of our
study participant’s rights and welfare. Participants are kept
informed throughout the course of their participation in a clinical
trial.
Mission :
Vision:
Clinical Research Services has been involved in clinical research since 1987. Our professional staff has over 200 years of combined experience in clinical trials.
Our involvement in inpatient and outpatient phase II-IV clinical and device research studies have contributed substantially to the development of new drugs and treatments for the following conditions:
Angina
Asthma
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Cancer: bladder, breast, colon, lung, melanoma,
Cardiology Device Stents
Chronic pain
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Community acquired pneumonia
Conjuctivitis
Coronary artery disease
Cystic fibrosis
Depression
Diabetes - Adult/Pediatric
Dupuytren’s Contracture
Dyslipidemia
Early stage severe sepsis
Endometriosis
End-stage renal disease
Erosive Esophagitis
Fibromyalgia
Gastroparesis
GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease)
Heartburn
Hormone Replacement Therapy
Hyperlipidemia
Hypertension
Incontinence
Infectious diseases
Influenza
Insomnia
Irritable bowel syndrome
Mennorrhagia
Men's Health
Migraine-- adult and pediatric
Multiple Sclerosis
Myocardial infarction
Spinal cord injury
Neurological Device Studies
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Obesity
Orthopedic Conditions
Osteoarthritis
Osteoporosis
Overactive bladder
Peptic ulcer disease
Post-surgical pain
Prevention post-op ileus
Rheumatoid arthritis
Schizophrenia
Sinusitis
Sleep Apnea
Stress Urinary Incontinence
Stroke
Ulcerative Colitis
Weight Reduction
Women's Health
Our clinical research team is committed to providing:
Rapid study start-up
Pro-active patient enrollment
Clean data submission
Highly experienced principal investigators
Initial training and continuing education for all support personnel
Our reputation for accuracy, timeliness, and dependability stands above the rest as evident by our repeated research endeavors with SPONSORS and CRO’S such as:
Abbott
Acorda® Therapeutics
Adolor ®
Advanced Biologics™, LLC
Aerial BioPharma, LLC
Alba Therapeutics
Alcon®
Allos™ Therapeutics
Amgen
Arena Pharmaceuticals
Ark Therapeutics
Astellas
AstraZeneca
Auxillium
Bayer
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Biogen Idec
BioSante Pharmaceuticals
Boehringer Ingelheim
Bristol-Myers Squibb
CTI®
Celldex Therapeutics
Cempra Pharmaceuticals
Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. (Johnson & Johnson Company)
Cephalon®
Cogentus Pharmaceuticals
Crosstrees Medical, Inc.
CryoLife
Cubist Pharmaceuticals
Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.
Depomed®
DePuy Spine, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson Company)
Euthymics Bioscience, Inc.
Lilly
Endo Pharmaceuticals
ev3®
F. Hoffman-LA Roche LTD
Forest Laboratories, Inc.
Genentech
Gilead
GlaxoSmithKline
Roche USA
I-Flow®
ImClone Systems
Incyte
Janssen® CNS
Javelin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (subsidiary of Hospira Inc.)
Johnson & Johnson
KV Pharmaceutical
KERYX Biopharmaceuticals
Lorex Synthelabo Limited
Luitpold Pharmaceuticals
Merck & Co., Inc.
Microbia
Millennium The Takeda Oncology Company
Neurocrine Biosciences
Novartis
Novo Nordisk®
Nymox
(OSI)™ Pharmaceuticals
Onconova Therapeutics®, Inc.,
Oncothyreon
Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC (subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson)
Pfizer
Possis Medical, Inc. (subsidiary of MEDRAD, Inc.)
Procter & Gamble
Purdue Pharma L.P.
QuatRx
Rib-X Pharmaceuticals
Roche
Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals
sanofi-aventis
Schering -Plough Research Institute (subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc.)
Shire
SkyePharma
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Tioga® Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Tranzyme Pharma
UCB Biosciences, Inc.
University of Minnesota/National
Vical
VIVUS
Xanodyne® Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
CLINICAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS:
AAI Pharma Services
Abt Associates
Averion International Corporation
Aptiv Solutions
Celldex therapeutics
Cardiovascular Clinical Studies, Inc.
Cato Research
Charles River
Chiltern
Clinical Assistance Programs (CAP)
Clinical Research Associates, Inc.
Covance®
Clinical Research Group, Inc.
Clinical Trials Management Services
DP Clinical
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Encorium
Harvard Clinical Research Institute
i3
ICON
INC Research
Jefferson Clinical Trials Group
Medpace
MedSource
Novella Clinical, Inc.
Omnicare®
Paragon® Biomedical
PAREXEL®
PPD®
PRA
Pierrel Research USA
Quintiles®
REGISTRAT-MAPI
Symbios Clinical
Trialynx Inc.
United BioSource Corporation
Clinical Research Services offers a professional atmosphere for
our research patients and monitors. We are also equipped with a
patient waiting room, complete exam rooms, a phlebotomy station
with processing capabilities, and a secured area for
investigational drug storage. We provide a dedicated room for our
monitors complete with phone and computer accessibility. This room
has its own separate access so that our monitors can work even when
our main office is closed. We also provide wireless internet
access.
As a department within St. Alexius Medical Center, a Level II Trauma Center with 308 beds, Clinical Research Services is centered among St. Alexius multi-specialty clinics which include; Neonatology, Nephrology, Pediatric Neurology, Neuro-surgery, Physical Medicine, Rheumatology, Urology, and Heart & Lung clinic.
The medical complex is equipped with CT, PET scan, MRI, Hologic DEXA scanners, a state-of-the-art radiotherapy Cancer Care Center, an accredited sleep laboratory, an outpatient hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis center, and regional laboratory services. It also offers full electrophysiologic and interventional cardiology labs.
Clinical Research Services is also easily accessible by public transportation. We are only 10 minutes from Bismarck International Airport, which is serviced by several major airlines.
Bilal Ahmed, MD
Jeffrey Orchard, MD
Shelly Seifert, MD
Shelley Killen, MD
Steven Scherr, MD
Robert Tanous, DO
Earl Dunnigan, MD
Ralph T. Dunnigan, MD
Syed Hyder, MD
Chatree Wongjirad, MD
John Witt, MD
Jerry Obritsch, MD
Shannon Bradley, MD
Jan Bury, MD
Thomas Hutchens, MD
Rhonda Rae Schafer-McLean, MD
Marissa Ann Wisdom, MD
Carla Zacher, MD
Kathryn Obregon, MD
Siriwan Kriengkrairut, MD
Somsak Kriengkrairut, MD
Monica Paulo, MD
Nowarat Songsiridej, MD
Stan T. Diede, MD
Keith R. Happel, MD
Paul E. Jondahl, MD
Mustafa Kathawala, MD
Julie M. Schwartz, MD
Craig Degree, PhD
Brian J. Hebert, MD
Robert G. Oatfield, MD
Richard Arazi, MD
Vijay Phooshkooru Rao, MD
Jayaram Subbarao Bharadwaj, MD
Nicholas Henry Neumann, MD, MMM, FACP,FCP, CHE
Jeffrey Eugene Hostetter, MD
Michael Ray Brown, MD, PhD, FACS
Michael Booth, MD, PhD
Kevin Robert Dahmen, MD
Steven Douglas Spotts, MD
Troy Darin Pierce, MD, MS
Duncan Blaine Ackerman, MD
Leslie Mark Rainwater, MD, FACS
Eric Belanger, MD
Donald Howard Grenz, MD
John David Botsford, MD
FEK Addo, MD
Supha Kijpttayarit Arthurs, MD
David Harold Larsen, DO
Timothy John Bopp, MD
John Morgan Watkins, MD
Tarek Dufan, MD
Kurt Gerard Datz, DO
Chia (Kelvin) Chun Hsu, MD
Farhan Tariq, MD
Michelle Mjelstad Maier, APRN, BC
Tanya Patzer Guthmiller, FNP
Heather Jacobsen Bauer, RN, FNP
Cammy Schafer Olson, MSN, FNP-C
Carol Koenig Miller, RN, FNP
Dan McPherson, PharmD, BCNSP Area of Expertise: Cardiology/Critical Care/Nutrition
Deb McPherson, PharmD, BCNSP Area of Expertise: Pediatrics/Neonatal Intensive Care/Nutrition
Dawn Mayer, PharmD Area of Expertise: Anticoagulation Services
Joan Johnson, RPh Area of Expertise: Oncology/Hospice
Kenton Omvig, PharmD Area of Expertise: Geriatrics/General Practice
Carrie Sorenson, PharmD Area of Expertise: Surgery/Infectious Disease
Julie Wetzstein, CCRC
Ross Frohlich, CCRC
Nicole Gerjets, Research Assistant
Mindy Sturn, Business Development & Regulatory Specialist
Joan Galbraith, BS, RPh, Pharmacy Quality and Clinical Research Manager
Characteristics of our patients include prominent northern European and Native American populations. We also have the largest per capita diabetes population in the nation. Our service area encompasses central, eastern, and western North Dakota, northern South Dakota, eastern Montana, and western Minnesota. This area is made up of a population of approximately 400,000 individuals.
Clinical Research Services has the option of using our own local Institutional Review Board or a Central IRB for clinical trials.
Our department personnel have experience in using Remote Data
Entry.
If you are interested in contacting this center to discuss placing a clinical
trial there, please complete and send the email form below. A representative from
the research center will then follow up with you.
