Madigan Army Medical Center is the tertiary referral center for the Western Regional Medical Command of the United States Army. Department of Defense beneficiaries from a six-state area are eligible for both primary and referral medical care. Madigan Army Medical Center is a teaching hospital, with over 200 physicians and nurses in training. Madigan Army Medical Center has or is currently performing research across the whole spectrum of clinical trials, from phase I to phase IV.

Madigan Army Medical Center has been involved with medical research as part of its core mission since its inception. Currently, there are approximately 200 active clinical trials. Essentially all areas for medical practice are eligible for research at MAMC. This includes basic science research, with a dedicated lab staff and a separate animal research facility. MAMC has a Department of Clinical Investigations, which is dedicated to writing, performing, and regulating clinical research. MAMC has its own institutional review board.

As a federal government agency, MAMC cannot accept compensation directly from sponsors. CRDAs have been executed with the assistance of the Henry Jackson Foundation and the Geneva Foundation.

Madigan Army Medical Center is both an inpatient and outpatient facility:

There are approximately 126 inpatient visits per day, with a bed capacity of 172.

There are approximately 800,000 outpatient clinic visits per year, and over 60,000 patients enrolled in the primary care clinics.

Dr. David E. McCune is the Chief of the Clinical Studies Service and the Director of Clinical Trials for Madigan Army Medical Center. Dr. McCune has experience with investigator-initiated, cooperative group, and pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trials. He has been the site PI for over 100 clinical trials since he arrived at Madigan. Dr. McCune is board certified in Internal Medicine, Oncology, and Hematology. He will be either the principle investigator or sub-investigator for new pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trials. His responsibility within the Department of Clinical Investigations is to recruit suitable clinical trials to MAMC and to find the appropriate MAMC staff (from a total of over 1000 physicians, nurses, and LPNs) to act as the PI at the site.

Other key staff include:

Ms. Carol Dean
Head Research Nurse
10 years experience coordinating clinical trials
OCN certified

Ms. Nancy Finney
Regulatory Manager
Henry Jackson Foundation

Madigan Army Medical Center is the referral center for the army's Western Regional Medical Command. Over 300,000 patients from the surrounding six-state area are eligible for care at MAMC. In the 40-mile cachement area, over 120,000 active duty, dependent, and retired patients are eligible for care at MAMC.

Like the army from which it is drawn, the MAMC beneficiary population is ethnically diverse. African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic service members and their dependents receive their medical care here.

Madigan Army Medical Center has its own IRB, and is not eligible for using centralized IRBs.

For more information, please contact:

David E. McCune, M.D.
Director of Clinical Trials
Madigan Army Medical Center
9040 Fitzsimmons, ATTN: MCHJ-MHO
Tacoma, WA 98431 USA
Phone: 253-968-2505
Fax: 253-968-1136
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Last updated on February 19, 2008

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