Altru Health System Research Center is a department within Altru Health System fully dedicated to providing research support services to physicians and researchers within Altru Health System. Altru Health System is a not-for-profit organization consisting of an acute hospital, rehabilitation center, a large multispeciality clinic, a family medicine clinic and several branch clinics. Altru's Research Center coordinates research studies and clinical trials ranging from general medicine to multiple specialties including diabetes, cardiology, urology, women's health, respiratory disease, pain management, vascular disease, renal or kidney disease, orthopedic conditions and nutrition.

Our office consists of four full-time employees and provides comprehensive research services and personalized care to research patients. 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.

Our Commitment:
The Researchers and Staff conducting research are committed to:

• Adhere to all GCP and ICH guidelines.
• Clean data submission
• Work closely with the principal investigators and other staff to assure that research patients are safe and treated with respect and dignity
• Providing research subjects with complete information (in simple, understandable terms) about the research study before obtaining informed consent.
• Protecting subject's physical, psychological, and economic well being.
• Being fair and impartial in selecting and dealing with research subjects.
• Respecting the rights of research subjects and protecting the confidentiality of information about them.

Altru Health System Research Center was opened in 1993 to provide an opportunity for people in our area to benefit from scientific study.

Our involvement in inpatient and outpatient phase II-IV clinical research studies includes:

Acute bronchitis Angina Benign Prosthetic Hypertrophy Chronic pain Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) Community acquired pneumonia Coronary artery disease Deep vein thrombosis Diabetes Early stage severe sepsis End -stage renal disease Hemodialysis Hyperlipidemia Hypertension Idiopathic membranous glomerulopathy

Infant Nutrition Infectious diseases Influenza Irritable bowel syndrome Myocardial infarction Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Pace maker device Pediatric vaccine Peripheral arterial disease Peritoneal Dialysis Post-surgical pain Pulmonary embolism Sinusitis

Sponsors and CRO's we have worked with in the past or are currently working with now include:

Abbott Laboratories Alexion Amgen, Inc. AstraZeneca Aventis Boehringer Ingelheim Bristol-Myers Squibb Eli Lilly Endo Pharmaceuticals Genetech, Inc GlaxoSmithKline Guidant Inc Merck & Co. NIH

NHLBI Novartis NPS Allelix Corp Organon, Inc Otuska America Pharma Pfizer Proctor & Gamble Purdue-Pharma Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Roche Laboratories Sanofi-Synthelabo Searle & Co. Shire Laboratories, Inc. SmithKline Beecham

Clinical Research Organizations:

Akzo Nobel Bringham & Women Clintrials Covance DCRI ICON Innovex Integrated Research George Washington University

Kendle MTRA Omnicare Paragon Biomedical, Inc. PAREXEL PPD Development PRA International Quintiles Target Research Associates

The Center's location on the main campus of Altru Health System provides easy access not only to patients in the hospital, but also to the clinics where many of the research patients are seen. Space for visiting monitors and sponsor representatives is available within the Research Center offices as well as in other locations on the Altru campus.

The medical complex is equipped with CT, MRI, and DEXA scanners, locked drug and storage facilities with limited access. The 232 licensed bed hospital also houses same day surgery, outpatient hemodialysis, an interventional cardiology lab and a cardiology rehabilitation program. Located within the main clinic is the Diabetes Center, Vascular Center, ENT Center and Bariatric Center.

Emergency medicine, surgical, and critical care expertise earned Altru a Level II Trauma Center designation in 1997 from the American College of Surgeons.

The Rehab center conducts comprehensive rehabilitation services to help patients regain abilities and achieve greater independence.

Located in the center of Grand Forks, the Altru campus is 10 minutes or less away from hotels and restaurants. Serviced by Northwest Airlines, the airport is 20 minutes away.

Abdel Ahmed, MD
Interventional Cardiology/Internal Med

Eric Johnson, MD
Diabetes/Family Med

James Brosseau, MD
Endocrinology/Diabetes/Internal Med

William Zaks, MD
Endocrinology/Diabetes/Internal Med

Joanne Gaul, MD
Family Medicine

Yvonne Gomez, MD
Family Medicine

Joe Walz, MD
Family Medicine

Anthony Chu, MD
Gastroenterology/Internal Medicine

David Antonenko, MD
General/Vascular Surgery, Critical Care/Trauma

Attila Dalmi, MD
Hospitalist/Internal Med

Jon Allen, MD
Internal Medicine

Renee Doll, MD
Internal Med/Pediatrics

James Hargreaves, DO
Infectious Disease

Paul Fleissner, MD
Occupational Medicine

Paul Macleod, MD
Orthopedics/Sports Med/Total Joint Replacement

Glen Yoshida, MD
Otolaryngology/Facial & Reconstructive Surgery

Bernard Hoggarth, MD
Pediatrics

Colleen Swank, MD
Pediatrics

Wayne Breitwieser, MD
Pulmonary Disease/Critical Care/Internal Med

Surinder Grewal, MD
UrgentCare/Family Med

Rolf Paulson, MD
Vascular Disease/Internal Med/Hypertension

Ramon Anel, MD
Nephrology, Critical Care

Guina, Maria, MD
Neurology, Women's Health

Layawen, Aselo, MD
Internal Medicine

Renee Hendrickson, CRC, LPN
4 years experience in clinical research

Dianne Vold, CRC, LPN
7 years experience in clinical research

Brenda Westacott, CRC
5 years experience in clinical research

The patients in research studies conducted at Altru are well known for compliance with protocol requirements and for low drop out rates. The Center has received very high ratings from patients participating in research studies as shown by patient satisfaction surveys.

Altru Health System serves more than 200,000 residents in a 17 county area in northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota.

Altru's Research Center has coordinated and managed over 100 studies since it was formed in 1993.

The Center received the ALLHAT Allstar Award for excellence in conducting the ALLHAT study. The Center was the only recipient of the award from Region 7 and one of only 10 recipients of the award nationwide.

Altru's Research Center also conducted an original research study in conjunction with the North Dakota Department of Health, funded by the Robert Wood foundation. The study examined the physical and mental health effects on the citizens of both Grand Forks, ND and East Grand Forks, MN as a result to the Flood of 1997.

• Altru Health system uses our own IRB.
• Our department personnel have experience in using Remote Data Entry.
• We have a -70° freezer.
• Our site has its own clinical lab.
• We can use a central lab.
• There is an on site pharmacy.

CenterWatch is listing the following trials that are actively recruiting patients at this center.

• Volunteers Needed for a Clinical Research Trial of an Investigational Medication.

For more information, please contact:

Cindy Flath
Research Center Program Coordinator
Altru Health System Research Center
1200 South Columbia Road
Grand Forks, ND 58201 USA
Phone: 701-780-1750
Fax: 701-780-1432
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Last updated on August 21, 2008