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Center Overview
The Kentucky Medical Research Center is a community-based, independently owned clinical research center with offices in Lexington, Kentucky. We are dedicated to conducting clinical research trials efficiently and at the highest level of quality.
Kentucky Medical Research Center's primary objectives are to:
- Provide optimal patient care and excellent service.
- Maximize the productivity of sponsors by meeting enrollment goals.
- Produce research study reports free of errors.
Kentucky Medical Research Center's recognized and experienced team is committed to providing Phase I, II, III, and IV clinical research studies to the pharmaceutical, nutritional, and medical device industries. To date, Kentucky Regional Medical Center's clinical investigators and consultants have conducted over three hundred national and multinational clinical trials in the therapeutic areas of:
- Allergy/Immunology
- Cardiology
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology/Metabolism
- Gastroenterology
- Infectious Diseases
- Musculoskeletal/Connective Tissue Disorders
- Neurology
- Nutrition/Weight Loss
- Pain Management
- Phase I Pharmacokinetics
- Podiatry
- Pulmonology
- Smoking Cessation
- Urology/Nephrology
- Vaccines
- Vascular/Cardiovascular Disorders
- Womens Health
Kentucky Medical Research Center will:
- complete regulatory packets in a timely manner
- have clean FDA audits
- complete contract/budgetary negotiations within 48 hours of receipt
- strive for frequent high patient enrollment utilizing
- Center Watch
- Website recruitment
- Patient referrals
- Multimedia advertising
- Investigator/physician referrals and databases
- Referrals from occupational medicine and ambulatory care clinics
Facility Description
Kentuck Medical Research Center's clinical facility is a 6000 square foot office adjacent to Lexingtons community and teaching hospitals and medical office buildings. It has:
- state-of-the-art computer network with computerized patient database capability
- experience with remote and internet data entry
- study management and patient tracking system
- quality assurance program
- HIPAA compliance
- patient recruitment utilizing multimedia advertising and public relations to ensure top study enrollments
Diagnostic/Clinic Equipment
- Drug Storage (locked and temperature/humidity monitored)
- Refrigerator
- Centrifuge
- In-house specimen processing
- Locked pharmacy
- Microscope
- Spirometer
- 12 Lead EKG machine
- Biological sample refrigerator/freezers (-20° and -70° Celsius), temperature monitored with locking capabilities
- Lockabale Refigerator for drug storage
- Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
Specialized equipment/procedures such as:
- Dexa Scan with Body Composition Analysis Software
- Radiology
- MRI/CT Scanning
- Echocardiogram
- Stress Treadmill
- Transvaginal Ultrasound
- Prostate Ultrasound
- Mammography
- Sleep Lab
- Endoscopy
- Nuclear Medicine
- Holter Monitoring
- Ambulatory Monitoring
Investigator Experience
Medical Management
John E. Pappas, M.D.Medical Director/Principal Investigator
Dr. Pappas has established a reputation as one of the nations leading clinical researchers. Studies conducted by Dr. Pappas have consistently ranked in the top percentiles concerning evaluable patients. He has conducted and supervised over three hundred clinical trials. He also serves as a lecturer and consultant for numerous pharmaceutical companies. In 1998 and 2006, Dr. Pappas was audited by the FDA. He was found to be adherent to all pertinent regulations, guidelines, and practices concerning his conduct of the clinical investigation under audit.
Doris A. Rapp, Pharm D., PA-C
Dr. Rapp was previously associated with Dr. Pappas in an Internal Medicine Practice where she worked as both a physician assistant and coordinator of clinical research. She has devoted her professional career to academics having been Associate Professor and Director of the University of Kentucky Physician Assistant Program and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Surgical Physician Assistant Program. She is well published on a state, national, and international level in the areas of pharmacy and physician assistant practices. She received the PAAragon Publishing Award in 2005 for her article on Bariatric Surgical Procedures.
Staff Expertise
Board Certified Physicians
M.D. Medical Director/Co-Owner on site
Pharm.D., PA-C/Co-Owner on site
3 Pharmaceutical Science Ph.D. Consultants
2 Staff members with active pharmacy licenses
Information Technology Consultants
Administrative/Operational Staff
Other Information
Kentucky medical Research Center's dedicated staff insures that contracted enrollment is met or exceeded for each study. Recruitment goals are obtained through:
- Referrals from investigator private practices and databases.
- Referrals from occupational medicine and ambulatory care clinics
- Referrals from patients and personal contacts
- Center database
- Website
- Center watch
- Advertising
- Radio
- Television
- Newsletters/Flyers/Posters
Currently Enrolling Trials
CenterWatch is listing the following trials that are actively recruiting patients at this center.
- Are you concerned about your cholesterol?
- Breast Pain Study
- Clinical Trial using a Topical Patch in the Treatment of Pain Associated with Tendonitis or Bursitis of the Shoulder, Elbow, or Knee
- Do you have Insomnia? Efficacy and safety of 2mg/day of M100907 on Sleep Maintenance Insomnia with a sub-study of the effect of M100907 on stable Type II Diabetes Mellitus: a 12-week, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
- Is Diabetes part of your life?
- Over 65 with high cholesterol?
- Researchers want to find out if an ivestigational drug, indacaterol, can help people with COPD (chronic obstructive lung disease).
- Type 2 Diabetes on a stable dose of Metformin?
Contact Information For more information, please contact:
John E. Pappas, M.D.
Director
Kentucky Medical Research Center
354 Waller Avenue, Suite 110
Lexington, KY 40504 USA
Phone: 859-225-5672
Fax: 859-276-1020
E-mail:
If you are interested in contacting this center to discuss placing a clinical trial there, please complete and send the E-mail form below. A representative from the research center will then follow up with you.
