Primary Physicians Research (PPR) is an established full service clinical research trial management organization focusing on outpatient Phase II-III & IV clinical trials. The company was founded in 1980 by Mark M. Blatter, MD and Keith S. Reisinger, MD, MPH and was formerly known as Pittsburgh Pediatric Research. PPR currently has over 100 community based physician investigators in more than 25 sites. We have long-standing relationships with industry sponsors that include many of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. PPR maintains complete administrative functions, provides all necessary protocol and regulatory functions, data management, total quality assurance and site management / training within its central corporate office. To date, PPR has participated in over 300 clinical trials with an average of 100 to 700 enrollees each.

We deliver Proof Positive Research:

• Over 25 Years of Research Experience
• Rapid Patient Enrollment
• Enhanced Site Performance
• Total Quality Assurance
• High Quality Experienced Principal Investigators
• Large Experienced Staff Dedicated Exclusively to Clinical Research
• More Than 100 Board Certified Community Based Physician Investigators
• Database of over 250,000
• A Proven Track Record in Pediatric and Adult Research

PPR has over 25 years experience in clinical trials. We have conducted research in the following therapeutic areas:

Vaccines: Varicella, DTaP, HIB, eIPV, MMR, MMRV, Rotavirus, Herpes, Pneumococcal, Meningococcal, Parainfluenza, Lyme Disease, Influenza (injectable and intranasal), Hepatitis A, B, AB, Combinations.

Anti-infectives: Pharyngitis, Sinusitis, Acute Bronchitis, Chronic Bronchitis, E-Coli, Pneumonia, Otitis Media with Tympanocentesis, Otitis Media without Tympanocentisis.

Nutritional: Infant Formula (nucleotides; iron content; fat content, carbohydrate content; etc.)

Therapies: Herpes Simplex, Diabetes, Stress Incontinence, Osteoporosis, Antipyretics, Influenza, Anti-virals, ADHA, Migraine (oral / intranasal), Hypertension, Hypercholesterol (Lipids), Diabetes, Asthma, Oncology, Topical Ophthalmologics, Topical Otologicals, Pharmacokinetics

PPR has worked with the following companies:

• Abbot Laboratories
• Alcon
• Aventis
• Aviron
• Chiron Biocine
• Gilead
• Glaxo Wellcome
• Lilly Research Laboratories
• Mead Johnson
• MedImmune
• Merck Research Laboratories
• North American Vaccine
• Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical
• Pasteur Merieux Connaught
• Pfizer Inc.
• Ross Products Division
• Smith Kline Beecham
• TAP Holdings
• Viropharma
• VRI
• Whitehall Robbins
• Wyeth-Lederle
• Multiple CROs

PPR’s corporate location is easily reached by car and within a 20-minute drive from the Pittsburgh International Airport. The corporate office houses a centralized information system and database as well as the business and trial management staff. This includes our Medical Directors, Clinical Trial Directors, Management Services, Contracting Managers, Project Managers, Quality Assurance, Regulatory, Human Resources, Data Assistants, Lead Coordinators, and an onsite Clinic. Sponsor monitors are provided with a central data source and have access at the corporate office to the lead trial coordinators for over 25 community-based sites.

Medical Directors/Principal Investigators Keith S. Reisinger, MD, MPH and Mark M. Blatter, MD have been in research for 25 years. PPR also has over 100 Board Certified Physician Investigators at community based sites with specialties in Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Allergy/ Immunology, Endocrinology, and Oncology.

PPR normally manages 15 to 20 studies concurrently with each community based investigative site participating consistently in four or more studies at a time. This gives our investigators, many who have been with PPR for ten or more years, extensive and consistent clinical research experience.

Clinical Trial Directors Lynn Regina, RN, CCRC and Carol Miller, LPN, CCRC have 15 and 18 years experience respectively in clinical trial research. Department Supervisors including Quality Assurance, Site Management, Project Management, Lead Coordinators and Data Assistants average 3 to 10 years experience in research.

PPR manages over 45 employees including over 20 site nurses, 6 fulltime central coordinators and 5 on site coordinators, 10 data assistants, internal quality assurance department, and administrative staff exclusively dedicated to research. Our Directors and clinical staff are actively involved at both the Board and membership level with the local and national ACRP.

Patients are drawn from the metropolitan Pittsburgh and Tri-State area of approximately 3.5 million. Our community based physician sites enable us to utilize large populations of subjects that have established patient physician relationships. This provides non-transitory quality subject populations from diverse demographic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Of particular interest to many of our sponsors is our large database of pediatric subjects, many of whom are now participating in follow-up studies as adolescents or adults.

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

• A Study for an Investigational Comination Vaccine for Healthy Infants
• Adolescents wanted to participate in a clinical trial of an investigational vaccine
• Adult Pneumococcal Clinical Research Trial
• Ask your doctor about a clinical trial for a new investigational oral vaccine that may protect your baby against rotavirus.
• Attention Parents: Your pediatrician is currently conducting a research trial to evaluate investigational combinations of approved childhood vaccines when given together or apart.
• Clinical Research trial of an investigational meningococcal vaccine
• Enroll your baby in our Hepatitis B vaccine study.
• Healthy infants 7-10 days old
• Intermittent and Daily Treatment for Episodic Asthma
• Meningitis Vaccine Research Study for Toddlers
• Meningococcal vaccine study
• Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine 6115A1-004
• Primary Physicians Research (PPR) is currently looking to enroll healthy children between the ages of 4 and 7 years old in a clinical research trial of a meningococcal vaccine.
• Primary Physicians Research conducts a variety of studies concerning women's health issues.
• RSV: An important cause of respiratory tract infections in children
  PIV3: An important cause of croup. Also contributes to other infections of the respiratory tract
• Vaccine Research Needs Your Help
• Women wanted to participate in a clinical trial

For more information, please contact:

Lynn Regina, RN, CCRC, Carol Miller, LPN, CCRC, Directors, Clinical Research or
Lori Tobasco, Business Management
Primary Physicians Research
1580 McLaughlin Run Rd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15241 USA
Phone: 412-257-4461 / 1-800-839-8774
Fax: 412-221-4831
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Last updated on June 20, 2008