Omega Medical Research, founded in 1993, is a nationally recognized clinical research center providing accurate, efficient, and high quality clinical trials services to the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and medical device industries. Omega’s commitment to produce efficient, cost effective quality results has earned Omega the respect of several leading sponsor companies and CROs.

Dedicated to furnishing clients with the absolute highest level of performance, Omega Medical Research services include:

• Organized and efficient document submission process
• Central IRB utilization
• Timely budget preparation and negotiation
• Active patient recruitment.
• Advertising plans for rapid enrollment. Depends on the type of study and often involves television, newspaper, or radio advertisements. A site newsletter, HealthScope, is sent to current and past participants 6 times a year. It offers informative medical articles and features a local Physician in his/her area(s) of expertise
• Impressive retention rates
• Maintenance of a computerized patient tracking system
• Database of 5,000 research subjects
• Extensive remote data entry/internet data entry experience
• Internal Quality Assurance program
• Written Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

Omega has extensive experience with vaccine protocols and has also conducted over 200 Phase II, III, and IV in the multi-therapeutic areas of:

Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery Dermatology Endocrinology Gastroenterology General/Plastic Surgery Hematology/Oncology Infectious Disease Musculoskeletal & Connective Tissue Disorders Neurology Nutrition Orthopedics

Otolaryngology Pain Management Pediatrics Psychiatry Pulmonary/Critical Care Urgent/Emergency Care Urology/Nephrology Vaccines Vascular/Cardiovascular Women’s Health

Omega Medical Research’s office is located in Warwick, RI and is conveniently located approximately 5 miles from the states airport. OMR’s hours of operation are: Monday 8:00am-4:30pm, Tuesday 7:30am-4:30pm, Wednesday 8:30am-6:00pm, Thursday 7:30am-4:30pm, and Friday 8:00am-2:00pm.

OMR has a 4,000 square foot facility with:

• 4 exam rooms
• 1 large Treatment room
• Large Monitor area to host up to 4 monitors, equipped with phones, fax, copier, high speed internet access and modems.
• Conference room
• Kitchen
• Dedicated Drug Storage room with keypad entry, temperature monitored. Access by Research Coordinators only.
• Refrigerator with temperature records
• -70° Celsius freezer with temperature records

Omega Medical Research’s office is also equipped with:

• IV fluids
• Emergency medicines
• Oxygen
• Refrigerator
• -70 ° Celsius freezer
• CLIA certified on-site laboratory
• 2 Centrifuges
• Pharmacy Services (as needed)
• Microscope
• Diagnostic Bladder Ultrasound
• Urodyne 1000 Metronic Uroflow
• Dry Ice
• Exercise Testing
• Treadmill
• Spirometry
• 2 ECG machines

• Large Allergy and Asthma practice located in the same suite as OMR
• Large Cardiology Practice, with echocardiography, cardiac stress testing, Certified vascular laboratory, holter monitoring on site
• Urgent Care Center
• Overnight unit for sleep and kinetics studies
• Pediatrics
• Ophthalmology
• Podiatry
• Physical Therapy
• Urology
• Gastroenterology
• Dentistry
• Local Hospital Laboratory
• Limited Radiology, Full access to Radiology Capabilities off site
• Nutritional/ Weight Loss Center
• Neurology
• Pulmonary Function Tests

Diagnostic/Clinic Equipment

• Freezers (-20° & -70° Celsius)
• Doppler Ultrasound
• Uroflow
• Diagnostic Bladder Ultrasound
• ECG
• Exercise/Treadmill Testing
• Radiography
• Spirometry

• A wide network of Principal and Sub-Investigators all board certified in their respective medical specialty. Several have served as advisors to pharmaceutical companies on protocol development.
• Clinical Research Coordinators, all Registered Nurses
• Operations/Administrative Staff
• Dedicated Regulatory Department
• Business Development Team
• Registered Dietician
• Laboratory Technician

Johnna A. Pezzullo, RN, BSN
President

With over 12 years of clinical research experience, Ms. Pezzullo serves as the Executive Director of Omega Medical Research overseeing the daily operations, and serving as marketing liaison to the community and physicians. Ms. Pezzullo has also served as a member of the Alliance for Multispecialty Research, LLC’s Executive Committee since 1998.

Lynne A. Haughey, RN, MSN, FNP
Vice President

Ms. Haughey is trained as a Certified Family Nurse Practitioner, in both Pediatrics and Adult Primary Care Medicine, and has over 9 years of clinical research experience. She has served as sub-investigator for a wide range of research studies and provides assistance with the daily operations at Omega and oversees the clinical team of Study Coordinators.

David L. Fried, MD
Medical Director and Primary Principal Investigator

Dr. Fried has conducted and supervised over 150 clinical trials and frequently lectures for leading pharmaceutical companies. He is a board certified Internist and a Clinical Assistant Professor in Medicine at Brown University and Adjunct Clinical Professor Pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island.

• Omega’s main office and clinical site is located in Warwick, Rhode Island, conveniently located 5 minutes from the state airport.
• Rhode Island :
  

  Population, 2000	1,048,319
  Persons 65 years old and over, percent, 2000	14.5%
  White persons, percent, 2000	85.0%
  Black or African American persons, percent, 2000	4.5%
  American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2000	0.5%
  Asian persons, percent, 2000	2.3%
  Female persons, percent, 2000	52.0%
  Persons below poverty, percent, 1997 model-based estimate	11.2%

  
  
• As a multi-research organization with extensive physician and institutional alliances, Omega has the ability to recruit and retain a broad range of patients from several geographic areas and always achieves or exceeds patient enrollment requirements.
• Omega maintains a research database of 5000 patients and growing.
• Dr. Fried’s maintains a private practice of approximately 6000 patients.
• Omega’s affiliations with over 30 primary care physicians and over 25 various subspecialty physicians practices provide access to databases of over 200,000 patients along with access to a medical center of over 100 physicians and an urgent care treatment center.

Omega Medical Research is located within a 20-mile radius of Brown University Affiliated Medical Centers, allowing for the opportunity to work closely with these and other leading organizations.

An ongoing and active relationship is also maintained with southern New England’s largest primary care physicians groups. Omega is also affiliated with an active urgent care facility and an overnight stay unit for sleep or kinetics studies.

Omega also has:

• High Speed Internet Connection
• Temperature Recording for Drug Storage room and refrigerator and -70 ° Celsius freezer
• Keypad Entry Study Drug Room
• Long term storage at main site and off-site

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

• A Randomized-Withdrawal Phase III Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of CG5503 Extended-Release (ER) in Subjects with Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN)

For more information, please contact:

Johnna A. Pezzullo, RN, BSN
President
Omega Medical Research
400 Bald Hill Road
Warwick, RI 02886 USA
Phone: 401-739-9350
Fax: 401-739-9351
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Last updated on February 25, 2008

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