UCLA Medical Center is a world renowned, research intensive academic institution with state-of-the-art facilities to ensure that all clinical trials, no matter how complex, can be conducted with ease. UCLA's Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Public Health cover a comprehensive range of specialty programs. The investigators, research coordinators and administrative staff offer the expertise needed to make clinical trials a success for sponsors and patients.

UCLA Health System’s commitment to patient care, research and education means that our patients benefit from the latest diagnostic and treatment techniques in virtually every area of medicine. UCLA Health System has a staff of over 2000 physicians; more than 200 UCLA physicians are listed among the Best Doctors in America.

UCLA’s reputation as a leading academic research center is unsurpassed, encompassing well over 50 years of experience and thousands of research studies in a wide range of therapeutic areas including the following:

• Anesthesiology/Pain Management
• Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
• Dental/Maxillofacial Surgery
• Dermatology, Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• Geriatrics
• Hematology
• Immunology/Infectious Disease
• Nephrology/Urology
• Neurology
• Nutrition
• Obstetrics/Gynecology
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Pediatrics/Neonatalogy
• Psychiatry
• Pulmonary/Respiratory Diseases
• Radiological Sciences
• Rheumatology
• Surgery/Orthopedic Surgery.

UCLA participates all phases of research, including Phase I, II, III, IV trials as well as outcome and epidemiological research.

UCLA conducts a large number of cancer studies. For information regarding cancer trials at UCLA, please click on the following link: www.cancer.mednet.ucla.edu

For information on clinical trials research in general and non-cancer clinical trials in particular, please click on the following link: www.clinicaltrials.ucla.edu

The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center represents the future of medical advancement and progress. It reinforces UCLA's status as a premier institution of health and research. This visionary and innovative institution will serve as a center of healing for our children, and their children. The new center, which will house the UCLA Medical Center, Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, and the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, is a technological and architectural masterpiece designed to meet the evolving needs of a 21st-century patient care and research center.

UCLA has a General Clinical Research Center, in addition to inpatient and outpatient clinics, in which to conduct clinical trials. These facilities are equipped with the latest technologies necessary to perform quality clinical research.

In addition, the Office of Clinical Trials (OCT) serves as a centralized resource for all aspects of clinical trials at UCLA. The OCT staff acts as an interface between investigators, sponsors, and departmental personnel. The services provided by the OCT to both sponsors and investigators make the initiation and conduct of clinical trials at UCLA more efficient and timely. These services include:

• helping the sponsor/CRO find an investigator appropriate for the trial
• working with the sponsor and with the research staff to prepare budgets and to obtain IRB and contract approval
• facilitating interactions with UCLA providers
• supplying experienced study coordinators and data mangers to facilitate the study

The UCLA Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, and Public Health investigator faculty and clinicians are highly experienced and cover the full range of therapeutic areas listed above. Our investigators collaborate and work in flexible multidisciplinary groups as needed to advance the science of art and medicine.

Our research staff has extensive experience in the conduct of clinical research projects, including study coordination, data management, project management, human subjects’ protection, and Good Clinical Practices.

UCLA’s reputation for excellence and the wide variety of our patient care services attract a large, diverse patient population. Our location allows access to Southern California’s broad scope of subjects, encompassing a multitude of ethnicities, races, and disease states.

For information on new and other clinical trials at UCLA that may not be listed below and for additional contact person information:

• For cancer trials information please go to: www.cancer.mednet.ucla.edu
• For non-cancer trials information please go to www.clinicaltrials.ucla.edu

Some representative clinical trials at UCLA are listed below. Please click on the titles of the trial below in order to see the trial description and specific contact information for the trial. For information on the trials listed below, please directly contact the specific person at the phone no. or email.

Contact Information

For more information, please go to:
www.clinicaltrials.ucla.edu 

or send your email inquiry to:
clinicaltrials@mednet.ucla.edu

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

• Adolescent Smoking Cessation
• Child Anxiety
• Citalopram challenge test in women with and without Premenstrual syndrome
• Depression
• Depression Research Study
• Do you want to know more about your gambling habits?
• Double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of Bupropion for methamphetamine dependence
• Gamblers needed for UCLA Research Study
• Infant Siblings of Children with Autism and "Typically Developing" Children
• Iyengar Yoga for Young Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Knee Osteoarthritis
• Methamphetamine Study
• Neuroendocrine Alterations in Fibromyalgia and IBS
• Premenstrual Syndrome using pet scan
• Procurement of blood samples for use in the development of gastrointestinal disease panel.
• Responses to Stress/Pain in Parents and Children Study
• Sex Differences in Neuroendocrine and Immunologic Responses in IBS
• Smoking Cessation for Young Adults
• Study of Fish Oil for Intractable Partial Seizures
• The Effects of Rosiglitazone on Cognition in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).
• Treatment for Opiate Dependence
• Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation for Epilepsy
• UCLA Research Study on Pelvic Pain
• Vulvodynia

For more information, please contact:

UCLA Medical Center
Office of Clinical Trials
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
10911 Weyburn Avenue, 3rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
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Last updated on October 8, 2008