Overview

Advanced Specialty Research (ASR) is a dedicated research facility within a private OB/GYN practice. We strive to make your research experience the absolute best! Help us to improve medicine through research.

Research Experience

ASR specializes in phase 1 through 4 clinical trials in areas including:

• Abdominal pain
• Allergy
• Common cold
• Contraception
• Constipation
• COPD
• Diabetes (types 1 and 2)
• Dysfunctional uterine bleeding
• Female sexual dysfunction
• Fibromyalgia
• Flu treatment
• Hormone replacement
• Hot flashes
• HPV vaccine
• Incontinence
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Migraines
• Obesity
• Overactive bladder
• Pneumonia
• Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
• Premenstrual syndrome
• Pregnancy
• RSV vaccine
• Urinary tract infection
• Vaccines
• Vaginal atrophy
• Vaginitis
• Vaginal dryness
• Women's health studies

Treatment Areas

• Cardiology/vascular diseases
• Devices
• Endocrinology
• Family medicine
• Healthy volunteers
• Immunology
• Internal medicine

• Nutrition and weight loss
• Obstetrics/gynecology (women’s health)
• Ophthalmology
• Pulmonary/respiratory diseases
• Vaccines

Facility Description

ASR is conveniently located just north of the Nampa St. Alphonsus Hospital, 17 miles from the Boise, Idaho, airport and close to the freeway. Our office provides three large exam rooms, a monitoring area, a locked, temperature-controlled drug room, and a dedicated laboratory. Coordinators have locking rolling desks, and there’s a private office for the regulatory specialist, the director and principal investigators. Our office also includes a private conference room and beautiful waiting area.

Diagnostic Equipment

• Refrigerated drug storage
• ECG machine
• Centrifuges
• Ultrasound machine
• Freezer (-70°C)
• Drug storage (locked and temperature-controlled)
• CLIA-certified lab
• Microscope
• Hemoglobin A1C Testing
• Weigh scales
• Refrigerator
• Pulmonary function testing/spirometer

Investigator Experience

J'Cinda Bitters, MD
Principal Investigator

J’Cinda Bitters, MD, is a family medicine physician with special interests in colonoscopy, pregnancy care and delivery. She graduated cum laude from Texas A&M University in biomedical science and completed her medical degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch of Galveston. Upon graduation from medical school, she completed her residency at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho.

Gary Gregerson, MD Principal Investigator

Dr. Gary Gregerson, an OB/GYN physician, offers comprehensive care for the reproductive system in women across two converging areas of medicine: gynecology and obstetrics. He attended Loma Linda University College of Medicine, graduating in 1989.

Staff Expertise

ASR’s experienced research staff includes our principal investigators, Dr. J'Cinda Bitters,  and Dr. Gary Gregerson, and a team of multitherapeutic sub- investigators; three full-time research coordinators; one part-time, dedicated patient recruiter; a regulatory specialist; and our director. ASR has a team of dedicated and experienced study coordinators that strives to meet and/or exceed sponsors’ expectations in quality data from appropriate participants. We a have standardized internal quality assurance programs and a dedicated regulatory department, assuring rapid and accurate document submission.

Patient Demographics

ASR has a large patient database of potential subjects that it uses to recruit. Patient referrals are received from principal investigator’s and sub-investigators’ practices as well as local community care centers and hospitals. ASR has male and female subjects in a variety of age groups. ASR has many strategies for media advertising and participates in several community outreach programs.

Other Information

ASR uses centralized IRBs and has a one week turnaround time on regulatory as well as budgets and contracts.