There is convenient parking connected to the Outpatient Center via a pedway as well as direct access to the University of Louisville Hospital.

Outpatient Research Clinic Staff Expertise

The CTU Outpatient Research Clinic employs 2 nurse practitioners and 5 full time clinical research nurses and coordinators. The professionals in this clinic have an average of ten years of experience in clinical research. These personnel have education/certifications in the following areas: Clinical Research Coordinator, Bachelors of Nursing Masters of Nursing, and Advanced Practice Research Nurse.

For specific personnel information, please visit our website

UofL Physicians is staffed with more than 500 physicians. University Hospital is the region’s preeminent medical teaching and research hospital and plays a key role in ensuring the quality of health care in the community. It has developed a robot system for providing scarce specialty care to rural health partners. The hospital operates the area’s only 24-hour Level I trauma and emergency center. Other key specialty services include women’s health, digestive diseases, sleep disorders, bone marrow transplant, stroke center, and psychiatry. The James Graham Brown Cancer Center, that is part of UofL Healthcare, is the area’s most comprehensive cancer care research and treatment facility.

Jewish Hospital is a 442-bed regional referral center. The hospital is also the flagship of the KentuckyOne HealthCare Network, a regional network of more than 35 health care locations throughout Kentucky and southern Indiana, including the Frazier Rehabilitation Hospital and the Rudd Heart and Lung Center, and encompassing nearly 1,700 beds and serving more than one million patients annually. Jewish Hospital is an internationally renowned specialty center, developing leading-edge advancements in heart and lung care, hand and microsurgery, rehabilitation medicine, neuroscience, occupational health, organ transplantation, outpatient care, plastic and aesthetic surgery, and primary care. It is among the top 10 cardiac centers (by volume) in the United States and is a leader in transplantation, performing all five solid organ transplants (heart, liver, lung, kidney and pancreas), as well as hand transplantation.

Frazier Rehab Downtown is a 135-bed hospital located on the Jewish Hospital Medical Campus. Frazier is committed to the development of programs, which combine traditional rehab with innovative therapy techniques. The facility stands 15 stories tall and houses world-class groundbreaking programs such as the Christopher and Dana Reeve NeuroRecovery Network, Spinal Cord Medicine Program and Locomotor Training Program. Therapy gyms located on each floor and patient rooms offer a full spectrum of 24-hours-a-day hospital services such as lab, x-ray, diagnostic imaging and respiratory therapy. The downtown facility offers both inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation and also offers a fitness and wellness facility, designed to help those with disabilities stay “fit for life.”

Jewish Hospital Heart Care, Rudd Heart and Lung Center and the Heart & Lung Institute boasts the region’s only Accredited Chest Pain Center and a rich history of medical innovation and advancement. Offering the most complete range of diagnostic and interventional heart care services available anywhere in the region, Jewish Hospital's ranking and patient outcomes consistently exceed national averages. And Jewish provides a full spectrum of non-surgical options encompassing cardiac catheterizations, angioplasties, electrophysiology studies, pulmonary function testing and hyperbaric medicine.

Louisville VA Medical Center is an acute care hospital located approximately 4 miles from the main Medical Center Campus housing the inpatient population and multiple primary and subspecialty care outpatient facilities. Several specialized programs exist at the Louisville VA Hospital including the regional center for bariatric surgery; home based primary care providing personal home monitoring and telehealth management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, and diabetes; and hospice and palliative care programs.

Norton Healthcare is a not-for-profit organization, which operates Norton Hospital, Norton Children’s Hospital, and the Norton Healthcare Pavilion in the Louisville Medical Center. It also operates three other hospitals in Louisville, and 16 managed community and rural hospitals in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. Norton Healthcare also owns three physician practices, and is affiliated with Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services in New Albany, Indiana, Southern Indiana Medical Center, Charlestown, Indiana, and Regional Medical Center in Madisonville, Kentucky.

Norton Healthcare Pavilion, formerly Methodist Evangelical Hospital has served for more than a century, the people of Louisville and the surrounding region have turned to Norton Healthcare facilities for a full range of medical care. Through one of the area's most comprehensive healthcare networks, Norton Healthcare's integrated system bridges the life span, providing quality care to newborns, children, adults and the elderly.

Norton Children’s Hospital is a not-for-profit children’s hospital operated by Norton Healthcare. Norton has the area’s highest-level neonatal intensive care unit, a children’s burn unit, and specialists in all areas of pediatric care. Importantly, it has a Pediatric Clinical Research Center focusing on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drug metabolism in children.

For more information on pediatric clinical trials, please visit: University of Louisville Kosair Charities Pediatric Clinical Research Unit

Investigator

The University of Louisville is privileged to have many renowned researchers. Please see our InNet database for more information

Staff

The central clinical trials office, CTU, was established in July 2008 to offer investigators high quality research administrative support.The CTU has over 40 administrative and clinical staff that support research for many of the U of L departments.

http://louisville.edu/research/ctu/about/administrative-staff

http://louisville.edu/research/ctu/about/clinical-staff

Sponsors

The university has collaborated with the following sponsors/CROs in clinical research:

Patients

U of L serves a unique patient population. Kentucky sits in the midst of “Coronary Valley” and the “Stroke Belt” with high prevalence of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, stroke, and lung cancer. Unfortunately, Kentucky is also a ‘leader’ in low educational achievement and high levels of smoking, and alcohol use. These factors combine to make Kentuckians especially unhealthy. Its African-American, Hispanic, Appalachian, and indigent populations are large, and they are disproportionately afflicted with above noted chronic diseases.

Therefore, the ULRF is well situated to perform clinical and translational research with multiple diverse/minority populations, as well as children, and to positively impact the health and well-being of these subjects.

Kentucky is second in the U.S. in the incidence of obesity in high school children, number nine in preschool children, tied for second in overweight adults and obese adults, ninth in hypertension, seventh in diabetes, second in physical inactivity and sixth in the highest poverty rates. Segments of Louisville Metro have the highest rates of many of these diseases in the state.

Kentucky ranks fourth among states in cancer mortality. In 2006, nearly 24,000 Kentuckians were diagnosed with cancer and more than 9,300 died of cancer. Kentucky’s overall cancer death rate is 17% worse than the national average, and the lung cancer death rate is 45% higher than the national average.

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For Patients
Please check the listing of current trials to determine if a trial is right for you. Also know your rights as a participant and information about participation in a clinical trial by visiting the following address:
http://louisville.edu/research/humansubjects/participants

For Sponsors
The Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) is the central clinical trials office at the University of Louisville. CTU is the best point of contact for industry sponsors. The office provides information and communication about clinical research at University of Louisville.

CTU is your contact to:

• Identify principal investigators with particular research expertise and interests (Investigator Identification Service)
• Obtain general information about clinical research resources, research capabilities, and sponsored research administration
• Streamline communications among sponsor, research administrators, PI and research personnel

CTU is a full-service research support office that provides the following services:

• Protocol placement and feasibility
• Regulatory approval
• Budget development and negotiation
• Billing plan development
• Contract routing
• Clinical coordination
• Grant and manuscript writing

For more information, click here. http://louisville.edu/research/ctu/