[IEEE-bhpjobs] Feb. 2 6pm SoCRA meeting - Role of Specialty Practice in Device Trials

[Esther L.]

Note:  To attend this meeting as a guest, you MUST contact Juliette  Nelsen
in advance.


Subject: SoCRA - North Carolina Chapter - Feb.2 - Specialty Practice in 
Clinical Research

                                                                        

Dear Colleague in Clinical Research:

The February meeting of the Clinical Research Professionals of North
Carolina (a chapter of SoCRA also referred to as NC east or the RTP
chapter) will be held on Monday, February 2, 2004 at DCRI in Durham from 6
to 7 p.m.  The usual driving directions apply (see below).

This month's meeting will feature a speaker from the clinical research
community here in RTP, who is currently the Manager of the Clinical
Research Department at TRIANGLE ORTHOPAEDICS ASSOCIATES, P.A.

Our Topic:          The Role of a Specialty Practice in Clinical Device Trials

Presenter:                Carol Barmann, MS, CCRP
                                Manager of the Clinical Research Department
                                TRIANGLE ORTHOPAEDICS ASSOCIATES, P.A., 120 William Penn Plaza, Durham, NC 27704

Summary:
The importance of the Clinical Research Coordinator's role in the research
process is often underestimated and poorly appreciated.   In addition, the
process of performing research in the environment of specialty practice is
a subject that most clinical research professional would like to understand
better.  Thirdly, a comparison of device trials to drug trial is useful for
a comprehensive understanding of clinical research.

Ms. Barmann has prepared a presentation that will introduce the role of a
specialty practice in clinical research from the perspective of the
practice.  She will summarize and give examples some of the device trials
done at her practice and in the process provide a comparison between the
particulars of a device trial versus the drug trials.  She will be
available for questions.

The presentation includes information on the following topics:
                              I.            Practice Statistics
                             II.            Types of Clinical Trials
                            III.            Devices versus Drugs
                             IV.            Device Trials at TOA

Biosketch:

Carol Barmann is a Clinical Research Coordinator and Manager of the
Clinical Research Department at a local specialty practice.  She has come
to this profession following years of teaching at the college level in the
areas of Biology, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry and Microbiology.
Her early research experience in Toxicology at NIEHS and Burroughs Wellcome
provide a comprehensive understanding of the scientific method as applied
to research.  Her first experience in clinical trials was obtained at
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, at UNC Chapel Hill, where she
worked as a CRA in the challenging field of Bone Marrow Transplant and
Hematologic Malignancy.  She joined Triangle Orthopedics Associates in 2002
as a study coordinator and is now the Manager of the Clinical Research
Department for the practice.  There she manages both drug and device trials
and is therefore in a position to provide us with a unique perspective.
We wish to thank our SoCRA chapter member Carol Barmann for agreeing to be
the speaker for this meeting.  Thank you Carol.

If you have any questions, contact me at Juliette_Nelsen at med.unc.edu  or at
any of the numbers below.   Thank you!

Juliette M. Nelsen, MS, MT, CCRP, RAC
Protocol Review Committee Coordinator, Regulatory Associate
 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Third Floor Administrative Tower
CB # 7295 University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7295
 Juliette_Nelsen at med.unc.edu <mailto:Juliette_Nelsen at med.unc.edu>
Phone (919) 843-6901
FAX (919) 962-2621
Pager 216-1665
WEB SITE: http://cancer.med.unc.edu/research/PRC/
<http://cancer.med.unc.edu/research/PRC/>

The meeting will be held at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) in
the North Pavilion on the Duke Campus. The North Pavilion is located at
2400 Pratt Street. All attendees should park in the adjacent parking
garage.  A ticket must be taken to lift the gate, but no attendant will be
on duty and the gate will be up when you exit.  The meeting will be from
6:00-7:00 in the 7th floor conference room (7015). Take the elevators to
the 7th floor and exit toward the receptionist's desk.  The door to her
left leads to the conference room.  Hit the Handicap plate to release the
door and it will open automatically.  The conference room is immediately on
your right. Please sign in at the front table.


Directions to Duke University North Pavilion From I-40 West take the Durham
Expressway/ NC 147 (Exit279B) Continue on the Durham Expressway. Exit on
Hillandale Rd. / Fulton St. (exit15b) Stay in the left lane. At the light
at the bottom of the ramp, turn left onto Fulton Street. Go past the
parking garage and North Pavilion Buildings Turn left onto Pratt St., Take
the first drive on the left, at the stop sign, turn left again towards the
front of the building Enter garage at the Patient and Visitor Only
entrance. You will need to take a ticket to enter. The numbers of the
garage floors do not match the floors in the building, so the main entrance
of the building is actually Floor 2 of the garage. As soon as you enter the
building (security is on your right), a flight of stairs is directly in
front of you. Turn left and proceed to the elevators. The meeting room is
on the 7th floor.  Room 7015.

>From Charlotte, Greensboro and areas West of Durham -Take 85 North, past
Greensboro, Burlington, 85 will merge with 70, and later with 15-501
by-pass Get off exit at Hillandale Road, Exit 174 Turn right, go past the
Hillandale Golf course Continue straight, go under 147, Street name will
change to Fulton Go past the Duke University parking garage and North
Pavilion Buildings Turn left onto Pratt Street, which is the first left
Continue on Pratt (very short road). Take your first left. At the stop
sign, turn left again toward the front of the building Enter garage at the
"Patient and Visitor Only" entrance. You will need to take a ticket to
enter. The numbers of the garage floors do not match the floors in the
building, so the main entrance of the building is actually Floor 2 of the
garage. As soon as you enter the building (security is on your right), a
flight of stairs is directly in front of you. Turn left and proceed to the
elevators. The meeting room is on the 7th floor. Room 7015.


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Thanks, Esther Lumsdon, RAC

-- 
-- Esther L. esther_l at ieee.org, 
Speaking only for myself