Clinical Trials of America, Inc.
Corporate Office
1730 North Center Street
Hickory, NC 28601
Phone: (828)322-3222
Fax: (828)322-5252
Medical Director- Michael
DeSantis, MD
Contact: Joel Kunze, MPAS,
PA-C
Clinical Trials of America, Inc.
215 Executive Park Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
Phone: (336)768-3456
Fax: (336)768-1101
Medical Director- Gregory
Tarleton, MD
Contact: Russell Buchanan,
RN, BSN
Clinical
Trials of America, Inc.
1801 Fairfield Avenue, Ste.
300
Shreveport, LA 71101
Phone: (318)226-2909
Fax: (318)629-0399
Medical Director- Susan Kemp,
MD
Contact: Laurie Hall, LPN,
CCRC
Clinical Trials of America, Inc. (CTA) has three dedicated research sites in three locations: Hickory, North Carolina, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We provide clinical research services to area physicians in a wide range of therapeutic specialties and contract with pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs) to conduct in-patient clinical research. We have successfully conducted more than 500 Phase I, II, III, and IV clinical trials and utilize the Clinasyst Software System for trial management with a database of greater than 40,000 subjects.
We are proud of our reputation for outstanding research practices and rapid enrollment of subjects. CTA works with Principal Investigators who oversee all studies to assure strict adherence to protocol as well as standard operating procedures which follow GCP (Good Clinical Practice).
CTA has a number of experienced investigators in a broad variety of sub-specialties and have conducted extensive clinical research trials in the following areas:
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The following are some of the Sponsor’s and CRO’s we have worked with:
Sponsor’s:
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CRO’s:
- AAI
- Covance
- IBAH
- ICON
- INC Research
- Health Decisions
- Iveresk
- Kendle
- PPD
- Parexel
- Paragon
- PRA
- Quintiles
Clinical Trials of America, Inc. are out-patient facilities located just miles from local area hospitals in Hickory, North Carolina, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Shreveport, Louisiana.
- Fully equipped examination rooms
- ECG
- Centrifuges and Refrigerated Centrifuge
- Specimen Refrigerator
- -70 Freezer and -20 Freezer
- Annual equipment calibration
- On-site lab (CLIA Waiver)
- Daily courier pick-ups with DHL, Fed-X, UPS
- CPR trained site staff
- Locked, restricted access cabinets for CRF/source storage
- Locked, temperature controlled drug storage
- Long term storage for research records archive
- Local and central IRB capabilities
- Two private monitoring offices
- In-house quality control monitoring
- Copy, Fax, Phone, High-Speed Internet
- Automated External Defibrillator
Clinical Trials of America, Inc. has a positive relationship within each of the communities and surrounding counties. We are well known in the area to potential subjects and within the healthcare community.
Procedures we have provided in the past or are currently providing are:
- Remote Data Entry
- ECGs
- Overnight Pulse Oximetry
- Multiple Sleep Latency Test
- Polysomnography
- Maintenance of Wakefulness Test
- CT Scans
- MRI
- Spirometry
- Bronchoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- Holter monitoring
- APACHE II Scoring
- NIHSS (Certified staff)
- Modified Rankin Scale
- APACHE II Scoring
- Barthel Index
- Clinical Global Impression of Change Scale (CGI-C)
- Mini-Mental Status Exam
- EDSS
- Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite
- And Multiple Others
Experienced Investigators affiliated with our clinic include Physicians, Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in the following therapeutic areas: Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Pulmonology, Sleep Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, Family Medicine, Gastroenterology, Rheumatology, and Psychiatry.
Clinical research staff receives Investigator Training and are knowledgeable in all clinical trials processes, FDA regulations, ICH and Good Clinical Practice guidelines. CTA offers responsive turn around for Site Feasibility Questionnaires for upcoming studies, rapid subject enrollment, accessible and responsive investigators and staff, as well as a detail-oriented process which delivers complete and accurate data.
Director Clinical
Research, Administrator Regulatory Affairs, Full-Time Clinical Research
Coordinators, Medical Office Assistants, Research Assistants, and numerous
office associates.
For more information,
please contact:
Jeb Andrews, PhD
President
Clinical Trials of
America, Inc.
1730 North Center
Street
Hickory, NC 28601 USA
Phone: (828)322-3222
Fax: (828)322-5252