The Clinical Trials Center is located on 5 north of University Hospital, 2211 Lomas Blvd NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was opened in 1992 with the specific purpose of conducting industry-sponsored research studies.
The Clinical Trials Center is located on 5 north of University Hospital, 2211 Lomas Blvd NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was opened in 1992 with the specific purpose of conducting industry-sponsored research studies.
The mission of The Clinical Trials Center is to provide care for the physiologically stable patient who requires outpatient visits while participating in clinical research. The primary purpose of the CTC is to provide a controlled patient-centered environment in which physicians and scientists may study disease states and treatments affecting humans. As part of the UNM School of Medicine Teaching Facility, the CTC recognizes a responsibility to offer educational experiences in clinical research to professional persons of health sciences.
"Clinical trials" means the study of human subjects. If a drug company is in the clinical trials phase of testing a drug, the company contacts the CTC Nurse Manager or a specific physician (also called a primary investigator) and requests that their product be studied. The physician contacts the CTC Nurse Manager. The Nurse Manager writes up a budget for what it would cost to do a study in the CTC. Many physicians have their own nursing staff who would complete their study for them, but some do not. For the physicians who do not, they can hire the CTC nurses, or coordinators, who would complete their study for them. Nurses do everything from finding and recruiting the patients, to conducting the clinic visits, making phone calls, completing initial paperwork for the hospital and FDA, and completing all daily, weekly, and monthly correspondence to the drug companies.
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