Sean P. David, MD, SM, DPhil is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago and he is Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine and Program Director for Translational Science in Outcomes Research at the NorthShore University HealthSystem. Dr. David is a family physician and …
It takes on average 14 years for a discovery to make it into your pharmacy. One of the biggest slowdowns is a lack of participants for the clinical trials that are required first. The Trial Recruitment and Innovation Office (TRIO) works to speed up that timeline by providing tailored user-centered design consulting to researchers who are having trouble recruiting participants in their studies. ITM’s local office feeds into a national Trial Innovation Network that offers consultations and services for multi-center clinical trials and studies.
An ITM investigator exploring how lay people who normally offer emotional and physical support to women in labor could help women undergoing abortions is expanding her research with the support of a grant that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded her this fall. …