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Clinical Research Management

Division of Clinical Research Management

Director
Amelia T. Nasrallah, MA
(513) 558-2226
amelia.nasrallah@uc.edu

Budgets/Contracts Specialist
Karen Parker
(513) 558-5112
karen.parker@uc.edu

Clinical Research Regulatory Assistant
Gayathri Kavikondola
(513) 558-8621
gayathri.kavikondola@uc.edu

Quality Assurance Associate
Kim Whisman
(513) 558-5384
kimberly.whisman@uc.edu

Clinical Research Regulatory Associate
Emily Werff
(513) 558-3314
emily.werff@uc.edu

 

Website: http://www.psychiatry.uc.edu/clinicaltrials/
Fax: (513) 558-2661

Address: Clinical Research Management
Psychiatric Professional Services, INC*
260 Stetson Street, Suite 3200
P.O. Box 670559
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0559
*A Not-For-Profit Corporation Associated with the University of Cincinnati

Overview

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College Of Medicine (UCCOM) is dedicated to studying the safety of the neurobiology and phenomenology of novel treatments for psychiatric disorders through ethical clinical research. Globally recognized leaders and experts in psychopharmacology, our clinical research faculty has many years of experience in the conduct of psychiatric research funded by industry, government, and private foundations. In addition to their appointments in the UCCOM Department of Psychiatry, these research investigators are affiliated with University Hospital, Inc., Children's Medical Center, and Summit Behavioral Healthcare.

Current on-going inpatient and outpatient research studies are representative of the varied interests of our investigators and their respective specialized research programs. They have studied many novel treatments that have subsequently been approved for clinical use in geriatric, adult, adolescent, and child populations diagnosed with a variety of psychiatric disorders.

The necessary administrative support for the initiation and conduct of clinical research studies is centralized through the Division of Clinical Research Management (CRM), which provides regulatory and contractual support to investigators. Regulatory support ensures the timely and efficient process of obtaining institutional approval for the clinical research studies. Contractual support ensures the implementation of standardized, contractual language and budgetary considerations, which significantly streamline the clinical research agreement review/approval process for research conducted through PPSI. CRM is responsible for the acquisition of new clinical research studies, and for maintaining a database of the clinical research programs and study-related performance. Federal and foundation studies can also be managed by CRM.