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New Pediatric Clinical Research Unit at Hughes Spalding

The CTRPP, in collaboration with the Clinical Interaction Network, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta opened a Clinical Interaction Site located on the Children's at Egleston campus. The Pediatric Clinical Research Unit is designed to provide the necessary infrastructure for investigators conducting pediatric clinical research.

The four-bed inpatient unit is located on 4 West (Tower 2). The four-bed outpatient unit is located within the Technology-Dependent Intensive Care Unit (TICU) (Tower 2). Outpatient unit capabilities include visits that can be completed within six hours. This includes data collection, vital signs, lab draws, and facilitating tests and procedures, such as radiological exams.

Pediatric inpatient and outpatient units will offer core support facilities and resources, including:

• Protocol design consultation

• Research pharmacy support

• Safety oversight

• Research nursing for participant visits, phlebotomy, IV access, medication administration

• Sleep/apnea studies

• Bionutrition support

• Recruitment core support

• Web-based participant scheduling and protocol tracking

• Exercise physiology support

• Basic laboratory procession of human biological samples

  • preservation of samples           

  • generation of aliquots

  • sample acquisition and tracking via Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

• Sample Storage

  • short-term storage (0-3 months)            

  • long term storage (4-12 months)

  • storage capabilities for -80°C, -20°C and 4°C

• Protocol Design Consultation

• Assay Consultation

  • Emory University Core Laboratories

    • Yerkes Biomakers Core

    • Core H

    • Biomaker Profiling

    • Clinical Biomakers Laboratory

    • Lipid Analysis

  • Emory University Hospital Medical Laboratory

  • Morehouse School of Medicine Analytical and Protein Profiling Laboratory

  • ARUP and Quest Diagnostics

The ACTSI's Clinical Interaction Network (CIN) program provides support for the conduct of patient-oriented research at multiple sites across Atlanta. The CIN includes sites at Emory University Hospital, Emory Midtown, Grady Memorial Hospital, the Ponce Infectious Diseases Clinic, the Hope Clinic, Wesley Woods Health Center, the Morehouse School of Medicine Clinical Research Center, Kaiser Permanente of Georgia, and many others.

ACTSI pediatric protocols include:

β cell rescue in new onset type 1 diabetics using the LFA-1 antibody, efalizumab: BRiTE Trial, Principal Investigator, Mark Rigby, MD

Study of Asthma and Air Pollution (SAAP), Principal Investigator, Gerald Teague, MD

The Study of Acid Reflux in Children with Asthma (SARCA), Principal Investigator, Gerald Teague, MD

Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP), Principal Investigator, Gerald Teague, MD

Pharmacologic treatment of congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus - A proof of concept study, Principal Investigator, Jeff Sands, MD

If you are an Emory, MSM, or GA Tech clinical investigator and would like to utilize these sites through a CIN supported mechanism please follow the protocol submission instructions. If you have questions, please contact Debora Clem, CIN Program Manager (404-712-1993 or dclem@emory.edu). For more information on the Pediatric Research Unit please contact the center's medical director, Howard Katzenstein, MD.

Click here to read about the successful Pediatric Research Center open house.