Center for Clinical Research (CCR) Team

The clinical operations unit at CCR has six specialized teams overseeing the clinical conduct of the studies. These responsibilities include:

  • Conducting pre-qualification and site initiation visits
  • Screening and consenting research subjects
  • Educating subjects about trials
  • Registering subjects for clinical trials
  • Collecting and recording study-related data
  • Completing case report forms
  • Coordinating specimens and samples
  • Overseeing monitoring visits
  • Reporting serious adverse events
  • Facilitating subject follow-up

Contact our Clinical Research Managers below assigned to the various specialties at UCI Health.

CCR specialized teams

Cardiopulmonary, Anesthesia and Family Medicine team: Ilona Larson, Clinical Research Manager

  • Anesthesia
  • Cardiology
  • Family Medicine
  • Pathology
  • Pulmonology

Multispecialty team: Scott Heese, Clinical Research Manager

  • Dermatology
  • Nephrology
  • Otolaryngology
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Psychiatry
  • Radiation Science
  • Rheumatology
  • Transplant Surgery
  • Urology

Neuromuscular team: Veronica Martin, Clinical Research Manager

  • ALS
  • Neuromuscular

Neuroscience Specialty team: Marie Wencel, Clinical Research Manager

  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Dementia
  • Epilepsy
  • Movement Disorders
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Parkinson’s Disease
  • Stroke

Ophthalmology and Medicine team: Rosie Magallon, Clinical Research Manager

  • Benign Hematology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Endocrinology
  • Immunology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Nephrology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Pediatrics

Surgical Specialty team: Lizette Spiers, Clinical Research Manager

  • Gastroenterology
  • OB & UroGyne
  • Neonatology
  • Neurosurgery
  • Orthopedics
  • PM&R
  • Surgery

CCR Nursing and Laboratory Services team

The CCR nursing team collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the completion of research objectives while maintaining safety, efficiency, and data integrity. Registered nurses assist in developing MD orders and data collection tools.

Our facilities are strategically located at the heart of the UCI Medical Center in Orange and the UCI School of Medicine campus in Irvine. These locations provide us with direct access to world-renowned scientists and state-of-the-art resources, facilitating groundbreaking research across a spectrum of diseases. Our clinics are equipped with routine and specialty equipment and interfaced with Electronic Health Records (EHR) to minimize data collection errors.

Contact the CCR Nurse Manager

CCR Regulatory affairs

The regulatory affairs team provides centralized support for CCR clinical trials by managing:

  • Institutional Review Board (IRB) applications
  • Ancillary committee applications (e.g., conflict of interest, radiation safety, biosafety)
  • Consent form creation
  • Investigator site file maintenance
  • External safety report tracking and processing
  • System updates for new study approvals and activations

Contact the CCR regulatory team

CCR Research Finance Unit

CCR Pre-award/Start-up team

Our pre-award/start-up team assists with budget development, ensuring it reflects the trial’s cost and accounts for all necessary expenses. We also help negotiate with funding sources and oversee contracting, calendar creation, and coverage analysis.

Post-award team

The post-award team manages study funds and accounting for all expenses. We assist in creating accounts, managing budgets, tracking expenses, invoicing sponsors, and distributing funds.

Contact the CCR Research Finance Team

CCR Business Development Team

Our Business Development team builds strategic alliances with sponsors, including pharmaceutical companies, medical device innovators, and CROs, to advance clinical research. Key areas of focus include:

  • Improving activation timelines
  • Increasing efficiencies through master agreements
  • Identifying investigators for trials
  • Sharing SOPs, policies, and essential documents
  • Enhancing enrollment for active trials
  • Quality improvement of research conduct

Contact CCR Business Development team

CCR Participant Recruitment team

Our Recruitment team provides enrollment support, including marketing, advertisement, and outreach initiatives, to achieve accrual goals. We develop tailored recruitment strategies in collaboration with sponsors to ensure timely trial completion.

Contact the CCR Recruitment team

CCR Data and Systems team

The OnCore support team assists with the Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS), including support, training, system improvements and standardized operating procedures. The data and analytics team specializes in analyzing trial data, generating reports, managing electronic case report forms (eCRF) through REDCap and harmonizing data from various project sites.

Contact the CCR OnCore Support & Data Analytics team

 

CCR Strategic planning/project management

Our Project Management team ensures successful, on-time and on-budget project execution by maintaining processes, standards and best practices, offering strategic advice and guidance throughout every stage of project implementation.

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