HealthTrials History and Mandate
HealthTrials, an office within the Department
of Research at the Health Sciences Centre
in Winnipeg, was formed in 1996 to forge links between the innovative pharmaceutical industry and Manitoba researchers.
HealthTrials provides project administration services to
both researchers and pharmaceutical companies in an effort to enhance clinical research
conducted at the Health Sciences Centre.
HealthTrials Services
- Prepares and
submits protocols, amendments and
site-specific participant information / consent forms to
the University of Manitoba Biomedical Research
Ethics Board
- Provides HSC
Research Sites with an HSC-specific (revised)
template of Standard
Operating Procedures for Good Clinical
Practice at the Investigative site. The
SOP template has been revised for use by HSC
clinical research teams who may wish to further
personalize the SOPs to reflect their specific
clinical research procedures. The licencing
fee of $125 USD (per research group purchase) is
paid to the SOP publisher (Center for Clinical
Research Practice / Thomson HealthCare in the USA)
- Facilitates clinical
research educational events and opportunities
- Assists, when
possible, with linking Pharmaceutical companies
with clinical trial Investigators and
Investigators with Clinical Research Coordinators
HealthTrials services related
to contract clinical research trials are provided
through the institutional overhead applied to contract
clinical research. Service provided to a
non-contract clinical research project are subject to a
fee.
HealthTrials Information / Links
Transport
of Dangerous Goods
University of Manitoba Biomedical Research
Ethics Board
HealthTrials Staff
Kathy Couch, Liaison Officer,
and Theresa Ronson, Clinical Research Assistant/Ethics and Regulatory Affairs, provide assistance to researchers
who request help in the preparation of clinical trial
protocol packages for submission to the University of
Manitoba Research Ethics Board.
For more detailed information, please contact:
| Kathy
Couch:
(204) 787-2084 |
Fax number:
(204) 787-4547 |
| Theresa Ronson:
(204) 787-2046 |
email address: healthtrials@hsc.mb.ca |
HealthTrials, MS744
- 820 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3A
1R9.
Maria Loureiro, Manager, Research Administration Health Sciences Centre, works
with HealthTrials on special projects, and can be
reached at (204)
787-4175.
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HealthTrials.
Date of last revision:
April 7, 2009
