General Clinical Research Center

The General Clinical Research Center provides space, hospitalization cost, laboratories, equipment, and supplies for clinical research by any qualified faculty member in any department of the Medical School. Center use is justified by research quality and significance, need for common facilities, and common usefulness or collective justification for facilities or personnel. The Center also serves as a resource for teaching students and a site for research in the methodology of patient care systems and apprenticeship for young clinical investigators. It is equipped and staffed to care for 21 hospitalized patients, with special examination and procedure rooms available for outpatient studies and for scientific protocols requiring a great deal of equipment. A patient waiting room and dining facilities are available for all scientific projects. The Center houses a physician dictation area, a nursing station and research nurse desk space, a staff lounge, and small house-staff quarters. The Center’s computer laboratory is equipped with hardware and software to assist in study planning, data management, and mathematical modeling. Scientific facilities include a metabolic kitchen, a locked medicine room, a specimen procedure room, centrifuges, and freezers for temporary sample storage.

Contact: David Robertson, M.D.—Director (3-6499)
A-3100 MCN
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/gcrc/