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Facility Resources
The Bluestone Center for Clinical Research's physical site and full-time staff provides the space, equipment, experience, assistance
and guidance necessary for time-sensitive, ethical, and high-quality research. It is an 8,585
square-foot
dedicated research facility including:
- Research-dedicated waiting room with staff reception area
- Four overnight suites with a total of eight beds, with cable TV, Internet access, and two beds per suite; primarily designed for Phase I pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic research and for translational and sleep studies
- Nurses' station with central monitoring for the four overnight suites
- Secure drug, device and medical equipment storage room
- Subject consent and education/questionnaire office
- Data storage facility for records and materials
- Day lounge, with cable TV and Internet access; convertible to an overnight bedroom for research personnel and clinical investigators
- Physical exam room
- Quality assurance office, for visiting monitors (CRAs) and in-house QA personnel
- Administrative suite, with four offices, high-capacity color copier, fax machine
- Office space for dedicated research subject recruiter, data manager, and biostatisticians
- 12-seat multimedia conference room
- Computers and clinical informatics support such as Electronic Data Capture, wireless web-based connectivity with restricted access to research data through password-protected web-based and PAR-11 compliant system
- Two surgical operatories for physical examinations, out-patient medical procedures, oral & maxillofacial surgery and general and pediatric oral health research
- Eight-chair dental operatory, suitable for oral health/dental investigations, and equipped with digital intraoral radiology
- Radiology suite for digital extraoral radiography including craniofacial spiral tomography
- Biological laboratory with refrigerated centrifuge, –86 degree Celsius freezer, general-purpose laboratory refrigerator/freezer, and an A/B3 biohazard hood.
- Dental laboratory with two standing bench workspaces, each with suction, air, and gas; deep sink, grinding machine, and lathe.
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