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Director Christina Wang, M.D.
Location Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Room 5L2
Phone # 310-222-2503
The Harbor-UCLA General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) is located in the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center which administers the hospital for patient care and clinical training of interns, residents and clinical fellows. The Program Directors and the investigators are faculty of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The Medical School is responsible for the training of medical students and manages the academic affairs of the faculty. The GCRC grant, research fellows, and all the research activities are administered through the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed). The Principal Investigator (PI) of the GCRC is Gail Anderson Jr, MD, MBA, who is the Associate Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Chief Medical Officer of the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
The Program Director is Christina Wang, M.D., the Associate Program Director is Eli Ipp, M.D. and the Assistant Director is Lynne Smith, M.D who directs the Perinatal CRC.
Established in 1969, the GCRC at Harbor-UCLA has been continuously funded by the NIH, NCRR. The resources include: inpatient unit, outpatient facility, mobile perinatal CRC, bionutritional unit, core laboratory, biomedical mass spectroscopy facility, biostatistics and informatics support. In1994, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center established a General Clinical Research Center (CSMC-GCRC) as a satellite to our GCRC. The GCRC serves a large number of investigators from many discipline and subspecialties. Our investigators conduct their research protocols on our multi-ethic and multi-cultural population. We are in a unique position to be able to offer resource where clinical research can be performed with a focus on mitigating the health disparity currently present in our state and nation.
The GCRC provides experienced research nursing support for complex inpatient and outpatient based protocols. The PCRC is a mobile unit where nurses perform clinical research on mothers and babies when these and other research participants cannot be accommodated at our inpatient unit. The GCRC at Harbor is the focus of clinical research training at our Institution. The GCRC organizes a roster of research training courses.
All protocols requesting use of GCRC facilities are independently reviewed for scientific merit and subject safety by the GCRC Advisory Committee, the Human Subjects Committee and the Research Committee; all protocols must be approved at all three levels before use of the GCRC is possible.