Clinical Research Office for Surgery and Trauma (CROST)

Our Goals:

To advance the field of surgery and trauma by maintaining high
standard of clinical research
Facilitate translational research from bench to bedside
To promote and achieve the highest quality of clinical trials within the
department of surgery with the collaboration of other
departments/centers to uncover new and effective treatment methods
of wide range of diseases in the field of surgery and trauma
To provide regulatory and administrative services
To provide inpatient and outpatient coordination of all phases of
clinical trials
Assist the faculty of Department of Surgery and provide expertise for
investigator initiated projects
Assist in designing clinical studies and provide guidance in statistical
analysis
Monitor and Improve clinical research compliance
Provide investigator training and educational opportunities

The Clinical Research Office for Surgery and Trauma (CROST)
is a clinical research center within the Department of Surgery
at University of Pittsburgh designated to carry out all aspects of
clinical research studies including multi-center trials.

Our mission is to conduct or facilitate effective, safe and
reliable therapeutic, pharmaceutical, and medical device
research to advance clinical science and to prevent or treat
diseases related to trauma, critical care and general surgery.

CROST serves as the department of surgery's infrastructure
that encourages and supports the department's physician
scientists by serving as an interface between clinical
investigators and sponsors of clinical trials and related
research.

Our services based on the following essentials:

		Structured knowledge base
		State of the art facilities
		Cutting edge expertise
		Dedicated staff
		Protocol design and development
		Pharmacokinetic/Bioavailability studies
		Wide range collaboration and affiliation
		Large and balanced population of volunteers and patients









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