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
CROST in a Nutshell:
Highlights:
| 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 | |
Overview
| University of Pittsburgh Clinical Research Office for Surgery and Trauma |
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