Track II - Clinical Research

Masters in Health Sciences in Clinical Research
Sponsor: Neonatal Perinatal Research Institute
Supervisors: Ronald Goldberg, M.D., C. Michael Cotten, M.D., Daniel Benjamin, M.D., Ph.D., Jennifer Li, M.D., Geoffrey Ginsburg, M.D., Ph.D., William Wilkinson, Ph.D, Robert Califf, M.D., and David Goldstein, M.D.

Background:

The Clinical Research Training Program can be completed by the end of the 3rd year of training, although an additional year may be available. The program is a series of courses and a formalized mentored research experience. Trainees develop, conduct, analyze, and ideally, publish the results of a research project overseen by a primary research mentor and two members of the training program faculty, a clinician and a biostatistician. This co-mentoring paradigm is based on our belief that successful clinical research is collaborative and that investigators from different training backgrounds who have different skills are best brought together as a team.

Educational stipends from the Division and NPRI have supported Master of Health Science degrees in Clinical Research for faculty and neonatology fellows. Fellows interested in pursuing this track meet with the Fellowship Director during the first three months of their fellowship. With the guidance of the fellow's mentor and mentoring committee, a research plan is developed in the second half of the first fellowship year.

The training program is offered by the faculty of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics with the participation of other members of the Duke Medical Center faculty.

To refer a patient, 24 hours a day:
Ask for the neonatologist on call at:
1-800-MED-DUKE (1-800-633-3853)
or dial the pager directly at: (919) 970-1714.

Phone (919) 668-1592
Fax (919) 681-6065