The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Human Subjects Core (HSC) provides faculty and staff with the necessary infrastructure and resources to support for clinical research study coordination.
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Human Subjects Core (HSC) provides faculty and staff with the necessary infrastructure and resources to support for clinical research study coordination.
Clinical Research Manager
Clinical Research Supervisor
Epidemiologist/Research Scientist
Clinical Billing Specialist
Regulatory Specialist
Regulatory Specialist
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator
Clinical Research Coordiantor
Clinical Research Coordinator
Clinical Research Coordinator
Clinical Research Coordinator
Our clinical research office is located just steps away from UnityPoint Health-Meriter hospital and a short drive from University of Wisconsin Hospital, which provides staff with easy access to the inpatient, general and ambulatory clinics. This ideal location has facilitated the development of well-established, research-focused partnerships between clinical and research staff as well as the ability to connect easily and promptly with a diverse, research-receptive cohort of potential subjects. The clinical research office itself is well equipped with dedicated, limited access storage for physical records, private meeting rooms and technology to support web conferences.
Regulatory Services
Study Administration
Subject Recruitment
Study Coordination
Financial Support
The goal of the Gynecologic Oncology Clinical Research Program is to advance treatment through research. To accomplish this, our dedicated team of professionals works to offer the latest cancer clinical trials, where patients volunteer to participate in clinical research and receive novel cancer treatments. The clinical trials program is robust, with dozens of cancer research trials currently open. In addition, at the UW Carbone Cancer Center, women with metastatic disease can get a no-cost genetic analysis of their cancer that may reveal mutations that can be targeted with new drugs. Other ongoing research is as simple as donating extra tissue from surgery, or participating in a research database to track treatment response.
Principal Investigator: Kara Hoppe, DO
UW IRB #2016-1184
Funding: National Institute of Health (NIH)
Purpose:
Principal Investigator: Kara Hoppe, DO
UPH IRB #2020-017
Funding: Wisconsin Partnership Program
Principal Investigator: Kara Hoppe, DO
UW IRB #2017-0372
Funding: National Institute of Health (NIH)
Principal Investigator: Jacquelyn Adams, MD
UPH IRB #2020-003
Funding: Meriter Foundation
Purpose: To compare two medications, Misoprostol and Pitocin, used for inducing labor when a woman has broken her water but is not yet in labor, to see which medication will make labor go faster and determine if there are any additional benefits to the mother. Both medications are used regularly in the hospital and are considered standard of care.
Principal Investigator: Igor Iruretagoyena, MD; Jenna Racine, MD
UPH IRB #2020-005
Funding: Meriter Foundation
Purpose: to study IVC collapsibility, IVC-aortic index, and brachial artery reactivity in postpartum women with and without hypertension. We will study these ultrasound parameters as markers for persistent postpartum hypertension. We will be performing the ultrasounds every day the patient remains in the hospital postpartum, starting on PPD1 up until PPD3. There will be 62 patients in each group for a total of 124 patients.
Principal Investigators: Laura Cooney, MD; Aleks Stanic-Kostic, MD, PhD
IRB # 2018-1247
Funding: American Society for Reproductive Medicine and department support
Purpose: to analyze the immune profile of women with and without PCOS undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment. The study aim to identify key profiles in women with PCOS can help determine a course of treatment that can improve the chances of conceiving in women with PCOS.
Principal Investigators: Laura Cooney, MD
IRB # 2021-0489
Funding: University of Iowa
Purpose:
Principal Investigators: Dinesh Shah, MD; Sathish Kumar, DVM, PhD
UPH IRB #2018-008
Funding: National Institute of Health (NIH)
Purpose: To determine if the expression and activation of the Angiotensin 2 receptors is different in the blood vessels of women with preeclampsia compared to women with an uncomplicated pregnancy. Study includes placenta donation and/or an omental biopsy during caesarean section.
Principal Investigator: Aleks Stanic-Kostic, MD, PhD
UPH IRB # 2018-010
Funding: Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Purpose: To analyze the immune profile of women with preterm delivery and term delivery. The goal is to identify key differences in the immune profile (if any) than can later be used to predict the risk of preterm delivery or develop a treatment.