Women's Medical Research Group, a subsidiary of Florida Fertility Institute, is a freestanding, community based research facility dedicated to performing clinical research trials. Our primary objectives are to provide optimal patient care and service, maximizing our clients expectations by meeting enrollment goals and providing error free study reports. We are dedicated to developing and maintaining long term relationships with our clients and establishing Women's Medical Research Group as a premier clinical research center for women's studies.
Women's Medical Research Group's staff includes two fellowship trained reproductive endocrinologists, an internist, and four advanced registered nurse practitioners. Our staff is dedicated to patient recruitment utilizing our extensive in-house database, affiliated agreements with community based obstetrician-gynecologists, and academic affiliations with residency programs in obstetrics and gynecology and in family practice. We also utilize multi-media marketing when appropriate.
Women's Medical Research Group conducts Phase II, III, and IV clinical, pharmacokinetic, and pharmacoeconomic trials. Our primary specialities are gynecology and women's health and general medicine. These would include gynecologic studies in:
General medical studies would include:
Additional areas of research include new instrumentation for gynecologic surgical procedures or adjuvant therapies during surgery i.e. adhesion formation.
Women's Medical Research Center is located in St. Petersburg Florida, a half hour's drive from Tampa International airport and just minutes from Florida's gulfcoast beaches and hotels. Our facility is a 5000 sq. ft. building that includes seven examination rooms, in-house specimen processing, biological sample refrigerators/freezers, dedicated space for study monitors, secure short and long term record storage and a state of the art computer network. Mammography, bone densitometry, and ultrasound services are provided within the facility. The practice is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization.
Under the direction of Edward Zbella, MD, FACOG, FACS, founder and medical director of Womens Medical Research Group, clinical studies have been conducted for the past twelve years with the following pharmaceutical companies and CROs: Wyeth-Ayerst, Pfizer, Proctor and Gamble, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Organon, Rhone-Poulenc, Searle, TAP, Glaxo Wellcome, Pharmacia/Upjohn, Parke-Davis, Paragon Biomedical Inc, Quintiles, Parexel.
Edward Zbella, M.D. or Cynthia Smith, ARNP
Women's Medical Research Group
3268 66th Street North
St. Petersburg, Florida 33710
Phone: 727-341-1991
Fax: 727-343-3492
Email: smithgyn1@msn.com
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