1. GCRC Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill General Clinical Research Center Clarence W. Potter, cpotter@med.unc.edu

2. Mission … to advance patient oriented research by providing specialized expertise and highest quality care in a professional and user-friendly environment. We want to make it easy to do research Where else can you show up with nothing more than an idea, initiative, and do a study? Free services - we draw / process the blood, we pay for labs, and we build the database I offer to help them write the application

3. UNC GCRC One of the largest centers: ~10,000 outpatient visits a year, 5 minutes to 8 hours ~2,500 inpatient days, 1 day to 72 days ~300 “approved” protocols ~200 “active” protocols Not per-diem center All kinds of protocols – nutrition, cancer, hiv, cf, hcv, diabetes

4. Standard Organization Nursing (UNC -10 beds, 6 rooms, 18 nurses, 2 phlebotomists) Nutrition – Research Kitchen, Nutrition Education/Assessment, Anthropomorphic Measurements Core Lab – HPLC, ELISA, Investigator wet lab work space Informatics – Computers, Networks, Databases, Training, New Technology Administration Research Subject Advocate Statistician Epidemiologist

5. Not So Standard Administration – has funds for investigators Body Composition Core Lab – DXA, pQCT, Activity Monitors, Indirect Calorimetry Training – 5 Doris Duke sponsored Fellows, 3 more by the GCRC, lot of K23 support

6. Informatics Core Director, 1/2 database programmer, 1/2 student ~100 users (GCRC staff and Investigators) ~60 PCs / Laptops 10 printers, 4 scanners File Server (Win2000), Database Server(Win2000/MS SQL), Web Server (UNIX) Computer connectivity Computer Training (Win, MS Office, Database Mgt, …) Web Development Database Development (Access, SQL) WHATEVER

7. New Stuff in the Works Cold Fusion server to improve our web access to data capability (especially useful for multi-center) Additional.5 fte web programmer Teleform to give us scannable forms Wired all I/P and O/P rooms for investigators Video Conferencing

8. How Can We Help BIRN Hosting applications Hosting storage Assist other investigators in using of BIRN data