Julie Carrico, MBA, Associate Coordinator at The Clinical Research Center, is the go to person for clinical research marketing and procedures. Her personal goal is to make sure everyone in the mid-Willamette valley, the state of Oregon and maybe the U.S. knows that The Corvallis Clinic does clinical research.
In pursuit of this goal, she has been sending staff to various conferences to represent The Research Center. Staff have attended the OSU Gerontology conference and the Corvallis Healthy Living and Sports Expo. She has also joined a national research speaker bureau for which she developed a presentation explaining the basics of clinical research for the community. She has presented this to her colleagues at The Corvallis Clinic and to Wah Chang employees. She will present another program that she developed at the global meeting of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals in San Antonio, Texas.
Julie has been working in clinical research since 1983 and has worked on both the sponsor side and the site side, which gives her a broad perspective of the industry. She joined our staff in 2006. In 2011 she became certified as a CCRC (certified clinical research coordinator.)
She has participated in 12 research studies at the clinic, and her area of specialty is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She is currently working on an Alzheimer’s study and is branching out to take on her first diabetes study, which will be enrolling soon. She uses her industry perspective to advise the center staff on regulatory guidelines.
In her “free” time Julie is the mother of two college women. She also just completed the Corvallis half marathon. We have to run to keep up with her when she leads the Research Center daily walks.
I am honored to work with a person who demonstrates true professionalism and personal warmth. I’m also impressed that she has the courage to do a presentation at a national meeting of her peers.
If you or someone you know is interested in receiving top-notch care, consider calling about the Alzheimer’s study, the dust mite allergy treatment study, or one of our multiple diabetes studies. There is no cost to participate in a study. These studies provide research medication and study related research physician visits to participants at no cost. For more information about these studies, contact Julie at 541-754-1398, option 1 or send an email to research@corvallisclinic.com.
– Pat Eshleman is the manager of The Corvallis Clinic Clinical Research Center
