Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine (Cardiology) shares this news:
DCRI was awarded a seven-year renewal as Coordinating Center for NHLBI's Heart Failure Network, to be led by Kevin Anstrom, PhD, as the Data Coordinating Center PI & Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHS as Clinical Coordinating Center PI.
The HF Network aims to accelerate research in the diagnosis and management of HF and to improve patient outcomes through evaluation of novel therapies in multiple clinical trials across 9 regional clinical centers. Date of renewal is Jan 1, 2012 and total award= $33 million. Other co-investigators include Kerry Lee, PhD (original PI); Eric Velazquez, MD and Daniel Mark, MD, MPH.
The HFN study chair is Eugene Braunwald, MD and the regional clinical centers include Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Harvard Partners, Vermont-Tufts, University of Pennsylvania, Jefferson Medical Center, Mayo Clinic, Duke University, Emory, Washington University.
Michael Felker, MD, will be the PI for the Duke Regional Clinical Center. A clinical research skills core lab will be led by Christopher O'Connor, MD, who served as the PI for the first iteration of the HFN regional clinical center. Other investigators include Joe Rogers, MD and Mark Donahue, MD
The HF Network aims to accelerate research in the diagnosis and management of HF and to improve patient outcomes through evaluation of novel therapies in multiple clinical trials across 9 regional clinical centers. Date of renewal is Jan 1, 2012 and total award= $33 million. Other co-investigators include Kerry Lee, PhD (original PI); Eric Velazquez, MD and Daniel Mark, MD, MPH.
The HFN study chair is Eugene Braunwald, MD and the regional clinical centers include Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Harvard Partners, Vermont-Tufts, University of Pennsylvania, Jefferson Medical Center, Mayo Clinic, Duke University, Emory, Washington University.
Michael Felker, MD, will be the PI for the Duke Regional Clinical Center. A clinical research skills core lab will be led by Christopher O'Connor, MD, who served as the PI for the first iteration of the HFN regional clinical center. Other investigators include Joe Rogers, MD and Mark Donahue, MD