ECR – For the Success of Your Study
Ensure the success of your clinical study
with ECR’s
- More than 17 years of clinical research experience,
- Conveniently located facility dedicated to clinical research,
- Proven award-winning recruitment strategies,
- Kansas City community with diverse demographics
Experience
- Our Founder and Director of Research Services, Jody Ehrhardt, has more than 17 years experience in clinical research including phase 1 units and phase 2-4 sites
- Under her leadership as director of clinical research, one site received multiple awards for fast recruitment and long-term patient retention.
- Our physician investigators are board-certified with at least 13 years of experience.
- Half of our physician investigators have more than 30 years experience in medicine each.
- IATA certified staff
Facility
The ECR facility is a free-standing, multi-specialty research-dedicated facility just 30 minutes from Kansas City and the Kansas City International Airport and with convenient access to two highways, a research hospital, and multiple physician offices. We offer
- Private CRA monitoring room with Internet access and a spacious work area
- Comprehensive SOPs to ensure high quality data and performance
- Research dedicated ECG machine
- -70° C freezer
- Dedicated fax machine
- Secure on-site archiving
- On-site phlebotomy
- CLIA certified laboratory with centrifuge
- Dry Ice
- Secure temperature controlled drug storage, including a -20 degree freezer and research dedicated refrigerator
- Scheduled daily FedEx and UPS pick-ups
Areas of Interest and Clinical Research Experience include:
- Arthritis
- Barrett’s Esophagus
- Celiac Disease
- Chronic Constipation
- Crohn’s Disease
- Hypertension
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Joint and muscle pain
- Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis
- Seasonal Allergies
- Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Vaccines
Recruitment
Our proven recruitment tools include:
- Physician referrals from all specialties
- Quarterly newsletter, email blasts, and patient education nights
- Practice and Outreach sponsored events, fundraisers, health fairs
- Social media engagement
- First patient randomized globally: AstraZeneca- 2013: Crohn’s trial
As director of research for a previous site, Jody Ehrhardt, was honored for fast recruitment:
- First Patient First Visit: Centocor Johnson & Johnson – July 2011: For two phase II trials in the same month
- First Patient First Visit: Bristol Myers-Squibb – October 2011: Ulcerative Colitis trial
- First Patient First Visit: Bristol Myers-Squibb – December 2011: Crohn’s trial
Jody Ehrhardt is also the author of an ACRP Monitor article “Focus on Subject Retention” published in the October 10, 2010 issue.
Demographics
The demographics of the Kansas City metro area reflect the diversity of the United States as a whole. Read more about our demographics.
| KC Percent | US Percent | |
| White, Non-Hispanic | 76.3% | 67.4% |
| Black, Non-Hispanic | 13.12% | 12.2% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 6.5% | 14.1% |
| Asian | 2.0% | 4.1% |
| Two or more races, Non-Hispanic | 1.5% | 1.3% |
| American Indian | 0.4% | 0.8% |
| Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 0.1% | 0.1% |
Source: Mid-America Regional Council (MARC), based on 2004 US Census Data
Contact us now for more information about becoming a sponsor at ECR.