The Atlantic C-PORT
The Atlantic Cardiovascular Patient
Outcomes Research Team
Welcome to the Atlantic C-PORT web site.
At this site, you will find information related to the primary angioplasty registry currently underway ("C-PORT II") and the Patient Initiated Emergency Response System (PIERS). You will also find links to related news items, links to the Maryland Medical Research Institute, MMRI, which serves as the data coordinating center for the C-PORT trial, a forum for discussion and links to other interesting cardiovascular sites.
The Atlantic C-PORT is a network of physician and nurse cardiovascular specialists, health care economists, quality of life researchers, clinical trial specialists, hospital administrators, and government health care policymakers and regulators.
The Atlantic C-PORT designs, develops and implements community-based, clinical trials in the area of cardiovascular medicine.
C-PORT trials are characterized by
- a wide range of hospital types involved including academic,
tertiary and community
- a wide range of practitioner styles including academic,
hospital-based and office-based
- a patient population with varied demographic characteristics
representative of the U.S. population that follows from the variety of participating
hospitals and practices
- a comprehensive set of outcome measures including
- medical
- economic and
- health-related quality of life
- an independent data coordinating center, the Clinical Trials and Surveys Corporation
The C-PORT has a decentralized structure. Participants can propose and run clinical trials from any of the affiliated institutions, including and using C-PORT components appropriate for their needs.
C-PORT Trials
The Atlantic C-PORT conducts clinical cardiovascular trials involving new treatments or diagnostic methods; studies must be of significant intellectual interest. Study outcomes must lead to significant new treatments or new diagnostic tools important in cardiac care. Comprehensive comparisons of alternative "standard" treatments are of interest to the C-PORT when outcomes of such a comparison have important implications for the treatment of heart disease or development of public policy.
Contact Information
To get in touch with the Atlantic C-PORT call, fax, write or e-mail us at the numbers and addresses listed below. C-PORT Medical Director Thomas Aversano, M.D. and C-PORT Nursing Director and Study Coordinator Cynthia Lemmon, R.N. will be happy to speak with you and, if not available when you call, will return your call promptly.
Telephone
Dr. Aversano 443-849-8989 .......................
Mrs. Lemmon 410-550-9818
FAX
410-955-0223
Postal address
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, JHAAC
Room, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224
E-mail
Taversano@cport.org - Dr. Aversano
clemmon@cport.org - Mrs. Aversano
Last modified: 11/28/2011