Clinical Research Administration

Mission Statement

HSS Research Institute is dedicated to supporting, fostering, and ensuring safe, compliant and scientifically valuable patient-oriented clinical research.

Services

HSS Clinical Research Administration will provide services to facilitate all functions from clinical trial design conception through to a final contract and submission to the IRB, to study execution and closeout.

Clinical Research Administration (CRA) functions as a support team, providing clinical research investigators services including, but not limited to:

• Project development
• Contract negotiations for industry-funded studies
• Budget development, as needed, and negotiations
• Voucher creation for your individual studies
• CRP and IRB Administrative review prior to submission of your clinical protocol
• Internal monitoring for your research studies
• Monthly education seminars for the research coordinator community

CRA is committed to providing exemplary service, oversight, support, and educational training in the conduct of human subjects’ research. As research evolves, CRA too continues to evolve in an effort to accommodate our clinical investigators, making the administrative and regulatory process as seamless as possible and encouraging further research at our institution.

Contact Information

Damien Francois
Research System Administrator, IT
212-774-7154
francoisd@hss.edu

Margarita Gilyadova, MD
Clinical Research Finance Administrator
646-714-6786
gilyadovam@hss.edu

Afshin Zartoshti
Clinical Research Finance Administrator
917-260-3544
zartoshtia@hss.edu

Lediona Ardolli
Quality Assurance Administrator
646-714-6362
ardollil@hss.edu

Sean Meighan
Clinical Research Accountant
212-774-2410
meighans@hss.edu

Charles Castel
IRB Administrator
212-774-2939
castelc@hss.edu

Patricia Salazar
Administrative Assistant
212-606-1238
salazarp@hss.edu

Our clinical research managers facilitate project development, contract negotiations and budget development for various studies based on services. Listed below are the managers and their appropriate service areas.