College of Medicine-Chattanooga Research
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine Chattanooga has a long history of quality research performed by medical students, residents, fellows, faculty, and community partners in collaboration with our partners at Erlanger.
- Oncology in Pediatrics and Adult patients
- Emergency medicine and emergency response
- Family Medicine
- Stroke and neurological diseases
- Orthopaedic surgery
- Colo-rectal surgery
- Surgical oncology
- General Surgery
- Infectious disease/hospital infections
- Cardiology
- Gastroenterology
- Urology
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Plastic Surgery
- Internal Medicine
The UT Health Science Center College of Medicine-Chattanooga provides support to faculty and staff in their efforts to obtain external funding for investigator-initiated research and other sponsored projects, while ensuring compliance with University policy, sponsor policy, and applicable law.
Giuseppe Pizzorno, PhD, PharmD
Associate Dean for Research, College of Medicine-Chattanooga
Chief Research Officer, Erlanger Health System
423.778.6956
Stacey Hendricks, CIM
IRB Administrator
423.778.3818
Manoo Bhakta, MD
IRB Chair
423.778.38
Office of Research
The Office of Research oversees all activities including human research participants, while providing the following:
1. Consultation during protocol preparation
2. Review of protocols, consent forms, and other compliance-related documents before study approval is requested from compliance entities
3. Post-approval monitoring to ensure that approved procedures are being used and research participants are protected
4. Education and training on research compliance
5. Development of institutional policies to protect human research participants.
Goal: To create an environment that fosters the ethical conduct of human subjects research through quality assurance and education.
