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LA CaTS Cores & Resources Request Form
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Below are the LA CaTS Cores and Resource services that are available to facilitate your study. You are encouraged to
contact the individual cores and resources early on in the proposal process to discuss your proposed work and need for
their services. The LA CaTS Center is working to expand its services further for investigators and additional services will
be added periodically.
LA CaTS CORE & RESOURCE SERVICES
Cores & Resources
Biomedical Informatics
(BMI) Core
Clinical Research Design,
Epidemiology &
Biostatistics Core (DEBC)
Clinical Research Resources
Services Provided under Core
☐ Design, development & maintenance of a database
for prospective data collection
☐ Support for accessing data from existing clinical &
health-related databases (i.e. LSU Health databases)
☐ *Consultation on specialized bioinformatics needs
(i.e. analysis of genomics data, advanced data mining,
computationally intensive analyses, etc.)
☐ Consultation & guidance in study design
☐ Statistical analysis
☐ Prepare randomization schedule
☐ Sample size computations
☐ Interpretation of findings
☐ Consultation from epidemiology expertise
LA CaTS clinical site to see patients for studies. Check all
that apply:
☐ Pennington Biomedical Research Center
(Baton Rouge) Inpatient & Outpatient Clinics
☐ Tulane University Clinical Translational Unit
(1440 Canal St., Suite 1700, New Orleans)
☐ LSUHSC New Orleans, Clinical &
Translational Research Center (2021 Perdido
St., Suite E421, New Orleans, 70112)
☐ Research Institute for Children at Children’s
Hospital in New Orleans
☐ Other LSU Health Care Services Division
Hospital or Clinic, please specify:
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☐ *Study coordinator or nurse to conduct study visits &
interact with research subjects
☐ *Lab services
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Contact
Ronald Horswell, PhD (Pennington
Biomedical)
Email: BiomedInformatics@lacats.org
Office: 225-763-2983
William Johnson, PhD (Pennington
Biomedical)
John Lefante, PhD (Tulane)
Donald Mercante, PhD (LSUHSC New
Orleans)
Email: info@lacats.org
Pennington Biomedical Research Center:
Frank Greenway, MD
Email: Frank.Greenway@pbrc.edu
Mandy Shipp, RD
Email: Mandy.Shipp@pbrc.edu
Office: 225-763-2677
Tulane University:
Roberta McDuffie
Email: rmcduffi@tulane.edu
Phone: 504-988-0200
LSUHSC New Orleans:
Virginia Garrison
Email: Vgarri@lsuhsc.edu
Phone: 504-903-3426
Research Institute for Children at
Children’s Hospital in New Orleans:
Tristane Darensburg, MSPH
Email: tdarensburg@chnola-research.org
Phone: 504-896-9401
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☐ *Imaging services
Community Engagement &
Outreach Resource
Ethics & Regulatory
Knowledge Resource
Health Literacy Core
Clinical Research Education,
Mentoring & Career
Development Core
☐ Consultation in community-based participatory
research design
☐ Consultation on ensuring that the community-based
research considers the social and cultural norms for
community engagement
☐ Consultation on partnering with communities to
implement programs at reducing health disparities
☐ Consultation on communication and dissemination of
community-based research initiatives
☐ Consultation on ethics advisory services for protocol
development.
☐ Consultation on regulatory advisory services for
protocol development.
LSU HCSD Hospitals or Clinics:
Angie Brown
Email: abrow7@lsuhsc.edu
Phone: 225-354-4819
Xavier University of LA – Center for
Minority Health and Health Disparities
Research and Education:
Kathleen Kennedy, Pharm.D.
Email: kkenned1@xula.edu
Phone: 504-520-7421
Margarita Echeverri, Ph.D.
Email: mechever@xula.edu
Phone: 504-520-6719
Ethics:
Richard Culbertson, PhD (LSUHSC New
Orleans)
rculbe@lsuhsc.edu
Regulatory:
Leigh Lamonica, JD, CIPP/US, CHC, CHRC
(Pennington Biomedical)
Leigh.Lamonica@pbrc.edu
☐ Consultation in development of protocols, consent
forms & other written materials designed for vulnerable
populations.
☐ Assistance is providing plain language communication
to research subjects.
Terry Davis, PhD (LSUHSC Shreveport)
Email: tdavis1@lsuhsc.edu
Office: 318-675-8694
Connie Arnold, PhD
Email: CArnol@lsuhsc.edu
Office: 318-675-4324
☐ Consultation in preparing the protocol
☐ Assistance in identifying resources and collaborators
within the LA CaTS institutions
☐ Assistance in negotiating the administrative and
regulatory pathway
☐ *Certificate in Clinical Research
☐ *Master of Science in Clinical Research
Roy Weiner, MD (Tulane)
Paula Gregory, PhD (LSUHSC New Orleans)
DeNean La Roche (Tulane)
Pareen Shenoy, MPH (Tulane)-Navigator
Email: CareerDevel@lacats.org
Phone: 504-988-6061
* May require additional budget support. Contact the appropriate Core for details when planning your budget
to confirm.
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