MFMU NETWORK (COLUMBIA UNIV. FACULTY @ SLRH AND CPMC)

所附申请建议选择纽约市哥伦比亚大学医学中心的母胎医学部，包括圣卢克-罗斯福医学中心（及其连续体伙伴关系附属机构贝丝以色列医学中心）和哥伦比亚长老会医院中心作为母胎单位合作多中心网络（MFMU）的新成员。我们的医院战略性地分布在整个大都会纽约地区。他们与各自的周围社区密切相关，从而允许有针对性地和改进的医疗保健提供，患者和医疗保健提供者之间的可靠关系，从而创造一个有利于患者招募临床试验的环境。每年有超过15，000名来自不同社会、经济、民族、种族和文化背景的初级和转诊患者在我们的设施中分娩，其中30%以上为高危患者。我们机构的母胎医学部门的教师代表了一个由高度积极性的个人组成的团队，他们热情地接近成为MFMU网络新研究中心的前景。他们是经验丰富的研究者，在临床试验中招募和保留受试者方面非常成功。该学院有一个成功的赠款申请和合同授予的记录。我们目前作为独立中心参与MFMU BEAM研究（硫酸镁有益作用的随机临床试验），并作为托马斯杰斐逊大学的附属机构参与另外两项MFMU研究。哥伦比亚大学的妇产科目前在美国国立卫生研究院的妇产科资助中排名第二，是FASTER试验的领先中心。圣卢克-罗斯福医院中心、哥伦比亚长老会中心、贝丝以色列医疗中心及其管理部门的教职员工一致渴望参加MFMU试验，并强烈支持这项赠款申请。

The attached application proposes that the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division of the Columbia University Medical Centers in New York City including St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center (with it's Continuum partnership affiliate Beth Israel Medical Center) and Columbia Presbyterian Hospital Center be selected as a new member for the Cooperative Multicenter Network of Maternal Fetal Units (MFMU). Our hospitals are strategically placed throughout the Metropolitan New York area. They are closely associated with the respective surrounding communities, thus allowing targeted and improved delivery of Health Care, dependable relationships between patients and health care providers, and thereby creating an environment that facilitates patient recruitment to clinical trials. Over 15,000 primary and referral patients who represent a broad spectrum of social, economic, ethnic, racial and cultural backgrounds deliver in our facilities each year of whom more than 30% are high risk. The faculty of the Divisions of Maternal-Fetal Medicine in our institutions represents a team of highly motivated individuals who are enthusiastically approaching the prospect of becoming a new study center for the MFMU network. They are experienced investigators who have been highly successful in recruiting and retaining subjects in clinical trials. The faculty have a record of successful grant applications and contract awards. We are currently participating as an independent Center in the MFMU BEAM Study (Randomized Clinical Trial of the Beneficial Effects of Magnesium Sulfate) and as an affiliate of Thomas Jefferson University in two additional MFMU studies. The Department of OB/GYN at Columbia University currently ranks second place nationally for funding in Obstetrics and Gynecology by the NIH and is the leading center for the FASTER trial. The faculty of the St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia Presbyterian Center, Beth Israel Medical Center and their administrations are unanimous in their eagerness to participate in the MFMU trials and strongly support this grant application.