Administration and Financial Management Division

The Center for Clinical Research was established to increase clinical and translational research infrastructure, capacity and productivity. A centralized administrative infrastructure is an efficient and responsive means to provide clinical research support, and in turn:

  • Provides shared services that are difficult to establish and maintain by individual investigators
  • Creates a central point of contact for investigators
  • Improves compliance and quality
  • Produces economy of effort
  • Saves overall costs

The central concept of the CCR is to support faculty and their research teams using a flexible offering of services; either by utilizing specific study services or optioning for full-service support.  CCR faculty and staff support clinical investigators with clinical research design and methods, protocol development, grant submission, statistical analysis, data management, financial management and study coordination.

Joseph Milbrandt, PhD
Associate Professor, Director
217-545-7811
jmilbrandt@siumed.edu
Amber Fifer, PharmD, ACRP-CP
Research Assistant Professor, Associate Director
217-545-4541
afifer56@siumed.edu
Joseph Houston, MPA
Director, Clinical Research Finance & Administration
217-545-8167
jhouston@siumed.edu
Ambrosia Griffin
Accounting Officer
217-545-8164
agriffin33@siumed.edu