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, Finance & Administration | 217-545-8167 jhouston@siumed.edu |
Ambrosia Griffin Accounting Officer | 217-545-8164 agriffin33@siumed.edu |

National recognition. Regional impact.
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