After nearly two decades of managing clinical trials for big pharma,
CRN founder and CEO, Gail Adinamis, believed she could provide a solution to a fundamental flaw in the traditional clinical trials model, which requires patients to be on-site for all protocol visits.
This model hasn’t changed for decades despite the fact that it presents barriers to effective patient recruitment, compliance and retention, especially for long-term studies and those requiring frequent visits or when patients are unwilling or unable to travel to the study site. These inefficiencies often result in longer, more expensive trials and ultimately, delayed product launches.
In the early 90s, Ms. Adinamis seized an opportunity to build a clinical trials department from the ground up within a national homecare company. It was then that she began developing a model for centrally managing homecare services for clinical trial subjects. Her model provided trained and qualified in-home nurses to conduct protocol visits that were convenient for the patient.
In 2003, she incorporated Clinical Resource Network, LLC, a diversity company, and continued to improve on the innovative model that makes up the company’s core services today. Today, CRN’s executive team, with more than 125 years combined experience, has serviced hundreds of clinical trials. CRN now represents a global network of in-home nurses and pharmacists from more than 2,500 pre-qualified, licensed and accredited home healthcare agencies and in excess of 10,000 individual homecare professionals throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and expanding.
