The Centre for Innovative Medicine (CIM) offers the following services:

• Project Management (multicentre)
• Clinical Trials Management at the MUHC (the Glen and Montreal General Hospital sites)
• Quality Control 
• Clinical Data Management and Statistics

The CIM also offers exclusive access to specialized services and equipment dedicated solely to research. The platform includes the following services and/or equipment 

• Overnight beds with negative pressure
  • phase I unit (including oncology studies)
  • vaccine testing
  • nutrition studies
     
• Imaging 
  • computerized tomography (CT) scan 
  • magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) 
  • dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA)
  • X-ray
     
• Functional testing
  • cardiopulmonary physiology exercise lab (CPET)
  • pulmonary function tests (PFT)
  • electrocardiogram (ECG) and echocardiogram
  • non-invasive vascular suite
  • locomotive tests
  • bronchoscopy 
  • gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy
     
• Experimental OR and simulation suite
• Experimental procedure rooms
• Metabolic kitchen 
• Cognitive suite 
• Sleep labs 
• Containment level 2 lab
• Biobanking

Dedicated to providing the highest quality services, all CIM research personnel are trained in research ethics, Good Clinical Practices and RI-MUHC Standard Operating Procedures.

Clinical research at the MUHC has been transformed with the launch of the front-line Centre for Innovative Medicine in 2015. 

To become a partner of the Centre for Innovative Medicine, or for information regarding services, please contact us.  

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