Improving People’s Lives Through Research
The Northwest Clinical Research Center (NWCRC) is an independent research site dedicated to providing the highest quality medical assessments and treatments. We are proud to have provided medical, psychiatric, and psychological services to the community through our partnership with the pharmaceutical industry since 1995. Research sponsored by NWCRC has been published in the best of medical journals and presented at national and international scientific meetings. Our research has contributed to the development and assessment of efficacy and safety for over 30 new medications. We take exceptional pride in the care of our patients as well as integrity in the data provided to our sponsors.
Your voluntary participation in a clinical trial provides invaluable medical information for yourself and to many others in the future. Without volunteers, medical research in America cannot progress. No new treatments could be discovered and evaluated, no proper safety testing would be possible, nor could you be assured of the effectiveness of current and future medical treatments.
If you wish to participate in a trial, specially qualified physicians, counselors, and psychologists will evaluate your situation and decide if any of the clinical trials are appropriate and/or useful to you or the community by your participation. All of this is provided for you at no cost.
Arif Khan, MD, Medical Director and Principal Investigator at NWCRC, is a Board Certified Psychiatrist and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Khan has been conducting clinical trials in the greater Seattle area since 1984 and founded NWCRC in 1995. Dr. Khan has been the Principal Investigator in over 250 clinical trials. In addition, Dr. Khan has published more than 150 scientific papers in leading medical journals. His work on design of clinical trials and safety and efficacy in clinical trials is widely recognized and presented at national and international scientific meetings.
NWCRC is located in the heart of Bellevue, Washington. At our center we offer outpatient facilities and our inpatient facility partner is located nearby in Kirkland, Washington. We are easily accessible to Seattle and entire Greater Puget Sound area (over 3.5 million people). In addition, we have a transportation service (four drivers and vehicles) available full time to transport our patients between their homes and our center. Conveniently, we are located near the freeway, have a public bus stop in front of our building, and plenty of free parking.
