Chronic Pain Research Institute
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide a streamline solution to adding successful clinical research into your established chronic pain practice.
20+ years experience
From our wildly successful clinical research site to yours!
Our Expert
We provide the know-how to build your own clinical research center without interruption to your pain practice.
What do we do at CPRI?
At Chronic Pain Research Institute, our goal is to provide a streamline solution to successfully adding clinical research to your established chronic pain practice. We have over 20 years of clinical research experience attracting industry and competitive funding in Europe and the United States. We are excited to bring this expertise to chronic pain practices around the world through one of our available know-how plans.
CPRI allows you to choose from three different options to best fit your needs. From in-depth virtual guidance to on-site clinical research center establishment, we are available to share our expertise with you.
Review our available services below.
Our Services
Comprehensive Virtual Guidance
What´s included?
- Writing protocol
- Budget writing /calculation
- Budget negotiations
- Clinical agreement review
- Setting up trial site
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP/ICH) Research Standards
- Source Documents and Patient Reported Outcomes- Data Collection
- Regulatory Guidance
- Audits and Inspections Guidance
Virtual Guidance with mentoring
What´s included?
- Writing protocol
- Budget writing /calculation
- Budget negotiations
- Clinical agreement review
- Setting up trial site
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP/ICH) Research Standards
- Source Documents and Patient Reported Outcomes- Data Collection
- Regulatory Guidance
- Audits and Inspections Guidance
- Standard Operating Process-Industry SOPs (very important)
- Study Management/Protocol – Execution from 1st patient to study close
- Ancillary Testing & Ancillary Study Support (labs, or psych evaluations or supporting providers
Virtual and on-site guidance
What´s included?
- Writing protocol
- Budget writing /calculation
- Budget negotiations
- Clinical agreement review
- Setting up trial site
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP/ICH) Research Standards
- Source Documents and Patient Reported Outcomes- Data Collection
- Regulatory Guidance
- Audits and Inspections Guidance
- Standard Operating Process-Industry SOPs (very important)
- Study Management/Protocol – Execution from 1st patient to study close
- Ancillary Testing & Ancillary Study Support (labs, or psych evaluations or supporting providers
- In-person assistance with your “first to hire” research associate interview
- Physical setting assistance
- One-on-one tutoring on project, subject and data basic management aligned with established standard operating procedures
- Writing protocol
- Budget writing /calculation
- Budget negotiations
- Clinical agreement review
- Setting up trial site
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP/ICH) Research Standards
- Source Documents and Patient Reported Outcomes- Data Collection
- Regulatory Guidance
- Audits and Inspections Guidance
- Standard Operating Process-Industry SOPs (very important)
- Study Management/Protocol – Execution from 1st patient to study close
- Ancillary Testing & Ancillary Study Support (labs, or psych evaluations or supporting providers)
- Virtual one-on-one mentoring of one research associate
- In-person assistance with your “first to hire” research associate interview
- Physical setting assistance
- One-on-one tutoring on project, subject and data basic management aligned with established standard operating procedures
- Writing protocol
- Budget writing /calculation
- Budget negotiations
- Clinical agreement review
- Setting up trial site
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP/ICH) Research Standards
- Source Documents and Patient Reported Outcomes- Data Collection
- Regulatory Guidance
- Audits and Inspections Guidance
- Standard Operating Process-Industry SOPs (very important)
- Study Management/Protocol – Execution from 1st patient to study close
- Ancillary Testing & Ancillary Study Support (labs, or psych evaluations or supporting providers
- Virtual one-on-one mentoring of one research associate
- In-person assistance with your “first to hire” research associate interview
- Physical setting assistance
- One-on-one tutoring on project, subject and data basic management aligned with established standard operating procedures
- Writing protocol
- Budget writing /calculation
- Budget negotiations
- Clinical agreement review
- Setting up trial site
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP/ICH) Research Standards
- Source Documents and Patient Reported Outcomes- Data Collection
- Regulatory Guidance
- Audits and Inspections Guidance
- Standard Operating Process-Industry SOPs (very important)
- Study Management/Protocol – Execution from 1st patient to study close
- Ancillary Testing & Ancillary Study Support (labs, or psych evaluations or supporting providers
- Virtual one-on-one mentoring of one research associate
- In-person assistance with your “first to hire” research associate interview
- Physical setting assistance
- One-on-one tutoring on project, subject and data basic management aligned with established standard operating procedures
Our Lead Expert
Leo Kapural, M.D., Ph.D. is a Pain Physician at the Carolinas Pain Institute and Center for Clinical Research. He is also a member of the clinical faculty at Wake Forest University, School of Medicine. Dr. Kapural served as a Professor of Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University and Wake Forest University, School of Medicine.
Excellence in clinical research
The research center where Leo Kapural conducts his studies is consistently listed as the largest and most successful chronic pain research site in the United States and arguably the world. Conducting complex studies that include an implant of devices requires attention to detail and approval through various audits, including those from FDA.
Pain specialist
Chronic Pain Research Institute, a know-how research company, was formed by Leo Kapural responding to the demand from pain physicians, mainly those in private practices asking for help starting and handling issues with their research centers.
Medical Scientist
The decision was made to provide a comprehensive service to our physician clients that include healthy research practice set-up, ensuring practice standards are met and verify that the site is compliant by doing our own internal audit of the formed research center.
