Research Opportunities

Residents participate in various types of research including, but not limited to: clinical outcomes based (prospective/retrospective), QA/QI, educational, community based, etc. The Department of Medicine provides mentor supervision as well as support from the clinical research team. This team is comprised of a Medical Director, Clinical Director, Clinical Research Coordinators (RNs), Office Coordinators (regulatory document support), a Data Coordinator/Administrative Assistant, and Research Lab Coordinators.

Support from Other Departments:

The Department also works in conjunction with the Health Studies Division to provide support from a research design perspective. This team is comprised of a Director of Resident Research, Biostatisticians, and Research Assistants. Media Services provides support with biomedical photography, graphics, and poster production. Collectively, this infrastructure provides the needed support to assist the Residents with individual projects from inception to completion and even to manuscript level.

Resident Tool Kit:

A Resident Tool Kit is available that includes: description of team members and resources they each provide, links to IRB information/applications/forms with descriptions of each, A guide for literature searches and taking a trial from conception to manuscript, a list of all ongoing research opportunities that may be of interest, and a comprehensive list of attending physician mentors including their areas of interest, ongoing research, and contact information.

Attending Physician Mentors:

The department is striving to identify attending physician mentors in all subspecialties in addition to internal medicine. This group of mentors and they services they provide will be geared toward assisting residents at all levels of the research process and will be molded to their level of knowledge and expertise.

Funding/Publications/Awards:

Research funding is obtained from federal state agencies, as well as from private foundations and commercial supporters. Each year, the Bosanac award, which includes a $1,000 check, is given to the resident (in any division hospital-wide) who submits the best research paper. Poster and oral presentations are given at local, regional, state, national meetings.

Dorothy Rider Pool Trust:

The Dorothy Rider Pool Health Care Trust was founded in 1976 by the estate of Leonard Parker Pool and named for his wife, Dorothy Rider Pool. The Trusts mission is to serve as a resource that enables Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network to be a superior regional hospital and improve the health of the citizens of the Lehigh Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania.

Dr. Timothy Friel

LVH Vice-Chair for Research

Dana Wentzel, RN, MSHSA, CCRC