Over the past 28 years, NRI has successfully conducted over 375 national and international Phase II, III, and IV clinical trials in the therapeutic areas of:

• NRI is housed in a modern 7,000 square foot facility with a certified on-site laboratory
• Maintains high quality assurance standards through weekly staff meetings, regular review of protocol summaries, rapid response to monitoring questions and company queries, and ongoing internal study audits.
• Has passed six consecutive FDA audits with no cited protocol deviations or being issued 483's.
• Has done very well on numerous sponsors QA audits for high enrollment.
• Maintains a computerized patient tracking system.
• Fully HIPAA Compliant.
• Is fluent with RDE (remote data entry) in many systems.
• All staff members are bilingual in Spanish.
• Patient recruitment is typically achieved by the following means:
  

  - Extensive in-house patient database

  (14,000 current research subjects available)

  - Patient referrals - Advertising: television, newspaper, radio, etc.

Dr. Lewin serves as Director of NRI, is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology, and has been recognized as a Specialist in Clinical Hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension.  He also serves as Associate Professor of Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine and is an Attending at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He has been published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on Hypertension, Diabetes, and Lipid Metabolism. He has been awarded a degree as a Specialist in Clinical Hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension. He has also passed a course in Human Subjects Research Training given by the Society of Principal Investigators and in 2003 was designated a Certified Physician Investigator by the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians.

• Affiliated Physicians, all board certified in their specialties.
• 13 Clinical Research Coordinators
• Regulatory Department
• Quality Assurance Department
• Only involved in research protocols 
• Administrative/Operations Staff devoted solely to research subjects
• Approximately 35 total staff