North Hempstead, New York 11042
516-708-2556 http://www.northshorelij.edu furie@nshs.edu
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, one of the largest integrated health care systems in the United States, provides medical coverage for patients in five counties. At the hub of the 15 hospital System is North Shore University Hospital, a 744 bed hospital with an academic affiliation to New York University School of Medicine, and Long Island Jewish Hospital with an academic affiliation to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The Program in Novel Therapeutics was established in 1990 to foster clinical research in the area of new drug development for musculoskeletal and autoimmune diseases. This Center specializes in basic and clinical investigation in the areas of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, lymphocyte biology, autoimmunity, metabolic bone disease, cartilage transplantation, and molecular genetics. Facilities include an outpatient as well as an inpatient clinical research unit for phase I-IV studies.
The Program in Novel Therapeutics has performed over 70 phase I-IV studies with a variety of sponsors.
Our Program has performed studies with drugs and biologics in the following disease categories:
- Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
- Back Pain
- Common Variable Immune Deficiency
- Dermatomyositis
- Genetics
- Gout
- Inflammatory Arthritis
- Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Lupus Nephritis
- Membranous Nephropathy
- Osteoporosis
- Polymyositis
- Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
- Psoriasis
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Scleroderma
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
CLINICAL INVESTIGATORS
Director, The Program in Novel Therapeutics and Chief, Division of Rheumatology and Allergy-Clinical Immunology, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
Professor of Clinical Medicine,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Director,The SLE and Autoimmune Disease Treatment Center
Director,Fellowship Program
Avram Goldberg, M.D.
Director, The Scleroderma Treatment Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Maria-Louise Barilla-LaBarca, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Director, Housestaff and Medical Student Education
Program
Director, Fellowship Program
Robert Greenwald, M.D.
Associate Chairman of Medicine for Academic Affairs
Galina Marder, M.D.
Director, Inflammatory Muscle Disease and Vasculitis Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Chief, Pediatric Rheumatology, Schneider Children's Hospital
Anne Eberhard, MB FRACP
Chief, Pediatric Rheumatology, Schneider Children's
Hospital at North Shore University Hospital
Lilliana Barillas-Arias, MD
Scheider Children's Hospital
Director, Metabolic Bone Disease Program
Director, Division of Biostatistics, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System Research Institute
Senior Research Coordinator
Certified Clinical Research Coordinator
Michelle Kong - Rosario
Research Coordinator
Donna Ammirati
Research Coordinator
Rachel Saltzman
Research Coordinator
Director, Center for Infusion Therapy
Patricia Dean, R.N.
Infusion Nurse Specialist
Allison Venuto, R.N.
Infusion Nurse Specialist
BASIC INVESTIGATORS
Director, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research Program
Charles Chu, Ph.D.
Director, Laboratory of Lymphocyte Biology
Daniel Grande, Ph.D.
Director, Cartilage Biology Research
Peter Gregersen, M.D.
Chief, Division of Human Biology and Genetics
Percio S. Gulko M.D.
Director, Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology, Center
for Genomics and Human Genetics
Kevin Tracey, M.D.
Director and Chief Executive Officer, The Feinstein
Institute of Medical Research
INVESTIGATIVE PHARMACISTS
Research Pharmacist
ADMINISTRATOR
Administrative Secretary
Dermatology/Plastic Surgery
Endocrinology
Immunology/Infectious Diseases
Musculoskeletal
Nephrology/Urology
Rheumatology
The Program in Novel Therapeutics is based in the Division of Rheumatology at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Lake Success, New York. Investigators span many facilities of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, including North Shore University Hospital, Long Island Jewish Hospital, Schneider Children's Hospital, and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Because the Program is located in one of the most densely populated areas of the country and draws from a population of over five million, patient enrollment for study protocols has been excellent. Patient recruitment has also been enhanced by a computerized database; which currently contains 45,000 patients and is growing at a rate of 2,000 patients per year. Other facilities include: a 6 bed unit devoted to infusional therapy, a gene therapy unit, musculoskeletal ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), skeletal radiology, minus seventy degree freezers, a bone densitometer (Hologic), and an on-site IRB. The immunology research laboratories, which house technology to perform basic serologic tests, PCR, HLA typing, flow cytometry, DNA sequencing, peptide sequencing and synthesis, and high throughput genotyping expression analysis using DNA microchip arrays, are available for those protocols requiring specialized in vitro work. Utilizing rodent models of arthritis, this facility can perform pre-clinical evaluation of agents in development for rheumatoid and other types of inflammatory arthritis.
Richard Furie, M.D.
Director, The Program in Novel Therapeutics
The Program in Novel Therapeutics, NS-LIJ Health System
Division of Rheumatology and Allergy-Clinical Immunology
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
2800 Marcus Avenue, Suite 200
Lake Success, NY 11042
USA
516-708-2556
516-708-2574 (fax)
furie@nshs.edu
www.northshorelij.edu