Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 664-666 , March 2009

Keeping clinicians in clinical research: the Clinical Research/Reproductive Scientist Training Program

  • Alicia Y. Armstrong, M.D., M.H.S.C.R.

      Affiliations

    • Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Alicia Y. Armstrong, M.D., M.H.S.C.R., Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 (FAX: 301-402-0884).
    • ,
  • Alan DeCherney, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland
    • ,
  • Phyllis Leppert, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
    • ,
  • Robert Rebar, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama
    • ,
  • Yvonne T. Maddox, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland

Received 6 May 2008 ,Revised 14 October 2008 ,Accepted 17 October 2008.

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 P.L. has a consultation agreement with Wyeth. A.Y.A. has nothing to disclose. A.D. has nothing to disclose. R.R. has nothing to disclose. Y.T.M. has nothing to disclose.

 Supported in part by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

PII: S0015-0282(08)04275-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.10.029

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 664-666 , March 2009

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