Ocean State Clinical Coordinating Center

History

Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School share a long history of excellence in critical care and infectious disease research. Together, researchers from these two esteemed institutions have made significant advances in understanding such life-threatening illnesses as sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome.

The idea of creating a coordinating center at Rhode Island Hospital was obvious for Mitchell Levy, MD, and Steven Opal, MD, both leading clinical investigators and professors of medicine at Brown Medical School. Levy and Opal recruited Steven LaRosa, MD, an infectious disease physician and sepsis investigator at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, to Rhode Island Hospital to serve as director of the OSCCC.

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