Dr. Pollak has experience conducting trials across numerous indications including bunionectomy, hernia repair, total knee replacement, abdominoplasty, COVID-19, flu, and C. Difficile vaccines, tinea pedis, soft tissue infections, osteomyelitis, diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), diabetic foot ulcers, devices, and more.
Dr. Pollak aims to match excellent research sites with outstanding sponsors and CROs.
Meet Dr. Pollak
Dr. Pollak has over 30 years of research experience and has been the principal investigator (PI) of over 200 clinical trials, including over 30 bunionectomy trials. Dr. Pollak has overseen multiple surgical studies, including abdominoplasty, hernia repair, and total knee replacement. He was also a key opinion leader (KOL) in onychomycosis for 15 years.
Early in his research career it became apparent to Dr. Pollak that to optimize the likelihood of a new drug obtaining approval by the FDA, there must be competent research sites and these sites must perform the trials in a timely manner. The quality of the site’s work is paramount to meeting the sponsor’s expectation of enrollment. The eternal truism is simple: “Under promise and over deliver”. The feasibility forms must be 100% realistic in terms of the site’s ability to carry out the trial. Too many trials have sites that either do not enroll a single patient or only enroll a few patients.
Dr. Pollak believes it is important to evaluate a clinical trial site thoroughly to ensure that they will be successful when accepting a clinical trial. It is also important for a site to say no to a sponsor if they are not confident that the trial is a good fit, and the expected enrollment cannot be met.
Dr. Pollak is a leading expert in bunionectomy clinical trials.
Dr. Pollak's Experience
Dr. Pollak attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass. He graduated college in 1973 Cum Laude and later moved to San Francisco, California to attend California College of Podiatric Medicine and graduated Cum Laude in 1977.
He completed a 2-year podiatric surgical residency in Northlake, Illinois and obtained a Master of Science degree from the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine. He moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1979 and started the San Antonio Podiatry Associates where he was president of the group for nearly 40 years.
He started getting involved in clinical research from his podiatry office over 30 years ago. During this time, Dr. Pollak was president of Endeavor Clinical Research until his company was acquired by Evolution Research Group (ERG) in 2017. In September of 2022, he retired from ERG and now serves as president of Pollak Clinical Research Consulting LLC.
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Our Services
Consulting, Advising, & Business Development
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Benefits of Working with a Research Consultant
Along with Dr. Pollak’s extensive experience in the industry, he has also teamed up with leading experts to provide services for budgeting, clinical research agreements, regulatory, contracts, and patient recruitment. He also collaborates with experts who provide nearly identical source documents, budgets, and SOP’s.
Forming a high-quality selection of sites for a given trial streamlines the efficiency of both the CROs and sponsors, making the process extremely cost-effective. Implementing similar source documents and a single budget for multiple sites also results in cost savings for sponsors, CROs, as well as monitors.
- Affiliation with Experts
- Clinical Trial Budgeting
- Site Selection
- Cost-Effective Solutions
- Source Document Managment Across Multiple Sites
- Affiliation with Experts
- Clinical Trial Budgeting
- Site Selection
- Cost-Effective Solutions
- Source Document Managment Across Multiple Sites
Sponsors & CROs
Who Dr. Pollak has worked with:
Sponsors
- Abbott Laboratories
- Acadia
- Advanced Tissue Sciences
- Anacor
- Aptinyx
- Avenue Therapeutics
- Boehringer-Ingelheim
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Celgene
- Charleston Labs
- Derma Sciences
- Endo
- Ethicon
- Genentech
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Globus Medical
- Helixmith
- Heron Therapeutics
- Innocoll
- Integra Life Science
- Janssen
- Johnson & Johnson
- Lilly
- Medtronic
- Melinta
- MiMedx
- Moe Medical
- Novum
- Organogenesis
- Recro
- Sol-Gel
- Sollis Therapeutics
- Syntrix Bio
- Taro
- Teva
- Taiwanese Liposome Co.
- Trevena
- Valeant
- Vertex
- Viamet
- Vivozon
- VM BioPharmaceuticals
CROs
- Covance Clinical Solutions
- Health Solutions
- ICON
- INC Research
- IQVIA
- Lotus Clinical Research
- Novum PRS
- PPD
- Premeir Research International, LLC
- RHO
- Symbio
- Syneos
- Synteract
- Worldwide Clinical Trials
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