Research

Current Clinical Trials

Our Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine faculty participate in clinical trials that are sponsored by the NIH, industry, and the University. Below is a listing of our current clinical trials in pulmonary & critical care medicine. For more information on specific trials, please contact us at [email protected].

Outpatient
Illness	Study	PI / CO-I
Registry Study: Pulmonary Nodule	Nodify Data Registry Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Pushan Jani Co-I: Dr. Rodeo Abrencillo Co-I: Dr. Matthew Thau Co-I: Dr. Kha Dinh
Registry Study: PH-ILD	DeciPHer Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Rodeo Abrencillo
Registry Study: Burnout Among Healthcare Professionals	HELLO Trial Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. William Harding
Registry Study: IPN (Incidental Pulmonary Nodule)	Tempus IPN – MHH Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Pushan Jani Co-I: Dr. Sujith Cherian Co-I: Dr. Kha Dinh Co-I: Dr. Zafar Bilal
Registry Study: PH	Momentus – Tempus PH ECG Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Rodeo Abrencillo
PAH	INSMED 202 Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: Dr. Farah Kazzaz Co-I: Dr. Bindu Akkanti
	INSMED 203 Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: Dr. Farah Kazzaz Co-I: Dr. Bindu Akkanti
	UTC 301 Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: Dr. Farah Kazzaz Co-I: Dr. Bindu Akkanti
	UTC 303 Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: Dr. Farah Kazzaz Co-I: Dr. Bindu Akkanti
Progressive PF	BMS IM027-1015 Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Rodeo Abrencillo Co-I: Dr. Gautam Sikka Co-I: Dr. Alisha Young
	UTC 305 – TETON Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Rodeo Abrencillo Co-I: Dr. Maulin Patel
	AP01-007 – AVALYN Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Rodeo Abrencillo Co-I: Dr. Gautam Sikka Co-I: Dr. Bilal Zafar
ILD	Octilia Not recruiting yet	PI:Dr. Rodeo Abrencillo Co-I:pending
IPF	MOONSCAPE Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Rodeo Abrencillo Co-I: Dr. Maryam Kaous Co-I: Dr. William Harding
	BMS IM027-068 Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Rodeo Abrencillo Co-I: Dr. Gautam Sikka Co-I: Dr. Alisha Young
	REVERT TVD-101-003P Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Rodeo Abrencillo Co-I’s pending
PH-COPD	MERCK 013 Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: Dr. Farah Kazzaz Co-I: Dr. Bindu Akkanti Co-I: Dr. Javier Barreda Garcia Co-I: Dr. Joanna Scoon
Refractory Chronic Cough	BELLUS CALM-1 Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Mark Warner Co-I: Dr. Rodeo Abrencillo Co-I: Dr. Sami Hossri Co-I: Dr. Robert Feldman
COVID-Related Sleep Disturbances	RECOVER Sleep Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: Dr. Ruckshanda Majid Co-I: Dr. Reeba Mathew
Type II Diabetes (DM)	WISHes 4 ME Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Reeba Mathew

Inpatient
Illness	Study	PI / CO-I
Small Phlebotomy Tubes vs Standard Phlebotomy Tubes in Reducing Blood Transfusions	Phlebotomy Tube Study Actively recruiting in Cypress and TMC	PI: Dr. Javier Barreda Garcia
Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest	Role of Palliative Medicine on patients admitted with diagnosis of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Gabriel Patarroyo Aponte Co-I: Dr. Sujith Cherian Co-I: Dr. Syed Zubair Ahmed
Patients admitted to MICU	Role of Social Workers and Case Managers in an Intensive Care Unit: A Multicenter Prospective Study Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Gabriel Patarroyo Aponte Co-I: Dr. Sujith Cherian Co-I: Dr. William Harding Co-I: Dr. Mark Warner
Post Cardiac Arrest Syndrome	PCAS + IVF Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Gabriel Patarroyo Aponte Co-I: Dr. Christopher Bertine Co-I: Dr. Sujith Cherian Co-I: Dr. Shiba Armin Co-I: Dr. Gunnar Reichenberger
Post Cardiac Arrest Syndrome	PCAS + Vasopressin Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Gabriel Patarroyo Aponte Co-I: Dr. Abdul Halawa Co-I: Dr. Christopher Bertini
COVID-Related Respiratory Infection	STRIVE Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: Dr. Robier Aguillon Prada Co-I: Dr. Christopher Harding
COVID-Related Respiratory Infection	STRIVE 2 Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: Dr. Robier Aguillon Prada Co-I: Dr. Christopher Harding
Mechanical Ventilation	PREVENT Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Pushan Jani Co-I: Dr. Pascal Kingah Co-I: Dr. Maulin Patel Co-I: Dr. Gautam Sikka Co-I: Dr. Ghazi Rizvi Co-I: Dr. Khalid Mohamed Ahmed
Mechanical Ventilation	COSMIC Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Sujith Cherian Co-I: Dr. Rosa Estrada-Y-Martin
Respiratory virus infection undergoing mechanical ventilation	INVENT Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: pending
Pneumonia	ESsCAPE – BIOTEST 996 Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: pending
Pulmonary Embolism	PE-TRACT Actively recruiting	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: Dr. Farah Kazzaz Co-I: Dr. Maulin Patel Co-I: Dr. Pascal Kingah Co-I: Dr. Sukhdeep Basra Co-I: Dr. Brittany Owen
Pulmonary Embolism – Intermediate Risk	NAIL-IT Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Maulin Patel Co-I: Dr. Farah Kazzaz Co-I: Dr. Sukhdeep Basra Co-I: Dr. Ferdous Kadri
Pleural Effusion	Pleurodesis study in malignant pleural effusion Actively recruiting at LBJ	PI: Dr. Sujith Cherian Co-I: Dr. Sabiha Armin Co-I: Dr. Rosa Estrada-Y-Martin Co-I: Dr. Saad Farooq Co-I: Dr. Jordan Killingsworth
Septic Shock	MiDO DOPA Study Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Gautam Sikka Co-I: Dr. Gabriel Patarroyo Aponte Co-I: Dr. Maulin Patel
Sepsis-Induced Hypotension	Pending protocol synopsis Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: pending
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)	ERGOMED Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: Dr. William Harding Co-I: Dr. Robier Aguillon Prada Co-I: Dr. Ghazi Rizvi Co-I: Dr. Matthew Thau
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)	BARDA 122815-01 Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Bela Patel Co-I: Dr. William Harding Co-I: Dr. Robier Aguillon Prada Co-I: Dr. Matthew Thau Co-I: Dr. Ghazi Rizvi
Obesity	Obesity RCT Not recruiting yet	PI: Dr. Rosa Estrada-Y-Martin
Central Line Placement	CERTA-OBVIUS	PI: Dr. Bindu Akkanti Co-I: William Harding Co-I: Robier Aguillon Prada Co-I: Kah Dinh

Additional Links:
Pulmonary Center of Excellence
Lung Tissue Biorepository – Pulmonary Center of Excellence

For more information, please contact our research team at [email protected].