Project Title: Characterization of Research Participants
Principal Investigator: Pedro Avila, MD Co-Investigators: Paul A. Greenberger, MD; Leslie C. Grammar, MD; Anne M. Ditto, MD; Anju T. Peters, MD; Carol Saltoun, MD; Jihan Quraishi, RN; and Jenny Shen, MSc.
Supported by Division of Allergy-Immunology.
Introduction/Purpose: You are being asked to participate in this research visit so we can better characterize your present health status. You will fill out questionnaires and have some tests to confirm your medical history, particularly related to allergic conditions and asthma. We will also collect samples for current and future research. We will use the information collected in this visit to create a database of people interested in participating in clinical studies in this research unit. This database will help us match more efficiently participants with current and future research studies.
Contact for future research studies: We will keep your contact information and we may contact you in the future regarding new research studies. You may request at any point to be removed from our list of subjects who are interested in being contacted for additional studies.
Procedures: If you agree to participate, you will be asked to come to the Northwestern University - Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Clinical Research Unit for a single visit. During this visit, you will undergo the procedures found in the informed consent. The visit will take up to 4 hours. Read the risks related to each procedure in the Risks Section. Read the whole Consent in all other sections.
