The Harvard-Thorndike Clinical Research Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

The Harvard-Thorndike Clinical Research Center (CRC) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) provides a wide array of services and facilities to investigators including: bed and board; routine and specialized nursing care; routine and specialized nutrition services; assistance with specimen collection and measurement; and outpatient interview and examination rooms. Research support may be provided within our research unit or by our staff in other units of the hospital.

The Harvard-Thorndike CRC is located on the East Campus of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on the eighth floors of the Gryzmish and Feldberg buildings. The CRC provides space for inpatient, outpatient, and administrative support activities. The inpatient unit consists of eight beds in two double rooms and four single rooms. All have private restrooms, and one has a private shower. The outpatient area consists of 12 rooms. Of these, three are general purpose outpatient rooms and one is designated as an interview room. Other rooms on the outpatient wing are equipped for neurological testing, nasal potential difference testing, dental studies, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, and a syncope and falls-in-the-elderly laboratory.

In addition to the activities of the patient unit, the BIDMC CRC has an active Metabolism & Nutrition Research unit with expertise in body composition measurement, bioelectrical impedance, and metabolic testing. Located on the outpatient unit is a metabolic kitchen for preparation of nutrient controlled meals. The Metabolism & Nutrition Research unit also provides state-of-the-art nutrition computing facilities with programs for nutrient analysis, semi-quantitative food frequency analysis, and design and specification of research diets.