Patty Ford, RN, CCRC

Patty Ford, RN, CCRC is the Chief Clinical Officer/Partner of Compass Research. Patty was the Clinical Manager for a 98-bed Phase I unit that included a 12-bed intensive treatment room. She managed a staff of approximately 50 employees, including clinical, laboratory, data and recruitment staff. She was directly involved in the successful completion of all protocols.

Since beginning her research career in 1991, Patty has worked on over 590 Phase I trials. These have included cardiac safety, food effect, single ascending dose, multiple ascending dose, bioavailability/bioequivalence trials, radiolabeled ADME studies, and 8 first-in-human trials

 Patty is proud of the sound relationships she has built with pharmaceutical sponsors, from small biotech companies to established corporations. She has worked with over 100 pharmaceutical sponsors.

Patty has been a licensed nurse since 1975. She began her career in research as a clinical research coordinator, and progressed to Clinical Manager within 6 years. In 1997, she obtained her CCRC certification. She is passionate in providing the highest quality trial results and values the ethical principles and guidelines established to protect human subjects.