Olukayode David Garuba, MS, CCRP

Lead, Clinical Research

(832) 826-5622

garuba@bcm.edu

Lead, Clinical Research: Pediatrics
Cardiology
Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX, USA

Texas Children's Hospital (West Tower) (Hospital): Pediatric Cardiology
CCRC
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: 18328265622
garuba@bcm.edu

Certified Clinical Research Professional (CCRP): #47824 (09/01/2014 - 09/01/2015); Society for Clinical Research Associates

Strongly motivated to work in clinical research coordination.

Pediatric Heart Network Conference: Conference (Participant, 2013); Sponsor: Baylor College of Medicine

Cardiology 2017 Conference: Conference (Participant, 2017); Sponsor: Mezzion Pharma

Elijah Bolin, Carmen Watrin, Olukayode Garuba, Carolyn Altman, Nancy Ayres and Shaine Morris. " Risk Factors for Postnatal Surgery in the Fetus With Borderline Small Left Heart " Circulation. 2013 ; 128 (A15552)
Wayne J. Franklin; Anita Saraf; Leda Kloudas; Fred Rodriguez; Olukayode D. Garuba; Dhaval Parekh. " SERUM BIOMARKERS IN ADULT CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE " J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Mar ; 59 (doi:10.1016/S0735-1097)
Leo Lopez,Steven Colan,Mario Stylianou,Suzanne Granger,Felicia Trachtenberg,Peter Frommelt,Gail Pearson,Joseph Camarda,James Cnota,Meryl Cohen,Andreea Dragulescu,Michele Frommelt,Olukayode Garuba,Tiffanie Johnson,Wyman Lai,Joseph Mahgerefteh,. " Relationship of Echocardiographic Z Scores Adjusted for Body Surface Area to Age, Sex, Race, and Ethnicity: The Pediatric Heart Network Normal Echocardiogram Database. " Circ Cardiovasc Imaging.. 2017 Nov 10; (CIRCIMAGING.117.006979.) : 1161.
Pubmed PMID: 11.

Normal Echo Z Score Study & ECG database project: NIH Pediatric Heart Network (04/2013 - 10/2015); Texas Children's Hospital; This is a Pediatric Heart Network multicenter center study involving a retrospective collection echocardiogram and ECGs from normal pediatric human subjects for diagnostic purposes.
Atenolol vs Losatan in children and young adults with Marfan's syndrome: NIH Pediatric Heart Network (03/2007 - 06/2011); Texas Children's Hospital; This is a NHLBI-sponsored study comparing Atenolol and Losartan in the improvement of aortic root dilation in Marfan patients.
Macitentan in Eisemenger Syndrome to Restore Exercise Capacity: Actelion (07/2013 - 12/2015); Texas Children's Hospital; This is a open label drug study assessing the safety and efficacy of the study drug Macitentan in subjects diagnosed with Eisenmenger syndrome
PHN Fontan Udenafil Exercise Longitudinal Clinical Trial: NIH Pediatric Heart Network (09/2016 - present); Baylor College of Medicine; This is a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial to test if the study drug Udenafil will improve the exercise capacity of the enrolled adolescents who have had a Fontan operation.

Clinical Research: Investigational drug testing and clinical research data collection on human subjects with congenital heart diseases enrolled in Phases I, II & III clinical trials for the publication of better treatment options from the known standard of care medications. From patient identification, subject prescreening, consent form administration/erollment into research study, IRB protocol management and other regulatory activities, study drug randomization and blinding, investigational drug order, pharmacokinetic blood sample processing, specimen handling/shipping to database management.