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Team Profiles
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Angela Vincent, Clinical Research Supervisor
Angela has been with the Wichita Clinic Clinical Research Department since 2003.
She finds her job very rewarding since she gets to spend a lot of quality time with her patients. She enjoys the education that she can provide to her patients as well. In 2006, she was promoted to Supervisor of the Department. Angela is a Certified Clinical Research Coordinator through the Association of Clinical Research Professionals.
Angela received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from Bethel College in 1993 and has worked at all the major hospitals in Wichita on a Medical/Surgical floor and in Cardiac ICU. She also helped to open the Pre-Admission Services Unit at Via Christi St. Joseph and St. Francis.
Angela also has a busy home life with her husband and 2 very active children. She is very involved with sports and activities with them. |
Karen Heaton, Clinical Research Coordinator
As a Clinical Research Coordinator, Karen enjoys the teamwork with her fellow Wichita Clinic employees and physicians, and the expanded opportunity to work with people with chronic health conditions who are participating in clinical research studies.
Karen earned her diploma in nursing in 1977, her bachelors in 1981, and her masters in 1994. She has worked in a variety of acute and community care areas, including pediatrics, obstetrics, critical care, and nursing education at the clinical and university level. She likes multidisciplinary projects and program development; and has enjoyed being a part of Camp SuperBreathers (pediatric asthma summer camp), and teaching Living With Asthma and Pediatric Advanced Life Support classes. She has been employed in Clinical Research at the Wichita Clinic since 2005.
Karen enjoys spending time with her family, her water aerobics buddies, art & craft projects, furniture refinishing and reading. |
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Sheila Stauffer, Clinical Research Coordinator
Clinical Research is a new avenue of nursing for Sheila. She has been with Wichita Clinic since 1989, working in Immediate Care and at our Northeast Branch for Dr. Kevin Hoppock. Sheila enjoys helping people, especially educating those who may not be able to afford their health care about discounted pharmacy services, and local agencies that can provide them with assistance. In her new capacity as Clinical Research Coordinator, she enjoys the individual attention that she can provide, working with a variety of our professional physicians, along with the excitement of being involved in the ground work of getting medications tested and on the market.
Sheila is a native of Nebraska where she earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing at the University of Nebraska. She remains an avid Husker fan. Her nursing career includes working in the hospital setting, community nursing, and the mission field in Africa. The different avenues that are available in nursing have always been exciting.
Sheila and her husband Scott, have 2 daughters, and reside in Andover. She enjoys quilting, gardening, and traveling in her spare time. |
Sandra Sparr, Clinical Research Coordinator
Sandra worked in PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit) for 14 years. She has missed working with children, but loves her job and has found that she also loves working with adults. Sandra wanted the Clinical Research job because it allows her to work independently.
Many times Clinical Research Coordinators see the patients for visits and the physicians only see them a few times during the study. Coordinators have to have excellent assessment skills so they can notify the physician if something is up with the patient. The work environment is so calm and relaxed. It is so different from PICU where it was never calm.
Sandra is married and is the mother of 4 children: Brent, Matt, Zac and Nikki. She was inspired to become a nurse when one of her sons was born with congenital heart disease. She admired the nurses and doctors that helped him and wanted to give that back to other children and families. |
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Dorothy Roush, Clinical Research Coordinator
Dorothy has been with Wichita Clinic since 2005 and joined the Clinical Research department after working as a surgery scheduler for the Urology department. Dorothy enjoys interacting with patients on an individual basis and has a history of providing education in clinical and acute care settings, as well as in Community and Public Health.
Dorothy enjoys the teamwork of the Clinical Research department, building relationships with physicians and other departments, and the ability to work independently. She finds it rewarding to know the clinical trials that Wichita Clinic and their patients participate in may lead to medications or treatments that help millions of patients.
Dorothy has been the Director of Parkinson’s Association of the Plains, an education and support program since 2000. She enjoys spending time with her husband, three children and grandchild. She also enjoys doing various crafts and sewing projects in her free time. |
Pat Falk , Clinical Research Coordinator
Pat enjoys many aspects of her job, including her interaction with patients and knowing that what she’s doing is helping to make medications available to the public that will help treat their medical conditions. Pat has been a nurse for 31 years. She spent 24 years working in intensive care at Wesley Medical Center as a floor nurse and manager, where she also helped start both the cardiovascular outpatient interventional unit and procedure team. In addition, Pat spent 3 years as a staff nurse at Newton Medical Center on the Generations (dementia) unit. Pat co-facilitates a Dementia Caregivers support group at her church in Sedgwick County.
Pat is a native of South Dakota. She received her practical degree in nursing from Freeman Junior College in South Dakota. She was an LPN for three years before receiving her associate’s degree in nursing (RN) from Hesston College in 1981.
Pat and her husband Frank have one son, Paul, and they live on a farm near Furley, Kansas. She enjoys traveling with her family and doing counted cross stitch and quilting in her free time. |
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Brenda Patton, Clinical Research Document Specialist
Brenda has been with the Clinical Research department since 2002, and with Wichita Clinic on and off for 29 years. Brenda receives inquiries from study sponsors, processes regulatory documents, obtains required signatures, performs collection and distribution of ongoing regulatory documents, and assists with record keeping.
Brenda enjoys interacting with the variety of people she works with and learning more about the ever-changing medical research environment. |
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