Fieve Clinical Services

Fieve Clinical Services, Inc. (FCS), is a private clinical research center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. FCS was established by Ronald R. Fieve, M.D. in 1983. This clinic has earned a reputation as one of the most experienced, reliable, and efficient study centers in the United States for conducting research trials on new CNS and other compounds in phases I-IV of their development.
FCS has worked with many of the major pharmaceutical companies, both domestic and foreign, as well as with a number of well known Contract Research Organizations. Although FCS has made its mark in pharmaceutical research by specializing in psychiatric and neurologic disorders, it has expanded into other therapeutic areas including hypertension, pain management, obesity/eating disorders, diabetes, headache and sleep disorders, low back pain.

Dr. Ronald R. Fieve, a board certified psychopharmacologist, also trained in Internal Medicine, remains the President and Principal Investigator of FCS. He is considered one of the world's leading experts in diagnostic evaluation and biological treatment of mood disorders. Dr. Fieve, who oversees all trials conducted at the center, has published over 290 papers in the CNS field and is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University's New York-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City.
Other investigators at FCS are comprised of additional board certified psychiatrists (including a pediatric/adolescent psychiatrist), internists and neurologists who have training from or are affiliated with top hospitals such as Columbia Presbyterian, New York Cornell, Mount Sinai, Bellevue/NYU Medical Center, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Long Island Jewish Medical Center and Gracie Square Hospital.

     FCS features a large, comfortable waiting room, as well as private offices for interviewing patients, collecting behavioral data and performing physical examinations and ECGs. There is also a laboratory for performing venipuctures and other biochemical laboratory testing. In addition, FCS has private rooms for monitors, a conference room and a kitchenette.
     The FCS staff is well experienced in conducting clinical trials and receives continuous training and certifications on FDA regulations, Good Clinical Practice Guidelines and patient treatment assessments.
     Conveniently located on Fifth b/w 77th and 76th (near the buses and the Lexington Avenue subway), FCS has access to an extensive patient population in all five boroughs of New York City, as well as greater New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

FCS has a vast marketing program for patient recruitment. This program includes radio, television, newspaper and magazine advertising, participation in several referral services, as well as drawing from Dr. Fieve's large, internal patient database. Additionally, Dr. Fieve's role as founder of The Foundation for Mood Disorders and his affiliation with Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center help to direct hundreds of inquiries about our research trials each year.

Dr. Fieve also has written two best-selling books: Moodswing and Prozac which have illustrated these disorders to the general population and have drawn public attention to clinical trials in psychiatric research. His highly anticipated third book Bipolar II is set to be realeased in October 2006.

You can receive services at FCS being a volunteer participant in a clinical trial.

As a participant in a clinical trial:

You could be provided with a new or traditional medication or treatment (free of charge) that is more effective, has fewer side effects and improves the quality of your life before it is available to the general public.
You could take an active role in your recovery by helping to develop better treatments for people, now and in the future, who suffer with a mental illness.
You will receive excellent and thorough psychiatric and medical care that is monitored not only by Dr. Ronald Fieve, but by the sponsoring pharmaceutical company as well.