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Digestive System & Liver

Participate in Research is designed to connect potential volunteers with open research studies. We are looking for volunteers just like you to help answer important questions about the digestive system and liver. This page lists digestive system and liver studies that may apply to you or someone you know. If you find a study that you’d like to participate in, you can contact the study team with questions or to volunteer. Join us to improve the health of others.

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UW Medicine Digestive Health

UW Medicine’s Digestive Health Institute provides comprehensive and innovative treatment for diseases and disorders of the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, gallbladder and bile ducts small intestine, colon, rectum, anus, pelvic floor, as well as preventive screenings to evaluate patients’ digestive tract health.

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UW Medicine Liver Care and Transplantation Services

UW Medicine’s Liver Care specialists, located at UW Medical Center, provide patients an uncommon wealth of experience across the spectrum of liver diseases. Our hepatologists treat patients with viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis and metabolic disorders. We manage patients’ liver cancer, end-stage liver disease and transplantation.

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Comparison of Surgery and Medicine on the Impact of Diverticulitis (COSMID) Trial

https://becertain.org/projects/diverticulitis-care/cosmid-study/about COSMID is a pragmatic, patient-level randomized superiority trial of elective colectomy vs. best medical management for patients with quality of life (QoL)-limiting diverticulitis. The COSMID trial focuses on both patient-reported outcomes and clinical outcomes that matter to patients. The results are expected to establish…

Medical crowdfunding experiences

We want to know more about why people donate to medical crowdfunding campaigns, and how they decide which campaigns to donate to. Medical crowdfunding is a method for raising money for health needs by asking for small donations from many people on sites like GoFundMe….

The SLIM LIVER Study

https://www.uwactu.com/slim-liver-study It is estimated that 30-40% of adults living with HIV have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD is the buildup of extra fat in the liver cells that is not caused by alcohol. Treating NAFLD may have far-reaching benefits, including reduction of insulin resistance...

The DO-IT Study

https://www.uwactu.com/the-do-it-study We want to understand why some people gain excessive weight while taking HIV treatment, and whether switching the HIV treatment regimen can help. Body weight can change throughout our lifetime and is influenced by multiple factors. Previous studies showed that people living with HIV...

The Purge-C Study

https://www.uwactu.com/reprieve-study The UW AIDS Clinical Trials Unit is looking for men and women with a new diagnosis of acute hepatitis C (HCV)--with OR without HIV--to volunteer for an investigational research study to evaluate if 4 weeks (instead of 8 to 12 weeks) of the drug...

Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (vEDS) Research Collaborative Study

This is a natural history study to define the contribution of known vEDS gene mutations to vEDS complications and outcomes. This will be achieved by the following: 1. Describe the genotype-phenotype correlation between vEDS gene mutations and complications. These complications include aortic and arterial pathology…

The CANNABIS Study: Impact of Cannabis on Inflammation and Viral Persistence in Treated HIV

Could cannabis help us treat HIV? Despite being undetectable, people living with HIV have ongoing inflammation, which is the body’s reaction to infection, a state where some of your immune cells remain constantly activated. As well, HIV damages the lining of your intestines soon after infection….

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