CLINICAL RESEARCH

Dr. Erick Alayo and his Gastro SB clinic staff members are engaged in gastrointestinal clinical trials.

Clinical trials are the core of medical advances. These research studies enable researchers to look at new ways of preventing, detecting and treating a disease. Most of the treatments we use today are possible because of the knowledge gained from previous clinical trials. Some studies use surveys or evaluate medical records to find new and better ways to help people. Others recruit healthy subjects, or controls, to better evaluate and compare results with those of non-healthy subjects.

We are currently conducting clinical trials in a few areas of gastrointestinal disease, including

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), like Crohn's disease and Ulcerative colitis.
Screening of colorectal cancer.
GERD
Liver disease

This clinical research video is from a colleague showing the type the type of research work we develop at Gastro SB.

A colonoscopy procedure allows your doctor to examine the lining of your large intestine (colon) for abnormalities by inserting a thin flexible tube, as thick as your finger, into your anus and slowly advancing it into the rectum and colon.

How to Participate

Whether you are a potential candidate to participate as a patient in a study or you would like to participate as a "healthy volunteer" for the control group or you’re a research or clinical professional interested in collaborating with the research team—just contact us.

Participate in a Clinical Trial

Erick Alayo, M.D.

Gastroenterologist

Dr. Erick Alayo is a Board Certified Gastroenterologist who went to medical school at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. Erick then completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital of Chicago.