The public has been hearing for months about the clinical trials conducted by various institutions and pharmaceutical companies related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but what does it mean to be involved in a clinical trial, and why would the public want to participate? What is the importance of clinical trials, what are the safeguards surrounding any clinical trial, and what do clinical trials offer the public?Dr. Patrick Flume, is a professor of Medicine in Pediatrics with specialties in pulmonology and critical care medicine at the Medical University. He serves as the Powers- Huggins endowed chair for cystic fibrosis, and is the director of the Adult MUSC Cystic Fibrosis Center. Dr. Flume is heavily involved in MUSC's research enterprise, including the way MUSC manages clinical trial safety and protection of all those engaged in any clinical trial. Dr. Flume, along with many other clinical scientists at MUSC, has been instrumental in several very successful clinical trials, most recently the implementation and success of the COVID-19 trials.

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