Barbara Weinstein, BSN

Barbara Weinstein has worked as a nurse for thirty years in large, highly regarded teaching/research hospital settings. She obtained her BSN degree with honors from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1986. She worked for many years at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston in both a supervisory and non-supervisory capacity. After relocating to the Washington, D.C. area, Barbara worked briefly in the cardiothoracic step-down unit at Washington Hospital Center before moving to the National Institutes of Health. Barbara has worked as a research nurse at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for the past twelve years coordinating clinical trials clinical trials: Clinical research is at the heart of all medical advances, identifying new ways to prevent, detect or treat disease. If you have a bone marrow failure disease, you may want to consider taking part in a clinical trial, also called a research study. Understanding Clinical Trials Clinical… for patients with bone marrow failure bone marrow failure: A condition that occurs when the bone marrow stops making enough healthy blood cells. The most common of these rare diseases are aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). Bone marrow failure can be acquired (begin any time in life) or can be… diseases. Barbara mentors new research nurses within her branch and has received numerous awards in recognition of her service. She is a member of the Society of Clinical Research Clinical Research: A type of research that involves individual persons or a group of people. There are three types of clinical research. Patient-oriented research includes clinical trials which test how a drug, medical device, or treatment approach works in people. Epidemiology or behavioral studies look at the… Associates (SOCRA) and is a Certified Clinical Research Professional. She has been an active member of the AAMDSIF patient education council since 2007.