Immunologist Luiz Vicente Rizzo explains the intricate link between research and health care at Brazil’s Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital.
Luiz Vicente Rizzo is an immunologist and a research director at the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital.Luiz Vicente Rizzo is an immunologist and research director at the Teaching and Research Institute of the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Rizzo’s job is to coordinate all research activities across the Einstein, as the hospital is known among Brazilians.
There’s another aspect that’s been known for years. Participants in studies generally have regular check-ups, someone who calls them to check that they’re taking their medication and are having all the appropriate tests done. That reduces their chances of missing doctors’ visits, or skipping a dose or being unable to access the medicine. Research patients are cared for with the greatest possible attention — that’s what the collection of data requires.
But we didn’t want to create witch hunts: the fact that you make a mistake does not mean that you are a bad person or a bad scientist. So, we decided that we would look for problems before someone else told us about them. We believe that scientific integrity should be monitored for educational purposes, and not be seen as policing. The goal is not to catch researchers doing things wrongly, but to teach them the right way to do them.We have a small group of researchers: about 100. So we need to manage equipment, software and facilities to multiply what those researchers do.
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