Tranquil’s ultimate goal is excellence in the clinical trial process and bringing trustworthy products to patients.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
A clinical research company dedicated to providing excellent client services and supporting clients in their development of new products.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
OUR STORY
Tranquil’s ultimate goal is excellence in the clinical trial process and bringing trustworthy products to patients.
Tranquil Clinical research was created to ensure that the entire clinical trial, device, and drug development process is conducted with ethics and the patient in mind first and always. The business model ensures a clients drug, device or investigational product in the clinical trial is adherent to the highest level of quality and integrity in the services we provide.
Founder – CEO
Karim is the founder and CEO of Tranquil Clinical Research and has over 20 years of clinical trial experience. Karim’s dedication to quality and patient care started when he was only 18 years old and was Medic-In-Charge of a 911 EMS unit in the suburbs of Houston. While Karim pursued his degree during the day, he worked full time at night for a level one hospital in Houston as lead emergency trauma technician.
After receiving his BA Biology and Minor in Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, Karim attended an intensive medical internship at Case Western Reserve University and then went on to launch his research career at the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston (UTHSC). While working at UT, with the department of Internal Medicine, Karim wrote Investigator Initiated protocols, abstracts and worked as a clinical research coordinator. From there Karim was recruited into the CRO industry and Over the past 20 years Karim has served as a study coordinator, clinical operations specialist, CRA, Lead CRA, clinical trial manager, project lead, project manager and ultimately in his current role as CEO for TCR. His dedication to training and developing an effective team of clinical researchers has allowed him to lead Tranquil Clinical Research to become a successful and growing organization committed to quality clinical trial development and efficient trial conduct.
Karim is passionate about family and loves to fish, read, garden, ride horses, travel and cook.
Our Mission
Tranquil Clinical Research is a clinical research organization that believes in always doing the right thing. As a drug and device early phase service company, our mission is the pursuit of research equity, a focus on diversity, and excellence in clinical trial conduct. We ensure research opportunities are offered to everyone possible, including minorities and the underserved. The rights, safety, and well-being of every patient is priority one.
Our product is the highest quality research and real-world data unmatched by the competition. Tranquil Clinical Research is in the business of innovation, servicing sponsors, patients, and clients through clinical trials.