Institute for Biomedicine - CHRIS acknowledgements
CHRIS acknowledgements
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The CHRIS study is a collaborative effort between the Eurac Research Institute for Biomedicine and the Healthcare System of the Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano (Südtiroler Sanitätsbetrieb/Azienda Sanitaria dell’Alto Adige).
The CHRIS study is funded by the Department of Innovation, Research and University of the Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano. The CHRIS Study is affiliated to the “German National Cohort” (Germany) and is indebted with the investigators of this study for their support in the study protocol definition.
Investigators thank all study participants from the middle and upper Vinschgau/Val Venosta, the general practitioners, and the personnel of the Hospital of Schlanders/Silandro for their support and collaboration.
Extensive Acknowledgements
We thank all inhabitants of the middle and upper Vinschgau/Val Venosta; Dr. Florian Wöhs and Dr. Stefan Haumer, for their support in the ECG analysis, and the personnel of the hospital of Schlanders/Silandro, directed by Dr. Anton Theiner; Dr. Stefan Platzgummer, Dr. Monika Alber, Flora Gnech, and all the personnel of laboratory medicine department of the hospital of Meran/Merano for their collaboration of the biochemical laboratory and fundamental support with biosample analysis; Dr. Oswald Mayr, director of the South Tyrolean Healthcare Service, for the continuous support of the study; the general practitioners: Stefan Waldner, Wunibald Wallnöfer, Raffaela Stocker, Josef Stocker, Bettina Skocir, Helmut Rauner, Georg V. Hofer, Christian Hofer, Erich Dona’, Hansjörg Gluderer, Robert Kaserer, Ugo Marcadent, Anton Pizzecco, Josef Plangger, Monica Scherer, Oswald Tappeiner, and Günther Bauer; the study assistants and nurses at the study center: Roselinde Gunsch, Karin Bystrianska, Brunhilde M. Grasser, Benedikta Linter, Lea E. Moriggl, Liane Parth, Susanne Saewert, and Renate Telser (former members: Tamara Oberhofer, Marilena Koch); the laboratory technicians: Ilaria Bozzolan and Giulia Caprioli (former members: Simona Amistadi, Lisa Longaretti, Marlene Obkircher, Stefanie Wieser); the IT data manager: Johannes Martin and Daniele Di Domizio (former member: Daniel S. Schmitt); Andreas Wiedmer for his technical support; Larissa De Clauser for IT support and quality controls; Arne Pfeufer and Simon Rauch for helping with protocol development; the administrative collaborators: Vera Amon, Vanessa Leitner, and Marika Fregnan (former member: Andrea Vieider); Massimiliano Pellegrini for the legal support; the members of the CHRIS scientific advisory board: Ettore Beghi, Maria B. Donati, Wolfgang Lieb, Christine Meisinger, and Barbara Parodi; the members of the CHRIS evaluation committee: Dr. Arno Gasperi, Dr. Hermann Brugger, and Edmund Gurschler. We thank: Drs. Georg Schmidt (Technical University of Munich) and Daniela Berg (University of Tübingen) for helpful discussion; Drs. Markus Nöthen, Per Hoffmann, and Stefan Herms (University of Bonn) for the genotyping; Drs. Marcella Rietschel, Fabian Streit, Jana Strohmaier, and Stephanie Witt (University of Mannheim) and Dr. Ettore Favaretto (Hospital of Brixen/Bressanone) for help in developing the psychiatric assessment; Drs. Roberto de Marco (University of Verona) and Joachim Heinrich (Helmholtz Zentrum München) for permission to use the ECRHS smoking questionnaire; Dr. Vanessa Garcia-Larsen for support in implementing the GA2LEN FFQ; Dr. Ruth Ruscheweyh (University of Munich) for supervising the implementation of the pain sensitivity analysis.