issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . july 2016 the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s general notability guideline . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources clinical device group news newspapers books scholar jstor free images february 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message clinical device group type corporation industry medical device founded 1990 headquarters chicago illinois united states key people nancy j. stark president website www.clinicaldevice.com clinical device group inc abbr . cdg is a medical device consultancy based in chicago illinois . founded by nancy j. stark ph.d. in 1990 the business is focused on clinical and regulatory consulting for medical devices . cdg has consulting expertise in preparing clinical evaluations for european market entry preparing 510 k s and ides for fda reviews assessing the biological safety of materials and devices and statistically analyzing existing data sets or assessing the biocompatibility of existing processes products or materials . 1 contents 1 services 2 projects 3 organization and history 4 references 5 external links services edit consulting training books and productivity tools projects edit cdg has worked on a wide range of technologies including orthopedic products bone growth stimulation wound dressings and vacuum assisted systems respiratory and oxygen monitoring systems soft tissue augmentation hemostatic agents interventional systems pacemakers leads and stents hospital beds and equipment urinary incontinence technologies organization and history edit cdg is a small corporation with a long history . it was founded in 1990 before medical device companies even knew they needed regulatory consulting . it is believed to be the oldest clinical and regulatory consulting for the medical device industry in the states . cdg deliberately chose to remain small privately held company corporation in order to ensure the quality of the consulting work product . organizationally the head office consists of the president and owner dr. stark and 2 3 support personnel . dr. stark personally negotiates each consulting agreement to ensure that only work for which she has personal expertise will be contracted . once an agreement is in place and a statement of the implementation is outsourced to one of its many independent experts cdg s so called network staff . the network staff experts are scattered all over the states and europe . the expert with the best background for the project i.e. technological experience is assigned to implement the statement of work . 2 references edit stark nancy j. clinical device group a medical device consultancy and cro . clinicaldevice.com . retrieved 2014 08 20 . stark nancy j. clinical device group a medical device consultancy brochure . missing or empty url help ; access date requires url help a collection of dr. stark s whitepapers articles and books can be found on her blog and website . external links edit official website facebook page typepad blog retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title clinical device group & oldid 743336409 categories contract research organizationsclinical researchclinical trialsregulatory complianceproject managementcompanies based in chicagohidden categories pages using web citations with no urlpages using citations with accessdate and no urlorphaned articles from july 2016all orphaned articlesarticles with topics of unclear notability from february 2016all articles with topics of unclear notabilitypages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 04 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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