Posted on 12/11/2015
A written interview requested and directed by our editor-in-chief, Dr. Damon Adams, with Gordon J. Christensen, DDS, MSD, PhD, and Rella P. Christensen, RDH, PhD, founders of CLINICIANS REPORT (CR) Foundation (formerly known as Clinical Research Associates [CRA]).
When was Clinical Research Associates started, and why?
Dr. Rella Christensen: In the fall of 1976, we united 5 of Gordon’s study clubs in Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, and Utah to form the nucleus of the first, and to this day, only nonprofit international volunteer team that tests dental products for efficacy and clinical usefulness. In CRA (now known as CR Fo...