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# Real-world research partnerships across academic and community settings.

**Hospitals & Health Systems**

## Why Partner With Pedestal

Pedestal's cohorts exist because of the academic and community sites that contribute to them. The partnership is the foundation of the work — not a downstream consequence of it. For sites and the PIs who lead them, that means three things.

### Research That Matters in Your Field

The cohorts Pedestal builds are designed around the active scientific questions for complex and chronic conditions, the kind of questions PIs are already pursuing in their own programs. Site PIs co-author publications, contribute to study design, and shape the research questions their cohorts answer. Recent publications from across the network appear in Hepatology, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and other peer-reviewed venues — with site-affiliated PIs as first or senior authors on the work that comes from their patients.

### Infrastructure Already Built for You

Cohort participation typically requires sites to stand up data abstraction, patient-reported outcome collection, biospecimen handling, regulatory and IRB documentation, and the technical infrastructure to support all of it — work that often falls back on already-stretched site research and clinical teams. Pedestal centralizes that work, so site teams contribute clinical insight, patient access, and PI leadership rather than absorbing the operational burden of building research infrastructure on top of clinical care.

### A Network Built for Your Practice

Pedestal partners across academic medical centers, community gastroenterology and dermatology practices, regional health systems, and pediatric specialty centers. The network is designed to work for sites at different scales — including community practices and regional systems whose technical environments and research staffing differ from major academic centers. Patient populations across these settings are essential to the evidence the cohorts generate.

### Compliance and Security Across Academic and Community Settings

Standard BAAs. IRB-friendly protocols with templates available for site review. Data governance built to operate across health systems with different infrastructure capabilities, including community practices and regional systems whose technical environments differ from major academic centers.

### Compensation for Participation

Sites are compensated for their contribution to the cohorts. Specifics vary by partnership scope and are handled directly in network development conversations.

### Predictable Timelines and Clear Expectations

A defined onboarding sequence, explicit phases, and clear expectations of what each phase requires from site teams. Sites know what they're committing to before they commit, and what each milestone in the partnership timeline involves.

## What Partnership Enables

For PIs and the sites that support them, the partnership enables credible research output, sustained contribution to the evidence base in your field, and infrastructure to investigate questions your patients raise. For health systems, it means alignment with academic mission, support for clinician engagement and retention, and the kind of research footprint that signals scientific seriousness in the broader healthcare landscape.

For the patients in your population, it means contributing to evidence that may inform how their condition is understood, treated, and improved over time — across the lifecycle of the therapies that affect them.