About Rume Research
Our story
Rume Research is the clinical research division of Rume Health. We were built by physicians who practice primary care every day, and we believe research works best when it happens where patients already get their care. Our goal is simple: run studies the right way, treat every participant like a patient, and give sponsors a site they can count on.
Principal Investigator
Matthew Abinante, DO, MPH
Dr. Abinante is a board-certified family physician with a subspecialty in addiction medicine. He has served as Principal Investigator on more than 30 industry-sponsored clinical trials, spanning vaccines, infectious disease, respiratory, cardiometabolic, and diagnostic studies, and is a co-author of the outpatient convalescent plasma trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
In 2016 he founded Elevated Health in Huntington Beach, one of California's first and largest direct primary care practices. He later founded Rume Health and Rume Medical Group. He earned his DO and an MPH from Touro University California, and he speaks Tagalog (ACTFL Advanced High) and medical Spanish.
Our team
Jessa Godoy
Lead Research Coordinator
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