Our people are passionate about clinical research and advancing the future of medicine. ICON manages an average of 150 studies per year around the world at our various clinical research sites.
We have an experienced team of physicians, clinic and support staff dedicated to making our participants' experience as positive and comfortable as possible. Participant safety is our top priority at all times.
ICON Salt Lake City is conveniently located just minutes from downtown, near St. Mark’s Hospital. With state of the art out-patient facilities and dorm style, semi-private and private rooms, as well as lounges for downtime, we make every effort to make our volunteers’ visit as pleasant as possible. Our 100+ bed research facility is fully equipped to handle the various types of studies we conduct and the physicians and friendly staff are experienced in studies involving healthy volunteers and recreational drug studies. For more information or to schedule a tour, please call our staff at 1-801-269-82001-801-269-8200, or click here to send us a note.
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Dr. Matt Johnston, MD is Board Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. His emphasis prior to entering clinical research was in clinical primary care and population care.
Dr. Johnston attended undergraduate school at Brigham Young University, majoring in Chemistry with a minor in English Literature. Proceeding to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX for medical training receiving his Medical Doctor Degree. While in medical school he published research in the Hematology Department relating to Hemoglobin C Hemoglobinopathy.
Dr. Johnston continued to the University of Oklahoma, with residency study in Family Medicine. His final year he served as Chief Resident for the program and participated in education and training of students and residents. Dr. Johnston later served as an adjunct professor with the University of Oklahoma teaching medical students in Family Medicine. Completing a master’s degree in Medical Management from Tulane University, with an emphasis on Population Health and Medical Economics allowed Dr. Johnston to serve on multiple hospital administrative boards.
• The medical leadership board for the Cherokee Nation Health System
• The Inaugural Board of Directors for the Tulsa County Health Improvement Organization
• Pharmacy Therapeutic Board for an insurance company
• The Medical Department Chairman at a Regional Hospital
• Rural Health Liaison for the Oklahoma Healthy Heart Project
Dr. Johnston joined ICON as a full-time Clinical Research Physician in September of 2017. Serving as a Sub-Investigator and Principal Investigator on studies across multiple disciplines. Studies include: pain/therapeutics, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, immunology, oncology, liver disease, and lipid metabolism. These trials involve first-in-human testing, BA/BE studies, PK/PD trials, drug-drug Interaction, HAL, and multicenter phase II and phase III outpatient studies.
Dr. Ahad Sabet began his professional career at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. During his undergraduate training he earned a Bachelor of Science in Cell and Structural Biology as well as a minor in chemistry. This undergraduate curriculum had a strong emphasis on molecular biology and biomedical research.
He completed his first two years of medical school at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara; where he acquired a solid foundation in clinical medicine and fluency in Spanish. He continued his education in Puerto Rico, and ultimately obtained his Medical Degree from Ponce School of Medicine.
After medical school, Dr. Sabet returned to the United States for continued training in Phoenix, Arizona. There he completed a dual residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics from Maricopa Medical Center in affiliation with Phoenix Children’s Hospital. He went on to become Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at Maricopa Medical Center and soon thereafter obtained his board certifications in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.
Following residency Dr. Sabet embarked on a series of travel medicine assignments. He spent a year working as a consultant physician in New Zealand; after which he returned to work as an Internal Medicine hospitalist in several areas across the western United States. Ultimately, he settled in Salt Lake City and after more than ten years of practicing and teaching clinical medicine, he found his way back to research.
Dr. Sabet joined ICON as a Sub-Investigator in September of 2015. His broad clinical experience has been well employed on trials across multiple disciplines including: pain/therapeutics, anesthesiology, immunology, lipid/metabolism, viral hepatitis, Alzheimer’s disease, and depression. His research experience includes First-In-Human, HAL, BA, BE, VRH, and PK/PD trials in addition to multicenter phase II and III studies. He has ascended through the research ranks and currently serves as Principal investigator on several early and late phase clinical trials.
Dr. Crockett graduated with highest distinction from Colorado State University in 1986 with a B.S. in Biology and minor in Spanish. She graduated at the top10% of her class when she received her Doctor of Medicine in 1990 from the University of Colorado.
Dr. Crockett completed a year in clinical Dermatology and an additional year in Pathology at the University of Colorado after completing a transitional internship at the Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver Colorado. She decided not to pursue a career in Dermatopathology. Dr. Crockett became a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice in 1995.
Dr. Crockett owned and operated Columbine Family Practice until 2017. While she operated Columbine, Dr. Crockett was a Principal Investigator for 18 years. She performed vaginal and C-section deliveries. She had a thriving women’s and pediatric patient population. Many of the trials she conducted were based on Pediatric and Women’s health care needs.
Dr. Crockett is an active member of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She trained Family Practice residents from the Mercy Family Practice residency for 18 years. She has been recognized in Who’s Who and Top Doctor for two decades.
After selling Columbine Family Practice, Dr. Crockett worked for the University of Colorado in Sidney, NE. Her duties included being the Medical Director of the Family Outpatient Clinic, supervising the physician assistants in the Emergency Department, operating the OB deck, assisting the general surgeons with operations, and rotating one week a month as a hospitalist and ICU provider.
While running the Family Outpatient Clinic in Sidney, NE., Dr. Crockett taught other providers about early reading programs, vaccinations, well child care, normal development and any issues concerning Pediatric patients.
During the past two-and-a-half years, Dr. Crockett worked as Medical Director at Science 37. She was involved in decentralized clinical trials. The clinical studies ranged from Phase 1, FIH, through Phase IV clinical trials. The clinical trials focused on issues in Oncology, Dermatology, Internal Medicine, Urology, Rheumatology, Women’s Health, Immunology, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, Neurology and Psychiatry.
Dr. Iqbal earned her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from Ziauddin Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan, in 2002. Following her graduation, she worked for a year as a Research Fellow at Aga Khan University, Karachi Pakistan.
In 2006, after moving to the U.S., Dr. Iqbal began a Postdoctoral Fellowship under Dr. Damiano Rondelli in the Division of Hematology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Her research focused on cord blood nucleated cells, specifically investigating delayed proliferative and cytotoxic T cell alloreactivity, as well as stimulated TH-2 type allo responses and pre-T cell function in vitro. She then transitioned to the Division of Transplant Surgery, where she collaborated with Dr. Giuliano Testa on baboon models of kidney transplantation. In these models, one baboon was euthanized, and its kidneys were transplanted into two other baboons to study rejection with or without thymoglobulin. The following year, she joined the Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery at UIC as a Research Fellow under Dr. Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti.
In 2008, Dr. Iqbal entered UIC’s General Surgery Residency Program, completing two years of training before shifting her focus to internal medicine. In 2011, she joined the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Utah. Upon completing her residency, she practiced as an outpatient physician at Granger Medical Clinic in West Valley, Utah. During her tenure at Granger, she pursued further specialization with a Geriatrics Fellowship at the University of Utah, which she completed in 2022. She followed this with an advanced fellowship in Health Professions Education Evaluation and Research (HPEER) at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in 2023, with a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In 2024, she earned a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Global Health from the University of Utah. Dr. Iqbal also served as Medical Director for Valeo Home Health and Hospice from 2019 to 2024.
Dr. Iqbal has now returned to research as a full-time Clinical Research Physician at ICON, bringing her diverse clinical and research experience full circle.
While participation in a clinical study is voluntary, you may be paid for your time and travel. Compensation is based on the length of the study, the number of overnight stays in our clinic and the number of out-patient visits you attend. You may also be compensated for some procedures depending upon the study. All payments we make for study participation have been approved by an Independent Review Board (IRB). The method and frequency of payment will be described in detail in the Informed Consent Form (ICF).
Even if you don’t qualify for a particular study, you may be able to refer a friend or family member. If approved by an Independent Review Board (IRB), ICON may be able to provide you a referral bonus of up to $500 for each qualified study participant that you refer. To qualify for the payment, the person you refer must:
• Be a first-time volunteer
• Mention your name when applying over the phone
• Fully participate in the study
All payments from ICON must be approved by an IRB before any payment may be made to you. Please contact us for more information.