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Accelerating Patient Recruitment & Retention in Clinical Trials
23 March - 24 March 2011
Accelerating Patient Recruitment & Retention in Clinical Trials

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SAE Media Group is proud to present the 7th annual conference in its series on strategies for recruiting and retaining patients and volunteers for clinical trials.  Accelerating Patient Recruitment and Retention in Clinical Trials 2011 will build on the success of the previous 6 years to bring your knowledge in this field in line with the latest developments.

Something like 50% of clinical trials run over the time deadline set by the sponsor, and in the majority of these cases, at least part of the delay was caused by slow recruitment or inadequate retention of trial subjects.

Because of this, ensuring that your patient recruitment and retention strategies are effective is a critical part of drug development programs. Patient recruitment if not adequately planned for can extend development timelines by a number of years. Retention of patients throughout the life of a clinical trial is essential in order have complete data sets for your analysis and subsequent filings.

The pharma industry needs a front-line assessment of how things work in the physician's office, what motivates patients, how pharmaceutical service providers perform, and data on the most effective techniques for patient recruitment and retention; this conference aims to deliver just that.

Taking place in central London, UK, you will hear presentations from the clinical trials field.  Attend this event to learn how to expedite your drug development process through good recruitment and retention programmes.

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Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Jeff Zucker

Jeff Zucker, Senior Director and Global Head Patient Recruitment, Kendle

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9:10

Feasibility investigations

Charles Tyzack

Charles Tyzack, Manager Global Feasibility, Kendle

  • The need for feasibility investigations - why are these so rare? 
  • Common strategies, approaches 
  • Validating successful site and enrolment performance
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    9:50

    Predictive patient recruitment modelling

    Vladimir Anisimov

    Vladimir Anisimov, Senior Director, Research Statistics Unit, GlaxoSmithkline

  • Statistical methodology and implementation
  • New analytic technique developed by GSK
  • Software used
  • Case studies
  • Implementation across all large GSK trials
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    Developing an effective recruitment strategy

    Alison Rees

    Alison Rees, Patient Recruitment, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

  • Identifying the key players influencing the recruitment process 
  • Identifying from each key player the positive and negative aspects that could impact on the subject recruitment process
  • Building the best strategy from the positive and negative aspects identified
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    11:40

    Problems in recruitment and retention

    Wolfgang Eglmeier

    Wolfgang Eglmeier, Head Clinical Operations Germany, Grunenthal

  • Identifying and overcoming common problems
  • Ensuring high patient retention
  • Best strategies for avoiding an under-recruited trial
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    Overview of recruitment data

    Jonathan Alsop

    Jonathan Alsop, UK Director, Numerus

  • Clinical Trial Managers often have little control over recruitment speed 
  • Recruitment delays often disrupt a study's critical path - creating a rush at the end, where quality can can suffer and additional financial costs incurred
  • Accurately predicting enrolment rates is difficult - some investigators and CROs can be overly optimistic 
  • This talk will cover trends and patterns from a large database of recruitment data across hundreds of sites from multiple studies 
  • The identified trends and patterns could help sponsors gain a better insight into realistic recruitment timelines 
  • While simple methods already exist than can address this issue, computerised simulation techniques offer a more real-world solution
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    14:30

    Case studies in social media for patient recruitment

    Sara James

    Sara James, Global Enrolment Consultant for Europe, Eli Lilly

  • Two Eli Lilly social media pilots - diabetes and head & neck cancer
  • hat worked, what didn't work
  • Lessons learned for future social media strategy
  • EU/USA differences
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    15:10

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    How to create a patient recruitment website that works

    Tim Benjamin

    Tim Benjamin, Managing Director, TreatmentTrials.com

  • How to create website content that appeals to patients
  • How to drive patients to your recruitment website
  • How regulatory issues impact on web-based patient recruitment
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    16:20

    New Technologies: Preparing your internal team for a study using tools of the 2.0 age so that your clinical trials data is processed in a timely manner

    Elizabeth Mascherino

    Elizabeth Mascherino, Manager, Global Trial Optimization, Merck & Co.

  • Technology Today
  • Technology and Clinical Trials
  • My Study Needs
  • Turning Skeptics into Supporters
  • Case Study
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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Sanjiv Kanwar

    Sanjiv Kanwar, Managing Director, Polaris BioPharma Consulting

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    9:10

    Partnering with advocacy groups for recruitment

  • What do advocacy groups do?
  • How are they structured?
  • What's the best way to engage with advocacy groups?
  • How to work with these groups for recruitment, including case studies
  • Roz Partridge Round

    Roz Partridge Round, Global Patient Recruitment Specialist, Innovative Trials

    Kate Shaw

    Kate Shaw, Global Patient Recruitment Specialist, Innovative Trials

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    10:00

    CROs and patient recruitment

    Diana Anderson

    Diana Anderson, President and CEO, D Anderson & Company

  • CROs are getting more involved in patient recruitment drives
  • Working with CROs to evolve the best patient recruitment strategy
  • Best strategies for CROs organising patient recruitment
  • Experiential examples
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    10:40

    Morning Coffee

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    11:20

    Challenges of recruitment and retention in resource-poor countries

    Amina Jindani

    Amina Jindani, Centre for Infection, St George's Hospital Medical School

  • Focus on trials in Africa
  • Importance of understanding the differences of procedure and timescale required
  • Case study examples
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    12:00

    Overcoming Barriers to Paediatric Recruitment and Retention

    Jane Lamprill

    Jane Lamprill, Paediatric Research Consultant, Specialist Medical Writer for Children, and Member FP7 Ethics Panel, European Commission

  • Paediatric Investigation Plan - don't panic!
  • Paediatric protocol and ethical considerations
  • Effective communication with parents and children
  • Paediatric patient recruitment considerations
  • Strategies to prevent wastage of your time and finance
  • Examples of best practice
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    12:40

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    Successful patient recruitment in acute setting trials

    Annelies Legters

    Annelies Legters, Patient Recruitment and Retention Specialist, Lundbeck

  • Examining the main differences and what can be learned from patient recruitment in acute setting trials
  • Real life examples of new methods for recruiting patients
  • How to expand the patient awareness of acute setting trials
  • Ensuring that protocol planning is not overly rigid
  • Real life strategies of how to keep site staff and patients motivated
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    14:35

    Q&A Breakout Session

    Sanjiv Kanwar

    Sanjiv Kanwar, Managing Director, Polaris BioPharma Consulting

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    15:05

    Chairman's Closing Remarks

    Sanjiv Kanwar

    Sanjiv Kanwar, Managing Director, Polaris BioPharma Consulting

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    CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development’. It is essentially a philosophy, which maintains that in order to be effective, learning should be organised and structured. The most common definition is:

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