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Accelerating Patient Recruitment & Retention in Clinical Trials
1 April - 2 April 2009
Accelerating Patient Recruitment & Retention in Clinical Trials

  “Really enjoyed the conference and look forward to returning next year”

Erhimuvi Ogbighele, Editor – Clinical Trials, Thomson Scientific Ltd, Accelerating Patient Recruitment and Retention in Clinical Trials 2008

 

“Very good, a well organised conference”

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 Elaine Ward, Lead for Patient recruitment & Retention in Primary Care, UKCRN, Accelerating Patient Recruitment and Retention in Clinical Trials 2008

 

 

Clinical trials form a vital element of many products design and development progression phase. Therefore building and sustaining acceleration of patient recruitment / retention is more important than ever before. SAE Media Group’s 5th annual conference is the perfect opportunity to hear keynote presentations from senior representatives from leading pharmaceutical companies presenting ways to increase levels of patient recruitment by deploying effective marketing strategies and executing innovative ways to overcome and maintain the retention levels of patients for clinical trials.

  • Dr Vladimir Anisimov, Director, Research Statistics Unit, GlaxoSmithKline
  • Professor Theo Raynor, Professor of Pharmacy Practice & Executive Chairman, LUTO Research Ltd, University of Leeds

Conference agenda

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13:30

Registration & Coffee

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14:00

Session 1: What is it all for, have we got the right question/s?

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15:00

Session 2: Barriers to Trial Recruitment

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15:45

Afternoon Break

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16:15

Session 3: Extremes of open-ness, Facebook to clinical trials

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17:00

Session 4: Radical new models for trial recruitment from feasibility onwards

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17:30

Discussion & Questions

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Andy Sacher

Andy Sacher, General Counsel and Head of Strategic Planning, BBK Worldwide

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9:10

MODELLING AND PREDICTING PATIENT RECRUITMENT TO ENSURE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF CLINICAL TRIALS

Vladimir Anisimov

Vladimir Anisimov, Director, Research Statistics Unit, GlaxoSmithKline

  • Main sources of uncertainty and appropriate metrics for measuring success
  • Models for patient recruitment
  • Predicting recruitment at the initial stage
  • Assessing recruitment and number of clinical centres needed at any interim time
  • Informed decisions on adaptive adjustment of recruitment
  • Evaluating study performance and site productivity
  • Case studies

     

     

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    9:50

    STRATEGIES OF SELECTING THE RIGHT TYPES OF SITES FOR SUCCESS IN PATIENT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION

    Ridwaan Jhetam

    Ridwaan Jhetam, Senior Director, Johnson & Johnson Global Clinical Operations Global

  • Where to go
  • Where NOT to go           
  • Role of the Study Nurse/Coordinator 
  • Engagement with patient Advocacy groups        
  • Best practices in Reviewing the likelihood of sites delivering on their commitment
  • Review of Historical data , Databases & HER
  • Tools for gaining Investigator Commitment & branding/exposing your study to
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    ENROLLING "PROBLEM" PROTOCOLS: HOW TO RESCUE YOUR STUDY

    Kate Booth

    Kate Booth, Strategic Management, BBK Worldwide

  • Enrollment barriers are seldom identified until a study is underway and patient recruitment is foundering
  • How to use research to select the most productive sites, and target the optimal media solutions for patient outreach.
  • Case studies examples
  • Providing practical, real-world guidance for rescuing “problem” protocols
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    11:40

    PANEL DISCUSSION: GLOBAL PLANNING TO LOCAL DELIVERABLE

    Ridwaan Jhetam

    Ridwaan Jhetam, Senior Director, Johnson & Johnson Global Clinical Operations Global

    John Needham

    John Needham, CEO, Patient Recruitment Strategy, LLC

    Kate Booth

    Kate Booth, Strategic Management, BBK Worldwide

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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    WEB BASED TECHNIQUES FOR PATIENT RECRUITMENT

     

  • Using web based searches to establish and recruit subjects
  • Choosing potential sites on the back of these searches
  • The collaboration with online patient organistaion’s that allows greater access to patients
  • Case Study Examples
  • Kate Shaw

    Kate Shaw, Global Project Manager, Roche Products

    Ann Coulson

    Ann Coulson, Global Clinical Project Leader, Astrazeneca

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    14:30

    TEXT TO TRIAL TO PARTICIPATE? EXPLORING INNOVATIVE MOBILE & INTERNET SOLUTIONS FOR PATIENT RECRUITMENT

    Tim Davis

    Tim Davis, Co-Founder, Exco InTouch

  • Overview of proven technology options available for patient recruitment and retention
  • Pros and Cons of technology
  • Geographic and Demographic considerations
  • Security and patient confidentiality
  • Case Study on Healthy volunteer recruitment using mobile phone text messaging
  • Future considerations with Mobile Advertising and Pre-screening
  • Case Study on Patient Retention
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    15:10

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    SUCESSFUL RECRUITMENT PLANNING

    Vinka Ljubimir

    Vinka Ljubimir, Consultant,

  • How to tackle issues with recruitment
  • Types of recruitment plans
  • How recruitment planning works in real life
  • Ensuring recruitment success
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    16:20

    MULTI REGIONAL TRIALS FOR RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION

    Matthew  Lehman

    Matthew Lehman, Chief Operating Officer, SPRI Clinical Trials

  • Utilize multiple regions as part of a comprehensive recruitment and retention strategy
  • Best practice to operate global trials that work effectively
  • How to reach and recruit different patients in different parts of the world
  • Obstacles incurred and the solutions proposed
  • Region specific examples: USA, India, former Soviet countries, and South America
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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

    John Needham

    John Needham, CEO, Patient Recruitment Strategy, LLC

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    9:10

    PAEDIATRIC CLINICAL TRIALS - RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES TO PREVENT HAEMORRHAGE (OF YOUR TIME AND MONEY)

    Jane Lamprill

    Jane Lamprill, Paediatric Research Consultant, Paediatric Research Consultancy

  • Mandatory Paediatric requirements for Regulation EU 1901/2006
  • Common causes of paediatric trial failure - ethics submission
  • Common causes of paediatric trail failure - protocol planning
  • Strategies for successful recruitment and compliance
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    9:50

    HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE PATIENT INFORMATION MATERIALS - IS USER TESTING THE ANSWER?

    Theo Raynor

    Theo Raynor, Professor of Pharmacy Practise, University Of Leeds

  • Measuring performance
  • What do participants want from patient information sheets?
  • What are the principles for writing good patient information?
  • Can User Testing, now mandatory for licensed medicine leaflets, work for patient information sheets?
  • What are the results of the first user-tests of patient information sheets?
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:40

    ACCELERATING PATIENT RECRUITMENT BY CONDUCTING TRIALS IN INDIA

    Raghib Ali

    Raghib Ali, Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford

  • Strategies in use
  • Best practice to operate global trials that work effectively
  • Reaching these different patients through appropriate messages and media
  • Obstacles incurred and the solutions proposed
  • Country specific examples with a particular focus in Asia
  • Multiregional trials prove efficacy of drugs in different ethnic groups- enabling easier regulatory approval
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    12:20

    A VIEW FROM THE FRONT-LINE; ARE ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS FIT FOR PURPOSE?

    David Collier

    David Collier, Research Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute at Barts and The London School of Medicine

     

     

     

  • Do all the stakeholders in the clinical trials process share the same perspective?
  • Do your systems help you or hinder you (or your sites?)
  • Are your systems better than they were 10 or 20 years ago?
  • How could we do it differently?
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    13:00

    Networking Lunch

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    14:00

    WORKING OUTSIDE THE “COMFORT ZONE”

    David Cocker

    David Cocker, Partner, mdcpartners

     
    SETTING UP IN NEW THERAPY AREA, SO WHERE DO I TO START.
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    All major companies are expanding their research portfolios, oncology and CNS indications are pivotal to a stainable pipeline.  But what happens when you are confronted with the task of setting up a trail in a new therapy area from scratch?
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  • Before feasibility,
  • Mining your affiliates
  • Therapeutic standards of care, where and what’s available?
  • Epidemiology where are  my patient populations
  • How to identify and rank Key Opinion Leaders
  • How do you get a view on international sponsor activity
  • TA distribution, competitive use of investigator pool
  • Centres of Potential Interest do they have the assets.   
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    14:40

    PATIENT AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE NHS

    Roger Steel

    Roger Steel, Lead for PPI, UKCRN

  • The NHS context and PPI work at the UKCRN              
  • Models and examples of PPI from the NHS              
  • The potential advantages of PPI for industry trial recruitment               
  • Getting started with PPI              
  • Resources available              
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    15:20

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

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    15:30

    Close of Conference

    Workshops

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