Breakout Session I & II – Budget, Contracts, & Finance
One-hour sessions with multiple topics relevant to your site’s success and sustainability will be presented for your selection. All sessions include active participation with either moderated panels or esteemed presenters that will provide many valuable takeaways.
Budget, Contracts, & Finance ($)
1:30 – 2:30
Reinventing Your Site: During & After COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed clinical research forever. As a result, sites have had to adopt new technologies, train and coach staff, implement new processes, and create an entirely new model of conducting studies. Communicating these changes and new capabilities to sponsors, CROs and patients is essential for ongoing as well as new study opportunities. This session will explore marketing strategies and “the message” sites must create and communicate to stakeholders now and going forward.
2:30 – 3:30
Site Business Health: Withstanding Disruption During a Pandemic
Clinical research sites that intimately know their finances and take proactive steps early to prepare for and anticipate disruptions stand a better chance of surviving and even coming out of a disruption stronger. Hear from business owners what strategies they took prior to, during and following major disruptions that resulted in surviving and even thriving.
Site & Study Operations
1:30 – 2:30
Site Management Pressure Points: Lessons Learned & Best Practices
We learn best from our mistakes. In this session, managers will share challenges experienced, what they did to pivot when mistakes were made, lessons learned and how they embraced change to survive and succeed. Challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic will be highlighted and discussed.
2:30 – 3:30
Scaling Sites & Networks: Methods for Success
How does a site expand into new therapeutic areas or grow to add new sites? Hear from sites that have successfully done both to learn what triggers to look for and pitfalls to avoid so that your efforts to grow and expand succeed.
Recruitment & Retention
1:30 – 2:30
The SCRS Diversity Project: Exploring the Meaning of Diversity and How it Impacts Clinical Research Sites
2:30 – 3:30
Enrollment Wizardry: How to Support Enrollment Before the Study Even Starts
Enrollment begins before the study starts! This session will provide you with tools needed to maximize lead time to ensure strong enrollment and hit milestones from the get-go. Patient pre-screening, recruitment campaign best practices, and what gets and keeps patients engaged will be addressed.
Technology
Sponsored by RealTime
1:30 – 2:30
Remote Monitoring: The New Normal
Remote monitoring is not a new concept, however, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in widespread adoption almost overnight. During this session speakers will provide regulatory, financial, and operational considerations for the widespread adoption of remote monitoring.
2:30 – 3:30
Virtual Trials: Building & Contracting for ” The New Normal”
You’ve done the work and you took the COVID-19 curveball in stride, changing course to accommodate remote visits to keep your trials moving forward. Now it’s time to get paid. What unique factors should you keep in mind when billing for remote visits and other elements of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs)? How do you navigate payment amidst sudden and urgently needed changes to protocol? This session will identify best practices to ensure full and fast payment.
