Breakout Sessions I
Back To Basics: Enhancing Site Operations & Performance
Success starts with mastering the fundamentals, and this session revisits key aspects of site operations to boost your trial efficiency and effectiveness. We’ll discuss patient recruitment, budgeting, and operational strategies to meet the ideal patient profile and build meaningful relationships. Gain insights on translating science into patient care and positioning your site favorably with sponsors and CROs.
Building Inclusive & Accessible Research Environments
This interactive session focuses on practical solutions and best practices for creating equitable clinical research environments for underrepresented communities. We’ll cover workforce diversity, inclusive facilities, and process improvements to improve diverse trial representation. Discover strategies to overcome common barriers in patient recruitment and accessibility, with insights into fostering a culture of inclusion at your site.
Connections To Contracts: Finding Clinical Trial Opportunities
Learn how to proactively identify and secure study opportunities by building relationships and presenting yourself effectively to sponsors, CROs, and brokers. Understand your range of resources and options, regardless of budget, with tangible tools to help you get started in successfully finding new studies. You’ll leave with key resources and tools for identifying trial opportunities and how to showcase your site’s unique strengths and capabilities.
Hidden Costs: The Unseen Burden In Clinical Research
Sites face mounting regulatory demands and economic pressures that often lead to absorbing unacknowledged costs. Learn how to identify, quantify, and track these hidden costs while exploring techniques and tools to navigate, negotiate and manage these challenges sustainably.
Invoicing Essentials: How To Secure Funding For Study Success
Successful clinical research requires adequate funding for essential activities, yet many sites hesitate to ask for what they truly need to execute a study effectively. Leveraging insights from the SCRS Site Invoiceables Guide, we’ll review invoicing essentials, negotiation tactics, and best practices for improving collections. Sponsors and CROs will share their perspectives on common funding requests and trending errors leading to rejections, while sites will share their own negotiation successes.
Next Generation Of Investigators: How To Recruit, Train & Retain PIs
New Principal Investigators (PIs) are essential to the growth of clinical research, yet many sites and sponsors face challenges in recruiting and trusting inexperienced PIs. This session will review methods for mentoring and training new PIs, creating infrastructure that inspires sponsor confidence, and fostering long-term investigator engagement. Learn from site, sponsor, and CRO perspectives on how to support research-naïve PIs to ensure successful trial execution.
Operations: Comprehensive KPI Blueprint For Sites
This interactive workshop brings together site, CRO, and sponsor representatives to create a master list of essential Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in clinical research. Discover metrics that drive site selection, feasibility, and success across Business Development, Operations, Recruitment, Finance, and HR. Learn how to showcase your site’s strengths, improve your performance tracking and presentation, and focus on outcomes that matter to patients and partners.
Recruitment Success: Technology That Delivers Results
Patient recruitment is one of the biggest challenges in clinical research, but innovative technology is helping sites navigate these obstacles. In this session, sites of all sizes will share their success stories and the tools they use to identify patients within their communities. Discover ow recruitment technology can be tailored to diverse environments and populations and learn what’s truly making a difference in real-world scenarios.
Streamline Vendor Management: Solutions For Efficient Operations
Vendor management has become one of the most significant burdens for sites in modern clinical trials. From managing technology integrations like eConsent to coordinating external specialists, sites face inefficiencies and logistical hurdles. Discuss solutions for streamlining vendor relationships, addressing pushback from sponsors and CROs, and finding collaborative solutions to improve trial efficiency. Hear from sites, sponsors, and CROs on how to leverage technology and overcome challenges for smoother operations.
Together We Thrive: The Power Of Effective Communication
Effective communication is the cornerstone of strong, resilient relationships between sites, CROs, and sponsors. In this session, we’ll review tools and techniques that foster transparency and maintain engagement across all parties. Through real-world success stories, learn how open communication channels can resolve challenges, build trust, and improve collaboration. Participants will leave with processes to implement in their own relationships, ensuring long-term success and smooth trial execution.