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Breakout Session V & VI – Budgets, Contracts & Finance

September 2, 2020 • 0 Comment

1:30 – 2:30
Hidden Costs: Remote Monitoring & How to Budget for It

As industry continues to embrace and transition to remote monitoring, the potential staffing and financial burdens on sites mount. This session will help you evaluate the costs and value-add of remotely monitored trials, and understand what line items to keep in mind when negotiating study contracts and budgets.

2:30 – 3:30

Lessons from the Trenches: How COVID-19 Reshaped Study Budgets

The entire world, including the clinical research industry, has been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. With trials halted or closed to new enrollments, increased remote monitoring, staff lay-offs and more, we have entered a new paradigm that we must learn to navigate. Looking in the rearview mirror shows us new budget considerations that must be accommodated. This session will help you navigate “the new normal” so you are prepared and informed in the future.

Breakout Session V & VI – Business Development

May 7, 2020 • 0 Comment

1:30 – 2:30
Future Therapeutic Trends: Considerations When Expanding into New Indications

Looking to expand into other therapeutic indications? Your business development must extend beyond your usual efforts and feasibility questionnaires. As pipelines shift direction and new therapeutic area opportunities are identified, discover what proactive steps can be taken to diversify your therapeutic portfolio and position your site as a leader in your desired field.

2:30 – 3:30

Winning at Research: Strategies for 21st Century Success

Do sponsors and CROs have a firm grasp on what it requires for a site to manage a variety of vendors and technologies throughout a trial? How can sponsors and CROs work to reduce site burden, even when they select the technology and vendors that sites are working with? Join this session to learn best practices that sites, sponsors, CROs and solution providers alike should consider improving the site experience of new technology adoption.

Breakout Session V & VI – Regulatory & Compliance, Recruitment & Retention

September 2, 2020 • 0 Comment

1:30 – 2:30
Risk-Based, Centralized, Remote Monitoring, Say What? Quality Control, Explained

If centralized and remote site monitoring (RSM) were not yet on your radar, the COVID-19 pandemic brought it to your doorstep. But what exactly are they and what do they mean for sites? Further, how does all this relate to risk-based monitoring (RBM)? In this session you will hear lessons learned from experience and understand what sites should expect as a site from the future of monitoring.

2:30 – 3:30

Sustaining Patient-Centricity Amidst Adversity

Achieving patient centricity is easier said than done, yet it is important that all stakeholders strive to remain patient-centric even when the going gets tough. This session will highlight how stakeholders maintained patient centricity through the COVID-19 pandemic, including strategies deployed and the resulting outcomes.

Breakout Session V & VI – Site & Study Operations

September 2, 2020 • 0 Comment

1:30 – 2:30
Are Your Key Performance Indicators Aligned with Sponsor Expectations?

What are key performance indicators (KPIs), and how can they be utilized to operationalize your site and successfully market your strengths to sponsors and CROs? Join this session to learn how to ensure your KPIs are aligned with sponsor expectations and how to engage them in marketing efforts.

2:30 – 3:30

What Sponsors are Really Looking for in Your Site Feasibility Surveys

You’ve found the perfect study for your site, and you completed the site feasibility survey on time…just to find out two weeks later that you didn’t make the cut. Why? What additional information or tactics would have improved your odds? Participate in an interactive feasibility exercise to help you better understand what sponsors and CROs are looking for and what sites should know when completing feasibilities.

Breakout Session III & IV – Budget, Contracts & Finance

May 7, 2020 • 0 Comment

1:30 – 2:30
Negotiating Like a Pro: The Low-Down on Study Budgets

As study budgets become more complex and less transparent, site staff need to become increasingly savvy with their negotiation tactics. Whether you have someone who manages your budgets or not, this session will provide an overview of all-things-budget including pass-throughs, overhead, procedural justification, and how to ask for a higher budget and actually get it.

2:30 – 3:30

Virtual Trials 101: The Nuts & Bolts of Remote Practices

Whether or not your site is ready for virtual trials, they’re here. This reality was blasted home to us all as COVID-19 circulated the globe and forced us to embrace remote trials…whether we liked it or were ready, or not. This “nuts and bolts” session will walk you through everything you need to know from insurance considerations and budget considerations, to operational challenges and how to navigate unforeseen.

Breakout Session III & IV – Human Resources & Legal

September 1, 2020 • 0 Comment

1:30 – 2:30
Driving Site Success with Staff Success

With the recent changes and destabilization in the clinical research industry due to COVID-19, the value of having an outstanding site staff cannot be overstated. Successful sites have organized, well thought-out and thoroughly documented processes for hiring, onboarding, and training staff. Learn what it takes to create and maintain a top-notch site staff.

2:30 – 3:30

Common Contract Mistakes & How to Correct Them

Big or small, most contract mistakes are usually uncovered when you come face-to-face with a problem. This session will walk sites through the most common mistakes found in clinical trial agreements (CTAs) and the steps you can take to resolve them, or avoid them altogether.

Breakout Session III & IV – Regulatory & Compliance

September 1, 2020 • 0 Comment

1:30 – 2:30
Quality Management: Not Only the Sponsor’s Responsibility!

ICH guidelines put the responsibility of quality management squarely on the sponsors’ shoulders. But that doesn’t mean sites shouldn’t have their own quality management plan! Understand the importance of quality management at the site level and learn how to set up your own quality management plan.

2:30 – 3:30

eSolution Innovation & Regulatory Considerations

Implementing eRegulatory, eSource and other patient-facing technology that allows clinical trials to move to a remote or hybrid model is on the rise. This is thanks in part to COVID-19, yet this path was paved long before the pandemic began. Join this session to understand the hurdles encountered by those who have already adopted these technologies, and navigate the related regulatory considerations.

Breakout Session III & IV – Technology
Sponsored by RealTime

September 1, 2020 • 0 Comment

1:30 – 2:30
Effective Technology Management Approaches to Boost Your Site

Technology can drastically improve efficiencies and processes if adoption and integration keep both the site and patient in mind. Sponsors, CROs and Solution Providers must keep site burden in mind when deploying new technology to ensure its success. Join this session to learn how to problem-solve and effectively adopt technology for the benefit of all parties.

2:30 – 3:30

Innovative Recruitment Tools: The Expansion of Telemedicine

Tele-trials and remote visits are becoming a reality as attention shifts to reducing patient travel time and increasing patient flexibility. Join this session to learn how to successfully implement telemedicine and remote visit practices as a recruitment tool for your site.

Breakout Session I & II – Budget, Contracts, & Finance

August 26, 2020 • 0 Comment

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.

Breakout Session I & II – Recruitment & Retention

August 27, 2020 • 0 Comment

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.

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