Parents as Partners – Engaging Caregivers for Pediatric Trials at the Upcoming DIA Annual Meeting

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If you have ever struggled with patient recruitment for a pediatric study, Parents as Partners: Engaging Caregivers for Pediatric Trials, a presentation at the upcoming DIA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, is not to be missed.

The presentation will highlight many of the challenges sponsors and CROs face when trying to recruit and retain patients for these unique studies, while offering suggestions on how to overcome these challenges from a variety of different perspectives.

Watch the preview video above for more information about the presentation, including a review of the goals and highlights of specific issues that will be discussed.

The session is on Monday, June 15, at 11 am in Room 145A at the Washington Convention Center.

See you in Washington, DC!

If you can’t attend the session in person, please feel free to contact me to discuss the presentation in more detail and answer any questions you may have about pediatric trial recruitment. 

Patient Centricity at DIA 2014

Looking at the program for this year's DIA conference, one thing seems certain: we have undergone a seismic shift in our buzzword usage.

Many of last year's hot topics - notably "Big Data" and "Mobile/mHealth" - have apparently cooled down considerably, with only a few session devoted to them. Even Risk Based Monitoring has seen a big drop in the number of presentations addressing it.

This year's Next Big Thing is clearly Patient Centricity. This makes us excited - we've been talking to sponsors for years about how to improve clinical trial design and communication by engaging directly with patients. However, it also makes us a bit concerned - will the industry treat this as just another passing fad?

With that in mind, we've put together a list of sessions on patient centricity we will definitely be attending. The questions we'll be asking include:

CAHG Attendees at DIA
Come talk Patient Centricity with us

 

Paul Ivsin
Consulting Director
Ask me about: patient interviews,
Patient Aided Design

 

Emily Cortez
Group Account Supervisor
Ask me about: ePatient engagement in
MS, fibromyalgia, and IVF trials

 

Don Sickler
Group Account Supervisor
Ask me about: Parent engagement
in pediatric research

• How actionable are the ideas presented?
• Are new perspectives being offered?
• Can sponsors actually commit to clear, open communication on these topics?

Most of all, we look forward to discussing these ideas with our fellow attendees. Want to talk in depth on patient engagement strategies for clinical trials? Stop by our booth (#326) - we'd love to share experiences on this!

Monday

• 8:30 am - Room 3: Bringing the Patient Voice to Clinical Development
• 11:00 am - Room 2: Engaging Patients through Digital and Social Media Communities
• 11:00 am - Room 30AB: Fact or Fiction: Patient Engagement in the Drug Development Process

Tuesday

• 10:30 am - Room 3: Social Listening as a Tool to Inform Study Teams on Social Media Strategy for Recruitment and Building Patient-Centric Trials
• 1:30 pm - Room 30CD: Enabling Participants’ Access to the Electronic Clinical Trial Data: The Blue Button Project

Wednesday

• 8:00 am - Room 33AB: Clinical Trials Technology Implementation: Bringing Together Patient- and Site-Centric Approaches
• 10:30 am - Room 9: The Patient Point-of-View: An Unrehearsed but Revealing Conversation to Rectify Patient Enrollment
• 1:30 pm - Room 2: Social Media in Patient Recruitment: How to Best Leverage the Digital Ecosystem
• 3:30 pm - Room 3: Filling the Gaps and Speeding Up Results: What an Educated, Sophisticated Patient Population Can Do for You

Thursday

• 10:45 am - Room 9: Parents as Partners: Overcoming Unique Challenges to Pediatric Recruitment and Retention

Parents as Partners - A Pediatric Patient Recruitment Session at the Upcoming DIA Annual Meeting

If you have ever struggled with patient recruitment for a pediatric study, Parents as Partners: Overcoming Unique Challenges to Pediatric Recruitment and Retention, a session at the upcoming DIA 50^th Annual Meeting in San Diego is a presentation that is not to be missed.

The session will highlight many of the challenges sponsors and CROs face when trying to recruit and retain patients for these unique studies, while offering suggestions on how to overcome these challenges from a variety of different perspectives.

Watch the preview video above for more information about the session, including a review of the goals and details on the impressive lineup of speakers that will be participating.

See you in San Diego!

If you can’t attend the session in person, please feel free to contact me to discuss the presentation in more detail and answer any questions you may have about pediatric trial recruitment.