DIA 2016 Annual Meeting

Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

In this session, we will display a tool that helps integrate recruitment planning into the fabric of a trial’s operational design. We will also debate the most appropriate usage of the tool and how to integrate it into the planning process.

Learning Objectives

Describe a new tools developed by sponsors to determine the best recruitment strategy for any given protocol; Show the impact these tools have had on developing budgets and tactics for recruitment planning; Discuss the positives and potential pitfalls of using these tools.

Chair

James Kremidas

Speaker

Matchmaking: Systematizing Best Fit Tactics for Study Needs
Lewis Millen

The Art and Science of Site Level Recruitment Planning: Tools, Tactics, and Tips?
Beth D. Harper, MBA

Component Type: Session
Level: Basic
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-16-520-L01-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Patient recruitment is a challenging activity, which becomes even more so in rare diseases where populations are small, patients are geographically dispersed, and eligible subjects may not be physically (or economically) capable of traveling to a trial site. Unfortunately, current recruiting methods (e.g., listing on trial and patient organization websites, relying on key opinion leaders and trial investigators, billboards) may be limited in reach, overly reliant on busy physicians, and too costly or cost-ineffective. It behooves clinical trialists in rare diseases to consider mechanisms beyond these standard approaches. The aim of this session is to catalyze unconventional thinking and to provide a framework to organize innovative recruitment ideas.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the challenges of patient recruitment in rare diseases; Compare conventional and out-of-the-box ideas for patient recruitment; Illustrate a framework for organizing innovative recruitment ideas.

Chair

Badri Rengarajan, MD

Speaker

Leveraging Claims Data for Targeted Recruitment
Donny Chen, MBA

Direct-to-Patient Digital Recruitment: A Targeted Approach to Recruitment Enrollment and Retention Problems
Bethany Bray

Bringing Clinical Trials to Patients: Leveraging Convergent Data Sources to Accelerate Recruitment
Scott Douglas Schliebner, MPH

Component Type: Workshop
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Application UAN: 0286-0000-16-519-L01-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

This interactive workshop will incorporate the patient engagement survey results from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, a large group discussion, and small group breakouts to develop practical solutions for pediatric, rare disease, oncology, and other clinical studies.

**Due to workshop format, seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis.

The Pennsylvania Convention Center has stringent regulations on maximum room capacities, and they are strictly enforced. Once all seats are occupied, DIA will be required to close the workshop, and no more participants will be admitted. Interested attendees are encouraged to arrive early in order to ensure seating.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the findings of the latest Tufts CSDD patient engagement surveys; Identify obstacles and opportunities to improve patient engagement in clinical trials; Propose at least three solutions which address patient engagement needs.

Chair

Robin F Marcus

Speaker

Facilitator
Stella Stergiopoulos

Component Type: Symposium
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-16-521-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

This symposium will cover multi-ethnic, special populations, and patient diversity in clinical trials. It will illustrate an assessment of over 10,000 trials, recently conducted by sponsor companies, to quantify the differences of pediatric trials from adult studies. It will illuminate the learning’s in site identification, site qualification, and enrollment from the DOVE study, a 14-country study representing a mix of traditional and developing regions. It will then evaluate and analyze the available data regarding the characteristics of medicines approved for older patients in European Union and the US, contributing to the information in the geriatric population in order to discuss their access to innovative drugs.

Learning Objectives

Discuss country-specific differentiation in site activation, subject recruitment, and data quality, especially around developing regions, as demonstrated by the DOVE study; Classify the difference in performance between pediatric and adult studies; Describe the challenge of addressing geriatrics adequately in the assessment of medicines including the necessity to increase global regulatory dialogue and communication.

Chair

Lisa Palladino Kim, MS

Speaker

Pediatric Studies: Experiences, Best Practices, and Trends
Conrad Hawkins

Conduct of Clinical Trials in Special Populations and Developing Regions: Challenges and Opportunities
Stephen G. Reams, MA

Medicines Development for Geriatric Patients: Unmet Needs?
Dinah Duarte, PharmD, MSc