DIA 2016 Annual Meeting

Component Type: Symposium
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-16-524-L05-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

This symposium examines the complex challenges encountered in special population study design. Appropriate management of specialty populations with comorbidities on multiple medications creates challenges in protocol design and enrollment to ensure patient safety and accurate and quality data.

Learning Objectives

Discuss strategies to adapt to industry trends and changing demands of special population studies; Identify options in protocol design and the process for screening patients with comorbidities and concomitant medications; Evaluate the impact of subject population on subject safety data and on assessment of drug safety.

Chair

William B Smith

Speaker

Special Populations in Clinical Pharmacology Studies: Evolving Challenges
William B Smith

Investigational Product and Drug-Drug Interactions in Specialty Populations with Comorbidities: Options in Addressing Safety, Data, Timelines, and Costs
Harry W Alcorn, JR, PharmD

Fast to Patient: Shifting from Healthy Volunteer to Patient Population
Richard Scheyer, MD

QTcF in Special Populations
Robert Kleiman

Component Type: Symposium
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-16-598-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Presentations will examine different but overlapping aspects of assuring safety and evaluating activity in early clinical development activities to enable rational clinical development, followed by an interactive discussion of potential future directions.

Learning Objectives

Discuss different aspects of including safety in early phase drug development processes; Identify aspects to be considered for risk assessments during a first-in-human study; Describe a dose selection process for cell and gene therapies to increase likelihood of efficacy; Explain recommended standards for operating an early phase CPU with staff training programs.

Chair

Howard Greenberg, MD

Speaker

Structured Risk Assessment and Risk Mitigation in First-in-Human Studies
Thijs Van Iersel, MD

Dose Finding for Cell and Gene Therapies: Is Safety the Main Driver?
Gopalan Narayanan, MD, FFPM, FRCP

Site Training as a Critical Key to Safety
Donna W. Dorozinsky

Component Type: Symposium
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-16-525-L01-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Analgesics are useful drugs but have limitations of effectiveness, safety, and tolerability in some patients. In this symposium, we will discuss why evaluating abuse deterrent opioids, drug interactions and targeting specific pain phenotypes are critical areas of analgesic research.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the benchtop/clinical evaluations required to assess abuse deterrent opioid formulations; Explain the challenges in evaluating drug-drug interactions between pain medications or withdrawal maintenance drugs and other drugs; Describe European Medicine Agency views on how particular biomarker methods can be used in the stratification of patient populations in neuropathic pain trials.

Chair

Beatrice Setnik, PhD

Speaker

Abuse Deterrent Opioids: Benchtop and Clinical Approaches to Testing Real World Drug Abuse
Beatrice Setnik, PhD

A Quantitative Approach to Understanding the Dynamic Interplay Between Pain and Concomitant Medications, and Genetics
Galina Bernstein, PhD

Proposal for the Use of Biomarker Methods to Enable Stratification of Patient Populations in Clinical Trials for Neuropathic Pain
Andrew Whiles, LLM, MBA