Patient Recruitment in Clinical Trials 2012

CHI’s Patient Recruitment in Clinical Trials will be held on February 8-9, 2012 at the Hilton Miami Downtown in Miami, FL.

Topics to be discussed include:

-Designing and implementing a clinical enrollment plan: Strategy development, plan implementation and contingency planning

-Planning to market and enroll patients outside of the US? What country specific requirements should you be aware of?

-Identification and selection of investigators: Sponsor expectations; investigator expectations; do they really have the patients?

-Maximization of patient recruitment and enrollment: Centralized versus site-based recruiting, marketing/advertising, call centers, outreach strategies, staff training

-Benchmarking: Are you achieving your recruitment goals?

-Planning for recruitment with adaptive trial designs

-Recruitment of special populations

-The art and science of site management: Communication pathways, data discrepancy resolution, site payments

-Enhancing patient compliance and retention

-Utilizing new social media and Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate the new paradigm of patient-centered trials

-Leveraging social media for clinical trial recruitment: social networks and emerging technologies to accelerate clinical trial recruitment

-Case studies: Effectively utilizing patient recruitment service providers

-Comprehensive clinical trial promotion: Effective scientific communications, health PR, and social marketing