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| Day |
Session Link |
| Monday |
2008 Benchmark Survey Results: Project Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry |
| Monday |
CTMS Implementation: The Next Steps |
| Monday |
Disease Insights: A Truly Global Approach to Accelerating Patient Recruitment and Retention |
| Monday |
Effective Operational Planning for Adaptive Clinical Trials |
| Monday |
How Investigator Budgets Impact Patient Enrollment and Retention and How to Improve Sponsor/CRO/Site Processes to Increase Productivity |
| Monday |
Improving Accrual and Contract Management with Earned Value Management |
| Monday |
Improving Safety with Every Step: The Patient Perspective |
| Monday |
Informed Country Selection for Multinational Clinical Studies: One Size Does Not Fit All |
| Monday |
Is There Really Such a Thing as a Strategic Partnership? |
| Monday |
Outsourcing Clinical Trials in Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities |
| Monday |
Prevention of Fraud and Noncompliance in Clinical Research: What Was and Is Being Done? |
| Monday |
Profiting in the Next Generation Pharmaceutical Industry |
| Monday |
Sourcing Professionals Are from Mars and Business Development Professionals Are from Venus |
| Monday |
The Art and Science of Pharmaceutical Project Management: Does a Pharma PM Need to Be a Scientist? |
| Monday |
The State of Subject Recruitment in the US: A Town Hall Discussion |
| Monday |
Understanding Clinical Trial Volunteer Experiences and Physician Referrals to Clinical Trials |
| Monday |
Using Relationship Management Tools to Improve Project Results |
| Monday |
Valuing Continuous Process Improvement Projects |
| Monday |
Improving Safety with Every Step: Pillars of the Pharmaceutical Landscape |
| Tuesday |
A Search for the Most Effective PM Model in the Pharmaceutical Industry: PMs and PLs - Do We Need Both? |
| Tuesday |
Adaptive Trial Design: Critical Path at Five Years |
| Tuesday |
Biomarkers for Drug Safety and Development: Perspectives from the Institute of Medicine and Industry |
| Tuesday |
Bringing Out the Best in Leaders, Teams and Relationships |
| Tuesday |
Building a Clinical Operations Department through Rapid Organizational Growth |
| Tuesday |
Challenges of R&D Outsourcing in Japan: Successful NDA Preparation, and Strategy Planning Area for Global Development |
| Tuesday |
Clinical Supplies Management under Uncertainty |
| Tuesday |
Clinical Trial Oversight: Adverse Event Reporting and Handling of Incidental Findings |
| Tuesday |
Comparing Risk Management Approaches of the US and Japan (Asia): Implications for Global Drug Development |
| Tuesday |
Conducting Global Clinical Trials in Emerging Markets |
| Tuesday |
Creating a Collaborative Environment: Working Together at Monitoring Visits |
| Tuesday |
Deal Makers and Deal Breakers: What Venture Capital Firms Look for in Drug Development Plans and How Applicants Succeed (or Fail) in Winning Funding |
| Tuesday |
Ensuring Strategic Value of Continuous Process Improvement Projects |
| Tuesday |
Ethical Rewards for Patients in Clinical Studies: A Scientific Approach to Patient Retention |
| Tuesday |
First-in-human Trial Designs: How Much Is Too Much? |
| Tuesday |
Implementing Enterprise-wide Project Management Tools |
| Tuesday |
Is It Truly Informed Consent? |
| Tuesday |
Medical Imaging: Update on PhRMA Consortium Initiatives |
| Tuesday |
Meeting the Health Needs of Minorities through Clinical Research: Engaging Minority Investigators and Recruiting Diverse Patient Populations |
| Tuesday |
Project and Alliance Management: Integrating the Roles |
| Tuesday |
Project and Portfolio Management Insights |
| Tuesday |
Site Relationship Management (SRM) Initiatives for Improving Site Performance: One Year Later |
| Tuesday |
The Impact of FDAAA and Health Information Technology on Drug Safety, Standards, and Data Stewardship: 2009 Update and Future Plans |
| Tuesday |
The New Administration, Health Reform, and FDAAA: Impact on FDA, Industry, Health Professionals, Consumers, Payers, and Other Stakeholders |
| Tuesday |
Training of Investigative Sites in the Latin America Region |
| Tuesday |
Understanding the Complexities of Latin American Borders and Local Regulations to Get the Clinical Trial Material into the Country |
| Tuesday |
Using Performance Metrics to Improve Clinical Trial Performance and Reduce Enrollment Risk |
| Tuesday |
Utilize Standardized CRO Performance Metrics to Drive Appropriate Change: An Industry-wide Effort among Sponsors and CROs to Develop and Implement Standardized CRO Performance Metrics to Improve Clinical Trial Performance |
| Tuesday |
What if ClinOps Ran the EDC Project? Getting the Full Benefit |
| Wednesday |
A CRO-sponsor Perspective on the Challenges of Site Selection: Panel Discussion |
| Wednesday |
Addressing Suicidality in Clinical Trials |
| Wednesday |
Building Quality Research Teams |
| Wednesday |
Can the Government Really Implement Cost-effective and Efficient Clinical Trials? |
| Wednesday |
Challenges in Project Management in Front-loading Key Activities for Rapid Drug Development |
| Wednesday |
Clinical Automation Systems in Phase 1 Clinical Research |
| Wednesday |
Clinical Trials and Tribulations: Influences and Challenges of Patient Recruitment and Retention Including Perspectives from Participants, Families and Research Study Organizers |
| Wednesday |
Cost Containment: Strategies for Efficient Clinical Research Practices |
| Wednesday |
Early-phase Clinical Trials: Confronting the Guinea-pigging Misconception |
| Wednesday |
Faster, Better, Cheaper? Working Outside North America and Western Europe |
| Wednesday |
Future Directions of Project Management in the Life Sciences |
| Wednesday |
High-impact Quality Protocols |
| Wednesday |
Improving Patient Recruitment and Retention Planning: Global Perspectives on What Sites Need from Sponsors and CROs |
| Wednesday |
Increasing Enrollment, Retention, and Compliance through Electronic Patient Payment and Communication Technologies |
| Wednesday |
Influence: Utilizing an Array of Strategies to Provide Project Focus |
| Wednesday |
Integrated Business Modeling: Where Improvements in Productivity Happen by Leveraging Better Forecasting Tools, Techniques, and Processes |
| Wednesday |
Latin America: Leveraging Regional Strengths while Proactively Ensuring Quality |
| Wednesday |
Managing Team Communications Globally |
| Wednesday |
Multiregional Clinical Trials |
| Wednesday |
Nurture the Clinical Trial Leader of Tomorrow |
| Wednesday |
Optimizing Clinical Trial Material Supply Planning |
| Wednesday |
Outsourcing Strategies for Clinical Trial Activities in Central and Latin America |
| Wednesday |
Six Sigma: How to Leverage a Great Idea in the Complex Reality of Clinical Trials |
| Wednesday |
The Good, the Bad and the Surmountable: Overcoming Outsourcing Challenges in Latin America |
| Wednesday |
The Influence of Cultural Diversity and Ethnopharmacology on Recruitment for Clinical Trials |
| Wednesday |
The Keys to Establishing Best Practices for Accelerated Study Start-up |
| Wednesday |
Understanding ePatients and Engaging Them in Clinical Research |
| Wednesday |
Virtual Project Teams: Best Practices for Improving Product Development Efficiency |
| Wednesday |
What Does the Future Hold for CRO-Sponsor Relationships? Results from a 2009 Industry Survey with a Focus on How Changes to CRO-Sponsor Relationships over the Next Five Years Will Impact Innovation, Cost Savings and Efficiency |
| Thursday |
Addressing Three Major Challenges in Investigator Initiated Trials: Process, Contracts, and Culture |
| Thursday |
Assessing the Security Practices of Business Partners |
| Thursday |
Central Laboratory Services in Emerging Markets: Optimizing Results through Laboratory “Glocalization” |
| Thursday |
Data Management Challenges within Academic Research Centers |
| Thursday |
Global Working Environment Synergy: When an American Team Leader, Japanese Project Manager and European Team Members Work Together |
| Thursday |
Go East, Go West: Outsourcing in Asia |
| Thursday |
Human Subject Protection Programs: Complex Issues for the IRB |
| Thursday |
Improving the Business of Science: Process Improvement and Metrics that Matter |
| Thursday |
Investigator Outreach Analysis: Using Performance and Survey Data as Drivers of Investigator Performance |
| Thursday |
Optimizing the Process of Study Feasibility: Ensuring Better Outcomes for All Stakeholders |
| Thursday |
Preserving Relationships in the Face of Divergent Project Expectations |
| Thursday |
Proactive Management of Project Financials: Understand Scope of Work, Cost to Complete and Scope Change |
| Thursday |
Remote Source Document Verification (SDV): Case Studies in Implementation - The Processes Used and Savings Achieved for Pivotal Phase 2 and 3 Trials |
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