Dan Schell articles
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PI Insights From A Heart Failure Trial: Part 1
11/14/2024
Jennifer Cowger, MD, the co-principal investigator of the Abbott TEAM-HF clinical trial, talks about her role as a PI including trial design and meetings with the FDA.
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Not A Bad First Year
11/11/2024
Dan Schell, chief Editor or Clinical Leader, summarizes his first year in this role and highlights some of his key takeaways and lists some of the people who have helped him better understand the clinical trials ecosystem.
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We Are All Project Managers, But We Need Help
11/1/2024
Jess Thompson is a champion of project managers. Not only is she working to validate their role in the clinical trial ecosystem, she wants to spread the word that we all perform PM-types of duties. Also, if we could get better as an industry at incorporating some of those basic tenants of project management, perhaps we could see more drugs succeed — and quicker.
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Plodding Toward Better Data Integration & SSO
10/23/2024
Laura Hilty, a principal at HealthX Ventures, talks about the need to better integrate data platforms and improve/enable single sign-on (SSO) solutions so sites can lessen their administrative burden.
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A New Barometer For Clinical Outsourcing Performance
10/16/2024
Interested in how some of the top publicly traded clinical development outsourcing companies are doing in the market? Andrew Schafer may be able to help with his Schafer Clinical Development Index (SCDI).
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Want To Improve Study Startup? Get More Efficient
10/3/2024
John McAdory, VP of ClinOPs at CG Oncology, recognizes that today’s clinical trial designs tend to be very complex, which complicates study startup. He says the key to improving this challenge is to find small ways to be more efficient throughout the process.
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AI Can't Help Bad ClinOps/Health Equity Data
9/25/2024
Brian Johnson, Ph.D., VP, R&D Technology at Takeda discusses the huge opportunity of connecting disparate ClinOps data and leveraging generative AI to reduce costs and labor during the clinical process.
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Key Takeaways From Clinical Trial Diversity Discussion
9/24/2024
During the Clinical Leader Live, The Diversity Mandate: Effective Strategies in Clinical Trials”, we discussed everything from the guidance, to diversity action plans, to the need for better data on race, ethnicity, and identity. In this article, we also share 25 questions audience members had regarding this hot topic.
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We Need More Clinical Trial Awareness … Oh, And CRCs
9/19/2024
Christina Brennan, SVP for the clinical research program at Northwell Health, talks about how increasing the awareness of clinical trials can lead to better patient-centricity and why we need to start positioning clinical research as a career.
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Not What I Expected From A Vendor Conference
9/12/2024
Dan Schell recounts some of his key takeaways after attending the Veeva R&D Quality Summit in Boston in September 2024. Some of the topics discussed include DCTs, eCOA, and the need to simplify tech integration at sites.