How to Build an Infrastructure with Sites that Drives more Effective Patient Enrollment and Retention
How can pharma/biotech and CROs be better partners to Sites?
The Partnerships with Sites Summit challenges the site ecosystem on how to build an infrastructure to drive more effective patient enrollment and retention. This summit provides a timely and focused forum to rethink the entire sponsor-CRO-site partnership model—starting with enrollment as the core unmet need.
Addressing the Fundamental Issues:
• If enrollment is the core unmet need, how do we rebuild to fix this?
• How do we address the misalignment between Sponsors, CROs and Sites to truly meet the needs of patients?
• How to engage with sites early to operationalize the clinical trial design to reduce the burden to sites and patients?
Strategic Advisors
Matthew Maxwell, DBA
Patient-Centered Chief Growth Officer,
Centricity Research
Jyoti Angal, PhD
Director, Clinical Research,
Avera Mckennan Hospital & University Health Center
Mahasweta Dutt,
MS, MRA, CCRC
Associate Director, Clinical Research Operations, Office of Clinical Research,
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Joanne Monaghan, RN, CCRC
Director, Regional Operations Northeast,
Boston Clinical Trials
Rucha Shah
Lived-experience Expert, and Assistant Clinical Research Project Manager,
ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group
Cameron Keith, RN,
CCRC
Clinical Nurse Educator,
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Shafaat Ali Khan
Clinical Research Lead (CRL) Director – Investigator Engagement,
Eli Lilly & Co
Paris Johnson
Site Engagement Lead, Diversity; Site Management & Monitoring, R&D Late Delivery Oncology,
AstraZeneca
Maggie McGuire-Kuhl
VP, Research Engagement,
The Michael J Fox Foundation (MJFF)
Jenn Curry
Head, Patient Engagement Capabilities,
Biogen
Rosalie Filling
VP, Senior Global Head, R&D Operations,
Endo
Tracey Robertson
Head of Patient & Site Engagement Capabilities,
Boehringer Ingelheim
Emilio Neto, MBA
Global Head of Country Site & Operations,
Biogen
Jimmy Bechtel, MBA
VP,
Site Engagement, Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS)
Jim Kremidas
Executive Director,
Association for MultiSite Research Corporations (AMRC)
Norman Goldfarb, MBA
Executive Director,
The Site Council
The timing of this summit arrives at a critical inflection point:
• Sites are operating at 60% capacity and need much more support
• Sites have more burden shifted on to them
• Sponsors and CROs are seeking sustainable partnerships rooted in trust, operational alignment, and shared outcomes
• The disconnect between technological intent and site/patient usability is widening
• There's a growing call for early engagement, co-creation, and transparency across trial stakeholders
Key Themes
Site perspectives on
challenges & opportunities
Redesigning site-sponsor-CRO partnership infrastructures
Improving operational dynamics between CROs and sites
Rebuilding
Trust
Mobile & digital tech:
what works, what doesn’t
Key trends shaping the site ecosystem
Successful collaboration case studies