By taking an “all or nothing” approach, many clinical trial practitioners are failing to leverage the benefits of so-called virtual trials, says Kim Kundert, vice president of operations at VirTrial. Part of the problem is a lack of understanding. The term virtual trial “means something different to everybody,” she notes. For Kundert, it makes sense […]
The Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) welcomes George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Department of Clinical Research & Leadership to the ACRP ‘Partners in Workforce Advancement’ (PWA) initiative. PWA is a groundbreaking new initiative to expand the clinical research workforce by bringing together a broad coalition of clinical research stakeholders focused […]
PAID MESSAGE As medicine evolves, we see the trend of companies merging and evolving and working with larger institutions becoming more the norm in clinical research, especially in certain therapeutic areas or indications where enrollment may pose a challenge. But there can be significant differences in working with smaller versus larger institutions, and the earlier […]
“We aren’t conducting clinical research with the rigor that we should be today,” says thought leader Jeff Kingsley, DO, MBA, CPI, FACRP, CEO of the site network IACT Health. “We’re slow to change and slow to build needed infrastructure, especially at the site level.” This aversion to change or being stuck in a mode where […]
A former Supreme Court Justice, struggling to define the term pornography in a landmark case, famously hedged his bets by saying he knew it when he saw it. Many research professionals feel a similar challenge when defining the term quality—especially when examining it in terms of the various stages of a clinical trial. “I'm a […]
