Monthly Archives: April 2024

Panelists from a variety of organizations involved with clinical research will discuss how innovative approaches to workforce challenges and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues are being implemented in their settings for the benefit of all stakeholders.

On this 19th Clinical Trials Day, I find myself pondering everything we still do not know, and everything we have yet to achieve in clinical research. From my many years of experience running clinical trial sites, I recognize the unfortunate reality that trials are too expensive and too slow – which has a real, human cost

Clinical research stands at the forefront of medical advancement, offering promising treatments and therapies to combat diseases and improve human health. Despite its noble objectives, the field faces numerous challenges to reduce the complexity of clinical trials notably due to an increasing demand for more data from regulatory and reimbursement stakeholders.

If “recruiting and screening patients who try new treatments and monitoring and reporting on patient progress” sounds like a reasonable, if skimpy, definition of the duties of a clinical research coordinator (CRC) at a clinical trial site, imagine the surprise of a newly minted CRC who finds themself tasked with exploring a shuttered hospital in search of old research records, or visiting the local jail in hopes of finding participants who have gone missing mid-study.