The patient recruitment needs of clinical trials are getting more complex in our diversifying population. The processes around recruitment are also becoming more challenging and the regulatory environment for patient consent is evolving. In addition, researchers are often faced with a multitude of logistical challenges to recruit, pre-screen and get consent from participants. How to find the right patients at scale while giving every patient a sense of individual comfort as they take part in clinical trials? From recruitment, pre-screening, consent and data capture, the featured speakers will discuss how leveraging the right technology and partnerships can streamline clinical trials.

Join this webinar with thought leaders from Castor, Link2Trials and Essity. The featured speakers will discuss a recent case study and uncover:

The importance of interoperability to reduce site and patient burden
Considerations for integrating multiple data sources to create a seamless patient experience
Strategies for navigating regulations in patient recruitment and decentralized clinical trials

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Speakers

Simon Klaasen, Founder and CEO, Link2Trials

Simon has over 15 years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical food industries, specifically in the fields of clinical operations and quality management.

Simon experienced first-hand that difficulties in patient recruitment and retention are one of the major causes for delays during clinical trial conduct. He decided to specialize in these areas and set out to find ways to make recruitment and retention more effective.

In 2007 Simon and Luis Eduardo Rodriguez founded Link2Trials; Specialized in patient recruitment and adherence services. Link2Trials was one of the first companies in the pharmaceutical industry to use social media and make patient centricity and patient experience leading in its activities.

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Sandra Tobisch, Senior Clinical Trial Manager, Essity

Sandra Tobisch is a Senior Clinical Trial Manager working in the Clinical Affairs team at Essity and heads the clinical workstream of an innovation project developing a digital solution to manage incontinence. She has extensive experience in clinical research with medical devices either pre-market or post-market research and is a member of the German Society of Epidemiology. She holds a master’s degree in Health Sciences. Before she joined Essity in 2015, she worked at different university medical centres in Germany focusing on assessing either unknown risk factors of cardiac diseases or rather increasing patient’s survival rates. To overcome operational study constraints such as recruitment of patients and enrolment especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sandra and external partners applied several IT solutions and in-depth professional experience while keeping regulations and ethical considerations always in mind.

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Derk Arts, MD, PhD, Founder & CEO, Castor

Derk Arts MD, PhD has over fifteen years of experience in medicine, research and technology. He founded Castor to solve the biggest issues in clinical research: a lack of inclusivity, patient focus and impact of data. Castor enables sponsors worldwide to run patient-centric trials on a unified platform, that helps them maximize the impact of research data on patient lives.

Dr. Derk Arts believes the key to achieving lasting change in the industry is through scalability and standardization. Technology to run better trials and maximize the impact of data should be available to all researchers.

Over the past 12 months, Castor provided pro-bono support to over 300 COVID-19 trials, and provided the entire infrastructure for the World Health Organizations’ Solidarity Trials.

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Who Should Attend?

Senior professionals, including clinical data managers, clinical project managers and study managers, who are working in:

Digital Therapeutics
Clinical Operations
Clinical Research
Research and Development
Scientific Affairs

What You Will Learn

The featured speakers will share learnings from a recent case study and uncover:

The importance of interoperability to reduce site and patient burden
Considerations for integrating multiple data sources to create a seamless patient experience
Strategies for navigating regulations in patient recruitment and decentralized clinical trials

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Castor

Castor is a leading provider of decentralized and hybrid clinical trial solutions to democratize research. With the highest rated eClinical platform for decentralized and hybrid clinical trials, Castor’s plug and play platform offers rapid deployment at scale, enabling researchers to create a trial in a matter of clicks, with easy enrollment, consent and real-world data capture. Castor is bringing human-centered design to the clinical trial process, from recruitment to analysis, and improving the quality, security and reusability of data for researchers worldwide. For more information, visit www.castoredc.com.