Webinar Topic
Understanding Patient Engagement & Patient-Centric Approach in Clinical Trials
Webinar Date & Time
27 March from 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM (CET)
Webinar Overview
The evolving landscape of clinical research presents sponsors with challenges such as faster recruitment, better compliance, and amongst sustained patient retention. Active patient engagement throughout the trial journey is crucial to address these challenges. Involving patients early offers valuable insights, improving protocol design and study execution. These challenges underscore the critical need for a paradigm shift towards active patient engagement throughout the entirety of the clinical trial journey. This collaboration builds trust, responsiveness to patient needs, and generates precise data aligned with regulatory standards. Ultimately, patient engagement is a strategic approach for sponsors to drive meaningful advancements benefiting patients and healthcare.
During this webinar, with speakers from different horizons (Patient Expert, Research Coordinator in PE, and consultants in Patient Engagement and clinical ) we will have the opportunity to address the importance of involving patient in all steps of clinical trials but also to raise the existence of challenges to achieve a meaningful engagement and collaboration with patients.
This presentation, through case studies, will address the importance of involving patients in all steps of clinical trials and challenges to achieve a meaningful engagement and collaboration with patients.
Presenters
Anne THOREZ, M.Sc
Senior patient Engagement
VCLS
Anne provides advice and support to healthcare companies to develop and drive high priority patient focused activities and help them to integrate patients’ perspectives and insights in regulatory and HTAs pathways.
In her role, Anne also builds bridges between clients and patient organizations and providing a comprehensive analysis of the patient landscape in a specific disease area. She educates companies on meaningful and effective patient engagement and creates a patient engagement roadmap for clients that is aligned with clinical, regulatory and market access roadmaps. Clinical gap analysis from the patient ‘s perspective and advise on strategies to understand patient views and preferences on clinical trial design as well as recruitment and retention are also part of her scope of activities.
Anne is responsible for assisting VCLS clients in the creation of long-term and sustainable patient engagement strategies that are incorporated throughout the product development process.
Adeline Darchy, M.Sc
Director, Clinical Research
VCLS
As Director of Clinical Operations at VCLS, Adeline assumes a pivotal position in driving the successful execution of clinical trials. With a keen focus on maintaining project scope, timelines and budgetary considerations, Adeline oversees every phase of clinical trial-related activities, ranging from study design and protocol feasibility assessments to authoring of clinical study reports.
Beyond ensuring the smooth operational flow of trials, Adeline prioritizes regulatory compliance, navigating Good Clinical Practice standards and local regulatory requirements throughout the entire trial lifecycle.
Adeline leverages her expertise to offer clinical and operational guidance throughout the design, implementation, resourcing, and budgeting phases of clinical programs. Her leadership extends to the comprehensive oversight of the clinical development program, covering planning, implementation, monitoring, budget allocation, quality assurance, communication strategies, risk assessment, stakeholder management, and procurement processes. This inclusive approach guarantees the smooth integration of study management into the broader framework of Global project Management plans.
Stefan Gijssels
Patient Advocate, Health Policy Consultant & Moderator
In 2016, after he recovered from a metastatic colon cancer, Stefan Gijssels became a patient advocate and freelance health policy consultant.
Since January 2021, Stefan is the pro bono Chair of the Patient Expert Center (PEC). He is a member of many (cancer) advisory boards as a patient representative, including the European Commission Initiative on Colorectal Cancer (ECICC).
Stefan Gijssels is also a health policy consultant and moderator, primarily focused on making health systems more patient-centric and smarter.
In 2018, Stefan Gijssels co-founded Digestive Cancers Europe which he led till early 2021.
Stefan is the author of the “Roadmap for the Prevention and Treatment of Colorectal Cancer in Europe”, published in 2021 by Digestive Cancers Europe. He is the co-author of the European Code of Cancer Practice, organised by the European Cancer Organisation.
Begonya Nafria Escalera
Patient Engagement and Research Coordinator
She is Patient Engagement in Research Coordinator at Sant Joan de Déu Chidren’s Hospital (Spain). She has long experience in the field of the involvement of patients and families in research initiatives. She has also a personal story as a cancer patient, and as a caregiver and patient advocate because is the sister of a young adult with cerebral palsy.
Her areas of expertise are focused in pediatric patients involvement in research and specifically in the field of clinical trials and in health innovation. She is currently a PhD student in the patient involvement in pediatrics field, specifically in a thesis project about the rights of children and young people participating in clinical trials.
Nadine Grossmann
Patient Advocate, Research Scientist in Rare Diseases
Besides being a patient advocate, Nadine obtained her master’s degree in “Molecular Medicine” and continued her academic career as a Ph.D. candidate in Biochemistry with a focus on the rare disease Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signalling in an age-related context. She has a broad education in Molecular Biology, with a specific interest in understanding biomedical aspects of diseases.
Attendance Fee
€ 90,- for non-EUCROF members
€ 60,- for EUCROF members
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26 March 2024 at 6 p.m.
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