Sixth Annual
Patient Recruitment and Retention in Studies and Registries:
Successfully Planning and Managing Recruitment and Retention
February 6-7, 2013 * Hyatt Regency Miami * Miami, FL
Part of: Summit for Clinical Trials Operations Executives (SCOPE)

Dear Colleague:

We are pleased to announce production of Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Sixth Annual Patient Recruitment and Retention in Studies and Registries: Effectively Planning and Managing Recruitment and Retention being held February 6-7, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Miami in Miami, Florida.

This gathering is co-located within the Summit for Clinical Trials Operations Executives (SCOPE), a three-day cluster of events that attracted 400 leaders in clinical operations and research in February 2012. CHI’s Patient Recruitment and Retention in Studies and Registries will be preceded by the Global Site Selection, Feasibility Assessment, Operations and Site Management; Implementing and Managing Strategic Alliances; Electronic Data in Clinical Trials; and Post-Marketing Studies as a Tool for Safety, Outcomes and Comparative Effectiveness Research conferences.   Topics to be discussed include:

• Designing and implementing a clinical enrollment plan: Strategy development, plan implementation and contingency planning
• Planning to market and enroll patients outside of the US? What country specific requirements should you be aware of
• Identification and selection of investigators: Sponsor expectations; investigator expectations; do they really have the 
  patients?
• Maximization of patient recruitment and enrollment: Centralized versus site-based recruiting, marketing/advertising,
  call centers, outreach strategies, staff training
• Benchmarking: Are you achieving your recruitment goals?
• Planning for recruitment with adaptive trial designs
• Recruitment of special populations: Rare diseases, pediatrics, minorities
• The art and science of site management: Communication pathways, data discrepancy resolution, site payments
• Enhancing patient compliance and retention
• Utilizing new social media and Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate the new paradigm of patient-centered trials
• Leveraging social media for clinical trial recruitment: social networks and emerging technologies to accelerate clinical trial  
  recruitment
• Integrating different e-clinical systems to support recruitment / retention
• Case studies: Effectively utilizing patient recruitment service providers
• Comprehensive clinical trial promotion: Effective scientific communications, health PR, and social marketing

If you are interested in presenting, please submit a speaking proposal for review. Please note that due to limited speaking slots, preference is given to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, regulators and those from academic /hospital centers. Additionally, as per CHI policy, a select number of vendors/consultants who provide products and services to these biopharmaceutical companies are offered opportunities for podium presentation slots based on a variety of Corporate Sponsorships.

The deadline for submission is May 25, 2012.  Click here to submit a proposal.