DIA 2024 Global Annual Meeting

Component Type: Forum
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-24-572-L04-P; CME 1.00; RN 1.00

Improving access and minimizing burdens are critical to ensuring diverse representation in clinical trials. Panelists will discuss efforts to improve patient access to oncology clinical trials through streamlined protocols and decentralized elements.

Learning Objectives

Describe the impact of incorporating decentralized elements (DE) into oncology clinical trials (CTs) on data integrity, patient safety and regulatory approvals; Explain how DE elements increase patient access and recognize opportunities to implement DE; Identify ongoing barriers to implementing DE into CT protocols and solutions to address operational challenges in expanding access to care.

Chair

Suanna S. Bruinooge, MPH

Speaker

How Sponsors, CROs, and Sites Can Work Together
Craig H Lipset, MPH

Meta-Analysis of Trials During COVID
Joseph Unger, PhD, MS

Implementing Trials in Large Healthcare System
Ramya Thota

Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-24-590-L04-P; CME 1.00; RN 1.00

The speakers will discuss regulatory and industry perspectives on sponsor and investigator responsibilities when incorporating decentralized clinical trials features in a trial to ensure trial participant safety, data reliability and quality and inspection readiness.

Learning Objectives

Describe various design features of decentralized clinical trials (DCT), including use of digital health technologies for remote data capture; Discuss what sponsors should do upfront in the planning and during the conduct of the trial and where the risks to data integrity lie in trials incorporating DCT features; Discuss the core elements of an FDA inspection; Identify steps to ensure inspection readiness for clinical investigators and sponsors.

Chair

Cara Alfaro, PharmD

Speaker

FDA Update
Cara Alfaro, PharmD

Industry Update
Jonathan Andrus, MS

Component Type: Forum
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-24-640-L04-P; CME 1.00; RN 1.00

Precision medicine biomarker testing can be achieved in various formats, harnessing results generated in each patient's treating hospital or in centralized laboratories. We will examine resulting regulatory and technical challenges & opportunities.

Learning Objectives

Demonstrate an understanding of different testing models (central vs decentralized); Identify their regulatory consequences for clinical study conduct and approval.

Chair

Mike Wierzba, PhD

Speaker

Panelist
Oliver Stoss, PhD

Panelist
Amanda Baker, PharmD, PhD

Panelist
Ilona Reischl, PhD, MPharm

Panelist
Adriana Racolta, PhD, RAC

Panelist
Philip Kelly, PhD

Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-24-657-L04-P; CME 1.00; RN 1.00

ICMRA regulators will share their views on the opportunities and challenges brought by some of the main innovative concepts and technologies they are facing, including artificial intelligence, evolving clinical trials, and real-world evidence in the authorization of advanced therapy medical products (ATMPs).

Learning Objectives

Identify how regulators are working on maximizing the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence while minimizing the risks; Discuss new concepts for enhanced clinical trials (e.g.: platform CTs, decentralized CTs); Describe opportunities and challenges brought by the use of real-world evidence data for authorization of advanced therapy medical products.

Chair

Emer Cooke, MBA, MSc

Speaker

Panelist
Anthony Lawler, MD, MBA

Panelist
Antonio Barra Torres, MD

Panelist
Lorraine Nolan, PhD

Panelist
Daisuke Koga, MSc, RPh

Panelist
Robert M. Califf, MD

Component Type: Session
Level: Basic
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-24-660-L04-P; CME 1.00; RN 1.00

Unlocking AI's potential to facilitate diversity in clinical trials demands inclusive images capturing skin manifestations of internal diseases across races and ethnicities. Join our panel to learn more about inclusive innovation in AI solutions.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the importance of photographs and images in AI algorithms to identify internal diseases impacting patients of color and how that supports clinical trial enrollment; Identify the questions to ask of AI solution providers to ensure imagery is inclusive; Describe what’s being done to improve imagery in AI learning to drive clinical trial diversity.

Chair

Pamela Simpkins, MBA

Speaker

Patient Update
Tricha Shivas, MS

Industry Update
Lionel Phillips, MBA

Industry Update
Brian H Johnson

Component Type: Forum
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-24-681-L04-P; CME 1.00; RN 1.00

This interactive forum will explore the key themes and industry feedback from the decentralized trials alliance members’ response to the FDA draft guidance on decentralized clinical trials.

Learning Objectives

Examine how the FDA draft guidance reflects a commitment to patient-centric decentralized clinical trials; Identify key themes and industry feedback provided in the alliance's response to the draft guidance; Discuss the next steps needed to enable adoption of decentralized trials under the draft framework.

Chair

Rasika Kalamegham, PhD

Speaker

Collaboration Perspective
Jane Elizabeth Myles, MSc

FDA Perspective
M. Khair ElZarrad, PhD, MPH

Industry Perspective
Dylan Bechtle, MS