International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD) 2022

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Published on 07/06/2022

ICTD 2022: Recruitment in Clinical Trials

Together with the KKS Netzwerk, ECRIN will host ICTD 2022 as a hybrid event located in Berlin. ICTD 2022 builds on the intentions of ICTD 2020 which was cancelled due to the pandemic and will bring together stakeholders from across Europe and the globe to discuss the challenges and opportunities related to recruitment in clinical trials. ICTD is open to research organisations, clinical research professionals, patient organisations, regulatory and ethics bodies, funders and industry.

📅 17 May 2022
🕒 10:00-17:00 CEST

📍Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin
💻or online

Registration

The event is free of charge however, registration is required for both on-site and online participation.

Registration is now closed

Preliminary Agenda

WELCOME AND KEYNOTE
10:00	Welcome Jacques Demotes, Director General, ECRIN Heiko von der Leyen, German member of ECRIN Network Committee
10:10	Introduction: Delay and premature termination in publicly funded clinical trials due to insufficient recruitment Svenja Krebs, Scientific Officer, Dept. Clinical Research and Digital Health, Division of Health, DLR Project Management Agency
10:30	Keynote lecture: Recruitment in clinical trials: The ultimate challenge Matthias Briel, Head of Meta-Research Centre, Dept. of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Canada
MORNING SESSION: PERSPECTIVE ON PATIENT RECRUITMENT
11:15	European perspectives for recruitment in clinical trials Anna Ceccarelli, General Directorate for Research and Innovation in Healthcare, Ministry of Health, Italy
11:40	Patient involvement in clinical research and its impact on patient recruitment Joan Jordan, EUPATI fellow
12:05	Secondary use of electronic health records for clinical trial feasibility and patient recruitment Nerea Ruiz del Arbol, HM Hospitales
12:30	Lunch break
AFTERNOON SESSION: BEST PRACTICES
14:00	Difficulties of recruitment in early disease stages – experience from the MACUSTAR study Jan H. Terheyden, Dept of Opthalmology, University of Bonn
14:25	Pragmatic trial design and trials within cohort Anna C. Bibby, Consultant Respiratory Physician & Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol Medical School, Translation Health Sciences
14:50	VACCELERATE Volunteer Registry: A European study participant database to facilitate clinical trial enrolment Jon Salmanton-García, Excellence Center for Medical Mycology (ECMM) & Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne
15:15	Coffee break
PANEL SESSION AND CONCLUSION
15:45	Panel discussion : New perspective for patient recruitment Matthias Briel, Anna Ceccarelli, Nerea Ruiz del Arbol, Anna Bibby & Jana Popova (Patient Engagement Training Coordinator, EUPATI)
16:45	Closing remarks Jacques Demotes, Director General, ECRIN *Co-host ICTD 2023*