Quality by Design Project: Recommendations and Toolkit

CTTI Project: Quality by Design

Webinar Presenters:

  • Ann Meeker-O'Connell, Head, Risk Management and External Engagement, Johnson & Johnson BioResearch Quality & Compliance
  • Coleen Glessner, MBA, Quality Expert
  • Martin Landray, Clinical Trials Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford

*The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CTTI.

Webinar Objective:

The Quality by Design (QbD) project team presented the QbD recommendations and an introduction to the QbD Toolkit, released June 15, 2015. This web-based Toolkit provides resources for facilitating adoption and real world application of QbD concepts.

Presenting CTTI Recommendations: Effective Engagement with Patient Groups Around Clinical Trials

CTTI Project: Patient Group Engagement

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Webinar Presenters

  • Sharon Hesterlee (Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation)
  • Patricia Cornet (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
  • Scott Weir (KUMC)

*The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CTTI.

Webinar Objective

Team members from CTTI’s Patient Groups & Clinical Trials project presented the official recommendations on effective engagement with patient groups around clinical trials. Released on October 7, 2015, these recommendations identify evidence-based best practices for engaging with patient groups, as well as provide case examples and tools.

Presenting CTTI Recommendations: Informed Consent

CTTI Project: Informed Conent

Webinar Presenters:

  • Jennifer Lentz, Global Informed Consent Process Owner, US CMS Coordinator, Global Clinical Operations, Eli Lilly and Company
  • Michele Kennett, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, Director of Human Research Protections, Director of MU Institutional Review Board, University of Missouri

*The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CTTI.

Webinar Objective:

Team members from CTTI’s Informed Consent Project unveiled the official recommendations resulting from this project. These recommendations propose a new model for the informed consent process that places the focus back where it should be: on the participant.

CTTI Presents Recommendations from the Registry Trials Project

CTTI Project: Registry Trials

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Webinar Presenters:

  • John Laschinger, MD, Medical Officer, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, US Food and Drug Administration
  • Jules Mitchel, MBA, PhD, President, Target Health Inc

Webinar Objective:

This webinar covers CTTI's recommendations on conducting clinical trials using registries. Those interested in evaluating or designing a registry for the purposes of conducting clinical trials can learn more about the project’s tools, intended for the following purposes:

  • To determine if an Existing Registry is appropriate for embedding clinical trials
  • To assess if an Existing Registry contains the elements needed to support a clinical trial
  • To design a New Registry suitable for embedding clinical trials

Webinar Resources:

Download the CTTI Registry Trials Recommendations.

*Mentioned during Q&A: Registry of Patient Registries: patientregistry.ahrq.gov/

*CTTI encourages the use of all materials listed on this site in the pursuit of improving the clinical trials enterprise. If you use any of the slides from this presentation, please let us knowcredit CTTI, and make it clear that you are not presenting on behalf of CTTI.

Developing Approaches to Conducting Randomized Trials in the Mini-Sentinel Environment

CTTI Project: Electronic Healthcare Data

Webinar Presenters:

  • Richard Platt, MD, MS, of Mini-Sentinel
  • Patrick Archdeacon, MD of the FDA

*The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CTTI.

Webinar Objective:

Summarize the work generated by CTTI’s Uses of Electronic Data Project and the resulting, recently released report, Developing Approaches to Conducting Randomized Trials Using the Mini-Sentinel Distributed Database

How Improved Pregnancy Testing Planning Can Lead to Safer, More Efficient Clinical Trials

CTTI Project: Pregnancy Testing

Webinar Presenters:

  • Claire Jurkowski, MD, former medical director, Global Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb (Retired)
  • Jessica Morse, MD, MPH, assistant professor, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
  • Evan Myers, MD, MPH, professor, Duke University Medical Center

Webinar Objective:

Pregnancy testing is necessary in clinical trials if there is a possibility of pregnancy in the study population and embryo/fetal exposure to the study treatment poses a known or unknown risk.  In this webinar, CTTI unveils new recommendations and an online tool to help research sponsors, investigators, and institutional review boards develop and review pregnancy testing plans, to conduct safer, more efficient clinical trials.

Webinar Agenda:

The webinar will include:

  • Steps involved in proactive planning for pregnancy testing before the start of a clinical trial
  • A new online application to help assess the balance of benefits and burdens of specific pregnancy testing plans
  • Ways study coordinators can improve communication so women receive clear, comprehensive information before joining a clinical trial
  • How these new recommendations promote the safe inclusion of women in clinical trials

Increasing Diversity in Clinical Trials Recommendations Launch

CTTI Project: Increasing Diversity in Clinical Trials

Webinar Presenters:

  • Richardae Araojo, U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Ruma Bhagat, Genentech - a member of the Roche Group
  • Sara Calvert, CTTI
  • Luther T. Clark, Merck & Co, LLC
  • Dawn Corbett, National Institutes of Health Office of Extramural Research (OER)
  • Tesheia Johnson, Yale University
  • Jane Williams, Syneos Health
  • Glendon Zinser, Susan G. Komen

Webinar Resources:

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