Clinical Trials in Canada
Organizer: The Canadian Institute
Date/Location: February 22 - 23, 2010 / Toronto
Contact: http://www.canadianinstitute.com/clinicaltrials.htm
Topics:
•The latest initiatives on ethics review provincially and federally.
•Finding a balance between innovation and participant protection.
•Biotech and big pharma – strategic, innovative partnerships in R&D.
•Current challenges and proposed solutions to speed up contract negotiations.
•Privacy considerations using electronic data capture tools.
•How sponsors and investigative sites can leverage technology and reduce monitoring costs.
•Regulatory transparency in the conduct of multicentre international clinical trials.
•How Canadian sites can best maintain their competitive edge against emerging economies.
2010 CADTH Symposium
Organizer: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
Date/Location: April 18-20, 2010 / Halifax, Nova Scotia
Contact: www.cadth.ca/symposium2010
Topics:
•What are the barriers to evidence use and how are decision makers in health ministries, regional health authorities, hospitals and bedsides surmounting these barriers?
•How can patients, the public, industry and other stakeholders play a role in achieving optimal use of health technologies?
•Are there effective ways of filling knowledge gaps and incorporating real world evidence to support optimal technology use?
•What needs to be done to build on the progress that has been made in Canada since the introduction of Health Technology Assessment some 20 years ago?
Clinical Trials in Canada
Optimizing Patient Participation in a Global Market
Organizer: INSIGHT
Date/Location: April 29 - 30, 2010 / Montréal
Contact: http://www.insightinfo.com/
Topics:
• An international perspective on meeting participant protection challenge.
• Overcoming barriers to patient recruitment and physician participation.
• The potential of web-enabled technologies, including social media, to increase collaboration between investigative sites and patients.
• Pharmacokinetics and first-in-man studies: safety in healthy subjects.
• Patient retention in long-term trial from the patient, investigator and sponsor perspective.
• Patient recruitment and ethics: what every physician should know.
• How clinical trials impact a physician’s clinical practice and their patients.
• The role of research ethics boards on patient safety – do they make a difference?
• Managing patient privacy: legal and technical challenges.
• How to succeed with a recruitment campaign and overcome negative public perception.
• What you need to know about informed consent.
Apply the Code like a PAAB Reviewer
Organizer: Pharmahorizons & the Pharmaceutical Advertising Advisory Board (PAAB)
Date/Location: May 17, 2010 (Montreal)
May 19, 2010 (Toronto)
Contact: www.Pharmahorizons.com
Topics:
• An introduction to the PAAB Code of Advertising Acceptance.
• The application of key sections of the Code to specific cases.
• A Social Media update which offers insight into the latest new Social Media application in Pharma.