The May FOCM | GLSA Networking Event

May 17, 2023

As our passion is to connect people and companies we know and respect to other people and companies we know and respect, we open the meeting asking everyone to put the link to their LinkedIn profile in the chat. This facilitates future communication and connections. 

 

Before we had our featured presenter begin, we shared industry info and upcoming events. A newish conference called: Clinical Research as a Care Option took place in Raleigh in mid-May. We mentioned that we’d be holding a networking event the night prior. It was stated that Joan Chambers would be attending. Joan recently joined Greater Gift as the CEO. Greater Gift’s mission is to increase awareness of clinical trials, especially among unrepresented communities, like women, ethnic minorities, individuals from diverse socio-economic and educational backgrounds. ds. 

 

At this point, we had 21 attendees and we turned over the meeting to Steve Galen with Validcare. The focus of the presentation was to talk about how not to run out of funding before you get a read on the success of your product. Validcare has the tools and technology to forward plan a trial, find potential bottlenecks and prepare for them. With so many eclinical tools available, the predictability of the cost of a trial is greatly improved. This disruptive change shakes up the traditional and archaic approach of CRO’s low-bidding a project only to begin issuing change orders shortly after the study starts.  Such an approach prevents the biotech from managing their financial spend. Steve is an experienced clinical research professional having worked at Merck, Covance,

 Reminder of these meetings guidelines: 

  • Think of this as an open house event – drop in when you can and leave when you need to; 
  • When we have a presenter we have them start when we have assembled a strong amount of respondents – usually 10-15 minutes after the start. 
  • Presenters’ topics are not sales pitches – the focus is on an aspect of clinical trials; where in the process their services are used and aspects of that step. 
  • The link to get the GLSA newsletter and notifications about future live and virtual events:  http://bit.ly/3UTb8hL
  • We ask everyone to put their LinkedIn link into the chat to facilitate connecting and future follow up. 

Attendees:

PRA, Syneos and Navitas. 

Steve Galen, Validcare & the evening presenter

Ira Snyder, Consultant

Holly Jochims, Adaptive Clinical Systems

Joan Chambers, Greater Gift

Brian Langin, Diligent Pharma 

Mike O’Gorman; Life Science Marketplace

Kevin Boos; Aixial Group

Amy Lee, PharmD; 

Michael Young, biomedwoRx

Ali Hussein, Science 37

Viljena Trask, Syneos Health

Sumitra Sheeri, S-Clinical

 

GLSA Attendees:

 

Katie Barrett

Joe Buser

Chris Matheus 

Denise McNerney

Hannah Lloyd

Timmina Williams

Charity Dube

Jordan Brown

Sally Haller

Ori Geshury

Liz Mirra