The COVID pandemic is shining a light on a long-standing and well-documented issue in clinical trials – a lack of diversity. Currently, it’s putting critical research like the COVID vaccine at risk, as trials struggle to recruit Black and Latinx participants, despite the fact that...
With such tight budgets in healthcare organizations, investigators must get creative to be able to execute their research goals. For academic medical institutions and research hospitals, applying for grants can be a daunting yet crucial aspect of the process to getting a clinical trial up...
With no end to the COVID-19 pandemic in sight, hospitals and research institutions are grappling with how to run what was business as usual in an environment that’s anything but business as usual. Fiscal pressures are mounting as health care providers suffer massive budget shortfalls...
Being in the midst of a pandemic, it is more important than ever for hospitals and health care providers to be able to easily manage and sort through patient data. One method of doing this in healthcare is through the use of registries. A registry...
As the initial onslaught of the COVID pandemic levels out in some places, hospitals and research organizations are focusing to how to reopen and run clinical trials in the new normal. For the next installment in our series with industry experts discussing how to conduct...
Hackensack Meridian Health’s (HMH) network of 17 hospitals was hit hard by the first wave of the COVID pandemic. As we mourn the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 so far, we look at how their team combined strong leadership with selfless teamwork to...
In this installment of our series on how the clinical trials industry is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, I spoke with Dr. Suzanne Rose, Director of the Office of Research at Stamford Health. Stamford Health consists of Stamford Hospital, Stamford Health Medical Group, Stamford Hospital Foundation, and a diverse...
In this installment of our series on how the clinical trials industry is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, I spoke with Dr. Neal Thomas, Associate Dean for Clinical Research for the Penn State College of Medicine. When Dr. Thomas assumed this role at Penn State...
In this installment of our series on how COVID is affecting clinical trials, I’m speaking with Cedron Williams, director of the office of clinical trials for East Carolina University (ECU) in Greenville, North Carolina. At any given time, ECU’s Brody School of Medicine has between 150 and 200 actively recruiting clinical trials, representing multi-disciplinary collaborations...
In the previous installment of our series, Dr. Christina Brennan from Northwell Health shared how her team managed their clinical trial program in the middle of the first wave of the pandemic in New York. Today we’re hearing from Margaret Ferreira, MS, RN, OCN, Research...