Maximizing Collaboration and Innovation at the 2019 AACI-CRI Conference
Summary
Similar to Forte’s Onsemble customer community, AACI relies on the power of networking and collaboration to address some of the industry’s biggest challenges. Over the span of three days, presenters from some of the most prestigious centers in the country shared their experiences and best practices on topics including streamlining study activation, solutions for clinical trial matching, strategies for enrolling a diverse patient population and more. At AACI-CRI, presenters and abstract/poster authors shared their perspectives on addressing the challenges of low-accruing multi-center trials and ensuring an adequate representation of diverse populations within their studies. Their strategies included creating culturally-relevant and sensitive materials to promote trials, empowering patients through education and assessing the geographic/ethnic makeup of the community to meet the needs of underserved, at-risk populations. In addition, representatives from the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center shared an abstract/poster addressing the disparity in patient accrual between institutional and industry studies.