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Tuesday, July 30, 2019 – Staff

8:00-8:30am

Registration & Breakfast

8:30-9:20am

Keynote: Working Toward a Cure in Hemophilia

Description to come

Speaker

Barbara Konkle, MD

9:30-10:30am

The Human Research Protection Program: Cultivating a Partnership with your IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) have a federal mandate to facilitate research that protects the rights, safety, and well-being of research participants. By establishing a collaborative relationship with your IRB office, you can minimize misunderstandings, efficiently move your studies through the work flow, and together promote safe, ethical, high quality research.

Speaker

Adrienne Meyer, MPA, CIP

10:40-11:40am

The Clinical Research Billing Cycle: Staff Role in Research Budget

The clinical research billing cycle is a complex process that involves multiple offices billing both clinical and study tests to the patient and the study budget. This session will provide an overview of a typical clinical research billing cycle, and highlight hand-offs between billing offices and members of the research team to prevent errors.

Speakers

Will Dean

Eli Reis

Laurel Weigler

11:40am-1:00pm

Lunch Break

1:00-2:00pm

Clinical Trial Management Systems: A One Stop Solution

Clinical Trials Management Systems (CTMS) integrate the multiple components of clinical research, such as billing, implementation timelines, and reporting guidelines. This session will describe the role of a CTMS and give a demonstration of the CTMS that will be rolled out at UW, SCCA, and Fred Hutch.

Speaker

Oscar Cano

2:00-2:15pm

Break

2:15-3:15pm

Accelerating Study Initiation: Institutional Resources to Catalyze Study Design

Learn sound methods to determine how best to approach implementing a new study, and apply elements of project management to organize the financial, timeline, institutional oversight, and research support resources to move your study through the start-up process.

Speaker

Ashley Waldie, MA, CCRP

3:25-4:25pm

An Ethical Framework for Clinical Research: Rethinking and Going Beyond Informed Consent

In this session you will learn about eight ethical benchmarks for clinical research and apply them to cases to understand the trade-offs involved in ethical analysis.

Speaker

Ben Wilfond, MD