ACTA Clinical Trial Workshops - Wednesday 4th December

Workshop will run from 9am - 12.30pm

Presenters:

A/Prof Sabine Braat and Dr Anneke Grobler

Data and Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMB) play a crucial role in clinical trials, serving as an independent committee responsible for safeguarding participant safety, ensuring the integrity of trial data, and overseeing the scientific validity of the study.

This half day workshop will provide an in-depth understanding of DSMB functions, composition, and processes, focusing on best practices around statistics in DSMBs:

• Introduction to DSMBs
• Role of statisticians on DSMBs
• Case studies of DSMBs
• DSMBs in adaptive trials

Workshop will run from 9am - 12.30pm

Presenters: 

Anne McKenzie AO and John Simes

This in-person half day workshop will provide a foundation for implementing consumer involvement in clinical trials and aims to:

• Raise awareness of the value and contribution consumers and the community can make when involved as active partners in clinical trial activities 
• Develop understanding and skills on the ‘how and why’ of implementing consumer and community involvement 
• Identify and address barriers to consumer and community involvement at an organisational level and a trial level
• Develop plans to start working in partnership with consumers to implement involvement activities in clinical trials

Workshop will run from 9am - 12.30pm

Presenters:

A/Prof Ingrid Hickman and Dr Nicola Straiton

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are pivotal in healthcare, offering robust evidence on interventions but it takes 17 years to translate evidence into practice. Implementation science research and practice can improve the design and conduct of RCTs and may lead to greater understanding of which strategies are most effective for translation.

This half day workshop will be an introduction to using implementation science within clinical trial design and is targeted for people who are involved in designing interventions, implementation strategies and outcome measures for clinical trials. It will involve an interactive session to help people designing trials learn how to incorporate implementation science methods into their research.

Workshop will run from 9am - 5pm

Presenters:

Prof Steve Webb, Prof Kate Lee, Dr Charlie Macleod, Dr Clare Whitehead, Prof Jane Parker, Dr Lisa Higgins, Paul Mouncey, Prof Steven Tong, Tony Trapani, A/Prof Kate Hayward, Mitch Messer, Dr Danny Mcauley, Prof Tony Gordon and A/Prof Adrian Burrell

This full day workshop takes a deep dive into navigating the operational challenges in Platform Trials. 

Targeted at all those planning or already running an Adaptive Platform Trial, we will discuss and workshop operational challenges with a focus on:

• How to get started – before you even recruit
• How to manage the data – including costs and complexities
• Sustainability – budgets and teams
• Keeping it all going and building an APT community