Date: 11th November 2024
Time: 13-14 pm via Zoom (link in Registration below)
The UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Sciences in collaboration with the Advance Centre invites you to a webinar series on academia-industry collaborations in innovations in digital health and health data analytics.
This webinar will present two leaders in clinical trials in UCD and is aimed for anyone with an interest in clinical trials and research in general.
Professor Colm O’Donnell, who has led various trials within the delivery room and with neonatals. He strives for simplicity in his approach.
Topic: "Research in delivery room care and intensive care of neonatals"
Professor Peter Doran will give us some new ways of thinking in clinical trials and how to support the investigators and participants to embed new opportunities in clinical trial research.
Topic: "Recent developments in clinical trials"
In general, when thinking of clinical trials, we think of testing new treatments. Even though this is an important area, clinical trials are also implemented to test different procedures, compare work flows or question routine practice. Clinical trials are not always about testing different medications and the patient may not be at the centre of the trial, it could be a hospital, a GP practice or a school.
What clinical trials have in common is that two or more interventions are compared in a standardised way. There is a protocol which describes this process in detail, explains the setup, defines the primary outcomes and provides a handbook of each operation. The best trials are not necessarily complicated but are well thought through, in every detail, from what is expected from the patient, participant, clinician or hospital to the instrument that is used to measure the outcome. In the last years, a lot of innovations have taken place in the implementation of clinical trials, such as studies within trials or process evaluations. The pandemic has also resulted in rethinking clinical trials, as fast and reactive testing of treatments was necessary, which was challenging to deliver, partly due to the regulatory environment.
Q&A: Professor Akke Velinga and Associate Professor Dr. Ricardo Segurado UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science.
Webinar Chair: Dr Barry Twomey, Advance Centre
