CHI’s 5th Annual SCOPE: Summit for Clinical Ops Executives Returns to Miami, February 4-6, 2014

NEEDHAM, Mass. - Dec. 31, 2013 - PRLog -- Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) will host its 5th Annual SCOPE: Summit for Clinical Ops Executives at the Hyatt Regency Miami, FL, February 4-6, 2014.  More than 165 expert speakers will discuss how to optimize clinical operations and foster relationships between CROs-sponsors, patients, and sites at eleven conferences:

February 4-5
* Electronic Data in Clinical Trials
* Global Site Selection, Feasibility Assessment,
Operations and Site Management
* Enrollment Planning and Patient Recruitment
* Aggregate Spend and Transparency Reporting in Clinical Trials
* Managing Post-Marketing Studies and Registries
* Sample & Biospecimen Management in Clinical Trials

February 5-6
* Integrating and Leveraging Clinical Trial Operations Data
* Improving Site-Study Activation and Performance
* Subject Retention and Compliance in Studies and Registries
* Clinical Trial Forecasting, Budgeting, and Project Management
* Patient-Centered Technologies for Post-Marketing and Real World Data
Research

CHI has drawn together six outstanding keynote speakers with expertise on clinical innovations, data integration, and collaboration: Jamie Heywood, Co-Founder and Chairman, PatientsLikeMe; Craig Lipset, Head, Clinical Innovation, Worldwide Research & Development, Pfizer; Jeffrey Kasher, Ph.D., Vice President, Global Clinical Trial: Materials, Implementation and Transformation, Eli Lilly & Co.; TransCelerate Operations Committee Member; Kenneth Getz, Director, Sponsored Programs, Tufts CSDD; Chairman, CISCRP; and Christine Pierre, President, The Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS); and Andrew Lee, Senior Vice President & Head, Global Clinical Operations, Genzyme Corp., a Sanofi Co.

The meeting expects more than 700 attendees and is co-located with Barnett’s Clinical Training Forum: Minimizing Clinical Research through Strategic Training Initiatives being held on February 4-5, 2014. For the first time, SCOPE is host to Clinical Informatics News’s “Best Practices Award” that will recognize outstanding examples of applied strategic innovation—partnerships, deployments, and collaborations that manifestly improve the clinical trial process.

The Premier Sponsors of SCOPE include BBK Worldwide, Citeline, Optum, Oracle Health Sciences, Paragon Solutions, Pharmica Consulting, PRA International, Quintiles, and United BioSource Corporation (UBC).

Complete details on SCOPE can be found at http://www.scopesummit.com.  To receive a press pass or arrange an interview with a speaker, email Lisa Scimemi at lscimemi@healthtech.com.

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