Clinical trial masterclass: from idea to implementation and everything in between!
In this masterclass we will discuss some key aspects for consideration when designing and evaluating interventions that will benefit patients and be utilised in real-world settings.
There will be a focus on trials in people with chronic and/or advanced disease.
This free online session will include presentations on intervention development, efficient trial designs and building in implementation as part of the evaluation.
Each section will include a brief introduction and break-out room discussion/reflection on how you might use the ideas in your next clinical evaluation.
Program
Dr Tim Luckett | IMPACCT University of Technology Sydney
- Co-designing healthcare interventions with people with lived experience, carers and clinicians
NOTE: This session will refer to practical guides to help with co-design in health. We recommend the following pre-reading:
- New South Wales Agency for Clinical Innovation’s Co-design Toolkit
- UTS/North Sydney Local Health District Co-production Kickstarter
Dr Judith Cohen | Hull York Medical School
- Efficient trial designs, targeting common symptoms across diverse clinical groups
- Don't forget the context - hybrid effectiveness/implementation trial designs
Facilitator
Professor Miriam Johnson
Miriam is Professor of Palliative Medicine and Associate Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre at the University of Hull. She was the Founder Director from 2016 to 2022.
Miriam Johnson is Professor of Palliative Medicine at Hull York Medical School, Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre at the University of Hull. She is Adjunct Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
For twenty years (2000 to 2020), she also provided consultant palliative physician services to Scarborough General Hospital and Saint Catherine's Hospice, Scarborough where she set up one of the UK’s first integrated palliative care services for people with heart failure.
Presenters
Dr Tim Luckett
Dr Tim Luckett is a Senior Lecturer with IMPACCT (Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation), UTS Health.
Tim brings a perspective at the intersection between health, social and implementation sciences that is needed to inform multi-disciplinary, person-centred care. His research focuses on the development and evaluation of complex interventions to improve quality of care and outcomes for people with life-limiting illness and their families.
Tim’s work focuses on giving ‘voice’ to people with life-limiting illness and their families and the clinicians who care for them, and he has particular expertise in qualitative approaches, surveys and systematic reviews. He is especially interested in learning from people with chronic illness who are expert at self-management about ways we can better support those who are struggling.
Tim is co-chair of the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) and co-executive of the Cancer Quality of Life Expert Service Team (CQUEST), a technical service funded by Cancer Australia for the 14 national cancer co-operative trials groups. He is also an academic editor for the journal PLOS ONE.
In his teaching role, Tim contributes to UTS post-graduate courses in palliative care.
Dr Judith Cohen
Judith is the Director of the Hull Health Trials Unit, a UKCRC registered clinical trials unit based in the Allam Medical Building at the University of Hull.
HHTU aims to collaborate with clinicians and academics from the region on locally-led, high-quality, multi-centre research. The unit was established in 2018 and now has an active study portfolio and a multi-disciplinary team of staff to deliver high quality clinical research.
Judith joined the Hull York Medical School in Nov 2017. Judith previously worked at the University of Sheffield as Assistant Director of the Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU), and as an advisor for the NIHR Research Design Service Yorkshire and the Humber (RDSYH).
Judith obtained a BSc in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester, and a PhD in the Biochemistry of Wound Healing from the University of Sheffield. She completed early post-doctoral lab work at the University of Manchester, before moving into clinical research as a research project manager at the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre (trials involving translational imaging techniques including PET scanning and MRI). She joined Sheffield CTRU in 2007, and developed expertise in clinical trials methodology, including the design and implementation of large scale randomised controlled trials (RCTs).
Thursday 6 July Wednesday 2023 | 8.30AM UK | 5.30PM AEST
