ECTS Training Course: Clinical Trials

Saturday 26 June, 09:30-17:30

New - Travel grants available to ECTS members

Course Overview

Information from well-conducted clinical trials underpins clinical decision making in routine practice and all new drugs are required to be evaluated in clinical trials before marketing authorisation can be granted.  The aim of this course is to provide delegates with an introduction to the design, management, analysis and reporting of clinical trials, as well as, an update on the current legislative framework for conducting clinical trials within Europe.

The course is relevant for physicians, basic scientists and allied health professionals who want to improve their understanding about the practical aspects of the design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials, as well as, an introduction to the regulatory hurdles that need to be negotiated.
  
Organisers

Stuart Ralston (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Bente Langdahl (Aarhus, Denmark)
Roland Baron (Boston, USA)

Leonard Freedman (Philadelphia, USA)
Pathways of drug development: from lead identification to marketing authorisation

Peter Sandercock (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Key elements of clinical trial design
                       
Tom Mac Donald (Dundee, Scotland)
Streamlining clinical trials using record linkage

John Norrie (Glasgow, Scotland)
Pragmatic trials and trials of complex interventions

Graeme MacLennan (Aberdeen, Scotland)
Workshop 1: Statistical analysis of trial data – what to do and what not to do

Anne Langston (Dundee, Scotland)
Workshop 2: Strategies for recruiting to target

Sharon Kean (Glasgow, Scotland)
Workshop 3: How to collect and store your data

Marise Bucukoglu (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Workshop 4: Research governance, GCP and EU legislation
                       
Östen Ljunggren (Uppsala, Sweden) 
Current and future challenges of performing trials in rare bone diseases

Michael McClung (Portland, USA)
Current and future challenges of performing trials in osteoporosis

Sir Gordon Duff (Sheffield, UK)
Clinical trials – past, present and future

The following registration fee is payable for the training course:

€95 - ECTS members
€145 - non-members

The ECTS Training Course: Clinical Trials has been accredited by the European Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) to provide 6 hours of European external CME credits. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity. The EACCME is an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), www.uems.net. EACCME credits are recognized by the American Medical Association towards the Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA). To convert EACCME credit to AMA PRA category 1 credit, contact the AMA.