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Grand Rounds December 15, 2023: Diversifying Clinical Trials: A Path Forward (Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, FESC)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Yet enrollment of ethnic minorities in NIH clinical trials and for trials studying approved devices and drugs remains low. There are several strategies that will help increase diversity in CVD trials. Increasing diversity in trial leadership is one of the most important strategies to increase diversity among RCT participants.

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Grand Rounds November 4, 2022: The CardioNerds Clinical Trials Network: Pairing Equitable Enrollment with Trainee Development (Amit Goyal, MD, MAS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Clinical Trial, Medical Education. The goal of the CardioNerds Clinical Trials Network is to pair equitable enrollment with trainee development. Like many trials during the COVID-19 pandemic, there were significant challenges and recruitment delays. What did this activity displace in a busy cardiology fellow’s day?

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November 2, 2022: PCT Grand Rounds Welcomes CardioNerds This Friday

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Amit Goyal of the Cleveland Clinic will present “The CardioNerds Clinical Trials Network: Pairing Equitable Enrollment With Trainee Development.” Goyal is a fellow in interventional/structural cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and a cofounder of CardioNerds, an initiative to democratize cardiovascular education.

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Grand Rounds July 14, 2023: Lessons From the COORDINATE-Diabetes Trial (Christopher B. Granger, MD; Neha J. Pagidipati, MD, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The objective of COORDINATE-Diabetes trial was to improve the implementation and adoption of these therapies by testing the impact of a clinic-level, multifaceted intervention on the prescription of 3 key groups of evidence-based therapies. This was a cluster-randomized trial of 42 cardiology clinics across the U.S.,

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AGEPHA Pharma’s LODOCO gets US FDA approval for cardiovascular disease

Pharmaceutical Technology

The regulatory approval was based on the findings obtained from a double-blind, multinational, placebo-controlled, randomised clinical trial conducted in 5,522 chronic coronary disease patients. We are dedicated to addressing heart disease, the leading cause of death, by ensuring all patients have access to LODOCO.”

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UK trial will test new mAb treatment in heart attack patients

Drug Discovery World

According to the partnership between the University of Birmingham and Acticor Biotech, the trial will take place in two hospitals in the UK: the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham and the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield.

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Velocity Hosts Global CARE Council Summit

Velocity Clinical Research

The summit focused on Velocity’s Diabetes + Obesity, MASH, Vaccine, Cardiology, and Women’s Health CARE Councils, along with a few areas in development.