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Grand Rounds January 12, 2024: Design and Implementation of a Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Covid-19 Resources (Erin K. McCreary, PharmD, BCIDP)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The COVID Therapeutics Committee worked with the state health department to develop a policy for fair allocation of scarce medications to treat COVID-19. The first drug that used the new process was Remdesivir in May 2020. Through this work, UPMC learned that allocation does not actually mean receiving the drug.

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Grand Rounds February 9, 2024: Pragmatic Recruitment of Underrepresented Groups – Experience From the Diuretic Comparison Project (Cynthia Hau, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Both drugs have a well-established safety profile and would be a good fit for a pragmatic design. The study started in June 2016 and ended in June 2022 and ultimately found no difference between the 2 drugs in preventing major CV outcomes and non-cancer death among hypertensive VA patients. 45% participants were from rural areas.

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Expert LinkedIn Tips and Tricks for the Pharmaceutical Industry 

Pharma Marketing Network

Use keywords: When you’re filling out your profile, be sure to use relevant keywords throughout. Some relevant keywords to include are: pharmaceutical, drug development, clinical trials, medical research, and healthcare. Join relevant groups: There are thousands of LinkedIn groups dedicated to the pharmaceutical industry.

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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. Approaches from the whole scientific community to tackle the inequality in workforce, trial leadership and trial participants have to be developed. We have to change how we are practicing.

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AI in pharma: Can it be used in DTC?

World of DTC Marketing

Drug Discovery and Manufacturing: It helps in the initial screening of drug compounds to the predicted success rate based on biological factors. Precision medicine or next-generation sequencing helps in the faster discovery of drugs and tailored medication for individual patients. . Measuring RNA, DNA quickly.

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Grand Rounds February 23, 2024: Virtual Vigilance: Monitoring of Decentralized Clinical Trials (Adrian Hernandez, MD; Christopher J. Lindsell, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

But there are concerns to developing DCTs including lack of standardization and validation, regulatory and ethical uncertainties, engagement vs. coercion, data security and privacy issues, technological literacy and access, resistance to change and adoption, and lack of “safe” sharing. from 2021 to 2026. from 2021 to 2026.

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Working in pharma

World of DTC Marketing

I have seen first hand how the drugs we market can save lives and lead to a better quality of life for millions. When I first started in the industry DTC was fairly new as we launched a number of groundbreaking drugs such as statins. I am critical because I love this industry. Slowly I saw a change within companies.

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