Informa Life Sciences

Tue 19 Feb 2008 - Fri 22 Feb 2008 Danubius Regents Park, London, United Kingdom

JOIN US IN 2009! For the 2009 Clinical Trial Performance Metrics conference, click here: www.informa-ls.com/metrics.

Who Will Attend? Attendees at this event will likely be from the following positions in pharma and biotech: Directors, Head and Managers of Clinical Operations, Contracts, Clinical Outsourcing and Resources and Performance and Data Managers

Don't Miss Hear real experience and expert overviews from: • John Bennett, Senior Director, Pfizer Global Research & Development • Peter Joshua, CEO, CMR • Detlef Geiges, Director Clinical Support, AstraZeneca • Colleen McCoy, Senior Manager, Development Outsourcing and Contracts, Genentech • Jason Hall, Senior Manager, Clinical Planning, MedImmune • Jossy Matute, Planning and Metrics Manager Europe, Eli Lilly & Co • Marek Barger, Clinical Trials Manager, Pfizer

Key Presentations

This conference will cover the following important topic areas:

• Overview of key performance and productivity drivers • Selection of the right clinical metrics and clear definition of the type of metrics • Setting up, implementing and monitoring of metrics systems • Communicating effectively for efficient metrics and to improve performance
• Improving cost, time and risk management with clinical metrics
• The impact of metrics on contract relationships and multiple stakeholders
• Monitoring and managing patient recruitment
• Electronic data capture and data management issues for performance metrics

JUST ADDED

At 11.30 on Thursday 21 February, Diana Taylor, Medical Writer and Trainer of Parexel will give the following presentation:
Involving metrics early in a new employee's work: risks and benefits
• The dual nature: metrics and performance - balancing the odds
• Individual metrics for the individual employee?
• Life with metrics for medical writers at a CRO: an example