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Rapid Response to Patient Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Date and Time: August 11, 2020 @ 12:00 PM ET


Contact Hours: One contact hour will be issued.


Presenters

Darren Cowan, RPN, Pfizer
Laura Falcone, APRN, Meridian

Description

This session will provide key insights sponsors and sites discovered as they solved for clinical trial patient visit logistics during the COVID-19 lockdown. These considerations may provide insights for designing your disaster recovery plans.
Learning Objectives

    1. Understand key challenges relating to patient visits following COVID-19 and ways to address them
    2. Learn about Home Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine solutions for future considerations     
    3. Discover how site selection may evolve as a result of COVID-19 pandemic


Presenters

Darren joined Pfizer in 2000 and has held various Clinical Operations roles in both Canada and United States and currently works out of the New York Headquarters Office in the role of Area Head for the America’s.  In this current remit Darren has overall responsibility for and accountability to deliver strategic and operational direction to the area management teams, & to ensure deep understanding of and execution to departmental strategies, culture, and goals.  Additionally, Darren sponsors workstreams in technology, flexible trial locations, diversity, and investigator training. Prior to joining Pfizer, Darren worked in a variety of nursing specialties including emergency, psychiatry, corrections, community, education, and remote telemedicine.

As chief operating officer, Laura Falcone directs operations at all Meridian sites across North America. An advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), Falcone brings years of firsthand clinical experience to her executive role at Meridian. She established Meridian’s excellence in patient-centric research conduct and remains heavily-involved in day-to-day clinical operations, occasionally serving as sub-investigator for trials. In 2012, Falcone was named Study Nurse of the Year at the PharmaTimes U.S. Clinical Researcher of the Year competition. Before joining Meridian, Falcone was a nurse at the Methodist Health System. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Biology from the University of Virginia; a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Creighton University; a Master of Science in Adult Acute Care and a Post-Master's Certificate in Family Practice Nursing from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.


Society for Clinical Research Sites, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.


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