Clinical Research Excellence 09 :: Melbourne Australia

Morning Session

Session Chairs:	Prof Peter Ebeling and Prof John Funder
Session Title:	Foundations for successful and effective clinical research
Allocated time:	105 minutes

Time	Title & Description	Presenters
Introductions (10 minutes, 8.30am – 8.40am)
0830 – 0840	Introduction & Welcome Session introduction & housekeeping	Prof. Peter Ebeling
Panel Session 1 (1 hr 30 minutes, 8.40am – 10.10am) Chair: Prof. Peter Ebeling
0840 - 0850	Clinical Trial Case Study – Part 1: Establishing an investigator-initiated clinical trial Trial name, Objective, Protocol development, Initial partners, Funding & support	Prof. Paul Monagle
0850 - 0900	Investment in clinical trials: attracting funding	Dr Catherine Bourgeois
0900 - 0910	Building a clinical researcher – exploring the building blocks?	Dr. Andrew Wilson
0910 - 0920	Clinical Trial Case Study – Part 2: Getting ready to start the trial (pre-recruitment phase) Ethics submission, Logistics, Agreements, Listing the study, investigator meeting	Cheryl Townsend
0920 - 0930	Mentoring young researchers – what they need	Dr. Lara Lipton
0930 - 0940	Finding your team Where do you find the best staff? How do you attract people to your team?	Prof. Ronald Grunstein (PowerPoint file)
0940 - 1010	Panel / discussion
1010 - 1030	Morning tea break

Panel Session 2 (1 hr 30 minutes, 10.30am – 12.00pm) Chair: Prof. John Funder
1030 - 1040	Session introduction and opening remarks	Prof. John Funder
1040 - 1050	Training clinical researchers: survey results and analysis	Marisa Petersen
1050 - 1100	Clinical Trial Case Study – Part 3: Patient recruitment & clinical phase Recruitment management, Cost containment, AE management, Motivation	Marianne Hundling
1100 - 1110	Clinical Trial Case Study – Part 4: Data management and reporting Data queries, record management, writing the report, publishing the outcomes	A/Prof. Danny Liew
1110 - 1120	Growing Clinician Researchers in Victoria	Prof. Tom Kay
1120 - 1130	Clinical Trial Case Study – part 5: Post trial review and archiving How do you actually finish a trial?	Dr Martin Van Der Weyden
1130 - 1200	Panel / discussion
Session Wrap-up (10 minutes, 12.00pm – 12.15pm)
1200 - 1215	Getting our collective act together Creating a real clinical research community, funding and career paths for clinical researchers	Prof. Gary Wittert

Lunch (1 hour, 12.15pm – 1.15pm)
Young Clinican Researchers’ Forum, sponsored by Bio21 (only open to young clinican researchers)

Afternoon Session 1

Session Chair:	Prof Gary Wittert
Session Title:	Centres of Clinical Research Excellence
Allocated Time:	105 minutes

Time	Title & Description	Presenter
CCRE session (2 hrs, 1.15pm – 3.15pm )
1315 - 1335	Centres of Excellence – philosophy, role and value in the healthcare system	Prof. Ingrid Winship
1335 - 1350	CCRE in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Successes, strategies and collaborations	Prof. Tom Marwick
1350 - 1405	CCRE in Interdisciplinary Sleep Health Successes, strategies and collaborations	Prof. Ronald Grunstein
1405 - 1420	CCRE in Nutritional Physiology, Interventions and Outcomes Successes, strategies and collaborations	Prof. Gary Wittert
1420 - 1435	CCRE in Clinical Science in Diabetes Successes, strategies and collaborations	Prof. James Best
1435 - 1450	Clinical Research from the perspective of the National Health and Hospitals Research Commission	Dr Mukesh Haikerwal
1450 - 1515	Moderated panel session Insights into avenues of clinical research in addition to CCREs Future of clinical research in Australia	Prof. Graham Brown Dr Mukesh Haikerwal Prof. Warwick Anderson Prof. Tom Kay
1515 - 1535	Afternoon tea break

Afternoon Session 2

Session Chair:	Prof James Best
Session Title:	Clinical Research: Setting priorities and enabling research in our hospitals
Allocated time:	90 minutes

Time	Title & Description	Presenter
Translational research: partnerships to improve health (1 hr 10 mins, 3.35pm – 4.45pm )
1535 - 1555	Developing hospitals as research precincts	Prof. Graeme Ryan
1555 - 1615	Structural barriers to translational clinical research in Australia	Prof. Dick Fox
1615 - 1645	Universities - important partners in clinical research incorporating launch of the Clinical Sciences and Health Practice Domain at the University of Melbourne	Prof. Peter Ebeling
1645 - 1700	Break

Evening Session

Session Chair:	Prof Peter Ebeling
Session Title:	Clinical Research: Expanding Australia ’s Place in the World
Allocated time:	70 minutes

Time	Title & Description	Presenter
Clinical Research: Expanding Australia ’s place in the world (1 hr 40 minutes, 5.00pm – 6.40pm)
1700 - 1730	Perspectives from Canberra: Elevating clinical research into its rightful place in healthcare.	Prof. Warwick Anderson
1730 - 1800	The value of sponsored research	Melissa Grady
1800 - 1830	Towards Academic Health Science Systems	Prof. Ed Byrne
1830 - 1840	Wrap-up & looking ahead: CRX10	Prof. Peter Ebeling
1840 - 1940	Networking drinks