Join us as we welcome new SCRS team member Lauren Stockwell, Content and Engagement Manager, with an insightful conversation about the value of mentorship in the clinical research community. Lauren shares her passion for empowering the next generation of clinical research professionals, highlighting SCRS's newly launched Mentorship Program. Explore how purposeful mentorship can elevate site professionals both personally and professionally, and offer practical tips on how site members can get involved. Tune in to learn how SCRS is creating meaningful connections to support the growth and success of site professionals!

Leigh Burgess, CEO and founder of Bold Industries Group, reveals how applying design thinking can transform clinical research operations. Learn how radical prioritization and the innovative D90 framework can help organizations cut through complexity, enhance teamwork, and accelerate trial results — delivering more efficient outcomes for patients and stakeholders alike.

Michelle Ray, Director of Customer Success with Greenphire, explores the challenges that delayed payments pose to research site sustainability. Michelle highlights key issues like the burden of delayed payments on site operations and recruitment, the complexity of invoicing, and the role of technology in simplifying payment workflows. Learn how innovating payment systems can streamline financial processes, creating a more sustainable future for sites, patients, and sponsors alike.

Renuka Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of UpTrials, is revolutionizing site workforce challenges. Renuka shares the inspiration behind founding UpTrials, and how the platform is making a significant impact by matching research sites with skilled candidates. Learn how UpTrials is streamlining the hiring process, improving time-to-fill rates, and bringing much-needed innovation to clinical research hiring processes.

UpTrials is AI-driven software designed to help clinical research employers hire top talent quickly. The platform algorithmically matches employers with prescreened candidates who have clinical research experience, training, or transferable skills, covering roles from coordinators to site leadership. Employers can contact UpTrials at info@uptrials.com, and job seekers can sign up at app.uptrials.com.

In this episode, we'll explore the transformative power of collaboration and advocacy in the pursuit of life-altering treatments. Meike Madelung from IQVIA's EMEA Thought Leadership team takes us through a compelling case study featuring the AKU Society and its groundbreaking efforts in combating Alkaptonuria. Learn how patient organizations can help accelerate recruitment for rare disease trials.

Input from research sites is essential for developing clinical technologies that are practical, efficient, user-friendly, and aligned with the real-world needs and challenges of trials. Understanding this need, Medidata Solutions hosted an interactive Site Tech Board through SCRS to learn how to improve their technology and processes directly from sites. Tune in as Robin Douglas, Vice President of Research Site Engagement at Medidata, highlights how the organization is creating a better experience for sites and patients through this feedback.

Ophthalmology, a medical specialty focusing on the structure, function, and diseases of the eye, has a growing role in non-ophthalmic studies. Jessica Mays, Vice President of Life Sciences at 20/20 Onsite, shares common challenges sites face with trial-related eye assessments and how to accurately budget for these types of services. Tune in to learn how 20/20 Onsite is making ophthalmology research more accessible to sites and patients through mobile services.

Celebrate clinical trial innovation with Catherine Pitman, Lead Research Nurse at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, recipient of the 2023 European Site Spark award. Catherine shares how the pandemic brought on new opportunities to enable more accessible clinical trials through the launch of a Mobile Research Unit (MRU). Hear how her organization's passion brought on new ideas and resolutions to problems created during the pandemic, and ultimately led to Plymouth Research and Development earning the Site Spark award.