DTI & HRB-TMRN Study Day / Webinar: A Guide to Delivering Dementia Trials in Ireland - Overcoming the Challenges and Pitfalls from Feasibility through to Delivery

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Dementia Trials Ireland are delighted to announce this half day webinar, coordinated by Dementia Trials Ireland, a HRB Clinical Trial Network, and in partnership with the HRB-TMRN, comprised of 4 sessions. This event may be of interest to early career researchers (clinical, academic), clinical investigators, research nurses or allied health professionals with an interest in dementia clinical trials.

Sessions 1-3 (delivered by clinical research and trial coordination experts) will introduce participants to the concepts and considerations central to effective development and delivery of dementia clinical trials in an Irish context to include:

• Legal / Ethical and site feasibility
• Contracts, budgets and regulatory/quality considerations
• Green light and subsequent trial coordination requirements
• Event reporting, data management and audits
• Trial close out

In Session 4, attendees will ‘Meet the Experts’ who will speak to their experience of the day-to-day realities of successfully conducting and delivering a dementia clinical trial in Ireland.

Session 4 Panel:

Dr Rónan O’Caoimh

DTI Steering Committee member

Consultant Geriatrician, Mercy University Hospital, Cork

Prof. Seán Kennelly

Co-Lead DTI

Consultant Physician in Stroke and Geriatric medicine, Tallaght University Hospital Dublin

Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin

Director of the Institute for Memory and Cognition

Director of Cognitive Clinical Trials Unit, Tallaght University Hospital

Prof. Brian Lawlor

DTI Steering Committee member

Professor of old age psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin

Site Director of GBHI at Trinity College Dublin