The Current Crisis in Clinical Research: Where Do We Go?
     April 14, 2009
     Embassy Suites Hotel
     Washington, DC

The Crisis - 8:30-10:00 am

 

 

8:30-8:45 am
Welcome and the State of Clinical Research in America

Alan L. Buchman, MD, MSPH
President, American Federation for Medical Research
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

8:45-9:00
Putting the Crisis into Perspective - the Investigator
Samuel Klein, MD
William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine
and Nutritional Science
Washington University School of Medicine
9:00-9:15 am
Sabine Miller
Patient
9:15-9:35 am
Fran Drescher-Hollywood Star
Cancer Survivor
President, Cancer Schmancer Movement
9:35-9:50 am
The Loss of Clinical Investigators - A Loss to Society
Darrel Kirch, MD
President and CEO
Association of American Medical Colleges
9:50 am
Panel

 

 

The Crisis - 10:05-11:40 am

 

 
10:05-10:20
The Impact of the Crisis in Clinical Research on New Drug Development
Barry Gertz, MD, PhD
Senior Vice President for Clinical and Quantitative
Science
Merck & Co., Inc.
10:20-10:40
Research and Ethics: The Industrial – Institutional - Investigator Interface
Timothy O. Lipman, MD
Chief, GI-Hepatology-Nutrition Section
Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine
10:40-10:55
The Crisis in Training and Education a Future Generation of Clinical Investigators
Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD
Dean, Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine
10:55-11:10
Dollars and Sense: Factors Pushing Clinical Research Out of the US
Kevin A. Schulman, MD
Professor of Medicine and Business Administration
Duke University Medical Center
11:10-11:40
Panel Discussion

 

 

The Players - 1:00-3:15 pm

 

 
1:00-1:15 pm
The CTSA; What They Are and What They Will Accomplish for Whom
Anthony Hayward, MD, PhD
National Center for Research Resources, NIH
1:15-1:30
The FDA: Our Role in Clinical Research
Douglas Throckmorton, MD
Deputy Director
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA
1:30-1:45
The USDA: Our Role in Clinical Research and Commitment to a Healthy Lifestyle
                                                          
Molly Kretsch, PhD
Deputy Administrator for Nutrition, Food Safety, and Quality, Agricultural Research Service, USDA

1:45-2:00
The DOD: More Than Just Protecting Our Troops
                                                           
Ms. Ellen Embrey
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
2:00-2:15
In a World of GPS, Why a Roadmap and is Translational Research a Two-Way Street?
Lawrence A. Tabak, DDS, PhD
Acting Deputy Director, NIH
2:15-2:30
Funding Clinical Research and Our National Priorities
Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA)
2:30-3:00
Panel Discussion

 

 
How can we alter the future?

 

 
3:00-3:15
Sum Up and Priorities for the Future
Alan L. Buchman, MD, MSPH
President, American Federation for Medical Research
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University