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Main Day - Thursday

Thursday, April 12, 2007
MORNING GENERAL SESSION

7:15

8:00
Morning Coffee
8:00

Co-Chairperson's Welcome and Recap of Day One

Harris Koffer, PharmD, President and COO RPS, INC

8:15

Building a World-Class Clinical Trial Operations Capability and Creating Scalability Using a Novel Approach to Outsourcing

Nancy A. Sacco, PhD, Senior Director, Head of Clinical Operations, TAKEDA GLOBAL RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

9:00

The Patient Perspective with Olympic Gold Medalist & Cancer Survivor Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton, Olympic Gold Medalist & Cancer Survivor, Official spokesperson for Target House at St. Jude Children's Hospital & the Scott Hamilton C.A.R.E.S. Initiative at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Center, Author, Landing It: My Life On and Off the Ice

9:45Morning Opening of Exhibit Hall; Meet and Greet with Scott Hamilton
10:30

The Quest for Value is the Future for the Global Pharmaceutical Industry

Ian Morrison, PhD, Healthcare Futurist and Author of Health Care in the New Millennium, Vision, Values, and Leadership

11:30

Premiere of Exclusive Survey Results: Sourcing Models that Create Value in CRO Partnerships

Todd Hintze, Healthcare Principal, and Rich Kabrt, Engagement Director, EVEREST GROUP

12:15

Lunch in Exhibit Hall

Book Signing with Ian Morrison, Author of Health Care in the New Millennium, Vision, Values, and Leadership

1:30Drill Down Time

TRACK A:
Optimizing Outsourcing Contracts, Budgets and Processes

Track Chair:
Robert J. Davis, PharmD, COO, RESEARCHPOINT

Track B:
Strategic Sourcing

Track Chair:
Steve Whittaker
Director of Operations and Project Management, CV/Acute Care Platform Team
ELI LILLY & COMPANY

Track C:
Relationship Management

Track Chair:
Lisa LaLuna
VP of Corporate Development and Implementation
ePHARMASOLUTIONS

Track D:
Operationalizing the Agreement

Track Chair:
Wendy Porter, President
ENDPOINT RESEARCH

Track E:
Globalization Choices
and Challenges

Track Chairs:
Larry Blankstein, Senior Director, Clinical Research
GENZYME

Janet L. Brennan, Chief Clinical Officer and
Executive Vice President,
Global Operations
RPS INC

1:30
1:30
1:30
1:30
1:30
Negotiating, Implementing and Leveraging Preferred Provider Agreements

David J. Gessner,
Senior Vice President, Business Development, PRA INTERNATIONAL

Fredrick L. Naids, PhD, Senior Strategic Sourcing Director, Clinical R&D, SHIRE PHARMACEUTICALS

Implementing a Governance Structure to Manage Strategic Sourcing Relationships

Lorraine Waring, Senior Director, Sourcing Strategy, PFIZER GLOBAL R&D

Darren Hart, Clinical Outsourcing Director, GENENTECH

Project Governance: Aligning Values, Job Responsibilities, Roles and Behavior

Moderator:

Lizabeth Khachadoorian, Senior Outsource Manager, Planning & Outsource Management, PURDUE PHARMA LP

Panelists:

Owen Charles, RN, Manager, Outsourcing Management, BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB

Anthony J. Santicerma, Director of Strategic Alliance and Global Marketing, QUEST DIAGNOSTICS CLINICAL TRIALS

Hal Mann, Director, Central Laboratory Outsourcing, GLAXOSMITHKLINE

Implement Specific Strategies to Accelerate Study Start-up Activities, Increase Site Activity and Decrease Enrollment Timelines

Angela D. Hall, CCRA, Assistant Director, Clinical Operations, CTMS, INC

Alison Brown, Director of Clinical Operations, OTHERA PHARMACEUTICALS

Brenda Muldrow, Vice President Customer Relations, INC RESEARCH

 

Strategies to Ensure Proactive and Seamless Execution of Global Clinical Trials

Moderator:

Larry Blankstein, Sr. Director, Clinical Research, GENZYME

Panelists:

Alison Holland, Black Belt, Six Sigma, COVANCE INC

Mike Osz, Vice President, Clinical Operations,
PARAGON BIOMEDICAL

2:15
2:15
2:15
2:15
2:15
Managing Investigator Payment Budgets: What is Fair Market Value?

Moderator:

George Sawicki, Director of Contract and Investigator Grants, RPS, INC

Panelists:

Ramzi Benamar, Associate Director Contracts and Grants, JOHNSON & JOHNSON

Lizabeth Roper, MHS, Director, Clinical Research Center, HARTFORD HOSPITAL

Janis Witzleb, Associate Director, Investigator Contracting, WYETH

The Collaboration of Procurement & Outsourcing with the Functional Lines to Develop & Maintain Good Supplier Relations

Moderator:

Kent Morsch, Senior Director, Strategic Sourcing, MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS

Panelists:

Vanessa Cooke, Global Head of External Supplier Management, BAYER PLC

Nancy Widener, Group Director, Contracts and Outsourcing Management, BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB

Fredrick L. Naids, PhD, Senior Strategic Sourcing Director, Clinical R&D, SHIRE PHARMACEUTICALS

Chantal Sarmanoukian, Director, R&D Procurement, Global Procurement Services, SHIRE PHARMACEUTICALS

Making a "Do-er"
into a Manager: Oversight of Transferred Obligations

Paul Colvin, Director, Corporate Operations, ELI LILLY & COMPANY

Deborah Profit, Associate Director, Clinical Operations, OTSUKA MARYLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.

Prevent Rather than Fix: A New and Multi Faceted Approach to Ensure Investigator Data Quality

Brett E. Bishop MSc, PhD, Executive Director, Clinical Operations (The Americas), Late Stage Development Services, COVANCE INC

Amelia Browder, Global Team Manager, Investigator Training, Investigator Site Services, Central Laboratory Services, COVANCE INC

William O'Riordan, MD, FACEP, EPrincipal Investigator, Founder, and Chief Medical Officer, eSTUDYSITE

Emerging Markets of Eastern Europe, Latin America, and India

Moderator:

Mark A. Lanfear, Regional Manager, Roche-Kforce Alliance, ROCHE

Panelists:

Jean-Pierre Tassignon, President, PSI PHARMA SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL AG

John W. Hubbard, PhD, FCP, DABCP, Global President, US Division
ICON CLINICAL RESEARCH

3:00
3:00
3:00
3:00
3:00
Impact of Global Currency Fluctuation on Project Budgets: Who Holds the Risk?

Cory Gutterman, Associate Director, Outsourcing, Global Pharmaceutical R&D, ABBOTT LABORATORIES

Incorporating Technology into a Strategic Sourcing Strategy: On-line Reverse Auctions- Lessons Learned Three Years and $100+ Million Later

Samuel Dowell, MBA, CPM, Senior Director of Development Procurement, PFIZER


How Do Adaptive Trials Affect the Challenge of Managing Outsourcing Budgets?

David Connelly, CEO, CMED

Jane Fayer, MBA, Associate Director, Outsourcing Management, NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS

Globalization: The Evolving Functional Service Provider Paradigm

Nagaraja Srivatsan, Head of Life Sciences, North America, COGNIZANT

Mr. D.A. Prasanna, Vice Chairman & MD, MANIPAL ACUNOVA LTD



3:45Wrap Up Session with the Track Chairs

In this closing session, our track chairs will summarize session highlights from the past two days

4:15Event Concludes


Keynotes

Event Sponsors

Bob Eubanks

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