June 19-23, 2011  Chicago, IL

 

Monday, June 20th
1:30 PM – Reducing Micro-management of CROs While Maintaining Effective Quality Oversight: Results from a 2011 Industry Survey
Denise Calaprice-Whitty, PhD, MS, Executive Director, The Avoca Group
Panel Members
John G. Harkins, MBA, Otsuka
Wayne Langlois, Covance
Winifred Ann Meeker-O’Connell, MS, FDA
 
Tuesday, June 21st
10 AM - Committing to Two Partners: A Look at a Strategic CRO Sourcing Initiative
Joan C. Millsaps, MSN, RN, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Panel Members
Lisa McKay, MBA, The Avoca Group
Bari Kowal, MS, ICON
Joshua Schultz, PAREXEL
 
1:30 PM – An Innovative Strategic Partnering Relationship: Can This Approach Revolutionize Drug Development?
Solomon Babani, MBA, Celtic Therapeutics
Panel Members
Kerry Toone, PPD
Patricia Leuchten, The Avoca Group
 
Wednesday, June 22nd
1:30 PM – A Close Look at Clinical Outsourcing Strategies: An Executive Roundtable
Patricia Leuchten, The Avoca Group
Panel Members
Peter A. Carberry, MD, MBA, Astellas
Mitchell A. Katz, PhD, Purdue Pharma
Craig Coffman, Endo Pharmaceuticals

March 30 - April 1, 2011  Phoenix, Arizona

Please join The Avoca Group at the following PCT Events in Arizona:

Wednesday, March 30th

2:15 PM– A Sponsor Outsourcing Dilemma: Reducing Micro-Management of CROs while maintaining Effective Quality Oversite
Panel Members:
Wayne Langlois, VP/GM Americas, Covance
Peter Carberry, MD, Senior VP Global Development Operations, Astellas
John Oidtman, VP Clinical Operations-Emerging Markets, Pfizer

8:00 AM – Market Insight Roundtable Discussion

Janice Hutt, Chief Operating Office of The Avoca Group will moderate a discussion surrounding findings on the state of clinical outsourcing in 2011 and what this means for both sponsors and clinical services providers both now and going forward as the industry changes.

 

11:00 AM – Commitment to Two Partners - A Look at the BMS Integrated Strategic Sourcing Initiative
Panel Members:
Joan Milsaps, Director, Business Operations & Outsourcing Mgmt, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Cynthia Hauck, Associate Director, Outsourcing Mgmt, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bari Kowal, VP of Strategic Programs & Mgmt, ICON
Joshua Schultz, VP, Strategic Account Leader, PAREXEL

3:30 PM - Post Conference Session:The State of Clinical Outsourcing
Dr. Denise Calaprice-Whitty, Senior Director, The Avoca Group  will present the results from the 2011 Avoca Industry Survey, The State of Clinical Outsourcing, which explores outsourcing relationships, trends, practices and approaches, and in particular, how these vary according to the type and size of sponsor company. 

This Management Today special feature focuses on today's women executives and their opportunities and challenges.

The author analyzes the results of a survey that polled pharmaceutical executives and managers about both sides of the outsourcing relationship.

As part of ClinPage's Clinical Efficiency Series, this article discusses the efficiency of outsourcing relationships.

During a presentation at Partnerships in Clinical Trials 2010, The Avoca Group shared data and key findings from their annual survey and used that data as a catalyst for the panel discussion. The focus of the survey and the question posed to respondents was “ How has outsourcing strategy changed over the last 5 years?” Both Sponsors and CROs were polled and the data correlated to find synergies and separations in expectations in outsourcing relationships.

This article, in the March 2010 edition of Applied Clinical Trials Online, is exploring an in-depth survey revealing trends, outlooks, and future plans of both sponsors and service providers.

With size as an influence, do sponsors seek out similar sized providers?

This article, published in the February 2009 edition of The Monitor, describes a survey that focused on the causes and consequences of mismatched expectations between sponsors and clinical service providers.

This article, published in the 2008 edition of The Monitor, reviews the results from the Avoca 2007 Industry Survey.