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Partnerships with Clinical Sites

Date: Sep 15, 2025

Location: Philadelphia, PA

How to ​Build an ​Infrastructure ​with Sites that ​Drives more ​Effective ​Patient ​Enrollment and ​Retention


How can pharma/biotech and CROs be better partners to Sites?  

The Partnerships with Clinical Sites Summit challenges the site ecosystem on how to rebuild an infrastructure to drive more effective patient enrollment and retention. This summit provides a timely and focused forum to rethink the entire sponsor-site-CRO partnership model—starting with enrollment as the core unmet need.

Addressing the Fundamental Issues:


•  If enrollment is the core unmet need, how do we rebuild to fix this?

•  How do we address the misalignment between Sponsors, CROs and Sites to truly meet the needs of patients?
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•  How to engage with sites early to operationalize the clinical trial design to reduce the burden to sites and patients? 

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Matthew Maxwell, DBA
Patient-Centered Chief Growth Officer,
Centricity Research

Jyoti Angal, PhD
Director, Clinical Research,
Avera Mckennan Hospital & University Health Center

Mahasweta Dutt,
​​​​​​​MS, MRA, CCRC

Associate Director, Clinical Research Operations, Office of Clinical Research,
​​​​​​​Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Joanne Monaghan, RN, CCRC
Director, Regional Operations Northeast,
Boston Clinical Trials

Rucha Shah
Lived-experience Expert, and Assistant Clinical Research Project Manager,
ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group

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Cameron Keith, RN,
CCRC

Clinical Nurse Educator,
​​​​​Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Shafaat Ali Khan
Clinical Research Lead (CRL) Director – Investigator Engagement,
Eli Lilly & Co

Paris Johnson
Site Engagement Lead, Diversity; Site Management & Monitoring, R&D Late Delivery Oncology,
AstraZeneca

Maggie McGuire-Kuhl
​​​​​​​VP, Research Engagement,
The Michael J Fox Foundation (MJFF)

Jenn Curry
Head, Patient Engagement Capabilities,
Biogen

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Rosalie Filling
VP, Senior Global Head, R&D Operations,
Endo

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Tracey Robertson
Head of Patient & Site Engagement Capabilities,
​​​​​​Boehringer Ingelheim

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Emilio Neto, MBA
Global Head of Country Site & Operations,
Biogen

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Jimmy Bechtel, MBA
VP,
Site Engagement, Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS)

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Jim Kremidas
Executive Director,
Association for MultiSite Research Corporations (AMRC)

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Norman Goldfarb, MBA
Executive Director,
The Site Council

The timing of this summit arrives at a critical inflection point:


• Sites are operating at 60% capacity and need much more support 

• Sites have more burden shifted on to them

• Sponsors and CROs are seeking sustainable partnerships rooted in trust, operational alignment, and shared outcomes

• The disconnect between technological intent and site/patient usability is widening

• There's a growing call for early engagement, co-creation, and transparency across trial stakeholders
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Site perspectives on
challenges & opportunities

Redesigning site-sponsor-CRO partnership infrastructures

Improving operational dynamics between CROs and sites​​​​​​​

Rebuilding
Trust

​​​​​​​Mobile & digital tech:
​​​​​​​what works, what doesn’t

Key trends shaping the site ecosystem

Successful collaboration case studies

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