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BBK Worldwide is honored to announce that our Creative Director for Patient Experience and Engagement, Jessica Kim, has been named to the 2020 PharmaVOICE 100 list of the most inspiring people in the life sciences industry as a patient champion. The award recognizes Ms. Kim for how she inspires and motivates those around her, her influence as a corporate leader, and her positive impact on the industry through her actions.

Topics: Patient Engagement, Patient Enrollment, Study-life Balance, PharmaVOICE, Jessica Kim, PharmaVOICE 100

The Road to Reopening

In our newest Pharma15 Live! episode, Principal of RSG Services Rob Laurens provides guidance on managing clinical trial patient travel as COVID-19 restrictions ease and countries and study sites start to reopen.

Rob answers common questions and highlights the advantages of thoughtful pre-planning and contingency preparation. Watch now and discover strategies clinical trial sponsors can leverage to maximize patient safety and engagement during COVID-19 and beyond.

Download the eBook

Because there's a lot to consider in terms of managing patient travel as COVID-19 restrictions ease, we've captured guidance in a special eBook to download and review at your convenience.

Topics: Patient Engagement, Patient Travel, Pharma15 Live!, Patient Enrollment, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Rob Laurens

We recently sat down with BBK’s Director of Accounts David Fleishman to discuss his experience working with clinical trial sponsors during the COVID-19 outbreak. It’s clear from our conversation that many clinical trial sponsors have had to quickly pivot in response to COVID-19 and are now facing the challenge of adapting to a new normal.

Topics: Patient Engagement, Patient Enrollment, COVID-19, David Fleishman, Virtual

As the director and one of the producers of Pharma15 Live! I wanted to share with you some insights into what we’ve learned through an amazing three seasons! First of all, if you were to tell me at the beginning of our series that it would even last three seasons, I’d tell you I’d be shocked – but nonetheless here we are and it’s been great!

Topics: Pharma15 Live!, COVID-19, Matt Kibby, Aaron Fleishman, Craig Lipset, Advarra, Season Three, Michele Russell-Einhorn, Dan Sfera, Ray Dorsey, MD

As we navigate COVID-19 and beyond, understanding the patient voice is critical to overcoming clinical trial enrollment and engagement challenges. Our Study Voices infographic series sheds light on the patient voice, providing clinical trial sponsors with insight to help enhance the patient experience.

Topics: Patient Engagement, Patient Enrollment, COVID-19, Patient Voice, Infographics

As the country goes through the phases of reopening, what does that mean for the patient and site experience in clinical trials? PharmaTalkRadio’s Valerie Bowling discusses the future of clinical trials with Ray Dorsey, MD, Matt Kibby, and Craig Lipset in this feature podcast.

Topics: Clinical Trials, Pharma15 Live!, COVID-19, Matt Kibby, Craig Lipset, Decentralized Trials, Conference Forum

We recently sat down with BBK’s Director of RSG Services Mike Johnson to discuss how clinical trial patient travel has been impacted by COVID-19 and how BBK's travel program RSG® Arrive has responded.

Topics: Patient Travel, RSG Arrive, COVID-19, Mike Johnson, RSG Services, Clinical Trial Patient Travel

Rapid Adoption of Patient-centric Innovation Seen as Positive Outcome of COVID-19 Research Collaborations

While COVID-19 has severely affected many industries, scientific pursuit for a host of medical conditions is also threatened by sharply negative effects of the pandemic on clinical research for non-COVID-19-related pursuits. This is evidenced by an industry-reported 65 percent decline in new patient study enrollment in March 2020 relative to March 2019. The industry is adapting by borrowing from the zealous approach associated with COVID-19 research by deploying extraordinary collaboration and patient-centric services to achieve timelines for as many studies as possible.

Topics: Patient Centricity, Clinical Research, Clinical Trials, Clinical Trial Innovations, COVID-19, Joan F. Bachenheimer

More of Your Questions Answered

In this special video clip, industry innovators Aaron Fleishman and Craig Lipset answer some of the overflow questions from our Virtual Town Hall on maintaining clinical trial momentum during COVID-19 and beyond.

This 20-minute segment features answers to your questions relating to:

• Implementation of decentralized trials
• Impact of COVID-19 on enrollment of healthy volunteers
• Biggest concerns for clinicians around remote contact with patients
• Advancing decentralized trials while not leaving behind people without access to reliable internet, electronic devices, or digital savvy
• Validating new digital endpoints for decentralized trials
• Impact of telemedicine and other decentralized trial approaches on  monitoring and source data verification (SDV)

Topics: Webinars, Clinical Trials, Pharma15 Live!, COVID-19, Aaron Fleishman, Craig Lipset

Driven by audience questions, industry innovators Aaron Fleishman and Craig Lipset discuss maintaining clinical trial momentum during COVID-19 and beyond during our recent virtual town hall.

Watch now to gain insight into overcoming patient enrollment and engagement challenges while supporting study continuity. Learn how to minimize clinical trial disruption with solutions for all stages of study activity – planning, enrolling, and even restarting.

Topics: Webinars, Clinical Trials, Pharma15 Live!, COVID-19, Aaron Fleishman, Craig Lipset