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The ICR Ethics and GCP Forum provides an excellent opportunity to:

•  Keep up to date with current ethical and clinical research issues
• Learn about new industry and regulatory initiatives
• Hear key industry figures speak about their specialist fields
• Network with fellow clinical research professionals

Spring Ethics & GCP Forum: Patient Participation

Provisional Agenda 

..09:00..    Registration

..10:00..    Welcome

Ethics Forum

 .10:15.    MHRA Update
Kirsty Wydenbach, Deputy Unit Manager/Senior Medical Assessor, MHRA Clinical Trials Unit

..11:00 .   Update on HRA Approval and HRA Activity
Janet Messer, Director of Research Systems, Standards and HRA Approval Programme

..11:45 .   Ethics Presentation 
Heidi Chandler, R&I Manager, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust 

..12:15.  Sandwich Lunch
 
GCP Forum – Patient Participation

..13:30 .   Patient Engagement in Clinical Trials 
Dr Amanda Stranks, PPI/E and Communications Strategy Lead, NIHR Cambridge 

..14.15..   Patient-Centricity 
Sarah Durston, Country Head, Site Management & Monitoring UK, Clinical Operations, Astra Zeneca

 
..15:00..   Comfort Break
 
..15:15..   Key GCP Updates
A summary of changes in GCP-related regulations and guidelines since the last Ethics/GCP Forum meeting
GCP Steering Committee
 
..16:00..   Close

*Please note this agenda is subject to change. Keep an eye on the ICR Website where we will be posting any updates or changes.

Ethics Forum Chair: Joan Perou

GCP Forum Steering Committee:

• Janice Hedgecock (Chair),
• Stuart Harris,
• Julia DeCesare
• Heidi Chandler 
• Helen Buck 

UCL Joint Research Office: Helen Cadiou