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Grand Rounds December 15, 2023: Diversifying Clinical Trials: A Path Forward (Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, FESC)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Yet enrollment of ethnic minorities in NIH clinical trials and for trials studying approved devices and drugs remains low. Increasing diversity in trial leadership is one of the most important strategies to increase diversity among RCT participants. The biggest barrier for CV medicine is the lack of women leaders in CV.

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July 24, 2024: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, Fonarow to Discuss Interventions for Optimizing Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Fonarow is the Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science at UCLA, director of the Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, and codirector of the UCLA Preventative Cardiology Program. .” The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, July 26, 2024, at 1:00 pm eastern. Join the online meeting.

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How the Ukrainian clinical trial industry is overcoming disruption

Pharmaceutical Technology

Clinical trials were thrown into turmoil on the morning of 24 February 2022, along with every aspect of life in Ukraine. In July, approximately a third of companies had paused a trial in the country. By August, 28 foreign-sponsored, multi-country trials were affected, almost half with sites in Ukraine and Russia. [1].

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AGEPHA Pharma’s LODOCO gets US FDA approval for cardiovascular disease

Pharmaceutical Technology

It can be used as a monotherapy or along with cholesterol-lowering medicines. The regulatory approval was based on the findings obtained from a double-blind, multinational, placebo-controlled, randomised clinical trial conducted in 5,522 chronic coronary disease patients.

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Grand Rounds October 18, 2024: Rigorous Testing of Behavior Change Interventions: Lessons from the BE ACTIVE Randomized Clinical Trial (Alexander Fanaroff, MD, MHS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Another barrier that the research team identified was that existing guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association lack specificity and strong supporting evidence. This framework can be used to understand why people don’t exercise, even when they know they should.

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Cardiology Clinical Trials with Dr. Gregg Stone

Clinical Trial Podcast

Stone is an Interventional Cardiologist and Director of Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Heart Health System and Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Population Health Sciences and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY.

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July 12, 2023: In This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds, Lessons From the COORDINATE-Diabetes Trial

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Neha Pagidipati In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Christopher Granger and Neha Pagidipati of Duke University will present “Lessons From the COORDINATE-Diabetes Trial.” Fortin, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and a professor of nursing, and Dr. Pagidipati is an associate professor of medicine—both at Duke University.

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