Jim Kremidas spent 24 years at Eli Lilly, where he started the industry’s first Patient Recruitment Department. He’s been in clinical research for 35+ years. Then he got bladder cancer — the standard of care didn’t work — and he couldn’t find a clinical trial using the very tools he helped build. It took six people to connect him to a trial.

Elisa Cascade has 30+ years in clinical research technology. Former Chief Product Officer at Science 37 and Advarra. Past Chair of ACRP. She built a 2.7 million patient community for direct-to-patient recruitment back in 2010-2011 — bleeding edge for decentralized trials at the time.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

• “Impossible to Find a Study” — Even for Industry Insiders
• It Took 6 People to Connect Jim to a Clinical Trial
• ClinicalTrials.gov Is Wrong 80% of the Time
• ChatGPT Is Now Recommending Clinical Trials
• The Hidden Barrier: Patient Compensation Varies Wildly
• Evening and Weekend Hours — Why Access Matters
• “I Fell Into Clinical Research” — Time to Reframe
• Why Sites Don’t Call Patients Back for 5 Days
• The “Generations” Study: How Messaging Changes Everything
• Multisite Research Corporations (MCRCs) — The Future?
• “That’s How We’ve Always Done It” — The Biggest Challenge
• Stepping Stones: Pragmatic Innovation in a Conservative Industry

Resources:

• AMRC
• TrialScreen
• CISCRP
• ClinicalTrials.gov