2011 Program

Day 1 – Thursday 26 May 2011

7:30 – 8:30 Registration, Welcome Coffee & Trade Exhibition
8:30 – 9:00 Opening of Sydney ARCS Congress – Research and Development Meeting
9:00 – 11:00 Opening Plenary: Personalised Medicine (T1)
11:00 – 11:30 Morning Tea & Trade Exhibition
11:30 – 1:00 Pharmacovigilance What Happens to all of These Adverse Event Reports? (T2)
Clinical Research Clinical Trials, the TGA and GCP Auditing (T3)
Management Managing the Skills Shortage (T4)
Asia Pacific A Comparison of Clinical Operations Across Asia, Part 1: Health; Human Resource, and Quality Considerations in Asia (T5)
Medical Affairs Emerging trends in Oncology (T6)
1:00 – 2:30 Lunch & Trade Exhibition + Pharmacovigilance & Study Site Staff Interest Area Meetings
2:30 – 4:00 Pharmacovigilance Medical Information and Pharmacovigilance for the Large and the Small (T7)
Clinical Research Risk and Liability in Clinical Trials (T8)
Clinical Research An Alternative Model for Effective Clinical Trial Site Management – The ARO Model (T9)
Asia Pacific A Comparison of Clinical Operations Across Asia, Part 2: Subject Recruitment; Ethics & Regulatory, and Cost Considerations for Clinical Trials in Asia (T10)
Medical Affairs How to Critically Review a Scientific Paper (T11)
4:00 – 4:30 Afternoon Tea & Trade Exhibition
4:30 – 6:00 Cross Functional Inspection and Detection – How do you Recognise Research Misconduct and What do you do if you Suspect it? (T12)
Clinical Research Clinical Trials and Tribulations – Laboratory Issues (T13)
Clinical Research Study Efficiency – How are we Doing and What Can we do to Improve? (T14)
Workplace Management Tame the Email Beast (T15)
Medical Affairs Educating the Educated: Retaining Your Medical Field Force (T16)
6:00 – 7.00 Welcome Reception & Trade Exhibition
7:00 – 11:00 Conference Gala Dinner

Day 2 – Friday 27 May 2011

7:30 – 9:00 Registration, Welcome Coffee & Trade Exhibition
9:00 – 10:30 Clinical Research Can’t See the Forest for the Trees? Site Monitoring with an Auditor’s Eye (F1)
Workplace Management Communication styles – “What colour marble are you?” (F2)
Cross Functional The Best Protocol Ever Written – Working Cross Functionally for a Perfect Protocol (F3)
Medical Affairs Section 6.6 MA Code of Conduct – Understanding your Obligations (F4)
Clinical Research Sponsor-Site-CRO Relationships: Fulfilling Three-Way Liaisons (F5)
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea & Trade Exhibition
11:00 – 12:30 F1 – F5 continued
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch & Trade Exhibition + Medical Affairs and Medical Information Interest Area Meetings
1:30 – 3:00 Clinical Research Clinical Development for Medical Devices – Workshop and Training (F6)
Workplace Management Learning and Working Virtually (F7)
Medical Affairs Current Trends in Rheumatology – Update on Therapy Options and Research
(F8)
Medical Affairs Investigator Initiated Studies (IIS) – A Multi Stakeholder Prospective (F9)
Clinical Research An Update on Progress in Streamlining Ethical Approval in Australia (F10)
3:00 – 3:30 Afternoon Tea & Trade Exhibition
3:30 – 5:00 Express Learning Interactive Session (F11)
3:30 – 5:00 Clinical Trial Action Group Report – Overview and Implementation
5:00 – 6:00 Wine Tasting and Congress Close

DISCLAIMER: Some speakers and topics will be changed as it is finalised. ARCS Australia reserves the right to change the program and contents as necessary.

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