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ANZMUSC Clinical Trials Network Summit
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
8:00am - 9:00am
Registration, tea and coffee
Foyer
9:00 – 10:30am
Welcome and introductions
Lecture
theatre
Why do we need ANZMUSC?
Chair and Official Opening: Professor Rachelle
Buchbinder (5 min)
Director, Monash Dept Clinical Epidemiology Cabrini Institute and
Monash University
Mr Tony Kingdon (15 min)
Acting CEO, NHMRC
The NHMRC Perspective on Clinical Trial Networks
Professor Alan Silman (15 min)
Professor of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Oxford and
former Medical Director Arthritis Research UK
Lecture
theatre
ANZMUSC Clinical Trial Network: The value proposition
Professor John Zalcberg (15 min)
Chair, Australian Clinical Trials Alliance
Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials Networks: The
quality agenda
Professor Rachelle Buchbinder (15 min)
Director, Monash Dept Clinical Epidemiology Cabrini Institute and
Monash University
The problem: Burden of musculoskeletal disease and
current state of MSK trials
Dr Sam Whittle (15 min)
Consultant rheumatologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Results of the ANZMUSC Survey
Discussion (10 min)
10:30 – 11:00am
Morning Tea
Foyer
11:00 – 12:35pm
Clinical trial network models
Chair: Professor Ian Harris
Lecture
theatre
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, UNSW
Professor Alan Silman (20 min)
Professor of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Oxford and
former Medical Director Arthritis Research UK
Bottom up versus top down models
Professor John Zalcberg (20 min)
Chair, Australian Clinical Trials Alliance
Different models and their governance
Clinical Associate Professor Craig French (20 min)
Vice Chair, Australian & New Zealand Intensive Care Society
Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS)
ANZICS: Set up, funding, priorities, successes and
challenges
Ms Rhiannon Tate (20 min)
Executive Officer, Australian Clinical Trials Alliance
How do other Australasian trials networks do it?
Results of the ACTA Survey
Discussion (15 minutes)
12.35– 12.45pm
Professor Jane Latimer (10 min)
Principal Research Fellow, Musculoskeletal Division, The George
Institute for Global Health
Instructions for Breakout Session 1
12.45 – 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30 to 2:45pm
Breakout Session 1: ANZMUSC: Vision, Mission
and Scope, Values and Structure
2:45 - 3:30pm
Breakout Session 1: Report back and Discussion
Facilitators: Professors Alan Silman, John Zalcberg
Foyer
Breakout
rooms
Lecture
theatre
3:30 – 4:00pm
Afternoon Tea
Foyer
4:00 – 5:00pm
Consumers and policy makers
Lecture
theatre
Chair: Professor Chris Maher
Head Musculoskeletal Division, The George Institute for Global
Health
Ms Ainslie Cahill (15 min)
Chief Executive Officer, Arthritis Australia
How can consumers contribute?
Associate Professor Alex Collie (15 min)
Chief Executive Officer, ISCRR, Institute for Safety, Compensation
and Recovery Research
How do you build relationships with policy makers?
Ms Amanda Mulcahy (15 min)
Senior Program Officer, Implementation Support, Australian
Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Variations in care and opportunities for clinical trials to
address them
Discussion (10 min)
Sum up of the day
Professor Ian Harris (5 min)
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, UNSW
7:00 – 10:00pm
Summit Dinner
The Essoign
Club: 205
William
Street,
Melbourne
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
9:00– 9:45am
Embedding research in clinical care
Chair: Professor Chris Maher
Lecture
theatre
Associate Professor Meredith Temple-Smith (20 min)
Academic Lead, Australian Primary Care Research Network
(APCReN)
Getting clinicians ‘research ready’
Ms Linda Martin (15 min)
CEO Arthritis Victoria
Getting consumers ‘research ready’
Discussion (10 min)
9:45 – 10:30am
Getting funded
Professor Alan Silman (15 min)
What would it take to establish ANZMUSC?
Lecture
theatre
Professor John Zalcberg (15 min)
Chair, Australian Clinical Trials Alliance
Funding clinical trial networks in Australia and New
Zealand
Discussion (15 min)
10:30– 11:00am
Morning Tea
Foyer
11:00 – 12:00pm
ANZCA, AGITG, PREDICT and UK Experience
Lecture
theatre
Chair: Professor Lisa Stamp
Rheumatologist and Professor of Medicine, University of Otago,
Christchurch, New Zealand
Professor John Zalcberg (15 min)
Chair, Australian Clinical Trials Alliance
AGITG: Set up, funding, priorities, successes and
challenges
Professor Paul Myles (15 min)
Founding member, Australian and New Zealand College of
Anaesthetists (ANZCA) Trials Group
ANZCA: Set up, funding, priorities, successes and
challenges
Associate Professor Ed Oakley (15min)
PREDICT: Set up, funding, priorities, successes and
challenges
Professor Alan Silman (15 min)
Director, UK Arthritis
The UK experience: Set up, priorities, challenges and
outcomes
12.00 – 12:30pm
Getting started
Professor Alan Silman (15 min)
Lecture
Theatre
Director, UK Arthritis
Planning the next steps
Professor Ian Harris (10 min)
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, UNSW
Instructions for Breakout Session 2
12:30 – 1:15pm
Lunch
1:15 – 2:30pm
Break out Session 2: Initial goals and how can
they be achieved?
Break out Session 2: Report back and discussion
Foyer
6 Breakout
rooms
Facilitators: Professors Alan Silman, John Zalcberg
Lecture
theatre
3:30 – 4:00pm
Afternoon Tea
Foyer
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Summary and next steps
Lecture
theatre
2:30 – 3:30pm
Facilitators: Professors John Zalcberg, Alan Silman
Final summation, key points and next steps
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