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Drug development and early phase trials

Date & time: 27th June 2024, 1:00-2:00pm

Speaker: Dr Debra Josephs (Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust)

Chair:  Hannah Rush (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

Suitable audience: General

Video length: 45:37

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Slides: RLL Drug development and early phase trials, Dr Debra Josephs.pdf

Experiences in UK-US Fulbright Programme

Date & time: 17 June 2024, 11:00am

Speaker: Professor Charlotte Summers (University of Cambridge)

Chair: Dr Kiran Reddy (Queen's University Belfast) 

Suitable audience: General

Video length: 33:29

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Design of non-inferiority trials

Date & time: 23rd May 2024, 1:00-2:00pm

Speaker: Matt Nankivell (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

Chair: Hannah Rush (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

Suitable audience: General

Video length: 46:50

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Health Economics in Clinical Trials

Date & time: 25th April 2024, 1:00-2:00pm

Speaker: Dr Caroline Clarke (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

Chair: Matt Nankivell (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)  

Suitable audience: General

Video length: 56:51

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Principal Investigator Pipeline Programme (PIPP) for Research Nurses and Research Midwives

Date & time: 21st March 2024, 2:00-3:00pm 

Speaker: Sharon Dorgan (NIHR Clinical Research Network)

Chair: Dr Kiran Reddy (Queen's University Belfast) 

Suitable audience: Research Nurses & Midwives

Video length: 35:00

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How to do a systematic review and why they are useful

Date & time: 14th March 2024, 1:00-2:00pm

Speaker: Dr Claire Vale (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

Chair: Matt Nankivell (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

Suitable audience: General

Video length: 58:46

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Lessons learned from REMAP-CAP

Date & time: 5th March 2024, 2:00-3:00pm

Speaker: Prof. Tony Gordon (Imperial College London)

Chair: Dr Kiran Reddy / Dr Bronwen Connolly (Queen's University Belfast)

Suitable audience: General

Video length:  56:27

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How to be a good Principal Investigator

Date & time: 15th February 2024, 1:00-2:00pm 

Speaker: Dr Duncan Gilbert (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

Chair: Hannah Rush (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL) 

Suitable audience: General

Video length:  57:05

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Adaptive Trial Designs

Date & time: 6th February 2024, 2:00-3:00pm

Speaker: Professor Victoria Cornelius (Imperial)

Chairs: Dr Kiran Reddy / Dr Bronwen Connolly (Queen's University Belfast)

Suitable audience: General

Video length:  42:14

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Recruitment challenges and how to overcome them

Date & time: 25th January 2024, 12:00-1:00pm

Speaker panel: Prof Ruth Langley, Prof Jane Blazeby & Prof Cliona Kirwan

Chairs: Matt Nankivell and Prof Ruth Langley (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL) 

Suitable audience: General

Video length:  51:23

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Pathways to PI/CI as an academic physiotherapist

Date & time: 9th January 2024, 2:00-3:00pm

Speaker: Dr Bronwen Connolly (Queen's University Belfast)

Chair: Dr Kiran Reddy (Queen's University Belfast)

Suitable audience: General

Video length:  58:57

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What happens next when you need to stop a drug or trial enrolment?

Date & time: 7th December 2023, 1:00-2:00pm

Speakers: Professor Sheena McCormack, Dr Annabelle South, Dr Claire Amos (MRC CTU at University College London)

Chair: Hannah Rush (MRC CTU at University College London)

Suitable audience: General

Video length:  53:14

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Airway clearance

Date & time: 7th November 2023, 9:00-10:00am

Speaker: Dr George Ntoumenopoulis (St Vincent’s, Sydney)

Chair: Dr Bronwen Connolly (Queen's University Belfast)

Suitable audience: Critical care

Video length:  1:08:56

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Novel Designs for Randomised Phase III Trials

Date & time: 26th October 2023, 1:00-2:00pm

Speaker: Prof Max Parmar (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

Chair: Sophie Merrick (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

Suitable audience: General

Please note due to technical issues with the webinar recording the speaker requested that a previous version of their talk was provided on our website. Presentation slides are not available.

Video length: 1:00:15

Latent class analysis and cluster analysis

Date & time:  3rd October 2023, 7:00-8:00pm BST (Evening)

Speaker: Prof Kevin Delucchi (University of California, San Francisco)

Chair: Dr Kiran Reddy / Dr Bronwen Connolly (Queen's University Belfast)

Suitable audience: General

Video length:  1:01:54

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Understanding statistics: survival analysis

Date & time:  28th September 2023, 1:00-2:00pm

Speaker: Dr Matt Nankivell (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

Chair: Sophie Merrick (MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

Suitable audience: General

Video length:  55:21

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Qualitative methods in healthcare research, Core outcome sets in critical care

Date & time: 5th September 2023, 2:00-3:00pm BST

Speaker: Prof Bronagh Blackwood (Queen's University Belfast)

Chair:  Dr Kiran Reddy / Dr Bronwen Connolly (Queen's University Belfast)

Suitable audience:  Critical Care/General

Video length:  55:56

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The new definition of ARDS and global implication for trials

Date & time: 8th August 2023, 7:00-8:00pm BST (evening)

Speaker: Prof Michael Matthay (University of California, San Francisco)

Chair:  Dr Kiran Reddy (Queen's University Belfast)

Suitable audience:  Critical Care/General 

Video length:  56:52

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How to be a good Principal Investigator

Date & time: 13th July 2023, 1:00-2:00pm

Speaker: Duncan Gilbert Consultation Clinical Oncologist and Senior Lecturer in Cancer and Clinical Trials at MRC CTU at UCL

Chair:  Sophie Merrick (MRC CTU at UCL)

Suitable audience:  General 

Video length:  57:41

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Delivering trials during the COVID-19 pandemic

Date & time: 4th July 2023, 2:00-3:00pm

Speaker: Dr Tamas Szakmany (Cardiff University)

Chairs: Dr Kiran Reddy / Dr Bronwen Connolly (Queen's University Belfast)

Suitable audience: Critical care / general 

Video length: 54:43

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Patient and Public Involvement in Clinical Trials – what and why?

Date & time: 29th June 2023, 1:00-2:00pm

Speakers: Ben Cromarty (Patient rep) & Kate Sturgeon (Senior Research nurse & Patient and Public Involvement Coordinator, MRC CTU at UCL)

Chair: Sophie Merrick (MRC CTU at UCL)

Suitable audience: General

Video length: 46:57

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Innate immunity in critical care

Date & time: 6th June 2023, 2:00-3:00pm

Speaker: Dr Tony Rostron (Newcastle University)

Chair: Dr Bronwen Connolly, Queen’s University Belfast

Suitable audience: Critical care

Video length: 40:23

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Understanding statistics: sample size calculations

Date & time: 25th May 2023, 1:00-2:00pm

Speaker: Dr Matt Nankivell (MRC CTU at University College London)

Chair:  Sophie Merrick (MRC CTU at UCL)

Suitable audience: General (open to all)

Video length: 55:31

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Research in Time Critical Emergencies

Date: 9th May 2023

Speaker: Prof Gavin Perkins (Warwick University)

Chair: Dr Kiran Reddy and Dr Bronwen Connolly

Suitable audience: Critical Care/General

Video length: 1:01:20

Delivering complex, innovative design clinical trials using a biomarker-guided approach

Date: 2nd May 2023

Speaker: Dr Nurulamin Noor, Research fellow and PI for PROFILE trial 

Chair: Dr Kiran Reddy 

Suitable audience: Gastroenterology 

Video length: 54:44

How to design a trial including novel trial designs and non-inferiority trials

Date: 20th April 2023

Speaker: Matt Nankivell, Senior Statistician at MRC CTU (UCL)

Chair: Dr Hannah Rush

Suitable audience: General (open to all)

Video length: 1:01:02

Considerations from early career to successful female clinical academic 

Date: 4th April 2023

Speaker: Professor Cecilia O’Kane, Queen's University Belfast (QUB) 

Chair: Dr Kiran Reddy and Dr Bronwen Connolly

Suitable audience: General (open to all)

Video length: 1:02:42

How to report serious adverse events

Date: 30th March 2023

Speaker: Hannah Rush, Medical Oncology Registrar and Clinical Research Fellow at MRC CTU at University College London.

Chair: Matt Nankivell, MRC CTU at University College London

Suitable audience: General (open to all)

Video length: 36:42

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ARDS subphenotypes 

Date: 28th March 2023

Speaker: Professor Carolyn Calfee, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) 

Chair: Dr Kiran Reddy 

Suitable audience: Critical Care

Video length: 59:39

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CTIMP study regulations

Date: 7th February 2023

Speakers:  Mr Jason Wakelin-Smith and Dr Krishna Prasad (MHRA) 

Chair: Dr Bronwen Connolly

Suitable audience: General (open to all)

Video length: 44:43

Introduction to medical statistics / cluster randomised trials

Date: 10th January 2023

Speaker: Prof Ranjit Lall (Warwick University)

Chairs: Dr Kiran Reddy and Dr Bronwen Connolly

Video length: 48:19

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Why do we need large randomised trials?

Date: 8th December 2022

Speaker: Prof Mike Clarke (QUB)

Chairs: Dr Kiran Reddy and Dr Bronwen Connolly

Trial design and leadership

Date:  8th November 2022

Speakers:  Prof Danny McAuley (QUB)

Chairs: Dr Kiran Reddy and Dr Bronwen Connolly (QUB)

Video length: 45:17

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My experience as an Associate PI Trainee

Date: 11th October 2022

Speakers:  Dr Syamlan Ali

Chairs: Dr Kiran Reddy and Dr Bronwen Connolly

Video length: 42:48

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Welcome to MARCH/PHIND studies & the Associate PI Scheme

Learning  Resources for Early Career Researchers

Date: 13th September 2022

Speakers:  Dr Kiran Reddy & Dr Bronwen Connolly (QUB)

Video length: 53:30

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