The Endpoint Podcast: A Clinical Trial Podcast

Vatche Bartekian joins Liam on this week’s podcast episode. Vatche is the Founder and President at Vantage BioTrials. Vantage BioTrials is a Canadian CRO that delivers clinical trial management services to clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device sectors. Prior to this Vatche worked with groups such as Pfizer, Covance and PPD. In todays session we discuss about the concept of quality by design, how AI could support research and much more.

Vincent Cafiso joins Liam on this week’s podcast episode. Vin is the founder and Managing Consultant at Practical Compliance Results. It’s here that Vin helps medical device and IVD companies be ready for FDA inspection. In this session, we discuss a wide range of topics relating to compliance, quality assurance and quality systems. We discuss the principles of regulation and how companies can prepare for inspections and audits and much more.

Scott Whitt joins Liam on this week’s podcast episode. Scott is the President and General Manager of Triad Clinical Trials, a premier research clinic located in Greensboro, North Carolina that serves the Triad region. In this session, we discuss topics including Scott's journey from consulting for firms such as IQVIA, Deloitte, and United Health to buying a clinical research site. We explore the dynamic and kinetic world of research. We dive into how he and his team tripled Triad’s performance, discuss some misalignments with site and sponsor, and much more.

Tiffany Ashton joins Liam on this week’s podcast episode. Tiffany is the Director of Operations at ClinEssentials. ClinEssentials provides training and tools for Clinical Research Associates (CRA), Clinical Trial Managers (CTMs), and more. In this session, we explore a range of topics including Tiffany’s journey into clinical trials, some of the problems in clinical trials as a CTA and CTM, how you can solve them, considerations for Biotech and Pharma when operationalising their study, and much more

Dan Sfera joins Liam on this week’s podcast episode. Dan is Co-Founder of Yuma Clinical Trials. Yuma conduct multi-therapeutic clinical trials and align with clinicians and specialists to bring study opportunities to the underserved Southwestern Arizona region. Dan is also the Co-Founder of CRA Academy, and owner of The Clinical Trial Guru, where he shares his knowledge of clinical trials. In this session we explore a range of topics including, Dan’s journey into clinical trials, some of the problems of running a research centre and how he solves them and much more. 

Stacy Hurt joins Liam on this week’s podcast episode. Stacy is the Chef Patient Officer (CPO) at Parexel. It’s one of the largest clinical research organizations (CROs) and provides the full range of Phase I to IV clinical development services to help life-saving treatments reach patients faster. In this session we explore a range of topics including, Stacy’s inspiring journey from caring for her son and battling cancer to becoming a patient advocate, along with other topics such as how in her new role as CPO she is leading the charge on helps Sponsors be more patient centric and much more.