Released on: June 18, 2008, 10:57 am

Press Release Author: GTC Bio

Industry: Biotech

Press Release Summary: Cosimo Spera from Decision View Company will be speaking at
GTCbio's Global Clinical Trial Operations conference on September 25-26, 2008 in San
Diego, CA. Dr. Spera will give a presentation entitled "Marrying Complex
Mathematical Models with Highly Usable Software Solutions to Improve Trial
Enrollment Performance".

Press Release Body: Improving clinical trial enrollment performance requires an
improvement in trial planning, tracking, and modeling, driven by powerful and
complex mathematical models. At the same time, Clinical Trial Managers need IT
solutions that mask this complexity from their users.
To model patient enrollment in clinical trials, Dr. Spera will describe a stochastic
framework, discuss the algorithms needed to address patient enrollment, and present
some computational results. This stochastic framework must be delivered in the
context of automating the overall clinical trial enrollment business process. The
model is an evolution from the Cox stochastic process framework as defined and
proposed by Anisimov and Federov1, 2 into which two new elements have been
introduced to address the practical concerns of Clinical Trial Managers. Dr. Spera
will illustrate how this model works within the StudyOptimizer application from
DecisionView, highlighting the strategic benefits, which include ease of use to
create an optimized plan for clinical trial enrollment utilizing the stochastic
framework, capability to track progress of trial enrollment and the ability to share
plan, model corrections, and take appropriate actions using a collaborative
architecture. Dr. Spera will conclude by illustrating how Decision View Company's
computational results are linked to economic metrics and drive competitive
advantage.

The Global Clinical Trial Operations conference brings together leaders, directors,
vice presidents, heads, managers, supervisors, and CROs from all over the world to
collaborate and discuss the latest developments in clinical trial operations and
logistics and covers clinical trials in emerging markets, first-in-man clinical
trials, pediatric clinical trials, material storage, distribution, site selection,
patient recruitment and retention, technology in clinical trials and case studies of
running global clinical trials.

For more information including a detailed agenda, exhibitor opportunities and
registration information visit http://gtcbio.com/conferenceDetails.aspx?id=127.

ABOUT GTCbio

GTCbio organizes conferences specifically for the biomedical and biopharmaceutical
industries. Our goal is to facilitate the exchange of biopharmaceutical and
biomedical intelligence between industry leaders, academic and government
organizations, and the financial community.
GTCbio is a subsidiary of Global Technology Community, LLC, a privately held company
founded in 2002.


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