CRAACO: Clinical Research as a Care Option Agenda 2026 Page

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2025 Agenda: Monday, September 15, 2025

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Showing Events in 1 Track from 08:00am to 08:40am

Registration and Conference Welcome

Christina M. Brennan, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President, Clinical Research, Northwell Health

Adam Kinsey, Associate VP, Clinical Operations, Regional Head North America, Merck

Showing Events in 1 Track from 08:40am to 09:00am

Morning General Session

8:40AM - 9:00AM

Clinical Research as a Care Option: The Journey, Progress and Next Steps

Speaker:

Christina M. Brennan, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President, Clinical Research, Northwell Health

Showing Events in 1 Track from 09:00am to 09:25am

Keynote

9:00AM - 9:25AM

Keynote: How to Develop a Clinical Research Program within a Community Cancer Center

Speaker:

Brian Slomovitz, MD, Director of Gynecologic Oncology, Mount Sinai Medical Center Miami Beach

Showing Events in 1 Track from 09:25am to 10:30am

Morning General Session Continued

9:25AM - 9:40AM

Expanding Access and Accelerating Cancer Drug Development through Community-Based Oncology Research

Speaker:

Nick Slack, MBE, Chairman and CEO, The START Center for Cancer Research

9:40AM - 10:00AM

How Duke Regional Hospital Built their Clinical Research Infrastructure

Speaker:

Emily Ray Ko, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Duke Department of Medicine Hospitalist Medicine, Duke Regional Hospital

10:00AM - 10:10AM

What Health Systems Need to Do to Make Trials More Productive and Effective

Speaker:

Emily Ray Ko, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Duke Department of Medicine Hospitalist Medicine, Duke Regional Hospital

Moderated with:

Donna O'Brien, MHA, National Advisor, Manatt Health

10:10AM - 10:30AM

Orienting Clinical Trials Around Patient Care

Speakers:

Karen Knudsen, MBA, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

Kent Thoelke, CEO, Paradigm Health

Showing Events in 1 Track from 10:30am to 10:55am

Morning Break

10:30AM - 10:55AM

Morning Break

Showing Events in 1 Track from 11:00am to 11:30am

Keynote

11:00AM - 11:30AM

Keynote: Turning Clinical Environments into Learning Health Systems to Bridge the Gap Between Care and Research

Speaker:

Laura Esserman, MD, MBA, Professor of Surgery & Radiology/Director, University of California, San Francisco/UCSF Breast Care Center

Showing Events in 1 Track from 11:30am to 12:20pm

Morning General Session Continued

11:30AM - 12:05PM

How to Better Partner with Multiple Location Health System Structures for Clinical Trials

Moderator:

Adam Kinsey, Associate VP, Clinical Operations, Regional Head North America, Merck

Panelists:

Jennifer Byrne, Founder and CEO, Javara

Joe Lengfellner, Senior Director, CR Informatics and Technology, Clincial Research Administration, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Donna O'Brien, MHA, National Advisor, Manatt Health

Nancy Reilly, RN, MS, Executive Director, Rutgers Health - Clinical Trials Office

Michael Seiden, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, N-Power Medicine

12:05PM - 12:20PM

Supporting Clinical Trial Matching for Oncology Patients

Moderated by:

Joe Lengfellner, Sr. Director, Clinical Research Informatics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Speaker:

Sebastien Rhodes, VP, Strategy & Operations, Triomics

Showing Events in 1 Track from 12:20pm to 01:20pm

Lunch

12:20PM - 1:20PM

Lunch

Showing Events in 1 Track from 01:25pm to 03:00pm

Afternoon General Session

1:25PM - 2:10PM

Solutions to Engage Medical Staff and Support for Clinical Research

Moderator:

Jeff James, CEO, Wilmington Health System

Panelists:

Chad Adams, MPH, AVP, Chief Operations Officer, HonorHealth Research Institute

Quincy J. Byrdsong, EdD, CIP, CCRP, Vice President, Research Operations, Ballad Health

Adam Kinsey, Associate VP, Clinical Operations, Regional Head North America, Merck

Chris Komelasky, CEO, SiteBridge Research

Emily Ray Ko, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Duke Department of Medicine Hospitalist Medicine, Duke Regional Hospital

2:10PM - 2:30PM

Measuring the Value of Integrating Clinical Trials and Clinical Care

Speaker:

Jeff James, CEO, Wilmington Health System

2:30PM - 2:50PM

The Impact of Clinical Trial Participation on Cost and Performance in Cancer Centers

Speaker:

Maureen Canavan, PhD, Associate Research Scientist (General Medicine), Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research Center, Yale School of Medicine

2:50PM - 3:00PM

Spotlight: Creating Greater Research Access For Patients & Sites In Their Own Communities

Speaker:

Todd McGrath, Chief Operating Officer & General Manager, Home Trial Support, MRN

Showing Events in 1 Track from 03:00pm to 03:30pm

Afternoon Networking Break

3:00PM - 3:30PM

Afternoon Networking Break

Showing Events in 1 Track from 03:35pm to 05:30pm

Afternoon General Session Continued

3:35PM - 4:05PM

Matching Patients to Clinical Trials with AI and Scaling up eSource EHR Data Collection

Speaker:

Nadir Ammour, DDS, MBA, Global Lead, Clinical Innovation & External Partnerships, Sanofi

Colleen Purcell Tenan, MD, Vice President, Medical Director, Javara Research

4:05PM - 4:25PM

How to Embed Clinical Research in Rural and Frontier Health Systems

Speaker:

Elizabeth Johnson, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Data and Systems Science, Nursing Informatics, Montana State University

4:25PM - 4:45PM

Leveraging Local HCPs to Decentralize Clinical Research in North Carolina

Speaker:

J. Kaitlin Morrison, PhD, Assistant Professor, Hematology, Executive Director, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Clinical Research, UNC-Chapel Hill

4:45PM - 5:05PM

Creating the Data Infrastructure that Enables the Integration of Care and Research

Speaker:

Ali Abbasi, MD, MPhil, MSci, Surgery Resident, University of California, San Francisco

5:05PM - 5:30PM

CRAACO Actions

Speakers:

Christina M. Brennan, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President, Clinical Research, Northwell Health

Adam Kinsey, Associate VP, Clinical Operations, Regional Head North America, Merck

Showing Events in 1 Track from 05:30pm to 06:30pm

Evening Reception

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Evening Reception

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