Talks

Talks in the programme: 27

Validating a Wearable-Derived Endpoint

The verification, analytical validation and clinical validation steps behind a digital endpoint.

TN

Tomasz Nowak

Northwind Scientific Instruments

live-dayresearch-methods
Day 31:00 pm (45 min)Seminar Room 2.2

Lower Is Better? Revisiting LDL Targets After the Latest Outcome Trials

A review of this year’s lipid-lowering outcome data and the revised regional targets.

AO

Amara Okafor

Harbour City Hospital

live-dayclinical-practice
Day 31:05 pm (30 min)Hall B

Mapping Tissue-Resident Immunity at Single-Cell Resolution

What a national immune atlas has revealed about tissue-resident cells in health and disease.

MC

Mei Chen

Pacific Genomics Centre

live-daytranslational-medicine
Day 31:15 pm (45 min)Seminar Room 2.1

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in the Cardiology Clinic

Who to start, who to refer and how to monitor, from a clinic that has prescribed them for three years.

AO

Amara Okafor

Harbour City Hospital

live-dayclinical-practice
Day 31:35 pm (30 min)Hall B

Decentralised Trials: What Changed After the Pandemic

Which remote trial practices stayed, which were abandoned, and why.

RG

Rachel Goldberg

Independent

live-dayresearch-methods
Day 31:45 pm (45 min)Seminar Room 2.2

Paying for Precision: The Economics of Molecular Testing

Where molecular testing saves money, where it does not, and how payers decide which is which.

KM

Kwame Mensah

Meridian Life Sciences Society

live-daytranslational-medicine
Day 310:10 am (35 min)Hall B

Real-World Evidence From the Reviewer’s Chair

Common reasons real-world submissions fail review, and how to avoid them.

RG

Rachel Goldberg

Independent

live-dayresearch-methods
Day 310:15 am (45 min)Seminar Room 2.1

Pre-emptive Pharmacogenomic Testing Across Three Hospitals

Uptake, alerts fired and prescribing changes in the first two years of a pre-emptive panel.

LO

Liam O’Connell

Meridian Research Institute

live-daytranslational-medicine
Day 311:10 am (25 min)Seminar Room 2.2

Running a Platform Trial: Five Lessons From the First Three Arms

Operational and statistical lessons from adding and dropping arms in a running platform trial.

DR

Daniel Reyes

Southern Cross Clinical Trials Unit

live-dayresearch-methods
Day 311:30 am (30 min)Hall B

Decision Support That Prescribers Do Not Ignore

Designing genotype alerts that change prescribing rather than adding to alert fatigue.

LO

Liam O’Connell

Meridian Research Institute

live-daytranslational-medicine
Day 311:35 am (25 min)Seminar Room 2.2

Shorter Antibiotic Courses: The Evidence and the Pushback

Trial evidence for shorter courses in common infections, and how to bring prescribers with you.

FA

Fatima Al-Sayed

Gulf Children’s Hospital

live-dayclinical-practice
Day 311:40 am (30 min)Seminar Room 2.1

Is Pre-emptive Genotyping Worth It?

A cost-effectiveness model built from the programme’s own prescribing data.

KM

Kwame Mensah

Meridian Life Sciences Society

live-daytranslational-medicine
Day 312:00 pm (25 min)Seminar Room 2.2

What Regulators Look for in an Adaptive Design

Type I error control, pre-specification and the documentation that makes an adaptive design reviewable.

RG

Rachel Goldberg

Independent

live-dayresearch-methods
Day 312:00 pm (30 min)Hall B

Rapid Diagnostics as a Stewardship Tool

How faster pathogen identification changes empirical prescribing on the ward.

FA

Fatima Al-Sayed

Gulf Children’s Hospital

live-dayclinical-practice
Day 312:10 pm (30 min)Seminar Room 2.1

From Atlas to Target: Choosing What to Engineer

Using single-cell reference maps to select antigens for engineered cell therapies.

ER

Elena Rossi

Istituto di Medicina Traslazionale

live-daytranslational-medicine
Day 32:00 pm (45 min)Seminar Room 2.1

Nurse-Led Follow-Up After a Cardiac Event

Outcomes from a nurse-led secondary prevention programme across four regional hospitals.

SW

Sarah Whitfield

Coastal Health District

live-dayclinical-practice
Day 32:05 pm (30 min)Hall B

RSV and Influenza Surveillance in Children, 2023–2026

Regional surveillance data on timing, severity and the effect of new RSV immunisation.

FA

Fatima Al-Sayed

Gulf Children’s Hospital

live-dayclinical-practice
Day 33:05 pm (45 min)Seminar Room 2.2

Shortening Vein-to-Vein Time in CAR-T Manufacturing

Process changes that cut manufacturing time from three weeks to nine days without losing potency.

ER

Elena Rossi

Istituto di Medicina Traslazionale

live-daytranslational-medicine
Day 33:10 pm (45 min)Hall B

Judging the Credibility of a Subgroup Effect

A checklist for reading subgroup claims, applied to five recent trials.

DR

Daniel Reyes

Southern Cross Clinical Trials Unit

live-dayresearch-methods
Day 33:20 pm (45 min)Seminar Room 2.1

Planning Paediatric Surge Capacity

How a children’s hospital planned beds, staff and antimicrobials for a peak winter.

FA

Fatima Al-Sayed

Gulf Children’s Hospital

live-dayclinical-practice
Day 33:50 pm (45 min)Seminar Room 2.2

Outcomes-Based Agreements for One-Off Therapies

How instalment and outcomes-based payment models are being written for curative therapies.

KM

Kwame Mensah

Meridian Life Sciences Society

live-daytranslational-medicine
Day 33:55 pm (45 min)Hall B

Treatment Heterogeneity and Machine Learning: Promise and Caution

What causal machine-learning methods can add to subgroup analysis, and where they mislead.

TN

Tomasz Nowak

Northwind Scientific Instruments

live-dayresearch-methods
Day 34:05 pm (45 min)Seminar Room 2.1

Circulating Tumour DNA as a Guide to Adjuvant Therapy

What serial ctDNA testing adds after surgery, and where its negative predictive value is still too weak to withhold treatment.

PR

Priya Raman

Tasman University Medical School

live-daytranslational-medicine
Day 39:00 am (35 min)Hall B

Building a Nurse-Led Heart Failure Service

Readmission and quality-of-life outcomes from a nurse-led heart failure network.

SW

Sarah Whitfield

Coastal Health District

live-dayclinical-practice
Day 39:15 am (40 min)Seminar Room 2.2

From Registry to Label Extension: A Worked Example

The design choices behind a registry-linked study that supported a label extension.

HS

Hiroshi Sato

Kansai Clinical Outcomes Network

live-dayresearch-methods
Day 39:30 am (45 min)Seminar Room 2.1

Biomarker-Stratified Trials That Actually Answer the Question

Enrichment, stratification and adaptive designs compared against the questions clinicians bring to them.

DR

Daniel Reyes

Southern Cross Clinical Trials Unit

live-daytranslational-medicine
Day 39:35 am (35 min)Hall B

Telehealth Titration in Type 2 Diabetes

Remote insulin and GLP-1 titration delivered by nurse practitioners over twelve months.

SW

Sarah Whitfield

Coastal Health District

live-dayclinical-practice
Day 39:55 am (35 min)Seminar Room 2.2