Jesse Padilla, Founder and CEOValiance Clinical Research (VCR) is maximizing the reach of clinical trials to potential subjects near and far while fast-tracking clinical trials.
An interdisciplinary clinical research center, VCR’s key to accelerating clinical trial recruitment lies in its partnerships with multiple physicians, private practices, urgent care facilities, and hospitals, which give it fast and easy access to potential trial participants.
“We firmly believe that everyone, particularly underserved communities, should be aware of the benefits of clinical research,” says Jesse Padilla, founder and CEO of Valiance Clinical Research.
Accelerating Clinical Studies for Diverse Communities
In essence, VCR elevates the spectrum of clinical trials by expediting the patient recruitment process to help sponsors efficiently collect data. Before recruitment, its team of trained and dedicated recruiters reviews a patient’s electronic medical records or electronic health records to pre-screen their eligibility. This ensures sponsors can meet their recruitment deadlines and goals.
VCR believes a team performs best when it is equipped with the necessary resources to better conduct trials. If necessary, it enlists additional staff to provide backup for trial elements like recruitment, data entry, and regulatory departments.
Best illustrating VCR’s ability to accelerate clinical trials is an instance where it enabled the timely completion of a large-scale trial for a notable sponsor. It employed additional personnel to help with patient recruitment, which increased screening and randomization activities. VCR contracted data entry personne who entered, scrubbed, and readied the surplus data for a database lock. Resultantly, the sponsors met the projected recruitment goal well within the timeframe.
In another instance of an ongoing trial, VCR noticed that subjects faced issues using devices in the study. It promptly provided at-home support services to better assist them in the proper use of these devices. Leading to higher compliance and enrolment, VCR’s quick action resulted in the study completing registration ahead of the projected timeline.
VCR frequently attends and sponsors health fairs and social events to educate diverse and underrepresented communities about the benefits of clinical research. It participates in community events to raise awareness and drive participation for clinical trials. In addition, interested subjects lacking transportation facilities can avail its free shuttle services.
Its efforts to diversify participant groups for clinical research are coming to fruition, as evidenced by a successful health fair held recently in the heart of a highly inclusive and underserved community. It recruited and documented numerous participants and sponsors for the clinical site while helping patients receive the care they otherwise did not have the resources to obtain. In doing so, VCR is pushing the clinical trial management space to move toward patient-centric enrollment.
Clients choose VCR as their sole site for trials or seek its contribution in multisite studies due to its well-equipped sites and ability to tackle every phase of a clinical trial. Its sites comply with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines and are always prepared for inspections and clinical trials.
The sites include basic facilities like low-temperature and ultra-low-temperature freezers, refrigerated centrifuges, and minimum and maximum thermometers.
We firmly believe that everyone, particularly underserved communities, should be aware of the benefits of clinical research
When partaking in multisite studies, VCR quickly identifies protocol writing issues and recruitment obstacles. This information gives sponsors a better understanding of the challenges other sites may face. They can then amend the protocols to minimize these challenges and eliminate other obstacles.
VCR works closely with clients, from protocol development to regulatory submission, to deliver the desired results on time. It reviews a client’s proposed protocol and advises them on possible issues like feasibility and inclusion or exclusion criteria that might make it difficult to conduct a project.
A notable example is when VCR’s expertise assisted a device company. They needed to shape their protocol for a device they were manufacturing that improved the transportation of bedbound patients. VCR offered the client insights from previous studies it had participated in. It also provided pointers and operational values that helped them establish an initial protocol to send as a pre-submission to the FDA.
To avoid any unresolved problems, VCR frequently communicates with its clinical research associates, pharmaceutical companies, vendors, and other points of contact associated with the trial. This accelerates data entry and other data-related processes that require clarification.
VCR regularly interacts with study partners to share experiences and challenges and gain new insights. A dedication to raising awareness in diverse communities and various multidisciplinary capabilities that support clients in meeting their recruitment goals make VCR a valuable partner in the clinical trial space.
