About the Event

Our monthly series is an opportunity for representatives from across the MTP sector to connect, collaborate and learn about upcoming opportunities, and hear the stories and successes of WA organisations developing health and medical innovations. Join us over light refreshments each month at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research.

This month’s event will feature insights from Professor Steve Webb’s extensive clinical trial expertise and delve into how the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance can support your clinical trials with expert guidance and access to clinical trial networks. If you’re developing a novel medical product (drug or device) that requires clinical adoption, this discussion is for you.

Details

Tuesday 28 March 2023, from 7:30-9:00 am AWST

Ground Floor Auditorium at Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, 6 Verdun Street Nedlands.

Agenda

7:30am Informal networking (COVID restrictions permitting) at ground floor of the Perkins Institute with light breakfast

8:00am Guided fireside chat

9:00am Event close

This month's theme is Australia’s clinical trial landscape featuring Professor Steve Webb, Founding Director and Chair of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance.

About the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA)

ACTA is the national peak body supporting and representing networks of clinician-researchers conducting investigator-initiated clinical trials, maintaining clinical quality registries, and operating clinical trial coordinating centres within the Australian healthcare system.

The ACTA mission is to promote effective and cost-effective healthcare in Australia through investigator-initiated clinical trials and clinical quality registries that generate evidence to support decisions made by health practitioners, policymakers, and consumers.

About our speaker – Professor Steve Webb

Professor Steve Webb is a triallist with over $60 million in research funding and has been the Chief Investigator on multiple NHMRC Project Grants and two Centre for Research Excellence grants.

Professor Webb is a founding member and current Chair of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA). He has also chaired the Human Research Ethics Committee at the University of Western Australia for over a decade and is a Vice-Chair of the International Forum of Acute Care Trialists, which brings together the world's ICU-based investigator-led clinical trials networks. Additionally, he is a member of the Executive and Chair of one of four Working Groups of the International Severe Acute Respiratory Illness Consortium, which aims to provide a coordinated global clinical research response to emerging infectious diseases, including future pandemics.

Professor Webb is a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at Royal Perth Hospital, a Clinical Professor in the School of Medicine and Pharmacology and the School of Population Health at the University of Western Australia, and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, at Monash University.

For any questions, please contact Rebekah Craggs at rebekah.craggs@mtpconnect.org.au

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