Designing with Sites First: Reducing Trial Burden Through Early Collaboration

Session details:

Many of the operational challenges sites face during study startup and execution originate in early design decisions—long before a trial opens. This session focuses on how sponsors, CROs, and sites can partner earlier in the protocol development process to identify preventable sources of site burden, challenge unnecessary complexity, and ensure site perspectives meaningfully inform trial design decisions.

The discussion will focus on how site input is gathered, translated, and operationalized upstream, as well as the partnership models needed to put site-centricity into practice—not just in principle, but in trial design itself.