• Nov 17, 2022
    12:00 PM - 07:00 PM EDT
    Antigen Testing Available
    Location: Addison West
    12:00 PM - 07:00 PM EDT
    Registration
    Location: Registration North
    05:00 PM - 05:30 PM EDT
    VIP Reception
    Everyone with a gold star on their badge is welcome!
    Location: Grand Assembly
    05:30 PM - 06:00 PM EDT
    New Participant & VIP Reception
    Everyone with a gold or blue star on their badge is welcome!
    Location: Grand Assembly
    06:00 PM - 07:00 PM EDT
    Official Welcome Reception
    All are welcome!
    Location: Grand Assembly
    07:00 PM - 08:30 PM EDT
    Hosted Reception: Syneos
    All are welcome!
    Location: Cathedral Room
    08:30 PM - 10:00 PM EDT
    Premier Research Reception
    All are welcome!
    Location: Amalfi Yacht Club
  • Nov 18, 2022
    07:00 AM - 07:45 AM EDT
    Breakfast
    Location: Grand Assembly
    07:00 AM - 05:00 PM EDT
    Antigen Testing Available
    Location: Grand Salon A
    08:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
    Keynote Sessions
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Amy Abernethy, Verily; Vlad Coric, Biohaven; Michelle Keefe, Syneos Health; Najat Khan, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson; Candace Saldarini, Otsuka; Reed Tuckson, Tuckson Health Connections, LLC; Brent Vaughan, Cognito Therapeutics

    10:45 AM - 10:55 AM EDT
    Innovation Showcase: Flatiron Health
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Hugh Levaux, Flatiron Health

    10:55 AM - 11:05 AM EDT
    Innovation Showcase: VersaTrial
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Mike Wenger, VersaTrial

    11:05 AM - 11:15 AM EDT
    Innovation Showcase: Cumulus Neuroscience
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Aman Bhatti, Cumulus Neuroscience

    11:15 AM - 11:25 AM EDT
    Innovation Showcase: ALCEDIAG
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Marianne Morini, ALCEDIAG

    11:25 AM - 11:35 AM EDT
    Innovation Showcase: Pluto Health
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Joy Bhosai MD MPH, Pluto Health

    12:00 PM EDT
    Boxed Lunches
    Please pick up your boxed lunch and proceed to your breakout room.
    Location: Grand Assembly
    12:00 PM - 12:15 PM EDT
    New Solutions: Empatica
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Marisa Cruz, Empatica

    12:00 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: AI at the Point of Care - Faster Trials, Expanded Market Access
    AI is a leapfrog technology in the field of healthcare that is already improving how we detect, monitor and treat diseases, from stroke to heart disease, at the point of care in thousands of hospitals. Now AI-powered care coordination is increasingly being used in the clinical trials to identify eligible and more diverse candidates, connect and research teams, and speed up enrollment. Post-launch, AI-powered care coordination is expanding market access by detecting disease in more patients and connecting the right patients to the right providers.   



    Join this session as a panel of experts discusses use cases and benefits as well as potential pitfalls of using AI at the point of care throughout clinical development and commercialization.

    Location: Addison East

    Speaker(s): Wendy Elliott, Marcus Neuroscience Institute, Baptist South; Ryan Kennedy, Oracle; Chris Mansi, Viz.ai; Meri Scott, Eli Lilly and Company; Mason Tenaglia, BioReinsurance Group

    12:00 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Connecting People, Data, and Technology to Make a Substantial, Lasting, and Measurable Impact on Patient and Site Burden
    The pharma industry’s increasing focus on alleviating patient and site burden in clinical trials stems from the effect complexity, hence burden, has on study success. But it’s a hard goal to achieve – for a single study, let alone at scale across an entire portfolio of trials. Stakeholders from different facets of the clinical trial industry – patient, site, sponsor, and data/tech/service providers – will come together to discuss what patient and site burden means to them; how it is addressed in clinical trial planning and execution today; what meaningful improvement looks like and what is required to achieve this; and how we can connect people, data, and technology to make significant, sustainable improvements for all.
    Location: Estate II

    Speaker(s): Lauren Briggs, Citeline (formerly Informa Pharma Intelligence); Christina Fawcett, GSK; Felicia Irvin, Centricity Research; Joseph Kim, ProofPilot; Ted Trafford, Probity Medical Research

    12:00 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Innovation in At-Home Specimen Collection
    Given the rise of trials at-home, what are the smart ways emerging to ensure reliable specimens can be collected, tracked and analyzed?
    Location: Estate I

    Speaker(s): Erwin Berthier, Tasso Inc; Stacy Hurt, Independent; Craig Lipset, Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance; Joy Somogyi, ixlayer; Shawn Tedman, ixlayer

    12:00 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: The Next Evolution of Study Delivery: Shifting the Paradigm to Bringing Trials Into the Community
    The traditional dedicated clinical trial site approach has been the gold standard for a long time; however, there is a growing need to evolve how and where studies are conducted. Patients have become more mobile, more digitally enabled, and more discriminating about when to engage with clinical trials. At the same time, many are excluded from research. Delivery models for clinical trials have progressed, including a greater reliance on decentralized/hybrid trials (DCTs) and conducting studies in community settings, to improve the focus on patient access and to increase patient participation. The changing landscape allows for better patient optionality, giving them choices of where to participate: retail clinical site, home, virtual, or traditional site. This needed shift expands the clinical trial model to accelerate enrollment of diverse patient populations and embraces a faster and more effective study delivery. During this Signature Session, a panel of senior leaders will explore these innovations and how they lead to increased access, health equity, and engagement.
    Location: Grand Ballroom D

    Speaker(s): Najat Khan, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson; Michelle Longmire, Medable; Jamie Macdonald, Parexel; Kyu Rhee, CVS Health; Josh Rose, CVS Health

    12:00 PM - 01:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: A 360º View of Diversity in Clinical Trials
    Join Medidata and Circuit Clinical to learn more about the diversity of diversity in clinical research. We’ve got an all-star line-up of guests to speak to the value of data and benchmarking of diversity as well as site, patient, and sponsor perspectives. In this friendly and provoking session, Kelly and Dana will focus on improving access, awareness, and inclusion across the value chain. Adding to the talk show experience, top ten lists, thank you notes, and mean tweets will be shared. This is a can’t miss session of CNS!
    Location: Addison West

    Speaker(s): Aman Bhatti, Cumulus Neuroscience; Dana Edwards, Circuit Clinical; Christina Fawcett, GSK; Hassan Kadhim, Bristol Myers Squibb; Kelly McKee, Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company; Kemi Olugemo, Laronde; Daniel Perez, Worldwide Clinical Trials; Josh Rose, CVS Health; Del Smith, Acclinate; Alicia Staley, Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company; Christine Von Raesfeld, People With Empathy

    12:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
    Neuroscience Spotlight
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Scott Braunstein, Marinus Pharmaceuticals; Murali Doraiswamy, Duke University School of Medicine; Mike Egan, Merck & Co.; Joshua Gordon, National Institute of Mental Health; Terence Kelly, Perception Neuroscience; Harry Tracy, NI Research

    12:15 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
    New Solutions: Evernorth
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Ria Westergaard, Evernorth

    12:30 PM - 12:45 PM EDT
    New Solutions: Mural Health
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Samuel Whitaker, Mural Health

    12:45 PM - 01:00 PM EDT
    New Solutions: Datacubed
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Kyle Hogan, Datacubed Health; Natasha Massias, Datacubed Health

    01:00 PM - 01:15 PM EDT
    New Solutions: Pro-ficiency
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): David Hadden, Pro-ficiency

    01:00 PM - 01:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: A Prescription for Clinical Trials: Setting Up DCT for Long-Term Success
    Decentralized clinical trials (DCT) experienced a significant upsurge during the pandemic. The adoption of this important clinical trial system of capabilities is decelerating with the market partially returning to the ways of working before Pandemic-era restrictions necessitated widescale adoption of DCT techniques. There are several reasons for this slowdown, including the following:



    - And vs Or: Many experts, including those at Cognizant, posited from the beginning that in the long term, DCT would represent one suite of arrows in the full quiver of clinical capabilities, versus supplanting the entire academic center based system of clinical trials



    - Existing Infrastructure: Sponsors have made significant, multi-decades long investments in the traditional, pre-DCT systems, and this prior infrastructure represents an inertial mass that simply cannot be abandoned for the build phase of DCT



    - In the fullness of time: The pandemic was too short to produce DCT stickiness. Many DCT-based improvements, including the emergence of DCT platforms, have not had sufficient time in market to overcome risk perceptions related to capacity and robustness of solutions `



    Confident in the transformational impact of the DCT model, market-leading firms continue to invest in helping our industry reach an equilibrium where DCT constitutes 30-50% of overall studies. In this panel discussion, we will explore the following topics:



    Critical capabilities required in the DCT model

    - Lessons learned from the DCT experiments to date

    - DCT platform providers who are emerging as market leaders

    - What else must we do to bring about the promise of DCT?

    Location: Addison East

    Speaker(s): Bryan Hill, Cognizant; Avi Kulkarni, Cognizant; Craig Lipset, Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance; Sanskriti Thakur, Medable

    01:00 PM - 01:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Leverage AI Driven NLP to Optimise Real World Data, Accelerate Clinical Trials and Deliver Precision Medicine
    This session, led by Mark Messenbaugh (Advisor, Akrivia Health), sets out to discuss how real-world data can be leveraged for optimising clinical trials and precision neuroscience. Precision Neuroscience combines detailed clinical phenotyping, genomic sequencing, biobanking for ‘omics, and digital health to gain unique clinical and molecular insights into mental health and dementias. We will delve into how real-world data and evidence can support the development of drugs from target product profiles, clinical trial acceleration, and finally to provide the invaluable evidence needed for approval, to deliver these vital drugs to the caregivers and patients who need them most. *Join Akrivia Health, an Oxford-based company dedicated to the advancement of drug discovery and development for mental health and dementias, through real-world data, advanced AI driven NLP, and partnerships with mental health care providers to positively impact patient lives.
    Location: Estate II

    Speaker(s): Mark Messenbaugh, Akrivia Health; David Newton, Akrivia Health; Sian Ratcliffe, Biogen; Gayle Wittenberg, Janssen Research & Development

    01:00 PM - 01:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Making Digital Measures Fit-For-Purpose in Alzheimer’s Trials
    Digital tools offer novel insights into Alzheimer’s disease with the opportunity to measure, and by extension manage, what matters most to patients. However, to realise the benefits of digital measurement, understanding how to engage patients with these tools is key. Attendants to this session on Making digital measures fit-for-purpose in Alzheimer’s trials will learn:



    -Development and validation frameworks for digital measures in clinical trials

    -Feasibility and useability of digital measures with older adults

    -Principles and process recommendations for digital measures in Alzheimer’s trials

    Location: Estate I

    Speaker(s): Francesca Cormack, Cambridge Cognition; Aaron Koenig, Sage Therapeutics

    01:00 PM - 01:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Powering Digital Biomarkers with Integrated Analytics Platforms
    The evolution of digital health technologies and biomarkers in clinical trials will depend on ensuring the highest standards of data collection, transmission, security, quality, and analysis. Scalable clinical analytics platforms built within core engineering frameworks are the only way to ensure the integrity, repeatability, and value of data standards and insights. In this session, with groundbreaking NIH-funded neurology research and the WATCH-PD study as examples, we will lead an interactive discussion about how high-dimensional data sources--which allow patients to be monitored more precisely, objectively, and with higher frequency--and resulting development of digital biomarkers necessitate a new paradigm of engineering-forward analytics solutions.
    Location: Grand Ballroom D

    Speaker(s): David Anderson, PhD, Clinical ink; Matthew Rizzo, University of Nebraska Medical Center

    01:30 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
    New Solutions: PCM Trials
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Ellen Weiss, PCM Trials

    02:00 PM - 02:15 PM EDT
    New Solutions: ZS
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Emily Goldsher-Diamond, ZS Associates; April Lewis, ZS Associates

    02:00 PM - 02:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Digital Clinical Trials - Creating a Vision for the Future
    The shift to decentralized trials has highlighted the need for better data management and direct digital connections that link sponsors, sites, and patients. Success with patient-centered digital clinical trials also hinges on engaging patients in various ways and managing huge volumes—and new forms—of data. 



    Join us as we explore the industry-wide move toward end-to-end digital trials for a seamless flow of information across patients, sites, and sponsors to create a connected trial ecosystem. We’ll discuss the key challenges of decentralized trials, how the industry can advance toward a digital and connected future, and the critical need for a strong data foundation.

    Location: Estate II

    Speaker(s): Andrew Moniz, Syneos Health; Jim Reilly, Veeva Systems; Lauren Sunshine, Bristol Myers Squibb; Richard Young, Veeva Systems

    02:00 PM - 02:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Digital Phenotyping in Rare Disease: Using Real-world Data to Accelerate the Cycle from Research to Care
    Location: Estate I

    Speaker(s): Zeenia Framroze, Smart Omix by Sharecare; Franscesca Rinaldo, Smart Omix by Sharecare

    02:00 PM - 02:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Partnering to Accelerate Clinical Development with AI
    Clinical trials are becoming increasingly decentralized, customized, and built on precise predictions of clinical trial outcomes, which will lessen the resource burden on participants. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of this transformation by making clinical trials safer, more effective, and above all, patient-centric. Hear from a panel of industry leaders to discuss how pharma can partner with companies to implement innovative AI and how pharma is developing AI internally. The collective goal is to accelerate the clinical development process with AI, making trials significantly more efficient within an acceptable regulatory framework.
    Location: Grand Ballroom D

    Speaker(s): Bryan J. Hansen, Janssen Research & Development; Alex Morozov, Stealth; Luis Olmos, Unlearn.AI; Venkat Sethuraman, Bristol Myers Squibb

    02:00 PM - 02:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Psychedelics Forum
    Location: Addison East

    Speaker(s): Rolando Gutierrez-Esteinou, atai Life Sciences; Amir Inamdar, Cybin Corp.; Rishi Kakar, Segal Trials; Dan Karlin, MindMed

    02:00 PM - 02:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: The Next Chapter for Digital Therapeutics
    Location: Addison West

    Speaker(s): Edward Cox, Pfizer; Marty Culjat, EVERSANA; Melinda Decker, MAJ Global Consulting; Aaron Gani, BehaVR, Inc.

    02:15 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
    New Solutions: Clinical Research IO
    Location: Estate III
    02:30 PM - 02:45 PM EDT
    New Solutions: OM1
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Carl Marci, OM1, Inc.

    03:30 PM - 05:00 PM EDT
    One to One Networking
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom
    05:00 PM - 07:00 PM EDT
    Special Evening Event & Exhibits & Posters
    View the ICNS abstract supplement here. 
    Location: Grand E-J
    07:00 PM - 08:00 PM EDT
    Chairman's Reception
    Everyone with a red star on their badge is welcome!
    Location: Addison Ballroom
    08:00 PM - 09:30 PM EDT
    Hosted Reception: Lightship
    All are welcome!
    Location: Estate Ballroom
    09:00 PM EDT
    Betty Woodaman Fundraiser
    All are welcome!
    Location: Cloister Building, 5th Floor, Suite 536
    09:00 PM EDT
    Pink Socks Meet Up
    All are welcome!
    Location: Palm Court
  • Nov 19, 2022
    07:00 AM - 05:00 PM EDT
    Antigen Testing Available
    Please note that you must provide proof of a negative COVID test to the registration desk before receiving your badge.
    Location: Registration Desk
    07:00 AM - 07:45 PM EDT
    Breakfast
    Location: Grand Assembly
    08:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
    Keynote Session
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Amy Abernethy, Verily; Derk Arts, Castor; Florian Brand, atai Life Sciences; David Coman, Science 37; Anthony Costello, Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company; Irfan Khan, Circuit Clinical; Robert Litman, M.D., CenExel CBH Health; Antony Loebel, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals; Michelle Longmire, Medable; Jamie Macdonald, Parexel; David MacMurchy, Lightship; Ekaterina Malievskaia, COMPASS Pathways; Kabir Nath, COMPASS Pathways; Steve Paul, Karuna Therapeutics; Srinivas Rao, atai Life Sciences; John Reites, THREAD; Colin Sauder, Karuna Therapeutics; Bonnie Segal, Segal Trials; Venkat Sethuraman, Bristol Myers Squibb; Ramita Tandon, Walgreens Boots Alliance; James Williams, Biogen; Alexandria Wise, Syneos Health

    11:10 AM - 11:20 AM EDT
    Innovation Showcase: Verily
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Amy Abernethy, Verily

    11:20 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
    Innovation Showcase: Pro-ficiency
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): David Hadden, Pro-ficiency

    11:30 AM - 11:40 AM EDT
    Innovation Showcase: Proof Pilot
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Joseph Kim, ProofPilot

    11:40 AM - 11:50 AM EDT
    Innovation Showcase: Deliberate AI
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Marc Aafjes, Deliberate AI

    12:00 PM EDT
    Boxed Lunches
    You will pick up your boxed lunch and proceed to your breakout room.
    Location: Grand Assembly
    12:00 PM - 12:10 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: Neuroelectrics
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Ana Maiques, Neuroelectrics

    12:00 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Advancing Digital Biomarkers in Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Trials
    Digital biomarkers have the potential to aid in diagnosing and/or treating Parkinson’s and allow patients to begin treatment while still in the disease’s early stages. This panel will discuss advancements with digital biomarkers, such as clinical-grade speech analytics to data from Verily watch, to detect progression in early Parkinson’s or the pre-diagnostic stage. Digitally collected data points could potentially be used to predict an individual’s progression with the disease. Hear perspectives on the future of digital biomarkers in Parkinson’s clinical trials.
    Location: Estate I

    Speaker(s): Chris Benko, Koneksa; Samantha Hutten, PhD, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research; Judy Smythe, Aural Analytics; John Wagner, MD, PhD., Koneksa

    12:00 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: What Is Real Patient Engagement?
    The life sciences industry has been talking about patient centricity and patient engagement for a long time. We have the technology and resources to create a path to meet patients where they are, but for the most part, the real point is still being missed. Join us for a lively discussion that includes current views of patient engagement – opportunities to address the challenges of existing strategies within the conduct of a clinical study; how do we currently measure patient engagement, and how do we improve it; how patient centricity will evolve as digital tools continue to augment or replace face-to-face interactions across all patient populations; how technology can foster a more patient-empathic approach to study participation and unlock value for all stakeholders – patients, caregivers, sites and sponsors.
    Location: Addison East

    Speaker(s): Clare Grace, Parexel; Georgia Mitsi, Biogen Digital Health; Steve Rosenberg, uMotif; Andrea Valente, ClinOne; Katherine Vandebelt, Oracle

    12:00 PM - 01:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: DCT Town Hall
    Location: Addison West

    Speaker(s): Derk Arts, Castor; David Coman, Science 37; Scott Dixon, ObvioHealth; Ivan Jarry, ObvioHealth; Michelle Longmire, Medable; David MacMurchy, Lightship; Kelly McKee, Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company; Ritesh Patel, FINN Partners; John Reites, THREAD; MaryAnne Rizk, Medable; Todd Rudo, M.D., Clario; Ramita Tandon, Walgreens Boots Alliance

    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM EDT
    Neuroscience Spotlight
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Chad Beyer, Kures Inc; Mark Corrigan, Tremeau Pharmaceuticals; Peter DiStefano, Cognesy Therapeutics; Mikael Eliasson, Alto Neuroscience; Magali Haas, Cohen Veterans Bioscience; Scott Kollins, Holmusk; Gregory Ryslik, COMPASS Pathways; Gayle Wittenberg, Janssen Research & Development

    12:10 PM - 12:20 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: Medable
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Ingrid Oakley-Girvan, Medable

    12:20 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: Beacon Biosignals
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Jacob Donoghue, Beacon Biosignals

    12:30 PM - 12:40 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: InSilicoTrials
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Mario Torchia, InSilicoTrials

    12:40 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: Vivid Genomics
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Julie Collens, Vivid Genomics

    01:00 PM - 01:10 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: Clinical Ink
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): David Anderson, PhD, Clinical ink

    01:00 PM - 01:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Digital Phenotypes of Brain Diseases- Transforming Alzheimer's Disease Drug Development and Disease Management
    Location: Addison East

    Speaker(s): Travis Bond, Altoida; Sean Gregory, Cognito Therapeutics; Bryan J. Hansen, Janssen Research & Development; Ana Maiques, Neuroelectrics; Georgia Mitsi, Biogen Digital Health

    01:00 PM - 01:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: From Bench to Bedside, How Effective Collaboration Aims at Delivering Digital Impact from Research to Commercial
    Through a collaborative partnership, Huma and Janssen are committed to delivering innovative solutions to address today’s greatest challenges. Through a partnership leveraging more than a decade long experience in delivering digital solutions for care and research, coupled with world renown clinical and research expertise delivering safe and effective therapies for some of the most complex diseases, this collaboration aims at developing, validating and ultimately launching digital solutions to augment how diseases are measured ultimately delivering a digital companion solution through a truly patient-centric experience. 





    In this session, we will focus on sharing insights from co-developing and validating a novel way to measure the progression of Alzheimer's through our ReVeRe project, as well as sharing our common vision to leveraging digital to effectively provide a companion solution to better address the delivery of therapeutics in the real world. 





    A true example of what could happen when collaboration for novel solutions takes place.

    Location: Grand Ballroom D

    Speaker(s): Nico O'Kuinghttons, Huma; Dan Vahdat, Huma; Gayle Wittenberg, Janssen Research & Development

    01:00 PM - 01:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: RWE for Behavioral Health: Challenges and Opportunities
    Fueled in part by the 21 st Century Cures Act, there has been an increased emphasis from FDAand other stakeholders on the use of Real-World Data (RWD) and Real-World Evidence (RWE) in the treatment development process. There has been considerable progress incorporating RWE into the clinical evidence generation plans across a range of therapeutic areas (eg., oncology).



    Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided an important impetus to refine the way industry and regulatory stakeholders think about RWE. In spite of these advances, there has been relatively less progress in the use of RWE in

    behavioral and mental health. There are few, if any, use cases of regulatory decisions in across psychiatric indications that have been influenced or informed by RWE. 



    There are a number of potential reasons for this, including the nature and quality of real-world data that are routinely gathered in behavioral health clinical settings. Patients seen in clinical trials are also not representative of those seen in routine care, making comparability across settings difficult to

    evaluate. Finally, data gathered in routine clinical care, is either subjective and  argely unstructured (as is the case with data from electronic health records) or lacks depth and clinical richness (as is the case with insurance claims data).



    This Spotlight Session will focus on ways that RWE can be used more effectively in behavioral health research. The continued development and refinement of data science methods such as natural language processing provide tools to help derive structure and clinical meaning from the traditionally variable and unstructured data captured in routine behavioral health care. In addition, the explosion of tools to gather, aggregate, and process vast amounts of patient generated health data holds great promise to augment the kinds of information gathered in clinical settings, which often do not capture the most important features of a patient’s journey.



    The overall objective of this panel is to take a critical and in-depth look at the challenges for using RWE in behavioral health and to explore opportunities for innovation. We aim to solicit input from diverse stakeholders to serve as an important point of departure for a journey to help define the field of RWE for behavioral health.

    Location: Estate I

    Speaker(s): Joy Bhosai MD MPH, Pluto Health; Scott Kollins, Holmusk; Vikas Mohan Sharma, Boehringer Ingelheim; Kaan Tunceli, Otsuka; Matthew Veatch, Revesight Consulting; Christine Von Raesfeld, People With Empathy

    01:10 PM - 01:20 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: Curavit Clinical Research
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Joel Morse, Curavit Clinical Research

    01:20 PM - 01:30 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase : Smart Omix by Sharecare
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Zeenia Framroze, Smart Omix by Sharecare

    01:30 PM - 01:40 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: Faro Health
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Scott Chetham, Faro Health Inc.

    02:00 PM - 02:10 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: Delve Health
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Wessam Sonbol, Delve Health

    02:00 PM - 02:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Addressing Multiple Study Challenges Through Clinical Trial Intelligence
    This session highlights how our partners advance their analytics maturity by leveraging their operational and clinical data, along with a deep compendium of proprietary 1st-party Clinical Research Data (CRD). Starting with descriptive analytics, we outline key requirements and characteristics required to shape an analytics foundation and examine fundamental use cases, such as study operational health and eTMF insights. We then explore predictive analytics use cases using multivariate clustering and Bayesian probability models, which enables our partners to anticipate and adjust to future events, ensuring optimal oversight on even the most complex studies.
    Location: Addison East

    Speaker(s): Todd Johnson, Lokavant; Rohit Nambisan, Lokavant; Shuji Ozawa, CMIC

    02:00 PM - 02:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Behavioral Science Informing Patient and Caregiver Experience
    The focus on patient experience in clinical research is rapidly advancing, aided by tidal waves of data, the application of behavioral sciences, and the interpretation of regulatory guidance that urges sponsors to seek patient input and preferences throughout drug development. These converging forces are driving novel approaches for clinical trial design and patient support programs.  Behavioral science techniques can inform the patient journey earlier in diagnosis and at different stages of decision-making about clinical trials as care or as an alternative treatment option. This spotlight session panel convenes a variety of expert perspectives on quantitative data driven methodologies but also qualitative research approaches transforming the clinical trial experience for patients and caregivers.
    Location: Estate I

    Speaker(s): Tina Aswani Omprakash, South Asian IBD Alliance; Clare Grace, Parexel; Alex Klein, Team Human Innovation; Ash Rishi, Couch

    02:00 PM - 02:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Improving Clinical Trial Outcomes by Improving the Participants' Experience
    Participant drop out rates have a material negative impact on the economics of clinical research. Failure to retain participants puts study timelines at risk, jeopardizes study budgets, compromises data quality, and delays the approval of therapies that can positively impact the broader global community. Participants are critical to the success of the study. They are the source of the data. And without their disciplined participation the industry would not be able to bring new therapies to market. Historically, we have been hesitant to adopt modern tech, or invest in services that are designed to improve the participants' experience. Why are we so hesitant to invest in order to eliminate obstacles, improve accessibility, diversify participant populations, reduce financial barriers, and produce positively raving participants? What would happen if we made it easy to be a participant? What if the experience of being in the trial resulted in referrals from the participants themselves? During our spotlight session we will explore the various ways that the current state of trials makes it difficult, an in cases nearly impossible, for both healthy and sick populations to participate in research. And we will link the benefits of improving the participants' experience to the business case for investing in solutions. That is, what is the return to the study sponsor, and other stakeholders, from investing in solutions to make it easier to be a participant.
    Location: Addison West

    Speaker(s): Tabatha Cirgenski - Ruiz, Segal Trials; Keri McDonough, Syneos Health; Gaelan Ritter, Bristol Myers Squibb; Del Smith, Acclinate; Samuel Whitaker, Mural Health

    02:00 PM - 02:50 PM EDT
    Spotlight Session: Real-Life Functional Outcomes Using Digital Health Technologies as Regulatory Endorsed Clinical Endpoints
    Building on the momentum in decentralized clinical trials driven by the pandemic, regulatory agencies have taken action in 2022 to facilitate the adoption of  Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) in clinical trials.  In January, FDA published its first draft guidance on the use of DHTs in clinical investigation. The use of DHT is also part of the scientific strategy of FDA’s five-year Action Plan for the ALS act released in June. With these significant regulatory milestones, the time is ripe to adopt DHT data as a core strategy to advance clinical development. This session will discuss the opportunities and challenges with using wearable DHT data to support clinical efficacy, the past and future of wearable technologies, and the path forward to meaningful clinical endpoints from both vendor and sponsor perspectives.
    Location: Grand Ballroom D

    Speaker(s): Everett Crosland, Cognito Therapeutics; Christine Guo, Actigraph; Michael Philcock, Actigraph

    02:10 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: Autonomize
    Location: Estate III
    02:20 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: Corticare
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Tim Innes, CortiCare

    02:30 PM - 02:40 PM EDT
    Afternoon Innovation Showcase: Archemedx
    Location: Estate III

    Speaker(s): Joel Selzer, ArcheMedX, Inc.

    03:30 PM - 05:00 PM EDT
    One to One Networking
    Location: Grand A-C
    05:00 PM - 07:00 PM EDT
    Special Evening Event & Exhibits & Posters
    View the ICNS abstract supplement here. 
    Location: Grand E-J
    10:00 PM - 11:55 PM EDT
    CNS Summit Masquerade Party
    All are welcome!
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom
  • Nov 20, 2022
    07:00 AM - 07:45 AM EDT
    Breakfast
    Location: Grand Assembly
    08:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
    Keynote Sessions
    Location: Royal Palm Ballroom

    Speaker(s): Tony Clapsis, CVS Health; Jean Drouin, Clarify Health; Carol Ferguson, Organon; Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Google; Kushal Gohil, Parexel; Walter Greenleaf, Stanford University, Virtual Human Interaction Lab; Sabrina Johnson, Dare Bioscience; Sharon Mates, Intra-Cellular Therapies; John Mattison, KP ACP; Alex Morgan, Khosla Ventures; Irman Nasrullah, Bayer Pharmaceuticals; Mike Rea, IDEA Pharma; MaryAnne Rizk, Medable; Steve Rosenberg, uMotif; Jordan Saxe, Nasdaq

    08:05 AM - 08:20 AM EDT
    Innovation Index Award
    Location: Grand Assembly
    08:25 AM - 08:35 AM EDT
    Innovation Showcase Award