3411 Maximizing the Value of Your Trial Innovation Network Hub Liaison Team

Abstract

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: The University of Washington (UW) CTSA Hub Liaison Team has directed and facilitated work required to bring TIN multisite trials to the CTSA hub and its affiliates by: (1) Connecting hub and affiliate investigators with the services offered by the Trial and Recruitment Innovation Centers, (2) identifying investigators at academic and non-academic institutions to act as co-investigators on multisite trials, (3) supporting the local and affiliate human research protection programs and investigators throughout the life-cycle of the study, (4) maximizing CTSA and local study team resources to develop and monitor study-specific volunteer recruitment and retention plans. The UW CTSA TIN Hub Liaison Team has worked to achieve these objectives via the following methods designed for generalization and dissemination. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: (1) Providing consultations to investigators interested in the services offered by the Trial and Recruitment Innovation Centers. (2) Hub and affiliate investigators at academic and non-academic institutions are identified by a variety of approaches, including the engagement of existing CTSA hub regional collaboration networks, utilizing EHR data from CTSA developed phenotypes and targeted “Investigator Engagement Packets”. (3) Ensuring regulatory oversight and compliance is challenging in the new age of single IRB review. Establishing a flexible reliance office, engaging with the central TIN IRBs and providing guidance and resources to local study teams ensures investigator confidence in the integrity of the protocol approval and study activity processes. (4) The CTSA Hub Liaison team has developed a Recruitment and Retention Plan template and holds recruitment and retention planning meetings with the CTSA study teams engaging in TIN studies. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: It is anticipated that The Hub Liaison Team: (1) Will contribute to the TIN’s process improvement to bring regionally appropriate studies to the CTSA hub and affiliates. (2) Identify ideal investigators to engage both in proposal submission and co-investigating multisite trials. (3) Collect, compare and improve regulatory and contract approval cycle times. (4) Monitor and support screening, accrual and retention of study volunteers. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Due to low prevalence of disease, challenges related to identifying and randomizing study volunteers and urgency to address clinical and public health issues, multisite study design is an essential option for NCATS. The Trial Innovation Network is an exciting approach to leverage local and national resources to provide infrastructure to improve multisite clinical and observational trial conduct. The University of Washington CTSA hub has developed and piloted methods to achieve the mission of the TIN, by recruiting investigators and realizing trial objectives, with the hope that these methods could be utilized by other CTSA TIN Hub Liaison Teams.