CDC Recommendations

● Incorporate more technology

○ Virtual recruitment

○ eConsents and eSignatures

○ Remote enrollment

○ Remote monitoring

● In person visits needed for IP

● Lab Samples and Collections

○ In person

○ Home collection

Takeaways

● Preparation plays a big role to be successful. The more we can prepare and use tools that are available to our advantage the easier it is to adapt to the rapidly changing dynamics. A key line from the movie Apollo 12. I don't care about what anything was DESIGNED to do, I care about what it CAN do.

● Being Flexible and adaptable is necessary to lead and succeed in any challenges big or small.

● Research possibilities are abundant and we need to create an environment that can help connect, initiate, and conduct research with the talent that this organization possesses.

Takeaways

● Learning strengths and weaknesses of individuals will create a more dynamic work environment and create a team that will allow you to achieve targets that may have seemed not possible .

● Communication, the most fundamental tool. When the challenges seem most insurmountable, effective communication is essential.

● Social media plays a big role in research communities and we will need to use these platforms in the future to help and also to do no harm to the studies being conducted.

● Recognizing that I am up here because of the team around me created the success