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The Participant's Story
by Dave Hanaman
The Participant's Story focuses on the individual experiences of people who have participated in clinical trials, hosted by Dave Hanaman. The podcast is comprised of one-on-one interviews, done remotely, with semi-structured, directional questions that allow participants to tell their stories in their own voices.
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The Participant's Story #5 with Ella Balasa
In this episode of The Participant's Story, we meet Ella Balasa and learn about her battle with cystic fibrosis and how she turned her diagnosis into a mission to to advance research and health as a patient advocate. Ella shares her unique dual-perspective as a scientist and a Cystic Fibrosis patient, detailing a pivotal point in her mid-20s when she was disqualified from a landmark CF trial because her lung function sat just below a rigid 40% threshold—despite being part of the exact demographic that desperately needed the therapeutic.Key Industry Insights Shared:The Shift toward Digital Endpoints: Why the clinical research infrastructure must move beyond static lab measurements and leverage wearables, remote monitoring, and AI to track patient outcomes.Optimizing Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCTs): Reflecting on her experience with an early, fully-remote phase four medical device trial, Ella highlights why decentralized trials need innovative trial designs to maintain high compliance and reduce patient burden.Co-Designing with Communities: The strategic business and ethical advantages of bringing patient populations to the table before protocol design begins.👉 Listen to the full episode on your favorite podcast platform to hear how patient centricity and digital evolution are transforming drug development.The Participant's Story is sponsored by Curavit www.curavit.io
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The Participant's Story focuses on the individual experiences of people who have participated in clinical trials, hosted by Dave Hanaman. The podcast is comprised of one-on-one interviews, done remotely, with semi-structured, directional questions that allow participants to tell their stories in their own voices.
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