ADVISORY/Kenneth Kaitin to Lead Seminar on Practical Strategies for Improving R&D Efficiency.

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ADVISORY...for Tuesday (May 20)

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WHO:    Kenneth Kaitin, director of the Tufts Center for the Study of
        Drug Development
WHAT:   Seminar on "Practical Strategies for Improving R&D Efficiency"
WHEN:   LaJolla, CA, May 20; Chicago, IL, May 21; Philadelphia, PA,
        May 22; & Cambridge, England, UK, May 28

Kenneth Kaitin, Ph.D., director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development and a world-renowned expert on pharmaceutical-industry issues, will present "Practical Strategies for Improving R&D Efficiency," a seminar to be held May 20 in LaJolla, Calif.; May 21 in Chicago, Ill.; May 22 in Philadelphia, Penn.; and May 28 in Cambridge, England, UK. The seminar is sponsored by PHT Corporation in conjunction with Palm, Inc., ClinPhone Group Ltd, and Perceptive Informatics.

Kaitin, who also holds faculty appointments in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Tufts University School of Medicine, will lead each seminar by presenting an overview of current R&D challenges, as well as his vision of a more efficient, technology-enabled development process. Also presenting at the seminars will be:

-- Stephen Raymond, Ph.D., PHT Corporation; Benefits of

Electronic Patient Diaries and Electronic Source in Clinical

Trials: Presentation about the benefits of using electronic

patient diaries and electronic source in clinical trials.

-- Jason Barton, Palm, Inc.; Use of Palm Handhelds in Clinical

Development: Presentation about how Palm handhelds are used in

clinical trials, and the general adoption of Palm handhelds in

health care.

-- David Stein, ClinPhone Group, Ltd; Electronic Patient

Recruitment and Diary Solutions: Presentation on the

advantages of IVR diaries including cost-effective delivery,

rapid deployment for global, multi-language studies, and

real-time data capture.

-- Chris Couch, Perceptive Informatics; Streamlining R&D

Development with Integrated eClinical Solutions: Presentation

on how an integrated approach and common interface to

different technologies in a clinical trial enables trial

sponsors to leverage the benefits of the technologies.