ICON's World Children's Day, Upcoming Webinar Hosted by Xtalks
In this free webinar, ICON will be celebrating World Children's Day with members of the European Young Persons Advisory Group. The featured speakers will discuss how clinical development for children and their families can be improved, and the ethical concerns of the assenting process. They will also discuss lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to address the need for accelerating pediatric medicines and vaccines development.
TORONTO, Oct. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ICON's Center for Pediatric Clinical Development invites you to Celebrate World Children's Day virtually on November 15th, 2021.
ICON celebrates World Children's Day each year to bring our industry together to consider how clinical research contributes to improving the welfare of children and to discuss how we can improve clinical development for these children and their families. This year, the speakers will explore the ethical concerns of the assenting process and the challenges it poses to a child's true agreement to participate. They will discuss the regulatory environment for developing medicines for children and consider how we can leverage the experiences we have gained so far during the COVID-19 pandemic to address the need for accelerating pediatric medicines and vaccines development.
Join the live webinar on Monday, November 15, 2021 at 10am EST (3pm GMT/UK) that will feature:
Experts from ICON's Center for Pediatric Clinical Development:
- Mark Sorrentino, MD, MS, Vice President
- Martine Dehlinger-Kremer, PhD, Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Pediatric Subject Matter Expert
- Kirsten Sherman Cervati, BA, CCRP, Senior Director, Global Head, ICON's Pediatric Research Partners
- Heather Peterson, RN, BSN, Pediatric Strategy Liaison
Joining them will be panel moderator Pamela Dicks, PhD, Manager, National Health Services Children Research Network, Scotland, Member of ICON's Paediatric Research Partners; along with:
- Lynne Yao, MD, Director, Division of Pediatric and Maternal Health, Office of New Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA
- John Ssentami, Director of the Good Shepherd Primary School and Founder of the Busubi Learning Centre
- Gianna "Gigi" McMillan, DBe, Acting Graduate Director for the Bioethics Institute, Loyola Marymount University
- Children's Panel, European Young Person's Advisory Group Network (eYPAGnet)
- Christina Bucci-Rechtweg, MD, Global Head, Pediatric & Maternal Health Policy, Drug Regulatory Affairs, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
For more information, or to register for this event, visit ICON's World Children's Day.
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