The NIH Collaboratory is using its popular ePCT Grand Rounds platform for a special webinar series on diversity in pragmatic clinical trials.

In this Friday’s session—“Maximizing Diversity in PCTs – What Can We Learn From Implementation Trials?”—Dr. David Chambers of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will facilitate a discussion about lessons from implementation science for maximizing participant diversity in pragmatic clinical trials. Dr. Chambers is deputy director for implementation science in the Office of the Director in the NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences.

The panelists will include:

• Dr. Amanda Midboe of the US Department of Veterans Affairs, chair of the Implementation Science Work Group for the NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory
• Dr. Anne Trontell, associate director in the Clinical Effectiveness and Decision Science Program at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, July 16, at 1:00 pm eastern. Join the online meeting.

Other upcoming sessions in the diversity workshop series include:

• July 30, 2021, 1:00 pm ET: Diversity in the PCT Ecosystem: How Do We Develop a Pipeline of Diverse Investigators and Leaders in PCTs? (Marie Bernard, MD; George Mensah, MD; Natalia Morone, MD, MS; Moderator: Lesley Curtis, PhD)
• Podcast available August 9, 2021: Summary Expert Panel Discussion (David Chambers, DPhil; Lesley Curtis, PhD; Emily O’Brien, PhD; Wendy  Weber, ND, PhD, MP; Kanecia Zimmerman, MD; Moderator: Robin Boineau, MD, MA)

All sessions are free and open to the public; no registration is required. Recordings will be archived on the Grand Rounds website.