Beau talks with Maria-Alexandra Milas of CRAConnect about the independence and often loneliness of the CRA role, how it will evolve in the next few years, and why we need to consider the CRA perspective in building technology for clinical trials.
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Quotes:
“One of the biggest struggles that I had when I was a CRA is that although the CRA role is so demanded and we have so many CRAs around the world, you are still on your own because you are the one going to the site. You are the one for your sponsor. You are the one for your clinical trials.”
“[CRAConnect] basically started with me just wanting to raise awareness about the CRA role. Then when I started talking to CRAs, I said ‘Oh wow, we all share the same challenges. We all want to know about others sharing the same challenges we are.'”
“CRAs are always on the road. If they’re not offline for four hours because they’re traveling, they’re offline because they’re focusing on monitoring activities. Even though we are a community, we’re not 24/7 discussing and connecting and speaking, because the reality is we can’t.”
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