During this Everyday, Jinming Xing describes his personal experiences that drive his passion for microsampling. As a pharmacist, he was influenced by the understanding that some children are simply scared of needles – a 5 second shot could take an hours conversation. He was also personally influenced by the amount of blood that was drawn from his own sick son. Now, Jinming works closely with the early stages of clinical research related to sick children, focusing on microsampling. He puts all of his efforts, Everyday, into reducing the burden for paediatric clinical trial participants.
“I think it is important to try to improve patient’s lives.” – Remco Koster, PRA Health Sciences
Remco Koster has continuously worked to improve patient care, starting in the transplant setting. While in the hospital, Remco asked the questions: What is the patient background? What is the struggle? What is the burden for the patients and blood sampling? Now, Remco focuses on microsampling technologies, and feels that he can contribute to patient care though this. Often, hospitals do not have the resources to work on new techniques for patients. Remco understands the challenges in a hospital environment and understands that technology still needs to be improved. There is always room for improvement, and we need to keep the long-term goal in mind – improving patient care.
Program Chair – 23rd Clinical & Pharmaceutical Solutions through Analysis USA (CPSA USA 2020)
Ganesh Moorthy, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
“(CPSA conversations) redefined my goals” – Ganesh Moorthy, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Ganesh delivers a passionate CPSA Everyday, discussing how the collaborative spirit in clinical research can significantly contribute to fields such as therapeutic drug monitoring in sick children. He brings a broad background, working in pediatric clinical research the last 11 years, understanding that microsampling technology is a path to improving patient care. A convert, he can see that microsampling can make a big change to a child’s quality of care – even moving into remote sampling to help families reduce the burden of travel to hospitals or clinics. Ganesh works though the dream of using microsampling technology to create meaningful data for drug monitoring in sick children – and quality data for clinicians to make accurate decisions.
