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.
JJ Kim, Nottingham Children’s Hospital/University of Nottingham
“It’s really about what patients need, and (what) your colleagues need. And listening to them.” – JJ Kim, Nottingham Children’s Hospital/University of Nottingham
JJ Kim delivers a presentation on the development of CountOnMe, and the care taken while working with patients and at home micro sampling. He describes a survey and system of feedback that can be used to improve education and for increased engagement with patients. During this CPSA Everyday, he discusses that the best results come from actually listening to the patient, and not only the contributions from the 1% of the community that pushes out a test or result. Also, he finds that microsampling is not just a replacement for a hospital visit. He asks the questions: How can we use micro sampling to demarcate needs and to give patients more independence? And how do we truly understand a patient’s condition and need? This is what JJ and his team are evaluating, with continuous feedback from patients, and persistence to what is needed next.
“We are clearly getting there with the things we can do now with a few microliters of blood.” – Ian Wilson, Imperial College
Ian Wilson discusses his passion and vision to improve the human journey through streamlined testing workflows and high-quality data. We possibly only get one chance at this, and anything we can do to improve lives is very important. Looking at the full workflow, Ian believes that the community has clearly made strides to improving healthcare through collecting smaller volumes of blood. With 100 µL of blood, we can analyze the proteome, metabolome, and RNA without causing much damage to the patient. We are in a paradigm where we have technologies to improve patient care and Ian Wilson works to maximize workflows and results as quickly and efficiently as possible.
