Living Labs In Clinical Research: current status, challenges & future perspectives
A lot of Health and Wellbeing LLs are operating in various settings and infrastructures such as clinical setting, lab environments, distributed setting (e.g. homes, care centers) and also engaging various stakeholders from the quadruple helix in all processes. LLs also include innovative methodologies and an agile, user-centric view on designing and validating interventions.
Clinical trials are designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments and should have clear and well-structured outcomes about efficacy, safety, efficiency, effectiveness and more and follow specific regulations. Depending on product type and development stage, investigators initially enroll volunteers or patients into small pilot studies, and subsequently conduct progressively larger scale comparative studies. These are some of the questions that will be addressed during this panel.
AGENDA
10.00 – 10.05 Welcome and objectives – Despoina Petsani & Evdokimos Konstantinidis
10.05 – 10.15 The objectives of Health and Wellbeing AOTF – Panos Bamidis
10.15 – 11.05 Panel discussion moderated by HOLTEL Andreas (senior administrator
responsible for the majority of current health infrastructures projects, REA C.4)
● Jacques Demotes, Director General of the European Clinical Research Infrastructure
Network (ECRIN)
● Nico Gariboldi, Site Lead – Global Center for Digital Innovation – Senior Director at
Pfizer, Rome Area, Italy
● Ingrid Adriaensen, Businesses and Organizations innovation manager, Health Living
Labs, LicaLab, ThomasMore
● Hadas Lewy, Head of Digital Health Ventures Research, Innovation and International
Ventures Authority, Digital Medical Technology Department, Holon Institute of
Technology, Israel
● Jan-Willem van de Loo, Policy and Scientific Officer at the European Commission in charge of cancer
11.05 – 11.15 Q&A
SPEAKERS
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
President, European Network of Living Labs, Thess-AHALL Researcher,
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
President, European Network of Living Labs, Thess-AHALL Researcher,Dr Evdokimos Konstantinidis is the leader of the Assistive Technologies and Silver Science Research Group in the Lab of Medical Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received the Diploma in electronic engineering from the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, in 2004, the M.Sc. degree in medical informatics in 2008 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the Ph.D. degree in the Laboratory of Medical Physics of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2015. His research interests lie predominately in the area of medical informatics, particularly within assistive technologies (silverscience, silvergaming, mobile health)