Looking to strengthen your recruitment strategies and create a more positive experience for clinical trial participants?

Join Sydney Health Partners on Tuesday, 9 December for an interactive webinar on how to make clinical trials more person-centred and engaging for participants. Hear firsthand insights from both researcher and trial participant perspectives, and explore practical tools and strategies to enhance recruitment, improve retention, and enrich the participant experience in clinical trials.

Whether you’re a researcher, study coordinator, or healthcare professional involved in clinical trials, this session will provide valuable perspectives and resources to support your work.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Vanessa Yenson is the Cancer Symptom Trials Research Assistant – Writer at the University of Technology Sydney. She supports research teams with protocol development, literature reviews and the preparation of grant and ethics submissions. Vanessa brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work. Diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in 1997, Vanessa became the first Australian adult to receive a cord blood bone marrow transplant in 1999, inspiring her career in clinical research. Vanessa is also an advocate for consumer involvement in clinical trials and is a member of Consumer Voices in Clinical Trials, NSW (ConViCTioN).

Nicola Motton-Palmer is the Community and Consumer Partnerships Officer at Western Sydney Local Health District. She recruits and engages consumer representatives and is passionate about authentic consumer involvement. With a business background and firsthand experience as both a consumer representative and carer of a clinical trial participant, Nicola offers a unique perspective on the consumer journey. She works collaboratively and creatively to co-design ways to strengthen consumer engagement, focusing on systems that support safety, quality, and improved health outcomes across the district. For Nicola, consumer engagement is a commitment to human connection – the centre of everything we do.

Associate Professor Angela Todd is the Research Director of Sydney Health Partners. She works with our partners on projects that make it easier to do health research, including promoting and supporting consumer involvement in research, supporting staff working in clinical trials, and harmonising research governance and data sharing approval processes. Angela has previously worked for government, public hospitals, and non-government organisations both in Australia and Canada, in various health research and health policy roles.

Alison Rego is the Clinical Trials Project Manager at Sydney Health Partners. She works with our partners on initiatives that support clinical trial operational staff, enhancing clinical trial capacity and capability. Alison has a diverse background in healthcare and clinical research, having held roles in oncology pharmacy, public healthcare, not-for-profit organisations, and in industry.

ABOUT SYDNEY HEALTH PARTNERS

Since 2015, Sydney Health Partners has been accredited as a Research Translation Centre by the National Health and Medical Research Council. We aim to deliver the benefits of research innovation to our patients and communities more quickly and consistently.

Our Partnership is led by the Sydney, Northern Sydney, Nepean Blue Mountains and Western Sydney Local Health Districts, the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (Westmead) and The University of Sydney. Our partnership is strengthened by ten affiliated medical research institutes: Anzac Research Institute • Asbestos Diseases and Dust Research Institute • The Centenary Institute • Children’s Medical Research Institute • Chris O’Brien Lifehouse • Heart Research Institute • Kolling Institute • Melanoma Institute Australia • The Westmead Institute for Medical Research • Woolcock Institute of Medical Research.

To find out more visit: sydneyhealthpartners.org.au