10 Years of Respiratory Trial Data: Patient Considerations and ATS-ERS PFT Acceptability Criteria

Vitalograph Clinical trials

For the first time, Vitalograph will share aggregated trends observed in data and patient experience from the studies it has supported over the last decade in a variety of therapeutic areas including ALS, COPD, IPF, RCC, cystic fibrosis (CF), and asthma. Vice President of Clinical Services at Vitalograph, Grant Sowman, will delve into a number of topics including: 

  1. Global PFT standards and guidelines for respiratory clinical trials

  2. Common Pulmonary Function Testing challenges and how to overcome them

  3. Best practices for high-quality PFT data collection and the critical role of overreading

  4. Understanding and setting acceptability rates by therapeutic area

  5. Patient-centric considerations  

The webinar will be broadcast live on Tuesday 5 June from 3-4pm BST or your equivalent local time zone. Please select your time zone upon registration.

The webinar presentation is 30 minutes duration. 15 minutes will be dedicated to a Q&A session so you can get the full value of our respiratory expertise. You can also enter a question in advance on the registration form. If you cannot join us live, a recording will be added to this website.

Presented By
Grant Sowman
About the Presenter

Grant Sowman is Vice President of Clinical Services at Vitalograph. He is a training Respiratory Physiologist with over 25 years’ experience in PFT. Grant trained at Christchurch Hospital, then moved to Medical-Legal field with ex Coal Miners for their COPD claims, he then worked Respiratory Clinical Research at University of Manchester NHS Hospital Trust where he was involved in several Phase I - III clinical trials.

At Vitalograph Grant has supported 50+ clinical trials, for studies involving Healthy Volunteers, Neuromuscular Disorders, Interstitial Lung Disease, Asthma, COPD and Lung Transplant.