10 Years of Respiratory Trial Data: Patient Considerations and ATS-ERS PFT Acceptability Criteria
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:
Global PFT standards and guidelines for respiratory clinical trials
Common Pulmonary Function Testing challenges and how to overcome them
Best practices for high-quality PFT data collection and the critical role of overreading
Understanding and setting acceptability rates by therapeutic area
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.