1 00:00:05,955 --> 00:00:08,791 >> JILL: WELCOME, EVERYONE TO 2 00:00:08,791 --> 00:00:10,059 SESSION SIX OF ETHICAL AND 3 00:00:10,059 --> 00:00:11,894 REGULATORY ASPECTS OF CLINICAL 4 00:00:11,894 --> 00:00:12,928 RESEARCH. IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE 5 00:00:12,928 --> 00:00:16,532 WE JUST HAVE ONE MORE SESSION. 6 00:00:16,532 --> 00:00:19,869 TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, I'M 7 00:00:19,869 --> 00:00:21,704 GOING TO INTRODUCE DR. FISHER IN 8 00:00:21,704 --> 00:00:23,305 A MOMENT SHE'S GOING TO GIVE A 9 00:00:23,305 --> 00:00:24,106 PRESENTATION THEN WE'RE GOING TO 10 00:00:24,106 --> 00:00:26,575 WORK THROUGH A CASE WITH ME AND 11 00:00:26,575 --> 00:00:29,678 THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PANEL 12 00:00:29,678 --> 00:00:31,647 OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE 13 00:00:31,647 --> 00:00:33,215 PARTICIPATED IN CLINICAL TRIALS 14 00:00:33,215 --> 00:00:34,183 HERE AT THE CLINICAL CENTER. 15 00:00:34,183 --> 00:00:36,952 I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. 16 00:00:36,952 --> 00:00:40,256 THAT WILL BE AFTER OUR BREAK. 17 00:00:40,256 --> 00:00:42,625 AND ONE QUICK, TWO QUICK 18 00:00:42,625 --> 00:00:44,260 ANNOUNCEMENTS. IF YOU HAVE 19 00:00:44,260 --> 00:00:46,395 QUESTIONS, PLEASE POST THEM IN 20 00:00:46,395 --> 00:00:47,830 THE DISCUSSION BOARD OR SEND 21 00:00:47,830 --> 00:00:54,804 THEM TO THE E-MAIL, AND FOR 22 00:00:54,804 --> 00:00:56,605 THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED IN WHEN 23 00:00:56,605 --> 00:00:58,607 YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR 24 00:00:58,607 --> 00:01:00,342 CERTIFICATES, THE COURSE CLOSES 25 00:01:00,342 --> 00:01:02,178 ON NOVEMBER 20TH WHICH MEANS 26 00:01:02,178 --> 00:01:03,379 THAT ANYONE WHO NEEDS TO CATCH 27 00:01:03,379 --> 00:01:06,215 UP ON VIDEOS AND QUIZZES CAN DO 28 00:01:06,215 --> 00:01:08,918 SO. WE ARE GOING TO SEND THE 29 00:01:08,918 --> 00:01:10,619 CERTIFICATES WITHIN TWO WEEKS 30 00:01:10,619 --> 00:01:12,388 AFTER THAT, SO IT'LL BE A LITTLE 31 00:01:12,388 --> 00:01:14,490 WHILE BUT YOU'LL DEFINITELY GET 32 00:01:14,490 --> 00:01:18,260 ONE. SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO 33 00:01:18,260 --> 00:01:19,361 INTRODUCE DR. JILL FISHER 34 00:01:19,361 --> 00:01:20,396 JOINING US FROM THE DEPARTMENT 35 00:01:20,396 --> 00:01:21,964 OF SOCIAL MEDICINE AND THE 36 00:01:21,964 --> 00:01:24,200 CENTER FOR BIOETHICS AT THE 37 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:25,501 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 38 00:01:25,501 --> 00:01:29,371 SHE HOLDS A PH.D. IN SCIENCE AND 39 00:01:29,371 --> 00:01:31,874 TECHNOLOGY STUDIES AND 40 00:01:31,874 --> 00:01:36,345 EXCITINGLY FOR US, HER RESEARCH 41 00:01:36,345 --> 00:01:38,147 FOCUSES ON HOW CLINICAL TRIALS 42 00:01:38,147 --> 00:01:39,215 ARE CONDUCTED AND WHO 43 00:01:39,215 --> 00:01:41,383 PARTICIPATES IN THEM AS 44 00:01:41,383 --> 00:01:42,685 RESEARCHERS AND PARTICIPANTS AND 45 00:01:42,685 --> 00:01:45,254 TODAY SHE'S GOING TO TALK WITH 46 00:01:45,254 --> 00:01:48,057 US ABOUT HEALTHY PARTICIPANTS IN 47 00:01:48,057 --> 00:01:58,367 CLINICAL TRIALS. 48 00:01:59,134 --> 00:02:09,612 >> JILL: THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M 49 00:02:16,652 --> 00:02:17,887 REALLY EXCITED TO BE HERE TODAY. 50 00:02:17,887 --> 00:02:19,521 THERE'S A LOT THAT I COULD SAY 51 00:02:19,521 --> 00:02:20,589 ABOUT HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS AND I 52 00:02:20,589 --> 00:02:23,092 WILL SAY A LOT. BUT I THOUGHT 53 00:02:23,092 --> 00:02:24,627 IN PARTICULAR I WOULD FOCUS ON 54 00:02:24,627 --> 00:02:27,529 ETHICAL ISSUES RELATED TO 55 00:02:27,529 --> 00:02:30,165 RESEARCH PAYMENTS SINCE THIS IS 56 00:02:30,165 --> 00:02:33,135 ONE OF THE AREAS THAT MAKES 57 00:02:33,135 --> 00:02:34,336 HEALTHY VOLUNTEER TRIALS 58 00:02:34,336 --> 00:02:37,106 DIFFERENT FROM CLINICAL TRIALS 59 00:02:37,106 --> 00:02:38,874 WITH PATIENTS. SO AS I 60 00:02:38,874 --> 00:02:40,576 UNDERSTAND IT YOU'VE ALREADY 61 00:02:40,576 --> 00:02:41,844 GOTTEN A LITTLE BIT OF A PRIMER 62 00:02:41,844 --> 00:02:43,412 ON DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND HOW 63 00:02:43,412 --> 00:02:45,614 DRUGS GET TO THE MARKET AND WHAT 64 00:02:45,614 --> 00:02:48,150 THE WHOLE PROCESS IS LIKE BUT I 65 00:02:48,150 --> 00:02:50,886 THOUGHT I WOULD REVIEW THIS TO 66 00:02:50,886 --> 00:02:53,088 COMPLICATE THE IDEA OF HOW THIS 67 00:02:53,088 --> 00:02:55,090 PROCESS WORKS A LITTLE BIT. SO 68 00:02:55,090 --> 00:02:56,392 USUALLY WHEN WE THINK ABOUT DRUG 69 00:02:56,392 --> 00:02:58,794 DEVELOPMENT IT'S DEPICTED AS A 70 00:02:58,794 --> 00:03:00,396 VERY LINEAR PROCESS OFTENTIMES 71 00:03:00,396 --> 00:03:02,164 WITH AN ARROW OR A FUNNEL OR 72 00:03:02,164 --> 00:03:03,132 SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHERE WE SEE 73 00:03:03,132 --> 00:03:05,668 ON ONE END WE START WITH BASIC 74 00:03:05,668 --> 00:03:08,070 RESEARCH AND IF THINGS LOOK 75 00:03:08,070 --> 00:03:09,438 PROMISING IT MIGHT MOVE INTO 76 00:03:09,438 --> 00:03:10,639 PRECLINICAL ANIMAL RESEARCH AND 77 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,641 THEN IF THAT LOOKS PROMISING WE 78 00:03:12,641 --> 00:03:15,678 WOULD START HUMAN TRIALS AND WE 79 00:03:15,678 --> 00:03:18,380 HAVE THIS SYSTEM IN THE U.S. OF 80 00:03:18,380 --> 00:03:19,315 THINKING ABOUT CLINICAL TRIALS 81 00:03:19,315 --> 00:03:22,384 AS PHASED SO ONE, TWO, AND 82 00:03:22,384 --> 00:03:24,153 THREE. AND SO FOR THE PURPOSES 83 00:03:24,153 --> 00:03:27,289 OF THE FDA, YOU KNOW, IF WE 84 00:03:27,289 --> 00:03:29,425 ACTUALLY WANT TO GET A DRUG OR 85 00:03:29,425 --> 00:03:31,193 THERAPY ON THE MARKET, DRUGS 86 00:03:31,193 --> 00:03:32,962 HAVE TO GO THROUGH THESE STEPS 87 00:03:32,962 --> 00:03:34,596 SO PHASE ONE TRIALS ARE THE ONES 88 00:03:34,596 --> 00:03:37,266 THAT ARE DESIGNED TO EVALUATE 89 00:03:37,266 --> 00:03:38,467 THE SAFETY AND TOLERABILITY OF 90 00:03:38,467 --> 00:03:40,336 AN INVESTIGATIONAL PRODUCT. 91 00:03:40,336 --> 00:03:42,037 THESE ARE THE ONES THAT USUALLY 92 00:03:42,037 --> 00:03:45,507 USE HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS. AS LONG 93 00:03:45,507 --> 00:03:47,009 AS THERE AREN'T ANY MAJOR SAFETY 94 00:03:47,009 --> 00:03:50,379 ISSUES THAT EMERGE FROM THERE. 95 00:03:50,379 --> 00:03:51,981 THE STUDIES MIGHT PROCEED INTO 96 00:03:51,981 --> 00:03:54,450 PHASE TO TRIALS AND I LIKE TO 97 00:03:54,450 --> 00:03:55,818 THINK OF THESE AS PROOF OF 98 00:03:55,818 --> 00:03:57,920 CONCEPT STUDIES, THESE ARE 99 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,188 RELATIVELY SMALL, NOW THEY'RE 100 00:03:59,188 --> 00:04:01,523 ACTUALLY USING PATIENTS AS THEIR 101 00:04:01,523 --> 00:04:02,091 PARTICIPANT POPULATION BUT 102 00:04:02,091 --> 00:04:07,296 THEY'RE STILL LOOKING AT SAFETY 103 00:04:07,296 --> 00:04:09,365 AND ISSUES AT THE SAME TIME AS 104 00:04:09,365 --> 00:04:14,670 DRUG I HAVE -- EFFICACY 105 00:04:14,670 --> 00:04:17,373 IF SO, THEN IT WILL PROCEED TO 106 00:04:17,373 --> 00:04:19,641 PHASE THREE TRIALS WHICH ARE 107 00:04:19,641 --> 00:04:21,243 MORE THE ONES WE TEND TO THINK 108 00:04:21,243 --> 00:04:24,847 OF BECAUSE THESE ARE THE LARGER 109 00:04:24,847 --> 00:04:28,384 SCALE ONES, THESE ADHERE TO 110 00:04:28,384 --> 00:04:30,986 COMPLETE AND THE ONES THAT FDA 111 00:04:30,986 --> 00:04:33,155 IS BASED ON. I WANT TO 112 00:04:33,155 --> 00:04:34,390 COMPLICATE THIS NOTION A LITTLE 113 00:04:34,390 --> 00:04:36,658 BIT BECAUSE IT DOES IMPLY THAT 114 00:04:36,658 --> 00:04:38,027 ONE STEP HAS TO OCCUR TO GET TO 115 00:04:38,027 --> 00:04:39,595 THE NEXT STEP AND THAT IT'S ALL 116 00:04:39,595 --> 00:04:41,096 DONE IN THIS VERY ORDERLY 117 00:04:41,096 --> 00:04:44,199 FASHION BUT WHEN WE ACTUALLY 118 00:04:44,199 --> 00:04:47,302 LOOK AT THE CLINICAL TRIAL 119 00:04:47,302 --> 00:04:49,371 PORTFOLIOS, OF PHARMACEUTICAL 120 00:04:49,371 --> 00:04:50,039 COMPANIES WE SEE IT'S ACTUALLY 121 00:04:50,039 --> 00:04:52,274 MUCH MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT 122 00:04:52,274 --> 00:04:55,644 AND MUCH MORE FLUID. SO FOR 123 00:04:55,644 --> 00:04:57,046 INSTANCE, FOR THE WHOLE PROCESS 124 00:04:57,046 --> 00:04:59,815 OF NON-CLINICAL RESEARCH, 125 00:04:59,815 --> 00:05:01,350 NONHUMAN ANIMAL STUDIES 126 00:05:01,350 --> 00:05:02,651 CONTINUE. SO THESE ARE 127 00:05:02,651 --> 00:05:03,919 CONTINUING OFTENTIMES RIGHT UP 128 00:05:03,919 --> 00:05:08,190 TO FDA APPROVAL SO HUMAN TRIAL 129 00:05:08,190 --> 00:05:09,892 CONSIST START BEFORE THE ANIMAL 130 00:05:09,892 --> 00:05:11,660 STUDIES ARE DONE AND SO I 131 00:05:11,660 --> 00:05:13,529 MENTION THIS BECAUSE ONE OF THE 132 00:05:13,529 --> 00:05:14,296 REASONS THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT 133 00:05:14,296 --> 00:05:16,231 IS A LOT OF TIMES THERE ISN'T 134 00:05:16,231 --> 00:05:19,301 VERY MUCH KNOWN ABOUT 135 00:05:19,301 --> 00:05:21,570 REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY WHEN THEN 136 00:05:21,570 --> 00:05:23,338 HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR WHO IS 137 00:05:23,338 --> 00:05:25,374 ALLOWED TO ENROLL IN EARLY PHASE 138 00:05:25,374 --> 00:05:27,543 HUMAN TRIALS. ANOTHER IMPORTANT 139 00:05:27,543 --> 00:05:29,244 PIECE OF THIS IS THAT WHEN WE 140 00:05:29,244 --> 00:05:30,746 THINK ABOUT HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS 141 00:05:30,746 --> 00:05:32,281 IN THIS DRUG DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 142 00:05:32,281 --> 00:05:35,284 WE OFTEN THINK OF THEM AS THE 143 00:05:35,284 --> 00:05:36,251 ONES THAT ARE DOING THESE FIRST 144 00:05:36,251 --> 00:05:40,689 IN HUMAN STUDIES SO LITERALLY 145 00:05:40,689 --> 00:05:46,328 THE FIRST TIME THAT A HUMAN IS 146 00:05:46,328 --> 00:05:47,596 TAKING A DRUG OR TREATMENT. 147 00:05:47,596 --> 00:05:49,465 HOWEVER THERE ARE OTHER STUDIES 148 00:05:49,465 --> 00:05:51,934 THAT ARE LOOKING AT SAFETY, 149 00:05:51,934 --> 00:05:54,136 TOLERABILITY AND THESE ACTUALLY 150 00:05:54,136 --> 00:05:56,238 CONTINUE UP TO SOMETIMES THE 151 00:05:56,238 --> 00:05:58,640 TIME A COMPANY IS SUBMITTING 152 00:05:58,640 --> 00:05:59,541 THEIR NEW DRUG APPLICATION TO 153 00:05:59,541 --> 00:06:04,880 THE FDA. I WILL TALK, YEAH SO, 154 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,281 IN ADDITION TO THOSE FIRST IN 155 00:06:06,281 --> 00:06:08,217 MAN OR FIRST IN HUMAN STUDIES 156 00:06:08,217 --> 00:06:10,052 THAT ARE REALLY, AGAIN, YOU 157 00:06:10,052 --> 00:06:11,587 KNOW, SOMETIMES WE THINK OF IT 158 00:06:11,587 --> 00:06:13,489 AS AN A, PHASE ONE TRIAL BUT 159 00:06:13,489 --> 00:06:15,290 REALLY IS A WHOLE PORTFOLIO OF 160 00:06:15,290 --> 00:06:17,559 CLINICAL TRIALS BECAUSE WHAT'S 161 00:06:17,559 --> 00:06:19,294 HAPPENING IS IT REQUIRES 162 00:06:19,294 --> 00:06:20,429 MULTIPLE STUDIES TO MEASURE 163 00:06:20,429 --> 00:06:21,730 TOLERABILITY SO YOU SEE 164 00:06:21,730 --> 00:06:23,665 INCREASES DOSES OF A DRUG AND 165 00:06:23,665 --> 00:06:24,600 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE THEM 166 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,401 TO HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS. 167 00:06:26,401 --> 00:06:27,970 SOMETIMES MULTIPLE DOSES. SO 168 00:06:27,970 --> 00:06:29,571 ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE PART OF 169 00:06:29,571 --> 00:06:33,175 THE PHASE ONE PROCESS. BUT THEN 170 00:06:33,175 --> 00:06:35,177 AS I WAS SAYING, MAYBE LATER IN 171 00:06:35,177 --> 00:06:36,712 THE DRUG DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 172 00:06:36,712 --> 00:06:38,080 WHEN A COMPANY BELIEVES THAT A 173 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:39,815 DRUG MIGHT ACTUALLY GET TO THE 174 00:06:39,815 --> 00:06:41,783 MARKET THEY ARE INCENTIVIZED TO 175 00:06:41,783 --> 00:06:43,852 DO OTHER KINDS OF STUDIES AND 176 00:06:43,852 --> 00:06:45,754 THEY USE HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS FOR 177 00:06:45,754 --> 00:06:47,189 THESE TOO. IF YOU THINK ABOUT 178 00:06:47,189 --> 00:06:48,457 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS THAT YOU MAY 179 00:06:48,457 --> 00:06:51,026 HAVE TAKEN AT VARIOUS POINTS IN 180 00:06:51,026 --> 00:06:53,795 YOUR LIFE, IT MIGHT SAY TAKE 181 00:06:53,795 --> 00:06:57,699 THIS DRUG ON AN EMPTY STOMACH OR 182 00:06:57,699 --> 00:07:02,204 WITH A MEAL SO THEY USE THOSE 183 00:07:02,204 --> 00:07:03,939 WITH VOLUNTEERS. ADDITIONALLY 184 00:07:03,939 --> 00:07:06,675 SOMETIMES THE FDA REQUIRES 185 00:07:06,675 --> 00:07:07,476 COMPANIES TO DO DRUG DRUG 186 00:07:07,476 --> 00:07:09,411 INTERACTION STUDIES BECAUSE THEY 187 00:07:09,411 --> 00:07:13,382 KNOW PATIENT POPULATIONS MIGHT 188 00:07:13,382 --> 00:07:16,218 BE TAKING THIS NEW DRUG. 189 00:07:16,218 --> 00:07:18,287 SO HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS ARE ALSO 190 00:07:18,287 --> 00:07:20,689 USED FOR INTERACTION STUDIES AND 191 00:07:20,689 --> 00:07:22,824 A HUGE USE OF HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS 192 00:07:22,824 --> 00:07:24,526 IS TO GET GENERIC DRUGS ON THE 193 00:07:24,526 --> 00:07:26,895 MARKET SO TO GET A GENERIC ON 194 00:07:26,895 --> 00:07:27,763 THE MARKET A COMPANY DOESN'T 195 00:07:27,763 --> 00:07:28,897 NEED TO GO THROUGH THE WHOLE 196 00:07:28,897 --> 00:07:32,201 PROCESS OF RETESTING THE DRUG IN 197 00:07:32,201 --> 00:07:34,369 THE SAME SENSE AS THE BRAND NAME 198 00:07:34,369 --> 00:07:35,971 DRUG. THEY JUST NEED TO PROVE 199 00:07:35,971 --> 00:07:38,574 THAT IT'S BIOEQUIVALENT TO THAT 200 00:07:38,574 --> 00:07:40,509 BRAND NAME DRUG SO IN OTHER 201 00:07:40,509 --> 00:07:43,111 WORDS THAT THE DRUG IS ABSORBED, 202 00:07:43,111 --> 00:07:43,712 METABOLIZED, DISTRIBUTED AND 203 00:07:43,712 --> 00:07:45,948 EXCRETED IN THE SAME WAY THAT 204 00:07:45,948 --> 00:07:48,116 THE BRAND NAME DRUG SO THEY USE 205 00:07:48,116 --> 00:07:50,519 HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS FOR THESE 206 00:07:50,519 --> 00:07:51,153 STUDIES THIS IS TO SAY THAT 207 00:07:51,153 --> 00:07:52,354 HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS ARE USED IN 208 00:07:52,354 --> 00:07:54,389 LOTS OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF 209 00:07:54,389 --> 00:07:57,693 STUDIES AS PART OF THE DRUG 210 00:07:57,693 --> 00:07:59,194 DEVELOPMENT PROCESS BUT FOCUSED 211 00:07:59,194 --> 00:08:02,764 ON SAFETY AND TOLERABILITY. SO 212 00:08:02,764 --> 00:08:04,099 WHY USE HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS? WHY 213 00:08:04,099 --> 00:08:06,602 NOT JUST USE PATIENTS SO THERE 214 00:08:06,602 --> 00:08:07,936 ARE A VARIETY OF REASONS THAT 215 00:08:07,936 --> 00:08:08,570 HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS ARE USED IN 216 00:08:08,570 --> 00:08:11,540 CLINICAL RESEARCH. SO, ONE 217 00:08:11,540 --> 00:08:12,874 RATIONALE IS THE ONE THAT I 218 00:08:12,874 --> 00:08:15,310 THINK OF AS SEPARATING THE 219 00:08:15,310 --> 00:08:16,712 SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE IF YOU USE 220 00:08:16,712 --> 00:08:18,046 PATIENTS AND YOU'RE TRYING TO 221 00:08:18,046 --> 00:08:19,414 DETERMINE THE SAFETY PROFILE OF 222 00:08:19,414 --> 00:08:21,550 A DRUG IT COULD BE DIFFICULT TO 223 00:08:21,550 --> 00:08:22,784 DETERMINE WHAT IS -- WHAT KIND 224 00:08:22,784 --> 00:08:27,222 OF SYMPTOMS ARE CAUSED BY THE 225 00:08:27,222 --> 00:08:28,724 DRUG ITSELF VERSUS WHAT'S KIND 226 00:08:28,724 --> 00:08:30,826 OF A SYMPTOM RELATED TO THE 227 00:08:30,826 --> 00:08:32,728 ILLNESS ITSELF SO HEALTHY 228 00:08:32,728 --> 00:08:34,062 VOLUNTEERS ARE SORT OF A CLEAN 229 00:08:34,062 --> 00:08:35,731 SLATE IN THIS SENSE SO 230 00:08:35,731 --> 00:08:37,733 POTENTIALLY TO HELP ADJUDICATE 231 00:08:37,733 --> 00:08:41,136 WHETHER SOMETHING IS A DRUG 232 00:08:41,136 --> 00:08:43,705 AFFECT OR NOT. IT'S ALSO BEEN 233 00:08:43,705 --> 00:08:45,240 ARGUE THAT HAD BECAUSE HEALTHY 234 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:46,541 VOLUNTEERS ARE HEALTHY THERE'S 235 00:08:46,541 --> 00:08:49,778 LESS RISK TO THEM OF TAKING AN 236 00:08:49,778 --> 00:08:51,046 INVESTIGATIONAL DRUG SO IF WE 237 00:08:51,046 --> 00:08:53,315 THINK ABOUT THEIR KIDNEYS AND 238 00:08:53,315 --> 00:08:55,384 LIVERS THESE ARE FUNCTIONING 239 00:08:55,384 --> 00:08:57,486 NORMALLY SO WE WOULD EXPECT THEM 240 00:08:57,486 --> 00:08:58,754 TO PROCESS DRUGS MORE QUICKLY 241 00:08:58,754 --> 00:09:00,856 AND CLEAR THEM OUT OF THEIR 242 00:09:00,856 --> 00:09:01,957 SYSTEM. THAT'S ANOTHER REASON 243 00:09:01,957 --> 00:09:04,459 WHEN WE LOOK AT SAFETY ISSUES TO 244 00:09:04,459 --> 00:09:06,461 USE HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS. ANOTHER 245 00:09:06,461 --> 00:09:09,031 BIG REASON WHICH IS, I KIND OF 246 00:09:09,031 --> 00:09:11,300 THINK OF AS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST 247 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:13,001 REASON DRIVING THIS IS THAT 248 00:09:13,001 --> 00:09:13,669 HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS ARE MUCH MORE 249 00:09:13,669 --> 00:09:16,071 AVAILABLE THAN PATIENTS ARE. SO 250 00:09:16,071 --> 00:09:18,040 THEY'RE SORT OF THIS SPEED AND 251 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:19,741 ECONOMIC REASON TO USE HEALTHY 252 00:09:19,741 --> 00:09:21,843 VOLUNTEERS THAT IT'S MUCH 253 00:09:21,843 --> 00:09:24,179 QUICKER AND EASIER TO CREATE A 254 00:09:24,179 --> 00:09:26,615 COHORT OR A PANEL OF HEALTHY 255 00:09:26,615 --> 00:09:28,550 VOLUNTEERS TO DO THESE CLINICAL 256 00:09:28,550 --> 00:09:30,085 TRIALS THAN IT WOULD BE TO TRY 257 00:09:30,085 --> 00:09:31,386 TO FIND PATIENTS TO DO THEM. 258 00:09:31,386 --> 00:09:34,890 AND THEN FINALLY, THERE'S ALSO 259 00:09:34,890 --> 00:09:36,591 AN ETHICAL RATIONALE THAT'S 260 00:09:36,591 --> 00:09:39,061 GIVEN IN THE SENSE THAT WE DON'T 261 00:09:39,061 --> 00:09:40,829 TYPICALLY EXPECT THERE TO BE ANY 262 00:09:40,829 --> 00:09:42,130 BENEFIT TO PARTICIPANTS IN PHASE 263 00:09:42,130 --> 00:09:46,668 ONE OR EARLY PHASE TRIALS. AND 264 00:09:46,668 --> 00:09:48,003 SO GIVEN THAT WE DON'T EXPECT 265 00:09:48,003 --> 00:09:49,805 THAT BENEFIT, THERE'S THIS IDEA 266 00:09:49,805 --> 00:09:51,907 THAT WHY DON'T WE SAVE PATIENTS 267 00:09:51,907 --> 00:09:53,442 FOR TRIALS THAT MIGHT ACTUALLY 268 00:09:53,442 --> 00:09:54,509 BENEFIT THEM MORE SO PHASE TWO 269 00:09:54,509 --> 00:09:56,511 OR PHASE THREE TRIALS. TO BE 270 00:09:56,511 --> 00:10:02,217 ABLE TO CONVEY THAT BENEFIT TO 271 00:10:02,217 --> 00:10:06,054 PARTICIPANTS. SO A REALLY 272 00:10:06,054 --> 00:10:08,890 UNIQUE ASPECT OF HOW PHASE ONE 273 00:10:08,890 --> 00:10:10,058 TRIALS ARE CONDUCTED TO PHASE 274 00:10:10,058 --> 00:10:12,494 THREE TRIALS IS THAT THEY'RE 275 00:10:12,494 --> 00:10:14,196 USUALLY CONDUCTED AS INPATIENT 276 00:10:14,196 --> 00:10:15,097 CONFINEMENT STUDIES AND THAT 277 00:10:15,097 --> 00:10:17,199 MEANS THAT PARTICIPANTS ARE 278 00:10:17,199 --> 00:10:18,100 LITERALLY CHECKING INTO A 279 00:10:18,100 --> 00:10:19,668 RESEARCH FACILITY FOR THE LENGTH 280 00:10:19,668 --> 00:10:22,037 OF THE TRIAL. AND THE LENGTH 281 00:10:22,037 --> 00:10:23,472 COULD VARY DRAMATICALLY 282 00:10:23,472 --> 00:10:25,173 DEPENDING ON THE DESIGN OF THE 283 00:10:25,173 --> 00:10:26,441 STUDY. SOMETIMES IT'S JUST A 284 00:10:26,441 --> 00:10:29,678 DAY OR TWO. ONE OF THE STUDIES 285 00:10:29,678 --> 00:10:31,847 THAT PARTICIPANTS THAT WERE IN 286 00:10:31,847 --> 00:10:35,050 MY STUDY OF HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS 287 00:10:35,050 --> 00:10:37,519 WE'RE IN WAS A 45 DAY STUDY SO 288 00:10:37,519 --> 00:10:38,987 THEY LITERALLY CHECKED INTO A 289 00:10:38,987 --> 00:10:40,989 RESEARCH FACILITY AND DIDN'T 290 00:10:40,989 --> 00:10:43,291 LEAVE IT FOR 45 DAYS YOU CAN 291 00:10:43,291 --> 00:10:44,893 IMAGINE TO GET PEOPLE TO DO THIS 292 00:10:44,893 --> 00:10:46,728 YOU HAVE TO PAY THEM OTHERWISE 293 00:10:46,728 --> 00:10:47,562 IT WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT HARD TO 294 00:10:47,562 --> 00:10:49,197 IMAGINE THAT PEOPLE WOULD GIVE 295 00:10:49,197 --> 00:10:52,000 UP SO MUCH OF THEIR TIME TO DO 296 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,303 IT. AND SO THE TYPICAL 297 00:10:55,303 --> 00:10:56,571 COMPENSATION FOR THESE TRIALS IS 298 00:10:56,571 --> 00:10:58,607 BASED ON THE LENGTH OF THE TRIAL 299 00:10:58,607 --> 00:10:59,274 AND SPECIFICALLY HOW MANY NIGHTS 300 00:10:59,274 --> 00:11:01,376 THEY HAVE TO SPEND IN THE 301 00:11:01,376 --> 00:11:02,611 FACILITY SO THE GOING RATE IS 302 00:11:02,611 --> 00:11:04,079 ABOUT TWO HUNDRED TO TWO HUNDRED 303 00:11:04,079 --> 00:11:06,782 FIFTY DOLLARS A NIGHT. AND THE 304 00:11:06,782 --> 00:11:10,285 AVERAGE CLINICAL TRIAL PAYS 305 00:11:10,285 --> 00:11:12,654 ABOUT 3,000 DOLLARS. ANOTHER 306 00:11:12,654 --> 00:11:14,222 COMPONENT OF THIS IS THAT THE 307 00:11:14,222 --> 00:11:16,258 RESEARCH CLINICS REALLY TEND TO 308 00:11:16,258 --> 00:11:17,225 LIKE TO USE PARTICIPANTS WHO 309 00:11:17,225 --> 00:11:20,495 HAVE DONE THE STUDIES BEFORE. 310 00:11:20,495 --> 00:11:24,099 BECAUSE THEY NEED TO STAY IN 311 00:11:24,099 --> 00:11:25,767 THESE PLACES AND OFTEN PEOPLE 312 00:11:25,767 --> 00:11:27,769 HAVE THE RIGHT TO WITHDRAW FROM 313 00:11:27,769 --> 00:11:29,271 CLINICAL RESEARCH. THE HOPE IS 314 00:11:29,271 --> 00:11:30,605 THAT THEY WON'T WITHDRAW AND SO 315 00:11:30,605 --> 00:11:33,175 A LOT OF TIMES THE RESEARCH 316 00:11:33,175 --> 00:11:34,142 FACILITIES FEEL LIKE WELL, IF WE 317 00:11:34,142 --> 00:11:35,577 HAVE PEOPLE THAT WE KNOW AND WE 318 00:11:35,577 --> 00:11:36,244 TRUST WE'LL ACTUALLY GET THROUGH 319 00:11:36,244 --> 00:11:38,914 THE STUDIES. THAT'S BENEFICIAL 320 00:11:38,914 --> 00:11:40,482 TO US. SO THEY OFTEN LOOK FOR 321 00:11:40,482 --> 00:11:42,384 PEOPLE WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH 322 00:11:42,384 --> 00:11:43,985 TRIALS BEFORE, KNOW WHAT IS PART 323 00:11:43,985 --> 00:11:48,190 OF THOSE TRIALS. AND PRIORITIZE 324 00:11:48,190 --> 00:11:48,957 THOSE INDIVIDUALS. AND I'LL 325 00:11:48,957 --> 00:11:51,526 TALK ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WANT 326 00:11:51,526 --> 00:11:52,394 TO PARTICIPATE OVER AND OVER 327 00:11:52,394 --> 00:11:56,765 AGAIN IN STUDIES AS WELL. IT 328 00:11:56,765 --> 00:11:58,867 OFTEN, PEOPLE OFTEN ASK ME, 329 00:11:58,867 --> 00:12:00,635 LIKE, WELL HOW RISKY ARE THESE 330 00:12:00,635 --> 00:12:01,870 STUDIES TO HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS 331 00:12:01,870 --> 00:12:03,839 AND THAT'S A HARD QUESTION TO 332 00:12:03,839 --> 00:12:05,907 UNDERSTAND. OF COURSE IT 333 00:12:05,907 --> 00:12:06,341 DEPENDS ON WHAT THE 334 00:12:06,341 --> 00:12:08,210 INVESTIGATIONAL DRUG IS AND WHAT 335 00:12:08,210 --> 00:12:10,145 PROCEDURES ARE PART OF A STUDY 336 00:12:10,145 --> 00:12:13,315 AS WELL. SOME PEOPLE HAVE TRIED 337 00:12:13,315 --> 00:12:15,717 TO QUANTIFY THIS BY DOING 338 00:12:15,717 --> 00:12:16,985 METAANALYSES OF MULTIPLE STUDIES 339 00:12:16,985 --> 00:12:19,654 TO CREATE A PICTURE OF PHASE ONE 340 00:12:19,654 --> 00:12:21,690 TRIALS. AND SO THOSE ANALYSES 341 00:12:21,690 --> 00:12:23,291 SHOW THAT ABOUT 65% OF ALL 342 00:12:23,291 --> 00:12:25,360 HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS ARE GOING TO 343 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:26,394 EXPERIENCE AT LEAST ONE ADVERSE 344 00:12:26,394 --> 00:12:30,665 EVENT DURING A CLINICAL TRIAL. 345 00:12:30,665 --> 00:12:32,200 THIS COULD BE SOMETHING VERY 346 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,570 MILD LIKE MAYBE A MILD HEADACHE, 347 00:12:35,570 --> 00:12:37,539 MAYBE GASTROINTESTINAL CHANGES 348 00:12:37,539 --> 00:12:41,276 AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND THEY 349 00:12:41,276 --> 00:12:42,077 TEND TO BE TRANSIENT AND THEIR 350 00:12:42,077 --> 00:12:44,212 QUICK TO RESOLVE. THAT SAID 351 00:12:44,212 --> 00:12:47,249 ABOUT 1-4% OF ADVERSE EVENTS ARE 352 00:12:47,249 --> 00:12:48,116 SERIOUS. AND I THINK PROBABLY 353 00:12:48,116 --> 00:12:50,051 MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF SOME 354 00:12:50,051 --> 00:12:51,953 OF THE PHASE ONE CATASTROPHES 355 00:12:51,953 --> 00:12:53,688 THAT HAVE HAPPENED SO THERE WAS 356 00:12:53,688 --> 00:12:56,224 A DEATH AT HOP KINS IN 2001. 357 00:12:56,224 --> 00:12:58,960 THERE WAS A DEATH AT LILY 358 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:05,467 TESTING FACILITY IN 2004. 359 00:13:05,467 --> 00:13:08,203 PROBABLY THE CASE WE TALK ABOUT 360 00:13:08,203 --> 00:13:09,104 THE MOST IS THE INJURY IN LONDON 361 00:13:09,104 --> 00:13:12,941 IN 2006. THIS WAS WHEN A 362 00:13:12,941 --> 00:13:13,975 BIOLOGIC WAS GIVEN AND THE 363 00:13:13,975 --> 00:13:16,144 PARTICIPANT WHO IS RECEIVED THE 364 00:13:16,144 --> 00:13:18,179 ACTIVE DRUG WENT INTO MULTIPLE 365 00:13:18,179 --> 00:13:21,249 ORGAN FAILURE VERY QUICKLY AFTER 366 00:13:21,249 --> 00:13:21,683 RECEIVING THE DRUG. 367 00:13:21,683 --> 00:13:22,317 AND IT RAISED QUESTIONS ABOUT 368 00:13:22,317 --> 00:13:24,786 THE TIMING OF DOSING HEALTHY 369 00:13:24,786 --> 00:13:26,454 VOLUNTEERS. AND THEN MOST 370 00:13:26,454 --> 00:13:29,391 RECENTLY THERE WAS A DEATH AT 371 00:13:29,391 --> 00:13:34,129 THE BIO TRIAL FACILITY IN FRANCE 372 00:13:34,129 --> 00:13:37,065 IN 2016. 373 00:13:37,065 --> 00:13:38,233 IT'S RARE THAT SOMEONE WILL DIE 374 00:13:38,233 --> 00:13:39,801 FROM A PHASE ONE TRIAL BUT IT 375 00:13:39,801 --> 00:13:42,437 DOES HAPPEN. I BECAME REALLY 376 00:13:42,437 --> 00:13:43,605 INTERESTED IN THE PHASE ONE 377 00:13:43,605 --> 00:13:44,606 INDUSTRY WHEN I WAS DOING 378 00:13:44,606 --> 00:13:46,274 ANOTHER PROJECT THAT WAS REALLY 379 00:13:46,274 --> 00:13:48,443 LOOKING AT THE OUTSOURCING OF 380 00:13:48,443 --> 00:13:50,111 PHARMACEUTICAL CLINICAL TRIALS 381 00:13:50,111 --> 00:13:54,349 AWAY FROM ACADEMIC MEDICAL 382 00:13:54,349 --> 00:13:55,016 CENTERS TO FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES 383 00:13:55,016 --> 00:13:56,885 THAT WERE CONDUCTING THEM AND AS 384 00:13:56,885 --> 00:14:02,190 I WAS DOING THAT RESEARCH WHEN I 385 00:14:02,190 --> 00:14:05,493 STARTED TO SEE WAS ALL THESE 386 00:14:05,493 --> 00:14:06,361 FACILITIES WERE BEING BUILT TO 387 00:14:06,361 --> 00:14:07,963 DO TRIALS AND THAT WAS 388 00:14:07,963 --> 00:14:09,798 FASCINATING TO ME BECAUSE IT WAS 389 00:14:09,798 --> 00:14:11,232 PART OF THIS OUTSOURCING THAT I 390 00:14:11,232 --> 00:14:13,101 WAS SEEING BUT ALSO A SCALE 391 00:14:13,101 --> 00:14:14,402 SHIFT THAT WAS PART OF IT. A 392 00:14:14,402 --> 00:14:16,605 LOT OF THE NEW FACILITIES BEING 393 00:14:16,605 --> 00:14:20,208 BUILT WERE REALLY LARGE. SO IF 394 00:14:20,208 --> 00:14:21,610 YOU KIND OF THINK ABOUT MOST 395 00:14:21,610 --> 00:14:24,312 RESEARCH UNITS OF THIS KIND THAT 396 00:14:24,312 --> 00:14:27,015 MIGHT BE AT AN ACADEMIC MEDICAL 397 00:14:27,015 --> 00:14:28,483 CENTER THEY'RE PRETTY SMALL, 398 00:14:28,483 --> 00:14:30,785 PROBABLY 12-16 BED UNITS BUT A 399 00:14:30,785 --> 00:14:33,121 LOT OF THESE FACILITIES WERE 400 00:14:33,121 --> 00:14:36,291 BUILDING 100-200 BED RESEARCH 401 00:14:36,291 --> 00:14:37,559 UNITS. THERE ARE TWO IN THE 402 00:14:37,559 --> 00:14:41,930 U.S. THAT ARE 300 BED UNITS. 403 00:14:41,930 --> 00:14:42,931 THESE ARE ACTUALLY BIGGER THAN 404 00:14:42,931 --> 00:14:44,499 SOME COMMUNITY HOSPITALS. IT 405 00:14:44,499 --> 00:14:46,701 MADE ME WONDER WHO IS 406 00:14:46,701 --> 00:14:49,270 PARTICIPATING IN THESE STUDIES, 407 00:14:49,270 --> 00:14:51,106 HOW ARE THEY GETTING SO MANY 408 00:14:51,106 --> 00:14:53,274 HEALTHY VOLUNTEER TO FILL THESE 409 00:14:53,274 --> 00:14:55,276 FACILITIES SO I CONDUCTED 410 00:14:55,276 --> 00:14:56,544 ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH T 411 00:14:56,544 --> 00:14:57,212 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH. 412 00:14:57,212 --> 00:15:00,582 ON THESE FACILITIES. AND I WENT 413 00:15:00,582 --> 00:15:02,384 TO SIX DIFFERENT FACILITIES IN 414 00:15:02,384 --> 00:15:04,019 THE U.S. AND I REALLY WANTED TO 415 00:15:04,019 --> 00:15:05,186 HAVE A VARIETY OF TYPES OF 416 00:15:05,186 --> 00:15:07,322 RESEARCH SETTINGS SO I WENT TO 417 00:15:07,322 --> 00:15:11,159 ONE ACADEMIC SITE AND FIVE 418 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:13,061 FOR-PROFIT SITES. ONE OF THESE 419 00:15:13,061 --> 00:15:14,829 WAS A PHARMACEUTICAL SITE. TWO 420 00:15:14,829 --> 00:15:16,564 WERE OWNED AND OPERATED BY 421 00:15:16,564 --> 00:15:19,300 CONTRACT RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS. 422 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:20,869 WHICH HAVE KIND OF DIFFERENT 423 00:15:20,869 --> 00:15:21,469 FUNCTION IN THE INDUSTRY AND 424 00:15:21,469 --> 00:15:22,937 THEN TWO WERE JUST KIND OF 425 00:15:22,937 --> 00:15:24,239 INDEPENDENTLY OWNED. THEY 426 00:15:24,239 --> 00:15:25,707 TALKED ABOUT THEMSELVES AS MOM 427 00:15:25,707 --> 00:15:31,346 AND POP RESEARCH OPERATIONS. 428 00:15:31,346 --> 00:15:37,452 AND I ALSO VARIED IT BY WHERE IT 429 00:15:37,452 --> 00:15:39,721 WAS IN THE COUNTRY. I OBSERVED 430 00:15:39,721 --> 00:15:40,955 PROCEDURES AND SAT IN ON 431 00:15:40,955 --> 00:15:45,960 MEETINGS AND I RESEARCHED STAFF 432 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,329 AND VOLUNTEERS. SO THE THING 433 00:15:48,329 --> 00:15:49,264 THAT SURPRISE ME THE MOST WAS 434 00:15:49,264 --> 00:15:51,566 THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF HEALTHY 435 00:15:51,566 --> 00:15:53,735 VOLUNTEERS WHEN I WENT INTO THIS 436 00:15:53,735 --> 00:15:55,603 RESEARCH I KIND OF EXPECT, I 437 00:15:55,603 --> 00:15:56,805 THINK THERE WAS THIS NARRATIVE 438 00:15:56,805 --> 00:15:58,506 OF OH, IT'S YOUNG, WHITE, 439 00:15:58,506 --> 00:15:59,307 COLLEGE STUDENTS THAT ARE 440 00:15:59,307 --> 00:16:02,210 ENROLLING IN THESE STUDIES 441 00:16:02,210 --> 00:16:03,344 BECAUSE THEY NEED SOME BEER 442 00:16:03,344 --> 00:16:04,913 MONEY AND THAT WAS SO FAR FROM 443 00:16:04,913 --> 00:16:06,281 WHAT I FOUND WHEN I ACTUALLY 444 00:16:06,281 --> 00:16:08,783 START DOING THIS RESEARCH THAT 445 00:16:08,783 --> 00:16:11,453 MOST OF THE PARTICIPANTS WERE 446 00:16:11,453 --> 00:16:12,821 MALE AND THAT -- I REFERENCED 447 00:16:12,821 --> 00:16:14,989 EARLIER THAT THE NONHUMAN ANIMAL 448 00:16:14,989 --> 00:16:19,294 STUDIES AREN'T COMPLETE A LOT OF 449 00:16:19,294 --> 00:16:21,763 TIMES WHEN THESE STUDIES BEGIN 450 00:16:21,763 --> 00:16:23,765 THERE ARE A LOT OF RESTRICTIONS 451 00:16:23,765 --> 00:16:25,133 ON WOMEN OF CHILD BEARING 452 00:16:25,133 --> 00:16:28,470 POTENTIAL BUT IT WAS 75-80% MEN 453 00:16:28,470 --> 00:16:31,339 IN THESE FACILITIES AND IT WAS A 454 00:16:31,339 --> 00:16:32,207 DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF 455 00:16:32,207 --> 00:16:33,908 MINORITY PARTICIPANTS SO IN THE 456 00:16:33,908 --> 00:16:35,510 EAST AND THE MIDWEST IT WAS 457 00:16:35,510 --> 00:16:37,278 MOSTLY BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 458 00:16:37,278 --> 00:16:38,913 PARTICIPANTS AND IN THE 459 00:16:38,913 --> 00:16:42,250 SOUTHWEST IT WAS MOSTLY LATINO 460 00:16:42,250 --> 00:16:42,951 PARTICIPANTS. AND MOST 461 00:16:42,951 --> 00:16:45,019 PARTICIPANTS WERE BETWEEN THE 462 00:16:45,019 --> 00:16:48,723 AGES OF 20 AND 45 BUT IF WE LOOK 463 00:16:48,723 --> 00:16:52,594 AT WELL HOW OLD WERE THEY IN 464 00:16:52,594 --> 00:16:54,929 THAT BRACKET MOST WERE 30S OR 465 00:16:54,929 --> 00:16:55,764 EARLY 40S. THEY WEREN'T AS 466 00:16:55,764 --> 00:16:57,766 YOUNG AS I EXPECTED AND MOST 467 00:16:57,766 --> 00:16:58,533 WERE LOWER INCOME, LOW 468 00:16:58,533 --> 00:17:01,236 EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT. AND 469 00:17:01,236 --> 00:17:02,871 THEY WERE PEOPLE WHO HAD AN 470 00:17:02,871 --> 00:17:04,072 UNSTABLE EMPLOYMENT HISTORY AND 471 00:17:04,072 --> 00:17:05,507 I ALSO FOUND THAT MANY ACTUALLY 472 00:17:05,507 --> 00:17:07,709 HAD A HISTORY OF INCARCERATION. 473 00:17:07,709 --> 00:17:10,078 AND MANY WERE IMMIGRANTS. SOME 474 00:17:10,078 --> 00:17:12,046 OF WHOM WERE NOT LEGALLY 475 00:17:12,046 --> 00:17:14,182 PERMITTED TO WORK IN THE U.S. SO 476 00:17:14,182 --> 00:17:15,884 FOR BOTH OF THESE LAST 477 00:17:15,884 --> 00:17:17,752 CATEGORIES WHAT I FOUND IS THIS 478 00:17:17,752 --> 00:17:19,120 BECAME A REALLY IMPORTANT 479 00:17:19,120 --> 00:17:20,255 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY TO THOSE 480 00:17:20,255 --> 00:17:21,923 GROUPS WHO MIGHT FACE 481 00:17:21,923 --> 00:17:25,059 DISCRIMINATION. IN THE TYPICAL 482 00:17:25,059 --> 00:17:34,068 JOB MARKET. SO THESE IF A -- 483 00:17:34,068 --> 00:17:35,336 FACILITIES DIDN'T ASK IF THEY 484 00:17:35,336 --> 00:17:37,806 HAD A CRIMINAL RECORD OR THEIR 485 00:17:37,806 --> 00:17:38,807 IMMIGRATION STATUS. 486 00:17:38,807 --> 00:17:41,009 FOR ME WHEN WE THINK ABOUT HOW 487 00:17:41,009 --> 00:17:42,644 IMPORTANT IT IS TO DIVERSIFY 488 00:17:42,644 --> 00:17:49,050 MEDICAL RESEARCH AND TO GET 489 00:17:49,050 --> 00:17:49,984 UNDERREPRES 490 00:17:49,984 --> 00:17:51,886 UNDERREPRES 491 00:17:51,886 --> 00:17:56,191 UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS INTO 492 00:17:56,191 --> 00:17:57,492 RESEARCH. IT MADE ME ASK WHY 493 00:17:57,492 --> 00:17:59,260 DOESN'T THIS HIGHER PERCENTAGE 494 00:17:59,260 --> 00:18:00,929 OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES 495 00:18:00,929 --> 00:18:03,164 FEEL LIKE A SUCCESS? AND SO IN 496 00:18:03,164 --> 00:18:05,333 MY BOOK THAT I PUBLISHED IN 2020 497 00:18:05,333 --> 00:18:08,203 ADVERSE EVENTS, I REALLY TRIED 498 00:18:08,203 --> 00:18:10,572 TO KIND OF UNPACK THIS PARADOX 499 00:18:10,572 --> 00:18:13,274 OF MINORITIES PARTICIPATING IN 500 00:18:13,274 --> 00:18:15,210 THE RISKIEST STUDIES WITH NO 501 00:18:15,210 --> 00:18:16,945 DIRECT BENEFIT TO KIND OF FIGURE 502 00:18:16,945 --> 00:18:18,279 OUT HOW TO ANALYZE THIS, HOW TO 503 00:18:18,279 --> 00:18:20,014 THINK ABOUT THIS FROM AN ETHICAL 504 00:18:20,014 --> 00:18:20,949 PERSPECTIVE AND SO MY ARGUMENT 505 00:18:20,949 --> 00:18:23,151 IN THE BOOK IS THAT RACIAL AND 506 00:18:23,151 --> 00:18:25,019 ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES IN THE 507 00:18:25,019 --> 00:18:27,322 U.S. CREATE A MARKET OF HEALTHY 508 00:18:27,322 --> 00:18:30,258 VOLUNTEERS FOR PHASE ONE TRIALS 509 00:18:30,258 --> 00:18:32,193 SO THAT'S I THINK THE PIECE THAT 510 00:18:32,193 --> 00:18:34,562 MAKES THIS SO UNCOMFORTABLE THAT 511 00:18:34,562 --> 00:18:38,266 REALLY IT IS A SYSTEM THAT IS 512 00:18:38,266 --> 00:18:40,401 EXPLOITING POOR PEOPLE OF COLOR 513 00:18:40,401 --> 00:18:41,703 ESSENTIALLY SO THAT'S WHAT I'M 514 00:18:41,703 --> 00:18:43,338 GOING TO MOSTLY FOCUS ON TODAY 515 00:18:43,338 --> 00:18:45,940 THE BOOK ALSO TALKS ABOUT HOW 516 00:18:45,940 --> 00:18:47,609 THERE ARE VALIDITY CONCERNS THAT 517 00:18:47,609 --> 00:18:49,444 ARE REALLY INHERENT TO HOW THE 518 00:18:49,444 --> 00:18:50,445 PHASE ONE INDUSTRY WORKS AND 519 00:18:50,445 --> 00:18:52,380 THAT ENSURES THAT ANY DRUGS 520 00:18:52,380 --> 00:18:53,581 APPEAR SAFER THAN THEY ARE AND 521 00:18:53,581 --> 00:18:55,016 IF PEOPLE HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT 522 00:18:55,016 --> 00:18:56,718 THAT I AM MORE TO TALK ABOUT THE 523 00:18:56,718 --> 00:18:58,419 VALIDITY ISSUES AT THE END SO I 524 00:18:58,419 --> 00:19:01,756 WANT TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF HOW 525 00:19:01,756 --> 00:19:02,557 HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS ACTUALLY TALK 526 00:19:02,557 --> 00:19:03,591 ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING, HOW 527 00:19:03,591 --> 00:19:05,760 THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT WHAT 528 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:07,028 THEY'RE GOING AND THEY REALLY 529 00:19:07,028 --> 00:19:08,997 FOCUS ON THEIR FINANCIAL 530 00:19:08,997 --> 00:19:09,764 MOTIVATIONS SO, FOR INSTANCE, I 531 00:19:09,764 --> 00:19:14,702 SHOULD SAY ON ALL OF THESE NAMES 532 00:19:14,702 --> 00:19:19,674 ARE PSEUDONYMS LOUIS TOLD ME I 533 00:19:19,674 --> 00:19:20,341 WANTED TO MAKE SOME MONEY. 534 00:19:20,341 --> 00:19:26,180 (READING). AND PEOPLE REALLY 535 00:19:26,180 --> 00:19:29,517 DID FOCUS ON SORT OF THE 536 00:19:29,517 --> 00:19:31,286 DESPERATION THAT DROVE THEM TO 537 00:19:31,286 --> 00:19:31,886 PARTICIPATE. ESPECIALLY THE 538 00:19:31,886 --> 00:19:32,887 FIRST TIME I WOULD SAY. THAT 539 00:19:32,887 --> 00:19:34,689 WAS REALLY PART OF THEIR 540 00:19:34,689 --> 00:19:36,557 NARRATIVE OF WHY THEY KIND OF 541 00:19:36,557 --> 00:19:39,327 DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE 542 00:19:39,327 --> 00:19:41,596 THIS. AND MANNY'S STORY REALLY 543 00:19:41,596 --> 00:19:44,198 STRUCK ME BECAUSE HE FOUND OUT 544 00:19:44,198 --> 00:19:46,868 ABOUT PARTICIPATING WHEN HE WAS 545 00:19:46,868 --> 00:19:48,670 AT A PAROLE HEARING AND THERE 546 00:19:48,670 --> 00:19:50,905 WERE FLYERS ON THE WALL 547 00:19:50,905 --> 00:19:51,673 ADVERTISING CLINICAL TRIALS SO 548 00:19:51,673 --> 00:19:55,209 HE HADN'T EVEN KNOWN ABOUT IT 549 00:19:55,209 --> 00:19:58,446 BEFORE THAT AND SO HE -- LEA 550 00:19:58,446 --> 00:20:01,215 LEARNING ABOUT IT AND GRANTED 551 00:20:01,215 --> 00:20:02,717 PAROLE HE FELT IT WAS SOMETHING 552 00:20:02,717 --> 00:20:04,185 HE HAD TO DO. HE SAID WHERE 553 00:20:04,185 --> 00:20:06,321 ELSE AM AN I GOING TO GET IT. 554 00:20:06,321 --> 00:20:07,789 MEANING THE MONEY FROM THE 555 00:20:07,789 --> 00:20:08,323 STUDY. CAR'S BROKE DOWN 556 00:20:08,323 --> 00:20:18,800 (READING). MANNY WENT TO A 557 00:20:23,972 --> 00:20:25,807 STATE WHERE HE HAD TO PAY FOR 558 00:20:25,807 --> 00:20:29,944 THE COST OF HIS OWN SUPERVISION. 559 00:20:29,944 --> 00:20:31,579 HE HAD EXTRA FINANCIAL 560 00:20:31,579 --> 00:20:34,248 PRESSURES. ANOTHER EXAMPLE 561 00:20:34,248 --> 00:20:36,484 COMES FROM MIERA SOL WHO SAID 562 00:20:36,484 --> 00:20:38,386 WHAT MADE ME DECIDE TO ENROLL, 563 00:20:38,386 --> 00:20:40,088 TRULY HARDSHIP, THE PEOPLE THAT 564 00:20:40,088 --> 00:20:42,390 GO TO THESE CLINICS OFTEN 565 00:20:42,390 --> 00:20:44,792 THEY'RE PEOPLE THAT BECAUSE OF 566 00:20:44,792 --> 00:20:56,237 LACK OF WORK WE (RWORK WE (READ 567 00:21:01,542 --> 00:21:05,246 EMPHASIZING THIS IDEA THAT IT'S 568 00:21:05,246 --> 00:21:06,814 NOT SOMETHING YOU WANT TO DO 569 00:21:06,814 --> 00:21:07,582 UNLESS YOU HAD TO DO IT AND THIS 570 00:21:07,582 --> 00:21:08,850 WAS DIFFERENT FROM A LOT OF THE 571 00:21:08,850 --> 00:21:10,251 PARTICIPANTS WHO WERE WHITE THAT 572 00:21:10,251 --> 00:21:11,753 I INTERVIEWED. THEY TENDED TO 573 00:21:11,753 --> 00:21:15,857 SEE IT AS A TEMPORARY THING. 574 00:21:15,857 --> 00:21:17,225 SOMETHING THAT THEY IMAGINED 575 00:21:17,225 --> 00:21:18,826 THEY WOULD DO IT ONCE AND THEY 576 00:21:18,826 --> 00:21:20,461 WOULD NEVER HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN 577 00:21:20,461 --> 00:21:22,230 SO FOR INSTANCE, TED SAID I 578 00:21:22,230 --> 00:21:22,830 SUPPOSE IF I DON'T FIND WORK 579 00:21:22,830 --> 00:21:31,873 RIGHT AWAY (READING). SO THIS 580 00:21:31,873 --> 00:21:33,241 BELIEF THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE, 581 00:21:33,241 --> 00:21:34,709 YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT WOULD 582 00:21:34,709 --> 00:21:35,977 KIND OF GET THEM OVER THE HUMP, 583 00:21:35,977 --> 00:21:37,145 HELP THEM PAY THEIR RENT OR 584 00:21:37,145 --> 00:21:38,646 MORTGAGE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT 585 00:21:38,646 --> 00:21:40,248 AND THEN THEY WOULD BE BACK ON 586 00:21:40,248 --> 00:21:41,883 TRACK WHEREAS A LOT OF PEOPLE OF 587 00:21:41,883 --> 00:21:42,784 COLOR DIDN'T HAVE THAT 588 00:21:42,784 --> 00:21:44,085 NARRATIVE. THEY REALLY TALKED 589 00:21:44,085 --> 00:21:46,754 ABOUT HOW CLINICAL TRIALS BECAME 590 00:21:46,754 --> 00:21:50,058 PART OF THEIR STRATEGY TO DEAL 591 00:21:50,058 --> 00:21:52,093 WITH THE PERSISTENT FINANCIAL 592 00:21:52,093 --> 00:21:53,795 PRECARITY THAT THEY WERE 593 00:21:53,795 --> 00:21:54,695 EXPERIENCING SO FOR INSTANCE 594 00:21:54,695 --> 00:21:57,031 WESLEY SAID I THINK I WILL KEEP 595 00:21:57,031 --> 00:21:59,300 DOING THEM UNTIL I GET OLD 596 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:09,844 (READING). SO DEFINITELY THIS 597 00:22:18,352 --> 00:22:20,388 WORRY OF HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS TO 598 00:22:20,388 --> 00:22:23,357 GET AHEAD. FOR A LOT OF THE 599 00:22:23,357 --> 00:22:26,627 PEOPLE THAT I MET. AT THE SAME 600 00:22:26,627 --> 00:22:27,328 TIME, SO THERE WERE PARTICIPANT 601 00:22:27,328 --> 00:22:28,763 WHO IS WERE DOING IT JUST KIND 602 00:22:28,763 --> 00:22:31,699 OF AS A SURVIVAL STRATEGY BUT 603 00:22:31,699 --> 00:22:35,269 THEN THERE WERE OTHER 604 00:22:35,269 --> 00:22:38,072 PARTICIPANTS THAT SAW YOU COULD 605 00:22:38,072 --> 00:22:38,806 MAKE A LIFESTYLE OUT OF CLINICAL 606 00:22:38,806 --> 00:22:41,142 TRIALS AND THEY TALKED ABOUT 607 00:22:41,142 --> 00:22:43,277 THEMSELVESES NOT AS HUMAN GUINEA 608 00:22:43,277 --> 00:22:50,084 PIGS BUT HUMAN LAB RATS. 609 00:22:50,084 --> 00:22:51,018 BENNETT TALKS ABOUT THIS. 610 00:22:51,018 --> 00:23:01,529 (READING). WHEN BENNETT WAS 611 00:23:36,831 --> 00:23:39,934 TALKING ABOUT MCMCIT WASN'T HYPE 612 00:23:39,934 --> 00:23:42,403 CALENDAR HE HAD ACTUALLY WORKED 613 00:23:42,403 --> 00:23:44,872 AT MCDONALD'S SO HE WAS TALKING 614 00:23:44,872 --> 00:23:47,275 ABOUT THE LIFE HE COULD LEAD IN 615 00:23:47,275 --> 00:23:49,377 THE HOURLY BASED VERSUS CLINICAL 616 00:23:49,377 --> 00:23:50,244 STUDIES. AT THE SAME TIME WE 617 00:23:50,244 --> 00:23:53,080 DID SEE SOME DRAWBACKS HE SAID 618 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,782 THE THING THAT THE LAB RAT THING 619 00:23:54,782 --> 00:23:57,351 LACKS IS CONSISTENCY. IF MY 620 00:23:57,351 --> 00:24:00,154 RENT IS DUE AND THE STUDY GETS 621 00:24:00,154 --> 00:24:02,256 CANCELED MY RENT GETS CANCELED 622 00:24:02,256 --> 00:24:12,800 (READING). AND THEN THE IDEA OF 623 00:24:18,673 --> 00:24:21,676 COMPETITION WAS REALLY A BIG 624 00:24:21,676 --> 00:24:24,078 PART OF THE CLIMATE OR THE 625 00:24:24,078 --> 00:24:25,346 CULTURE OF PARTICIPATION THAT 626 00:24:25,346 --> 00:24:27,281 PARTICIPANTS REALLY DID WORRY 627 00:24:27,281 --> 00:24:28,749 ABOUT BEING ABLE TO GET IN 628 00:24:28,749 --> 00:24:30,685 STUDIES WHEN THEY WANTED IT AND 629 00:24:30,685 --> 00:24:32,253 I WILL COME BACK TO THAT THEME 630 00:24:32,253 --> 00:24:34,288 IN A LITTLE BIT BUT FIRST I JUST 631 00:24:34,288 --> 00:24:37,325 WANTED TO, SO IN A SUBSEQUENT 632 00:24:37,325 --> 00:24:41,596 STUDY THAT MY TEAM AND I 633 00:24:41,596 --> 00:24:46,234 CONDUCTED WE DID LONGITUDINAL 634 00:24:46,234 --> 00:24:48,669 WORK WITH VOLUNTEERS TO TALK 635 00:24:48,669 --> 00:24:50,238 ABOUT THE STUDIES THEY ENROLLED 636 00:24:50,238 --> 00:24:52,907 WITH IN A THREE YEAR PERIOD SO 637 00:24:52,907 --> 00:24:53,774 WE TALKED ABOUT HOW MUCH 638 00:24:53,774 --> 00:24:54,909 CLINICAL TRIALS WERE PAID AND 639 00:24:54,909 --> 00:24:56,077 HOW MUCH PEOPLE WERE EARNING SO 640 00:24:56,077 --> 00:24:58,012 THIS GIVES YOU A SENSE OF HOW 641 00:24:58,012 --> 00:24:59,280 MUCH THE STUDY THE PAID DURING 642 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,250 THAT TIMEFRAME AND YOU CAN SEE 643 00:25:02,250 --> 00:25:06,254 MOST OF THEM PAID UNDER 6,000 644 00:25:06,254 --> 00:25:09,790 DOLLARS BUT THERE WERE SOME THAT 645 00:25:09,790 --> 00:25:13,995 QUITE SUBSTANTIAL IN PAYMENT. I 646 00:25:13,995 --> 00:25:16,264 ALSO JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU 647 00:25:16,264 --> 00:25:17,398 SOME DATA ABOUT HOW MUCH PEOPLE 648 00:25:17,398 --> 00:25:19,267 EARNED IN A YEAR SO WHAT YOU 649 00:25:19,267 --> 00:25:22,703 COULD SEE IS THAT THE AVERAGE 650 00:25:22,703 --> 00:25:24,338 PARTICIPANT WAS SCREENING FOR 651 00:25:24,338 --> 00:25:27,942 ABOUT THREE STUDIES A YEAR AND 652 00:25:27,942 --> 00:25:30,177 PARTICIPATING IN ONE OR TWO. 653 00:25:30,177 --> 00:25:32,246 AND EARNING ABOUT 4,000 DOLLARS. 654 00:25:32,246 --> 00:25:35,016 SO PEOPLE WERE CERTAINLY NOT 655 00:25:35,016 --> 00:25:37,385 GETTING RICH ON THIS. BUT THIS 656 00:25:37,385 --> 00:25:39,253 IS KIND OF AN AVERAGE ACROSS 657 00:25:39,253 --> 00:25:41,222 PEOPLE. ONE OF THINGS I WANTED 658 00:25:41,222 --> 00:25:42,990 TO POINT OUT TOO. YOU COULD SEE 659 00:25:42,990 --> 00:25:44,859 THERE WAS A THREE YEAR STUDY WE 660 00:25:44,859 --> 00:25:47,662 STARTED WITH 113 PEOPLE IN -- 661 00:25:47,662 --> 00:25:50,231 SORRY, 131 PEOPLE IN OUR STUDY 662 00:25:50,231 --> 00:25:54,201 BUT IN THE FIRST YEAR 113 OF 663 00:25:54,201 --> 00:25:56,037 THEM CONTINUED TO SCREEN FOR 664 00:25:56,037 --> 00:25:58,939 TRIALS SO SOME STOPPED 665 00:25:58,939 --> 00:26:01,242 BASICALLY. 14% STOPPED. BUT 666 00:26:01,242 --> 00:26:02,910 YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBER GOES DOWN 667 00:26:02,910 --> 00:26:04,478 EVERY YEAR SO THERE ARE PEOPLE 668 00:26:04,478 --> 00:26:06,247 WHO ARE PARTICIPATING REGULARLY 669 00:26:06,247 --> 00:26:07,281 BUT WE ACTUALLY SAW THAT THE 670 00:26:07,281 --> 00:26:09,550 NUMBER WAS DECREASING AND ONE OF 671 00:26:09,550 --> 00:26:13,154 THE REASONS FOR THIS IS PEOPLE 672 00:26:13,154 --> 00:26:16,157 FELT DISILLUSIONED WITH THE FACT 673 00:26:16,157 --> 00:26:18,125 THAT THEY WEREN'T EARNING AS 674 00:26:18,125 --> 00:26:20,194 MUCH MONEY AS THEY THOUGHT THEY 675 00:26:20,194 --> 00:26:23,464 MIGHT BE ABLE TO. THE NOTE ON 676 00:26:23,464 --> 00:26:24,165 COMPENSATION, PARTICIPANTS 677 00:26:24,165 --> 00:26:26,467 REALLY HAVE CRITICAL STANCES ON 678 00:26:26,467 --> 00:26:27,935 THE INDUSTRY. SO SHIRLEY SAID 679 00:26:27,935 --> 00:26:29,804 THE DRUG COMPANIES, THE ACADEMIC 680 00:26:29,804 --> 00:26:30,938 INSTITUTIONS OR WHATEVER IT IS, 681 00:26:30,938 --> 00:26:34,108 THIS HUGE WHEEL THAT TURNS, YOU 682 00:26:34,108 --> 00:26:35,409 KNOW, TO POWER CLINICAL STUDIES, 683 00:26:35,409 --> 00:26:45,886 (READING). SO THERE'S REAL 684 00:26:52,426 --> 00:26:53,160 FEELING THAT DESPITE HOW WE 685 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:54,395 THINK THESE REALLY PAY QUITE A 686 00:26:54,395 --> 00:26:56,364 LOT, A SUBSTANTIAL PAYMENT A LOT 687 00:26:56,364 --> 00:26:59,300 OF TIMES THE PARTICIPANTS FELT 688 00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:02,970 IT WAS NOT AS GENEROUS AS IT 689 00:27:02,970 --> 00:27:06,540 MIGHT SEEM. SO I WANT TO GIVE 690 00:27:06,540 --> 00:27:10,611 YOU A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT THE 691 00:27:10,611 --> 00:27:13,013 RISKS THEY FEEL. AND HOW THEY 692 00:27:13,013 --> 00:27:14,248 ACKNOWLEDGE AND RATIONALIZE RISK 693 00:27:14,248 --> 00:27:16,984 AS WELL AS THE RISK OF NOT 694 00:27:16,984 --> 00:27:18,719 QUALIFYING, PARTICIPANTS 695 00:27:18,719 --> 00:27:20,721 DEFINITELY ARE AWARE OF WHAT THE 696 00:27:20,721 --> 00:27:22,390 STUDIES REQUIRE, THEY ARE 697 00:27:22,390 --> 00:27:23,824 READING THE CONSENT FORMS, SOME 698 00:27:23,824 --> 00:27:25,659 OF THESE CLINICS ACTUALLY QUIZ 699 00:27:25,659 --> 00:27:26,961 THEM ON THE CONTENT OF THE 700 00:27:26,961 --> 00:27:29,163 CONSENT FORMS SO THEY KNOW 701 00:27:29,163 --> 00:27:30,164 THERE'S RISK. THIS PARTICIPANT 702 00:27:30,164 --> 00:27:40,608 SAID, (READING). SO THIS 703 00:27:45,579 --> 00:27:48,015 FEELING THAT THERE IS RISK, IT 704 00:27:48,015 --> 00:27:49,049 IS SOMETHING THAT COULD HURT YOU 705 00:27:49,049 --> 00:27:52,787 IN THE LONG-TERM IF YOU ARE NOT 706 00:27:52,787 --> 00:27:55,222 CAREFUL. JULIA SAID I TREAT 707 00:27:55,222 --> 00:27:56,457 EVERY DRUG OR EVERY PROCEDURE 708 00:27:56,457 --> 00:27:58,459 DIFFERENTLY I'M VERY CONCERNED 709 00:27:58,459 --> 00:27:59,894 ABOUT EVERY SIDE EFFECT JUST AS 710 00:27:59,894 --> 00:28:01,195 I WAS THE FIRST TIME BECAUSE 711 00:28:01,195 --> 00:28:02,129 THIS MIGHT BE THE ONE, IT'S A 712 00:28:02,129 --> 00:28:04,398 RISK THAT YOU'RE TAKING, THIS IS 713 00:28:04,398 --> 00:28:08,102 YOUR LIFE AND HEALTH AT STAKE. 714 00:28:08,102 --> 00:28:08,736 AT THE SAME TIME, PARTICIPANTS 715 00:28:08,736 --> 00:28:09,904 REALLY RATIONALIZE THE RISK. 716 00:28:09,904 --> 00:28:11,305 THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE RISK 717 00:28:11,305 --> 00:28:15,109 WAS OUT THERE BUT THEY ALSO 718 00:28:15,109 --> 00:28:16,644 TENDED TO BELIEVE THEY WEREN'T 719 00:28:16,644 --> 00:28:17,778 GOING TO BE HARMED INDIVIDUALLY 720 00:28:17,778 --> 00:28:18,779 SO THIS PARTICIPATE SAID, 721 00:28:18,779 --> 00:28:20,548 NORMALLY THEY SORT OF TALK ABOUT 722 00:28:20,548 --> 00:28:23,284 HOW LIKE WE TEST THESE DRUGS 723 00:28:23,284 --> 00:28:33,828 (READING). ANOTHER PARTICIPANT 724 00:28:37,798 --> 00:28:39,266 TALKED ABOUT HIS OWN HEALTH AND 725 00:28:39,266 --> 00:28:40,901 YOUTH AND SAID THE BEST TIME TO 726 00:28:40,901 --> 00:28:43,270 DO IT IS WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG AND 727 00:28:43,270 --> 00:28:45,840 YOUR BODY HAS A CHANCE TO REPAIR 728 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,241 ITSELF. WHEN YOU'RE OLD THERE'S 729 00:28:47,241 --> 00:28:50,377 NOT MUCH LEFT IN THE TANK SO I 730 00:28:50,377 --> 00:28:54,482 THINK (READING). AND THIS 731 00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:56,851 ACTUALLY PARALLELS WHAT I WAS 732 00:28:56,851 --> 00:28:57,885 SAYING ABOUT THERE BEING 733 00:28:57,885 --> 00:28:59,587 POTENTIALLY LESS RISK TO HEALTHY 734 00:28:59,587 --> 00:29:01,822 VOLUNTEERS BECAUSE THEY'RE 735 00:29:01,822 --> 00:29:04,658 HEALTHY SO TROY HAS SORT OF 736 00:29:04,658 --> 00:29:07,228 EMBODIED THAT IDEA HERE. A LOT 737 00:29:07,228 --> 00:29:09,296 OF THE PARTICIPANTS, WE TALK 738 00:29:09,296 --> 00:29:10,965 ABOUT TRUST AND DISTRUST OF 739 00:29:10,965 --> 00:29:11,966 RESEARCH BUT A LOT OF THE 740 00:29:11,966 --> 00:29:13,734 PARTICIPANTS WHO ARE IN THESE 741 00:29:13,734 --> 00:29:14,835 STUDIES ACTUALLY HAVE A LOT OF 742 00:29:14,835 --> 00:29:18,038 TRUST IN THE CLINICS AND IN THE 743 00:29:18,038 --> 00:29:23,277 PROCESS. SO AR NELL SAID I'M 744 00:29:23,277 --> 00:29:25,746 TRUST 745 00:29:25,746 --> 00:29:28,282 TRUSTING THE IRB, HE WASN'T SURE 746 00:29:28,282 --> 00:29:38,425 WHAT THAT IS (READING). HOOIB R 747 00:29:38,425 --> 00:29:41,295 HERE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT IF NEW 748 00:29:41,295 --> 00:29:42,329 RISKS EMERGE THEY HAVE TO GIVE 749 00:29:42,329 --> 00:29:44,265 NEW CONCEPT FORMS AND THEY HAVE 750 00:29:44,265 --> 00:29:45,966 A PROCESS OF INFORMING 751 00:29:45,966 --> 00:29:47,268 PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PROCESS 752 00:29:47,268 --> 00:29:48,802 THEY'RE OPERATING ABOVE BOARD, 753 00:29:48,802 --> 00:29:50,037 CAN I TRUST THAT THEY'RE REALLY 754 00:29:50,037 --> 00:29:51,305 TELLING US THE INFORMATION THAT 755 00:29:51,305 --> 00:29:53,173 I NEED TO HAVE. HE SAID I KIND 756 00:29:53,173 --> 00:29:55,075 OF GO IN WITH A SENSE OF 757 00:29:55,075 --> 00:29:56,277 SECURITY THAT EVERYBODY'S DOING 758 00:29:56,277 --> 00:30:01,482 WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO. SO 759 00:30:01,482 --> 00:30:02,850 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S 760 00:30:02,850 --> 00:30:04,685 INTERESTING IS WHEN I TALK TO 761 00:30:04,685 --> 00:30:05,419 PARTICIPANTS ABOUT RISK THEY 762 00:30:05,419 --> 00:30:07,221 DIDN'T ANSWER THE WAY I 763 00:30:07,221 --> 00:30:08,255 EXPECTED. THEY WERE NOT TALKING 764 00:30:08,255 --> 00:30:09,990 ABOUT THE RISK OF A CLINICAL 765 00:30:09,990 --> 00:30:13,093 TRIAL THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT 766 00:30:13,093 --> 00:30:18,866 THE RISK OF NOT QUALIFYI IING F 767 00:30:18,866 --> 00:30:19,934 STUDIES. FOR THEM IT WAS THE 768 00:30:19,934 --> 00:30:21,635 RISK TO NOT BE INVITED TO 769 00:30:21,635 --> 00:30:24,738 PARTICIPATE SO I THINK THE SENSE 770 00:30:24,738 --> 00:30:26,407 OF RISK REALLY CAME FROM EITHER 771 00:30:26,407 --> 00:30:28,676 THE COMPETITION THAT WAS OUT 772 00:30:28,676 --> 00:30:29,643 THERE BUT PROBABLY MORE OFTEN 773 00:30:29,643 --> 00:30:31,312 FROM ACTUALLY FAILING A 774 00:30:31,312 --> 00:30:32,246 SCREENING. SO FROM THIS PROCESS 775 00:30:32,246 --> 00:30:34,214 OF SAYING, WELL, I'M A HEALTHY 776 00:30:34,214 --> 00:30:36,250 PERSON, I'M GOING TO GO IN AND 777 00:30:36,250 --> 00:30:38,586 THEN FINDING OUT THAT SOMETHING 778 00:30:38,586 --> 00:30:39,920 WAS WRONG IN THEIR BLOODWORK OR 779 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:40,688 SOMETHING AND DIDN'T ACTUALLY 780 00:30:40,688 --> 00:30:43,023 MAKE IT INTO STUDIES. 781 00:30:43,023 --> 00:30:45,960 SO THE CONSEQUENCE OF THIS IS 782 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,195 THEY START TO THINK OF STUDIES 783 00:30:48,195 --> 00:30:49,263 DIFFERENTLY AND PICK THEM 784 00:30:49,263 --> 00:30:49,897 CAREFULLY FOR INSTANCE WHEN I 785 00:30:49,897 --> 00:30:52,232 WAS AT ONE OF THE FACILITIES IN 786 00:30:52,232 --> 00:30:54,068 THE NORTHEAST THEY WERE 787 00:30:54,068 --> 00:30:55,869 SCREENING FOR A HEP C TRIAL AND 788 00:30:55,869 --> 00:30:57,972 IT WAS A DOSE ESCALATION STUDY 789 00:30:57,972 --> 00:30:59,840 AND THEY WERE RECRUITING THE 790 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:03,243 HIGHEST DOSE COHORT FOR THAT 791 00:31:03,243 --> 00:31:13,020 STUDY ARE RECRUITER WAS DOING A 792 00:31:13,020 --> 00:31:16,557 GREAT JOB TALKING ABOUT WHAT TO 793 00:31:16,557 --> 00:31:19,360 EXPECT. PREPARE TO PUKE WAS HER 794 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,129 LINE. AND SO WHAT I STARTED TO 795 00:31:22,129 --> 00:31:25,199 SEE WAS THAT PARTICIPANTS WERE 796 00:31:25,199 --> 00:31:26,634 EITHER DECIDING TO NOT GIVE 797 00:31:26,634 --> 00:31:28,535 THEIR CONSENT AT ALL AND WALK 798 00:31:28,535 --> 00:31:29,570 AWAY OR THEY CONSENTED AND THEY 799 00:31:29,570 --> 00:31:30,938 WENT THROUGH THE SCREENING 800 00:31:30,938 --> 00:31:33,107 PROCESS BUT THEN THE DAY OF THE 801 00:31:33,107 --> 00:31:34,575 STUDY WHEN THEY EXPECTED TWELVE 802 00:31:34,575 --> 00:31:35,909 PARTICIPANTS TO SHOW UP TO CHECK 803 00:31:35,909 --> 00:31:39,346 OUT THE STUDY, ACTUALLY ONLY 804 00:31:39,346 --> 00:31:49,123 FIVE DID AND THE STUDY HAD TO BE 805 00:31:49,123 --> 00:31:53,027 CANCELED IF THEY KNEW IN ADVANCE 806 00:31:53,027 --> 00:31:55,295 THEY WERE GOING TO EXPERIENCE 807 00:31:55,295 --> 00:31:56,964 SIDE EFFECTS. A LOT OF TIMES 808 00:31:56,964 --> 00:31:58,165 PARTICIPANTS ARE ALSO TRYING TO 809 00:31:58,165 --> 00:32:00,534 IMPROVE THEIR CHANCES OF 810 00:32:00,534 --> 00:32:03,270 QUALIFYING FOR STUDIES BY 811 00:32:03,270 --> 00:32:05,339 ENGAGING IN DIFFERENT POST-STUDY 812 00:32:05,339 --> 00:32:06,540 ROUTINES AND SOME OF THESE 813 00:32:06,540 --> 00:32:09,176 THINGS ARE POSITIVE AND SOME ARE 814 00:32:09,176 --> 00:32:10,277 NEGATIVE. EDDIE SAID WHEN WE 815 00:32:10,277 --> 00:32:12,079 GET OUT OF HERE I'M BASICALLY ON 816 00:32:12,079 --> 00:32:15,949 A VITAMIN REGIMEN, SO WE'RE 817 00:32:15,949 --> 00:32:17,117 PUTTING BACK EVERYTHING THEY 818 00:32:17,117 --> 00:32:18,485 TOOK FROM US. HOW MUCH BLOOD 819 00:32:18,485 --> 00:32:21,422 YOU GAVE AND DEPENDING ON HOW 820 00:32:21,422 --> 00:32:31,965 MANY STUDIES YOU DO (READING). 821 00:32:44,778 --> 00:32:46,914 SO I'M A SOCIAL SCIENTIST, I WAS 822 00:32:46,914 --> 00:32:48,949 REALLY STRUCK BY THE LEXICON 823 00:32:48,949 --> 00:32:50,718 THAT THE PARTICIPANTS THAT I WAS 824 00:32:50,718 --> 00:32:53,754 INTERVIEWING WERE USING SO, FOR 825 00:32:53,754 --> 00:32:55,389 INSTANCE, IN THE FIRST FACILITY 826 00:32:55,389 --> 00:32:57,157 THAT I VISITED, THERE WAS A DAY 827 00:32:57,157 --> 00:32:59,259 WHEN ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS WAS 828 00:32:59,259 --> 00:33:01,061 TELLING ME THAT HE REALLY 829 00:33:01,061 --> 00:33:02,963 STRUGGLED WITH HIS BILIRUBIN AND 830 00:33:02,963 --> 00:33:05,933 I HAD NO IDEA WAS BILIRUBIN WAS. 831 00:33:05,933 --> 00:33:08,502 SO I ASKED HIM ABOUT AND IT HE 832 00:33:08,502 --> 00:33:10,871 TOLD ME ABOUT HOW IT WAS A LIVER 833 00:33:10,871 --> 00:33:12,706 ENZYME AND I REMEMBER GOOGLING 834 00:33:12,706 --> 00:33:13,440 IT THAT NIGHT BUT DEFINITELY 835 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:14,441 PARTICIPANTS ARE LEARNING ABOUT 836 00:33:14,441 --> 00:33:15,976 THESE THINGS BECAUSE IT MATTERS 837 00:33:15,976 --> 00:33:18,245 TO THEM. THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT 838 00:33:18,245 --> 00:33:19,646 ENROLLING SO IF THEY FIND OUT 839 00:33:19,646 --> 00:33:22,816 THEY DIDN'T QUALIFY FOR A STUDY 840 00:33:22,816 --> 00:33:25,419 BECAUSE OF THEIR BILIRUBIN NOW 841 00:33:25,419 --> 00:33:26,854 BILIRUBIN IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO 842 00:33:26,854 --> 00:33:29,590 THEM. SO THERE'S ALSO A PROCESS 843 00:33:29,590 --> 00:33:30,224 OF BEHAVIOR CHANGE THAT 844 00:33:30,224 --> 00:33:31,525 PARTICIPANTS ENGAGE IN. SO 845 00:33:31,525 --> 00:33:34,862 THIS, I THOUGHT WAS A GREAT 846 00:33:34,862 --> 00:33:35,763 EXAMPLE THAT CAME UP FROM DON HE 847 00:33:35,763 --> 00:33:38,265 SAID WHEN I FIRST STARTED DOING 848 00:33:38,265 --> 00:33:40,567 STUDIES I WAS SMOKING WEED AND 849 00:33:40,567 --> 00:33:41,135 THAT'S WHAT GOT ME TO STOP 850 00:33:41,135 --> 00:33:51,545 (READING). SO A LOT OF 851 00:34:10,330 --> 00:34:11,532 PARTICIPANTS TALKED ABOUT HOW, 852 00:34:11,532 --> 00:34:13,367 BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T SURE 853 00:34:13,367 --> 00:34:16,069 NECESSARILY WHEN THEY WERE GOING 854 00:34:16,069 --> 00:34:22,810 TO SCREEN FOR A TRIAL -- IF TWO 855 00:34:22,810 --> 00:34:24,378 DAYS LATER THEY WERE GOING FIND 856 00:34:24,378 --> 00:34:26,647 OUT THERE WAS A GREAT STUDY THEY 857 00:34:26,647 --> 00:34:27,748 WANTED TO SCREEN FOR AND MAYBE 858 00:34:27,748 --> 00:34:30,184 THE DRINKING THEY HAD DONE WAS 859 00:34:30,184 --> 00:34:31,385 GOING TO SUDDENLY DISQUALIFY 860 00:34:31,385 --> 00:34:32,853 THEM SO REALLY KIND OF THINKING 861 00:34:32,853 --> 00:34:34,855 ABOUT CLINICAL TRIALS MUCH MORE 862 00:34:34,855 --> 00:34:36,190 SO THAN YOU MIGHT IMAGINE 863 00:34:36,190 --> 00:34:38,625 BECAUSE OF WANTING TO BE ABLE TO 864 00:34:38,625 --> 00:34:42,963 BE COMPETITIVE TO GET IN. SO I 865 00:34:42,963 --> 00:34:44,164 WANT TO SWITCH GEARS A LITTLE 866 00:34:44,164 --> 00:34:46,834 BIT IN THE TIME THAT I HAVE LEFT 867 00:34:46,834 --> 00:34:48,602 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, REALLY WHAT I 868 00:34:48,602 --> 00:34:50,170 WAS TRYING TO DO WITH THIS FIRST 869 00:34:50,170 --> 00:34:52,606 PART OF THE TALK WAS TO THINK 870 00:34:52,606 --> 00:34:55,275 ABOUT HOW PARTICIPANTS FOCUS ON 871 00:34:55,275 --> 00:34:56,343 THE FINANCIAL COMPENSATION THAT 872 00:34:56,343 --> 00:34:58,645 THEY CAN GET FROM STUDIES SORT 873 00:34:58,645 --> 00:35:02,316 OF DOES LEAD TO THEM EVEN IF 874 00:35:02,316 --> 00:35:03,250 THEY ARE NOT PARTICIPATING AS 875 00:35:03,250 --> 00:35:04,218 PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPANTS IN THE 876 00:35:04,218 --> 00:35:06,753 SENSE OF DOING IT FOR A LIVING 877 00:35:06,753 --> 00:35:07,321 THEY'VE KIND OF BECOME 878 00:35:07,321 --> 00:35:08,589 PROFESSIONAL IN THE SENSE WHERE 879 00:35:08,589 --> 00:35:10,357 THEY BECOME EXPERTS ABOUT THE 880 00:35:10,357 --> 00:35:12,092 PROCESS, THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT 881 00:35:12,092 --> 00:35:14,194 THE PROCESS, THEY MIGHT BE 882 00:35:14,194 --> 00:35:16,196 ENGAGING IN BEHAVIORS FOR THE 883 00:35:16,196 --> 00:35:18,065 PROCESS. SO THIS FINANCIAL 884 00:35:18,065 --> 00:35:19,800 COMPENSATION IS CERTAINLY 885 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,705 MOTIVATING IN A MORE HOLISTIC 886 00:35:24,705 --> 00:35:25,439 WAY THAN THEIR DECISION TO 887 00:35:25,439 --> 00:35:28,942 PARTICIPATE OR NOT. BY I WA 888 00:35:28,942 --> 00:35:30,444 WANT -- BUT I WANTED TO FLIP IT 889 00:35:30,444 --> 00:35:30,978 TOO. 890 00:35:30,978 --> 00:35:33,881 A LOT OF TIMES WE THINK ABOUT 891 00:35:33,881 --> 00:35:35,449 POTENTIAL FOR UNDUE INDUCEMENT 892 00:35:35,449 --> 00:35:37,184 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE FINANCIAL 893 00:35:37,184 --> 00:35:40,087 RISK TO PARTICIPANTS? AND HOW 894 00:35:40,087 --> 00:35:43,156 CAN COMPENSATION FOR RESEARCH 895 00:35:43,156 --> 00:35:46,660 ITSELF ACTUALLY OPPOSE A RISK TO 896 00:35:46,660 --> 00:35:48,595 HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS? SO IF WE 897 00:35:48,595 --> 00:35:51,265 THINK ABOUT COMPENSATION IN THE 898 00:35:51,265 --> 00:35:54,468 CONTEXT OF RESEARCH IN THE U.S. 899 00:35:54,468 --> 00:35:56,270 IT'S TAX INCOME SO HEALTHY 900 00:35:56,270 --> 00:35:58,105 VOLUNTEERS ARE INDEPENDENT 901 00:35:58,105 --> 00:35:59,773 CONTRACTORS FOR TAX PURPOSES 902 00:35:59,773 --> 00:36:03,977 IT'S LIKE BEING A DRIVER FOR 903 00:36:03,977 --> 00:36:09,917 UBERER LYFT. THE GIG ECONOMY. 904 00:36:09,917 --> 00:36:12,552 BUT CONSENT FORMS ONLY PROVIDE 905 00:36:12,552 --> 00:36:14,254 LIMITED INFORMATION ABOUT TAX 906 00:36:14,254 --> 00:36:15,022 LIABILITY THEY SAY SOMETHING 907 00:36:15,022 --> 00:36:18,659 ALONG THE LINES OF, YOU KNOW, 908 00:36:18,659 --> 00:36:20,327 THIS INCOME OR THE COMPENSATION 909 00:36:20,327 --> 00:36:23,063 IS REPORT TO BELIEVE THE IRS. 910 00:36:23,063 --> 00:36:25,132 AND THEN UP TO PARTICIPANTS TO 911 00:36:25,132 --> 00:36:27,100 DETERMINE WHAT DOES THAT MEAN 912 00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:29,536 EXACTLY? AND SO AS PART OF IS 913 00:36:29,536 --> 00:36:32,339 THIS FOLLOW UP STUDY THAT WE DID 914 00:36:32,339 --> 00:36:34,675 TO THE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY I 915 00:36:34,675 --> 00:36:35,842 INITIALLY DID WE STARTED TO 916 00:36:35,842 --> 00:36:37,277 REALIZE THAT PARTICIPANTS WERE 917 00:36:37,277 --> 00:36:39,079 TALKING ABOUT TAXES A LOT OVER 918 00:36:39,079 --> 00:36:39,913 THE THREE YEARS THAT THEY WERE 919 00:36:39,913 --> 00:36:42,449 INVOLVED WITH OUR STUDY. AND 920 00:36:42,449 --> 00:36:44,284 WHAT WE SAW WAS THAT THERE WAS 921 00:36:44,284 --> 00:36:45,953 OFTEN THIS INITIAL BELIEF THAT 922 00:36:45,953 --> 00:36:49,289 IT'S TAX-FREE AND THIS IDEA THAT 923 00:36:49,289 --> 00:36:52,059 BEING TAX-FREE BECAUSE TAXES 924 00:36:52,059 --> 00:36:54,061 AREN'T WITHHELD FROM THEIR 925 00:36:54,061 --> 00:36:55,295 COMPENSATION UNLIKE A PAYCHECK 926 00:36:55,295 --> 00:36:56,496 SO THEY HAD THIS FEELING LIKE 927 00:36:56,496 --> 00:36:58,365 WOW, I'M GETTING THIS LUMP SUM 928 00:36:58,365 --> 00:37:01,868 AND THERE'S NO TAXES. HOWEVER, 929 00:37:01,868 --> 00:37:04,905 FOR PARTICIPANTS WHO, 930 00:37:04,905 --> 00:37:06,273 ESPECIALLY, THOSE WHO DID MANY 931 00:37:06,273 --> 00:37:08,809 STUDIES IN THAT FIRST YEAR THAT 932 00:37:08,809 --> 00:37:10,777 THEY EVER DID STUDIES THEY 933 00:37:10,777 --> 00:37:12,379 REALLY WERE SHOCKED WHEN THEY 934 00:37:12,379 --> 00:37:17,084 RECEIVED A 1099 THE NEXT JANUARY 935 00:37:17,084 --> 00:37:18,518 REALLY HAVING THIS FEELING LIKE 936 00:37:18,518 --> 00:37:21,755 IT WAS OUT OF THE BLUE THAT THEY 937 00:37:21,755 --> 00:37:24,524 DIDN'T EXPECT THAT. SO F IN 938 00:37:24,524 --> 00:37:25,792 KIND OF THINKING ABOUT HOW 939 00:37:25,792 --> 00:37:26,860 PARTICIPANTS TALK TO US ABOUT 940 00:37:26,860 --> 00:37:28,829 THE TAX IMPLICATION OF STUDIES. 941 00:37:28,829 --> 00:37:30,597 THERE WERE TWO WAYS OF THINKING 942 00:37:30,597 --> 00:37:32,132 ABOUT IT. SOME OF THEM 943 00:37:32,132 --> 00:37:33,266 NAVIGATED THE TAX SYSTEM AS AN 944 00:37:33,266 --> 00:37:34,568 ENTREPRENEUR LIKE THEY TALKED 945 00:37:34,568 --> 00:37:36,870 ABOUT HOW IT WAS A JOB SO THEY 946 00:37:36,870 --> 00:37:39,039 NEEDED TO SAVE THEIR RECEIPTS 947 00:37:39,039 --> 00:37:40,774 AND ITEMIZE DEDUCTIONS AND THEY 948 00:37:40,774 --> 00:37:44,711 REALLY HAD A VERY SAVVY STRATEGY 949 00:37:44,711 --> 00:37:46,880 OF TRYING TO THINK ABOUT HOW TO 950 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,383 LIMIT THEIR TAX LIABILITY FROM 951 00:37:49,383 --> 00:37:51,118 STUDIES. BUT MOST PARTICIPANTS 952 00:37:51,118 --> 00:37:52,386 JUST AVOIDED REPORTING THEIR 953 00:37:52,386 --> 00:37:54,888 TRIAL INCOME AND SO THIS CREATED 954 00:37:54,888 --> 00:37:56,556 I THINK A HUGE FINANCIAL AND 955 00:37:56,556 --> 00:37:58,225 SOMETIMES EVEN A LEGAL LIABILITY 956 00:37:58,225 --> 00:38:01,661 FOR PARTICIPANTS. SO I WANTED 957 00:38:01,661 --> 00:38:04,164 TO JUST GIVE SOME OF THIS SOME 958 00:38:04,164 --> 00:38:08,335 SENSE OF THIS AS WELL. SO ROMAN 959 00:38:08,335 --> 00:38:10,437 IN TALKING ABOUT HOW HE USED TO 960 00:38:10,437 --> 00:38:13,240 AVOID REPORTING TRIAL INCOME, 961 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:14,741 TOLD US, FOR EVERY TIME THAT YOU 962 00:38:14,741 --> 00:38:15,509 TAKE THAT MONEY IT'S TECHNICALLY 963 00:38:15,509 --> 00:38:22,582 (READING). SO HERE HE'S SAYING 964 00:38:22,582 --> 00:38:24,217 IT'S NOT WITHHELD, AND IF YOU 965 00:38:24,217 --> 00:38:34,761 RIDE UNDER THE RADAR (READING). 966 00:38:59,886 --> 00:39:00,454 BUT AT THE SAME TIME AS 967 00:39:00,454 --> 00:39:01,088 PARTICIPANTS BECAME MORE AND 968 00:39:01,088 --> 00:39:02,322 MORE AWARE OF THEIR TAX 969 00:39:02,322 --> 00:39:04,124 LIABILITY THEY STARTED TO 970 00:39:04,124 --> 00:39:05,525 REALIZE THAT TAX DEBT WAS 971 00:39:05,525 --> 00:39:06,393 SOMETHING THAT COULD BE 972 00:39:06,393 --> 00:39:08,962 POTENTIALLY VERY CRUSHING. SO 973 00:39:08,962 --> 00:39:10,430 STEVE WAS AN INDIVIDUAL THAT HAD 974 00:39:10,430 --> 00:39:14,334 STARTED TO PARTICIPATING IN 975 00:39:14,334 --> 00:39:18,438 STUDIES IN THE LATE 1990S SO HE 976 00:39:18,438 --> 00:39:20,440 HAD BEEN DOING STUDIES FOR A 977 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,143 VERY, VERY LONG TIME. AND HE 978 00:39:23,143 --> 00:39:26,880 BELIEVED THAT HE HAD EVENED WELL 979 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,351 OVER 250,000 DOLLARS IN THAT 980 00:39:31,351 --> 00:39:31,551 TIME. 981 00:39:31,551 --> 00:39:33,753 THAT WAS HIS BACK OF THE 982 00:39:33,753 --> 00:39:36,356 ENVELOPE MATH OF FIGURING OUT 983 00:39:36,356 --> 00:39:37,457 HOW MUCH HE HAD PROBABLY GOTTEN 984 00:39:37,457 --> 00:39:39,192 AND IN THAT TIME HE NEVER FILED 985 00:39:39,192 --> 00:39:43,096 HIS TAXES, HE NEVER PAID TAXES. 986 00:39:43,096 --> 00:39:46,266 WHY THIS SUDDENLY BECAME AN 987 00:39:46,266 --> 00:39:50,437 ISSUE WAS THAT HE HAD TRAVELED 988 00:39:50,437 --> 00:39:52,439 OVERSEAS AND MET A WOMAN AND HAD 989 00:39:52,439 --> 00:39:54,541 A CHILD WITH THAT WOMAN AND 990 00:39:54,541 --> 00:39:55,809 WANTED TO BE ABLE TO BRING HER 991 00:39:55,809 --> 00:39:57,577 AND THE CHILD TO THE U.S. AND 992 00:39:57,577 --> 00:40:01,314 SO HE STARTED LOOKING INTO THE 993 00:40:01,314 --> 00:40:03,550 PROCESS OF HOW COULD HE GET HER, 994 00:40:03,550 --> 00:40:07,020 A FIANCE, AS PART OF THIS PLAN 995 00:40:07,020 --> 00:40:08,355 TO BRING HIS CHILD INTO THE U.S. 996 00:40:08,355 --> 00:40:10,190 AND HE REALIZED HE WAS NOT 997 00:40:10,190 --> 00:40:12,926 ELIGIBLE FOR A FIANCE VISA 998 00:40:12,926 --> 00:40:14,828 BECAUSE HE OWED MONEY TO THE IRS 999 00:40:14,828 --> 00:40:16,229 SO THIS WAS A HUGE WAKE-UP CALL 1000 00:40:16,229 --> 00:40:19,266 TO HIM AND HE SAID AS HE HAD 1001 00:40:19,266 --> 00:40:20,333 BEEN EXPLORING THIS I WILL 1002 00:40:20,333 --> 00:40:23,503 PROBABLY OWE ABOUT 35,000 1003 00:40:23,503 --> 00:40:25,005 DOLLARS MEANING IN BACK TAXES 1004 00:40:25,005 --> 00:40:28,341 AND MOST OF THAT IS WHAT THE IRS 1005 00:40:28,341 --> 00:40:30,210 SEES IS ME DOING CLINICAL TRIALS 1006 00:40:30,210 --> 00:40:32,379 WHERE THEY DIDN'T TAKE ANY TAXES 1007 00:40:32,379 --> 00:40:34,314 OUT I GOT PAID WITH CHECKS 1008 00:40:34,314 --> 00:40:36,249 WITHOUT TAXES WITHHELD SO I'M 1009 00:40:36,249 --> 00:40:38,818 SUPPOSED TO PAY TAX TO THE IRS 1010 00:40:38,818 --> 00:40:40,620 ALL THOSE YEARS FOR ALL THOSE 1011 00:40:40,620 --> 00:40:41,955 CLINICAL TRIALS AND EVEN THIS 1012 00:40:41,955 --> 00:40:44,357 AMOUNT OF $35,000 WAS, HE WAS 1013 00:40:44,357 --> 00:40:46,459 STILL NEGOTIATING WITH THE IRS 1014 00:40:46,459 --> 00:40:48,828 BUT IT WAS ALREADY, THEY HAD 1015 00:40:48,828 --> 00:40:51,998 ALREADY HALVED IT SO YOU CAN SEE 1016 00:40:51,998 --> 00:40:55,402 HOW SIGNIFICANT A TAX BURDEN CAN 1017 00:40:55,402 --> 00:40:57,304 BE FOR PARTICIPANTS WHO HAVE 1018 00:40:57,304 --> 00:40:58,972 BEEN DOING THIS FOR A REALLY 1019 00:40:58,972 --> 00:41:00,874 LONG TIME WE ALSO DID SEE THERE 1020 00:41:00,874 --> 00:41:03,210 WERE PERVERSE INCENTIVES 1021 00:41:03,210 --> 00:41:04,544 STEMMING FROM TAX LIABILITY. 1022 00:41:04,544 --> 00:41:06,813 SOME PARTICIPANTS STARTED TO SAY 1023 00:41:06,813 --> 00:41:08,281 THAT THEY COULDN'T PARTICIPANT 1024 00:41:08,281 --> 00:41:09,783 IN MORE STUDIES EVEN THOUGH THEY 1025 00:41:09,783 --> 00:41:12,652 COULD REALLY USE THE MONEY 1026 00:41:12,652 --> 00:41:14,187 BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO STAY 1027 00:41:14,187 --> 00:41:15,555 BELOW A CERTAIN INCOME THRESHOLD 1028 00:41:15,555 --> 00:41:18,358 SO FOR INSTANCE IF THEY 1029 00:41:18,358 --> 00:41:19,893 QUALIFIED FOR GOVERNMENT SUPPORT 1030 00:41:19,893 --> 00:41:23,129 THEY DIDN'T WANT TO JEOPARDIZE 1031 00:41:23,129 --> 00:41:27,601 THAT SOURCE OF INCOME FOR 1032 00:41:27,601 --> 00:41:30,136 THEMSELVES. SOME, THERE WERE A 1033 00:41:30,136 --> 00:41:31,204 COUPLE PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO GO 1034 00:41:31,204 --> 00:41:33,240 BACK TO COLLEGE AND REALIZED 1035 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:34,474 THAT THEY MIGHT QUALIFY FOR 1036 00:41:34,474 --> 00:41:37,177 STUDENT AID BUT THEY WOULDN'T. 1037 00:41:37,177 --> 00:41:39,279 IF THEY HAD AN INCOME OVER A 1038 00:41:39,279 --> 00:41:39,946 CERTAIN LEVEL SO THEY WERE 1039 00:41:39,946 --> 00:41:42,415 REALLY KIND OF WORRIED ABOUT 1040 00:41:42,415 --> 00:41:44,150 THESE THRESHOLDS EVEN THOUGH 1041 00:41:44,150 --> 00:41:46,186 THEY NEEDED THE INCOME FOR THEIR 1042 00:41:46,186 --> 00:41:48,888 DAY-TO-DAY LIVES SO I THOUGHT 1043 00:41:48,888 --> 00:41:49,556 THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING AND 1044 00:41:49,556 --> 00:41:50,657 VERY SAD KIND OF THINKING ABOUT 1045 00:41:50,657 --> 00:41:53,560 THE KINDS OF DECISIONS THEY WERE 1046 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:54,594 MAKING. PARTICIPANTS ALSO 1047 00:41:54,594 --> 00:41:56,596 TALKED ABOUT HOW SOMETIMES THEY 1048 00:41:56,596 --> 00:41:58,365 NEEDED TO DO ANOTHER CLINICAL 1049 00:41:58,365 --> 00:41:59,866 TRIAL IN ORDER TO PAY THE MONEY 1050 00:41:59,866 --> 00:42:05,138 THEY OWED AT THE -- FOR LAST 1051 00:42:05,138 --> 00:42:07,240 YEAR'S TAXES SO SOME 1052 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:08,275 PARTICIPANTS SAID SOME PUT IN 1053 00:42:08,275 --> 00:42:17,851 YEARS AND (READING). HE WAS A 1054 00:42:17,851 --> 00:42:19,586 BIT JOKING ABOUT IT BUT I THINK 1055 00:42:19,586 --> 00:42:21,554 THERE WAS DEFINITELY A TRUTH TO 1056 00:42:21,554 --> 00:42:24,658 THIS IN THINKING ABOUT SOME 1057 00:42:24,658 --> 00:42:26,693 OTHER PARTICIPANTS AND TELLING, 1058 00:42:26,693 --> 00:42:29,195 YOU KNOW, WHEN WE INTERVIEWED 1059 00:42:29,195 --> 00:42:30,397 THEM ABOUT THEIR STUDY 1060 00:42:30,397 --> 00:42:32,165 PARTICIPATION WE OFTEN ASKED 1061 00:42:32,165 --> 00:42:33,700 WHAT PROMPTED YOU TO DO THIS 1062 00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:35,835 SPECIFIC STUDY AND AT TAX TIME 1063 00:42:35,835 --> 00:42:38,638 IT OFTEN WAS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT 1064 00:42:38,638 --> 00:42:40,540 TAXES. ANOTHER ISSUE I THINK 1065 00:42:40,540 --> 00:42:41,675 ABOUT THIS RISK TO PARTICIPANTS 1066 00:42:41,675 --> 00:42:43,043 IS THAT IT MIGHT BE TAKING 1067 00:42:43,043 --> 00:42:46,479 ADVANTAGE OF HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS 1068 00:42:46,479 --> 00:42:47,781 THAT COMPENSATION IS TAXED 1069 00:42:47,781 --> 00:42:49,049 INCOME BECAUSE ACTUALLY IF WE 1070 00:42:49,049 --> 00:42:50,717 THINK ABOUT IT, IT'S LESS 1071 00:42:50,717 --> 00:42:55,088 COMPENSATION THAN IT SAMES -- 1072 00:42:55,088 --> 00:42:57,957 SEEMS WHEN MAKING THAT DECISION. 1073 00:42:57,957 --> 00:43:00,160 AFTER THE TAXES, THE TIME, THE 1074 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,029 THIS, THE THAT, HOW MANY 1075 00:43:03,029 --> 00:43:05,532 SCREENINGS -- AT THE END OF THE 1076 00:43:05,532 --> 00:43:06,833 DAY IT WAS A LOT LESS THAN YOU 1077 00:43:06,833 --> 00:43:08,501 ACTUALLY THOUGHT YOU WERE MAKING 1078 00:43:08,501 --> 00:43:10,970 AND THEN PARTICIPANTS I THOUGHT 1079 00:43:10,970 --> 00:43:12,339 MADE AN EXCELLENT POINT ABOUT 1080 00:43:12,339 --> 00:43:14,674 HOW IT SEEMED UNFAIR TO BE TAXED 1081 00:43:14,674 --> 00:43:16,943 ON SOMETHING WHEN YOU'RE TAKING 1082 00:43:16,943 --> 00:43:18,812 A PHYSICAL RISK. ESPECIALLY A 1083 00:43:18,812 --> 00:43:20,413 PHYSICAL RISK THAT MIGHT BE FOR 1084 00:43:20,413 --> 00:43:22,015 THE GREATER GOOD. SO THIS 1085 00:43:22,015 --> 00:43:23,316 PARTICIPANT SAID I DON'T THINK 1086 00:43:23,316 --> 00:43:26,186 WE SHOULD HAVE TO PAY TAXES ON 1087 00:43:26,186 --> 00:43:28,154 THIS MONEY BECAUSE YOU SHOULDN'T 1088 00:43:28,154 --> 00:43:29,856 HAVE TO PAY TAXES FOR THIS 1089 00:43:29,856 --> 00:43:31,091 BECAUSE WE'RE DOING NOT BUT 1090 00:43:31,091 --> 00:43:32,125 SERVICE FOR THE PEOPLE (READ 1091 00:43:32,125 --> 00:43:42,669 (READING). SO I'LL CLOSE HERE. 1092 00:43:49,776 --> 00:43:52,178 BUT I JUST REALLY WANTED TO 1093 00:43:52,178 --> 00:43:55,215 EMPHASIZE THAT THE SYSTEM THAT 1094 00:43:55,215 --> 00:43:59,586 WE HAVE IS REALLY COMING OUT OF 1095 00:43:59,586 --> 00:44:01,187 THE REGULATORY SYSTEM. BECAUSE 1096 00:44:01,187 --> 00:44:02,389 WE HAVE THIS PHASE TRIAL AND 1097 00:44:02,389 --> 00:44:04,324 REQUIREMENT FOR DRUGS TO GET 1098 00:44:04,324 --> 00:44:07,227 APPROVED BY THE FDA, YOU KNOW, 1099 00:44:07,227 --> 00:44:09,195 WE REALLY HAVE THIS NEED FOR 1100 00:44:09,195 --> 00:44:10,096 HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS IN ORDER TO 1101 00:44:10,096 --> 00:44:14,033 HAVE DRUGS BE APPROVED. AND SO 1102 00:44:14,033 --> 00:44:15,268 WE COULD KIND OF THINK ABOUT 1103 00:44:15,268 --> 00:44:19,372 THAT AS CREATING AN INDUSTRY FOR 1104 00:44:19,372 --> 00:44:20,407 HEALTHY VOLUNTEER TRIALS AND 1105 00:44:20,407 --> 00:44:23,009 THOSE WHO ARE INCENTIVIZED BY 1106 00:44:23,009 --> 00:44:24,377 FINANCIAL COMPENSATION BUT ALSO 1107 00:44:24,377 --> 00:44:26,045 HAVE THE TIME AND ABILITY TO BE 1108 00:44:26,045 --> 00:44:27,247 CONFINED FOR LONG PERIODS OF 1109 00:44:27,247 --> 00:44:29,048 TIME AND SO THE U.S. CONTEXT OF 1110 00:44:29,048 --> 00:44:31,785 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES 1111 00:44:31,785 --> 00:44:33,186 FUNNEL LOW INCOME PEOPLE OF 1112 00:44:33,186 --> 00:44:34,654 COLOR INTO THESE TRIALS BECAUSE 1113 00:44:34,654 --> 00:44:35,989 THEY'RE OFTEN THE PEOPLE WHO 1114 00:44:35,989 --> 00:44:38,091 DON'T HAVE BETTER OPTIONS TO 1115 00:44:38,091 --> 00:44:41,928 EARN INCOME. AND I THINK, YOU 1116 00:44:41,928 --> 00:44:44,664 KNOW, IF WE ALSO REFLECT ON THIS 1117 00:44:44,664 --> 00:44:45,632 COMPENSATION ISSUE I THINK 1118 00:44:45,632 --> 00:44:46,699 THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TO THINK 1119 00:44:46,699 --> 00:44:50,003 ABOUT BEYOND THIS WORRY ABOUT 1120 00:44:50,003 --> 00:44:51,104 UNDUE INDUCEMENT BECAUSE THERE 1121 00:44:51,104 --> 00:44:53,239 ARE THESE ETHICAL ISSUES THAT 1122 00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:55,208 ARE TIED TO THE PROMISE OF 1123 00:44:55,208 --> 00:44:57,243 FINANCIAL FREEDOM THAT 1124 00:44:57,243 --> 00:44:59,279 PARTICIPANTS MIGHT HAVE BUT ALSO 1125 00:44:59,279 --> 00:45:01,448 THAT COMPENSATION MAY APPEAR 1126 00:45:01,448 --> 00:45:02,749 SUBSTANTIAL BUT DOESN'T PROVIDE 1127 00:45:02,749 --> 00:45:04,684 THE FINANCIAL SECURITY AND EVEN 1128 00:45:04,684 --> 00:45:05,652 COMES WITH FINANCIAL AND LEGAL 1129 00:45:05,652 --> 00:45:07,987 RISKS FROM TAXES SO I WILL END 1130 00:45:07,987 --> 00:45:10,457 HERE BUT I AM VERY HAPPY TO TAKE 1131 00:45:10,457 --> 00:45:11,257 QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS. 1132 00:45:11,257 --> 00:45:14,060 >> AUDIENCE: (APPLAUSE). 1133 00:45:14,060 --> 00:45:14,994 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH AS I 1134 00:45:14,994 --> 00:45:16,029 MENTIONED FOLKS IN HERE ARE 1135 00:45:16,029 --> 00:45:17,363 WELCOME TO GO TO THE MICS AND 1136 00:45:17,363 --> 00:45:19,732 ASK QUESTIONS. LOOKS LIKE BOTH 1137 00:45:19,732 --> 00:45:21,067 BRITTANY AND DANIEL ARE HEADED 1138 00:45:21,067 --> 00:45:23,570 THERE AND I WILL MONITOR FOR 1139 00:45:23,570 --> 00:45:25,138 QUESTIONS FROM OUR VIDEO 1140 00:45:25,138 --> 00:45:26,573 AUDIENCE. BRITTANY, GO AHEAD. 1141 00:45:26,573 --> 00:45:28,775 >> AUDIENCE: I'M WONDERING ABOUT 1142 00:45:28,775 --> 00:45:31,311 HOW PARTICIPANTS HEAR ABOUT 1143 00:45:31,311 --> 00:45:32,412 STUDIES, YOU MENTIONED THE 1144 00:45:32,412 --> 00:45:34,547 PERSON WHO HEARD ABOUT IT ON A 1145 00:45:34,547 --> 00:45:35,949 FLYER OUTSIDE HIS PAROLE HEARING 1146 00:45:35,949 --> 00:45:38,418 BUT IS IT LARGELY WORD OF MOUTH 1147 00:45:38,418 --> 00:45:40,520 IS THERE KIND OF TARGETED GO TO 1148 00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,256 THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND POST 1149 00:45:43,256 --> 00:45:46,860 FLYERS OR HOW ELSE DO THEY HEAR 1150 00:45:46,860 --> 00:45:47,994 ABOUT IT? 1151 00:45:47,994 --> 00:45:49,629 >> JILL: IN LARGE CITIES IT'S 1152 00:45:49,629 --> 00:45:50,964 ADVERTISED IN PUBLIC 1153 00:45:50,964 --> 00:45:51,865 TRANSPORTATION ROUTES. THAT'S 1154 00:45:51,865 --> 00:45:53,466 ONE WAY. IN ASKING PEOPLE HOW 1155 00:45:53,466 --> 00:45:55,201 THEY LEARNED ABOUT CLINICAL 1156 00:45:55,201 --> 00:45:57,036 TRIALS INITIALLY ALMOST EVERYONE 1157 00:45:57,036 --> 00:45:59,973 IT WAS WORD OF MOUTH SO I THINK 1158 00:45:59,973 --> 00:46:00,773 IT WAS OFTENTIMES THIS THING 1159 00:46:00,773 --> 00:46:02,408 WHERE, IT'S -- I THINK IT'S NOT 1160 00:46:02,408 --> 00:46:03,576 THAT PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HEARD OF 1161 00:46:03,576 --> 00:46:05,144 IT BEFORE THAT BUT I THINK 1162 00:46:05,144 --> 00:46:07,280 HAVING MEETING SOMEBODY WHO HAS 1163 00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:08,414 DONE IT BEFORE OFTEN GIVES THEM 1164 00:46:08,414 --> 00:46:13,586 A SENSE OF SAFETY THAT,' WELL 1165 00:46:13,586 --> 00:46:15,655 MY FRIEND OR BROTHER DID IT AND 1166 00:46:15,655 --> 00:46:18,324 THEY GOT THROUGH IT OKAY. 1167 00:46:18,324 --> 00:46:19,759 AND THAT'S REASSURING THAT IF 1168 00:46:19,759 --> 00:46:21,995 THEY'RE OKAY I WILL BE TOO AND 1169 00:46:21,995 --> 00:46:23,096 THE MONEY SOUNDS GREAT. 1170 00:46:23,096 --> 00:46:24,330 >> AUDIENCE: I WAS ALSO 1171 00:46:24,330 --> 00:46:25,698 WONDERING ABOUT HOW MANY 1172 00:46:25,698 --> 00:46:26,366 PARTICIPANTS HAD CHILDREN 1173 00:46:26,366 --> 00:46:27,667 BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE THAT MIGHT 1174 00:46:27,667 --> 00:46:30,803 BE A BARRIER TO THE PRIMARY 1175 00:46:30,803 --> 00:46:32,438 CAREGIVER PARTICIPATING IN 1176 00:46:32,438 --> 00:46:33,373 STUDYING AND IF THEY HAD 1177 00:46:33,373 --> 00:46:35,108 CHILDREN WHO WAS THE CAREGIVER 1178 00:46:35,108 --> 00:46:40,246 FOR THEM WHILE THEY WERE 1179 00:46:40,246 --> 00:46:40,647 INPATIENT. 1180 00:46:40,647 --> 00:46:42,448 >> JILL: I WOULD SAY MOST OF 1181 00:46:42,448 --> 00:46:44,217 THEM DID OR DO HAVE CHILDREN. 1182 00:46:44,217 --> 00:46:46,386 AND THAT -- THAT RAISES A WHOLE 1183 00:46:46,386 --> 00:46:47,820 BUNCH OF ISSUES BECAUSE OF 1184 00:46:47,820 --> 00:46:49,322 COURSE LOTS OF PEOPLE WERE VERY 1185 00:46:49,322 --> 00:46:49,856 CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT WAS 1186 00:46:49,856 --> 00:46:52,158 HAPPENING ON THE OUTSIDE SO, YOU 1187 00:46:52,158 --> 00:46:52,792 KNOW, FIRST THING THAT CAME TO 1188 00:46:52,792 --> 00:46:55,728 MIND WAS A STORY OF A 1189 00:46:55,728 --> 00:46:57,397 PARTICIPANT WHO HIS SON GOT 1190 00:46:57,397 --> 00:46:59,098 SECOND DEGREE BURNS WHILE HE WAS 1191 00:46:59,098 --> 00:47:01,868 IN A STUDY BECAUSE HE PULLED A 1192 00:47:01,868 --> 00:47:04,771 LOT POT OFF THE STUFF AND 1193 00:47:04,771 --> 00:47:06,639 PARTICIPANT ASKED THE RESEARCH 1194 00:47:06,639 --> 00:47:08,441 CLINIC IF HE COULD LEAVE TO MEET 1195 00:47:08,441 --> 00:47:09,576 HIS PARTNER AT THE EMERGENCY 1196 00:47:09,576 --> 00:47:10,476 ROOM AND THEY SAID YOU'RE 1197 00:47:10,476 --> 00:47:12,312 WELCOME TO WITHDRAW FROM THE 1198 00:47:12,312 --> 00:47:13,780 STUDY BUT WE CAN'T LET YOU LEAVE 1199 00:47:13,780 --> 00:47:16,883 JUST TO GO SO HE WAS VERY TORN 1200 00:47:16,883 --> 00:47:18,217 ABOUT THAT DECISION. HE 1201 00:47:18,217 --> 00:47:19,352 ULTIMATELY DECIDED TO STAY IN 1202 00:47:19,352 --> 00:47:21,120 THE STUDY BUT ALSO FELT VERY 1203 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,189 MUCH LIKE A BAD FATHER THAT HE 1204 00:47:23,189 --> 00:47:24,490 MADE THAT CHOICE. BUT I THINK, 1205 00:47:24,490 --> 00:47:25,858 YOU KNOW, TO ANSWER YOUR 1206 00:47:25,858 --> 00:47:28,328 QUESTION ABOUT CAREGIVING, I 1207 00:47:28,328 --> 00:47:29,495 THINK, YOU KNOW, IT TIP -- 1208 00:47:29,495 --> 00:47:31,164 BECAUSE MOST OF THESE 1209 00:47:31,164 --> 00:47:32,532 PARTICIPANTS WERE MALE, WERE 1210 00:47:32,532 --> 00:47:34,701 MEN, IT TYPICALLY FELL ON THEIR 1211 00:47:34,701 --> 00:47:35,969 FEMALE PARTNERS SOMETIMES, 1212 00:47:35,969 --> 00:47:38,104 MOTHERS OR MOTHERS-IN-LAW WERE 1213 00:47:38,104 --> 00:47:39,272 TAKING CARE OF CHILDREN 1214 00:47:39,272 --> 00:47:41,240 INTERESTINGLY A LOT OF THE WOMEN 1215 00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:43,343 WITH CHILDREN TALKED ABOUT BEING 1216 00:47:43,343 --> 00:47:45,445 THE IN THE STUDIES AS A 1217 00:47:45,445 --> 00:47:46,379 VACATION. 1218 00:47:46,379 --> 00:47:47,313 BECAUSE THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY 1219 00:47:47,313 --> 00:47:48,948 TO BE AWAY FROM THEIR KIDS FOR A 1220 00:47:48,948 --> 00:47:51,250 FEW DAYS OR FOR A WEEK AND VERY 1221 00:47:51,250 --> 00:47:53,786 FEW MEN TALKED ABOUT IT AS A 1222 00:47:53,786 --> 00:47:55,655 VACATION BUT A LOT OF WOMEN DID. 1223 00:47:55,655 --> 00:47:56,289 >> AUDIENCE: THANK YOU. 1224 00:47:56,289 --> 00:47:57,690 >> AUDIENCE: THIS WAS SO 1225 00:47:57,690 --> 00:47:59,158 FASCINATING, THANKS SO MUCH FOR 1226 00:47:59,158 --> 00:48:05,798 THIS TALK. MY QUESTION WAS, SO 1227 00:48:05,798 --> 00:48:07,967 PRESUMABLY A LOT OF THESE 1228 00:48:07,967 --> 00:48:09,335 PARTICIPANTS OR MAYBE LIKE -- 1229 00:48:09,335 --> 00:48:10,970 ARE PARTICIPATING IN STUDIES 1230 00:48:10,970 --> 00:48:13,373 DONE BY PRIVATE PHARMACEUTICAL 1231 00:48:13,373 --> 00:48:15,074 COMPANIES AND PERHAPS ALSO, 1232 00:48:15,074 --> 00:48:17,443 LIKE, GOVERNMENT FUNDED 1233 00:48:17,443 --> 00:48:19,779 RESEARCH. LIKE STUFF WITH THE 1234 00:48:19,779 --> 00:48:23,149 NIH, I'M WONDERING IF THERE WAS 1235 00:48:23,149 --> 00:48:25,618 ANY EVER, LIKE, IF THEY EVER HAD 1236 00:48:25,618 --> 00:48:27,954 ANY COMPARISONS BETWEEN THOSE 1237 00:48:27,954 --> 00:48:30,690 TWO, YOU KNOW, I GUESS MY 1238 00:48:30,690 --> 00:48:32,458 BROADER QUESTION IS 1239 00:48:32,458 --> 00:48:34,293 PRIVATIZATION OF THESE PHASE ONE 1240 00:48:34,293 --> 00:48:35,995 TRIALS HAD ANY EFFECT ON 1241 00:48:35,995 --> 00:48:38,131 SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES OR THE 1242 00:48:38,131 --> 00:48:39,065 MARKET IN GENERAL? 1243 00:48:39,065 --> 00:48:41,434 >> JILL: THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION 1244 00:48:41,434 --> 00:48:43,503 AS A ROLE PARTICIPANTS SAW THE 1245 00:48:43,503 --> 00:48:44,904 PRIVATE TRIALS AS THE BEST ONES 1246 00:48:44,904 --> 00:48:46,105 BECAUSE THEY PAID THE MOST. SO 1247 00:48:46,105 --> 00:48:48,608 I THINK A LOT OF TIMES THEY SAW 1248 00:48:48,608 --> 00:48:50,309 ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS AS THE 1249 00:48:50,309 --> 00:48:52,278 ONES THAT HAD THE REALLY CHEAP 1250 00:48:52,278 --> 00:48:55,048 STUDIES THE WAY THEY DESCRIBE 1251 00:48:55,048 --> 00:48:56,249 THEM AND THE STUDIES THAT WERE 1252 00:48:56,249 --> 00:48:58,451 HAPPENING AT PLACES LIKE NIH, 1253 00:48:58,451 --> 00:49:05,091 THEY SAW A AS MOSTLY VACCINE 1254 00:49:05,091 --> 00:49:05,358 RELATED. 1255 00:49:05,358 --> 00:49:07,226 THOSE WERE NOT NECESSARILY THE 1256 00:49:07,226 --> 00:49:08,728 RISKS THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT 1257 00:49:08,728 --> 00:49:10,196 BUT HOW LONG THEY WOULD BE OUT 1258 00:49:10,196 --> 00:49:11,931 OF THE STUDY POOL IF THEY DIDN'T 1259 00:49:11,931 --> 00:49:13,633 HAVE TO STAY AT THE FACILITY BUT 1260 00:49:13,633 --> 00:49:14,734 THEY HAD TO BE FOLLOWED FOR A 1261 00:49:14,734 --> 00:49:17,303 YEAR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO 1262 00:49:17,303 --> 00:49:18,571 THEY OFTEN REALLY DID NOT LIKE 1263 00:49:18,571 --> 00:49:22,108 THOSE KINDS OF STUDIES. AND A 1264 00:49:22,108 --> 00:49:26,446 LOT OF THE PRIVATE FACILITIES, 1265 00:49:26,446 --> 00:49:33,252 NOT ONLY DID THEY PERCEIVE THEM 1266 00:49:33,252 --> 00:49:35,254 AS PAYING MORE BUT AS MORE 1267 00:49:35,254 --> 00:49:36,456 CATERING TO PARTICIPANTS. A LOT 1268 00:49:36,456 --> 00:49:38,324 OF THE ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS 1269 00:49:38,324 --> 00:49:40,393 THEY KIND OF DESCRIBED AS NOT 1270 00:49:40,393 --> 00:49:43,262 HAVING VERY MANY FACILITIES OR 1271 00:49:43,262 --> 00:49:45,698 AMENITIES FOR PARTICIPANTS 1272 00:49:45,698 --> 00:49:47,533 WHEREAS THE CLINICS HAVE 1273 00:49:47,533 --> 00:49:49,936 RECREATION AREAS, TVS, VIDEO 1274 00:49:49,936 --> 00:49:51,270 GAMES, ALL KINDS OF STUFF FOR 1275 00:49:51,270 --> 00:49:53,906 THEM TO DO. SO I THINK THEY SAW 1276 00:49:53,906 --> 00:49:56,008 THEM AS A BETTER ENVIRONMENT 1277 00:49:56,008 --> 00:49:57,877 WHEN THEY KNEW THEY HAD TO BE 1278 00:49:57,877 --> 00:49:59,312 THERE POTENTIALLY FOR WEEKS SO 1279 00:49:59,312 --> 00:50:01,147 THEY WERE COMPARING THE TYPES OF 1280 00:50:01,147 --> 00:50:02,248 STUDIES, THE MONEY THAT THEY 1281 00:50:02,248 --> 00:50:03,483 WERE PAYING BUT ALSO THE 1282 00:50:03,483 --> 00:50:04,584 FACILITIES WHEN THEY WERE KIND 1283 00:50:04,584 --> 00:50:05,384 OF THINKING ABOUT WHERE THEY 1284 00:50:05,384 --> 00:50:14,727 WANTED TO DO STUDIES, YEAH. 1285 00:50:14,727 --> 00:50:15,228 SN. 1286 00:50:15,228 --> 00:50:19,599 >> AUDIENCE: HI, THANK YOU FOR 1287 00:50:19,599 --> 00:50:21,701 YOUR PRESENTATION, WHEN YOU 1288 00:50:21,701 --> 00:50:22,935 TALKED ABOUT PEOPLE TAKING CARE 1289 00:50:22,935 --> 00:50:26,205 OF THEIR HEALTH IT REMINDED ME 1290 00:50:26,205 --> 00:50:27,240 OF ATHLETES AND HOW THEY HAVE TO 1291 00:50:27,240 --> 00:50:28,407 MANAGE THAT STUFF. YOU 1292 00:50:28,407 --> 00:50:30,943 MENTIONED TOWARDS THE BEGINNING 1293 00:50:30,943 --> 00:50:31,511 BEGINNING THAT THERE WERE 1294 00:50:31,511 --> 00:50:33,412 CONCERNS ABOUT VALIDITY AND, YOU 1295 00:50:33,412 --> 00:50:35,281 KNOW, MAYBE IT'S THE CASE THAT 1296 00:50:35,281 --> 00:50:37,250 SOME OF THESE DRUGS ARE NOT AS 1297 00:50:37,250 --> 00:50:39,118 SAFE IT HAS THEY'RE MADE OUT TO 1298 00:50:39,118 --> 00:50:40,520 SEEM. SO I WAS WONDERING IF YOU 1299 00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:42,221 COULD SAY A LITTLE BIT MORE 1300 00:50:42,221 --> 00:50:42,889 ABOUT THAT. 1301 00:50:42,889 --> 00:50:44,423 >> JILL: YES I'M HAPPY TO. 1302 00:50:44,423 --> 00:50:48,494 ANOTHER PART OF THE STORY ABOUT 1303 00:50:48,494 --> 00:50:50,062 HOW PARTICIPANTS ENGAGE IN THESE 1304 00:50:50,062 --> 00:50:50,797 BEHAVIORS IS THAT THEY ALSO 1305 00:50:50,797 --> 00:50:53,699 BREAK A LOT OF RULES BY ENGAGING 1306 00:50:53,699 --> 00:50:56,569 IN THESE BEHAVIORS. ONE OF THE 1307 00:50:56,569 --> 00:50:58,404 MAIN THINGS THAT IS REQUIRED OF 1308 00:50:58,404 --> 00:50:59,806 PARTICIPANTS IS THEY OBSERVE A 1309 00:50:59,806 --> 00:51:00,907 WASHOUT PERIOD BETWEEN STUDIES 1310 00:51:00,907 --> 00:51:03,943 AND THAT'S USUALLY 30 DAYS. BUT 1311 00:51:03,943 --> 00:51:06,212 IF PARTICIPANTS WANT TO MAXIMIZE 1312 00:51:06,212 --> 00:51:07,313 THE INCOME THEY CAN EARN THEY 1313 00:51:07,313 --> 00:51:09,715 OFTEN DON'T WANT TO OBSERVE THE 1314 00:51:09,715 --> 00:51:11,317 30 DAY WASHOUT PERIOD SO THAT'S 1315 00:51:11,317 --> 00:51:12,418 ONE WAY THAT THERE'S SOME 1316 00:51:12,418 --> 00:51:13,519 CONCERN ABOUT WHAT, YOU KNOW, 1317 00:51:13,519 --> 00:51:14,787 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE 1318 00:51:14,787 --> 00:51:18,658 VALIDITY OF STUDIES IF THEY'RE 1319 00:51:18,658 --> 00:51:23,262 ENROLLING MUCH MORE QUICKLY THAN 1320 00:51:23,262 --> 00:51:24,397 THEY SHOULD. SOME OF THEM ARE 1321 00:51:24,397 --> 00:51:26,599 TAKING VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS 1322 00:51:26,599 --> 00:51:29,869 AND THEY SMUGGLE THEM INTO 1323 00:51:29,869 --> 00:51:30,469 FACILITIES. AND THE BIGGEST 1324 00:51:30,469 --> 00:51:31,938 CONCERN IS WHETHER THEY'RE 1325 00:51:31,938 --> 00:51:32,972 REPORTING ANY ADVERSE EVENTS 1326 00:51:32,972 --> 00:51:33,873 THEY EXPERIENCE. OF COURSE 1327 00:51:33,873 --> 00:51:35,308 THERE'S THE OBJECTIVE MEASURES 1328 00:51:35,308 --> 00:51:36,676 THAT ARE HAPPENING LIKE ALL THE 1329 00:51:36,676 --> 00:51:41,581 BLOOD DRAWS OR E KRSECGS AND TH 1330 00:51:41,581 --> 00:51:43,249 LIKE THAT BUT ANOTHER BIG PART 1331 00:51:43,249 --> 00:51:47,820 OF USING HUMANS IS GETTING THEIR 1332 00:51:47,820 --> 00:51:50,156 SUBJECTIVE REPORTS. YOU 1333 00:51:50,156 --> 00:51:52,892 WOULDN'T KNOW SOME THINGS UNLESS 1334 00:51:52,892 --> 00:51:54,894 THEY TOLD YOU FOR INSTANCE. 1335 00:51:54,894 --> 00:51:57,496 PARTICIPANTS AREN'T SURE, 1336 00:51:57,496 --> 00:51:58,631 NECESSARILY, WHEN OR IF THEY 1337 00:51:58,631 --> 00:51:59,532 SHOULD REPORT SO SOMETIMES 1338 00:51:59,532 --> 00:52:02,335 THAT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE WORRIED 1339 00:52:02,335 --> 00:52:02,935 THAT REPORTING MIGHT EFFECT 1340 00:52:02,935 --> 00:52:04,003 THEIR FINANCIAL COMPENSATION, 1341 00:52:04,003 --> 00:52:05,171 SOMETIMES THEY'RE WORRIED 1342 00:52:05,171 --> 00:52:07,039 THEY'RE GOING TO GET KICKED OUT 1343 00:52:07,039 --> 00:52:10,042 OF A STUDY IF THEY REPORT. 1344 00:52:10,042 --> 00:52:11,444 SOMETIMES THEY JUST DECIDE, WELL 1345 00:52:11,444 --> 00:52:12,612 I DON'T THINK THIS WAS DRUG 1346 00:52:12,612 --> 00:52:14,013 RELATED. I THINK IT'S JUST 1347 00:52:14,013 --> 00:52:15,281 BECAUSE I HAVEN'T HAD COFFEE IN 1348 00:52:15,281 --> 00:52:18,651 TWO DAYS AND THAT'S A LEGITIMATE 1349 00:52:18,651 --> 00:52:21,454 THING. ANY OF US WHO HAVE HAD 1350 00:52:21,454 --> 00:52:22,221 CAFFEINE WITHDRAWAL HEADACHE 1351 00:52:22,221 --> 00:52:24,457 THAT MIGHT RESONATE WITH US. SO 1352 00:52:24,457 --> 00:52:28,527 THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY DOING IT 1353 00:52:28,527 --> 00:52:30,763 FOR THE WRONG REASONS BUT THEY 1354 00:52:30,763 --> 00:52:32,565 STILL DO NOT REPORT SOMETHING 1355 00:52:32,565 --> 00:52:33,866 THEY'VE EXPERIENCED. SO THAT'S 1356 00:52:33,866 --> 00:52:35,268 THE HEALTHY VOLUNTEER BEHAVIOR 1357 00:52:35,268 --> 00:52:37,470 BUT ON THE STAFF SIDE I ALSO SAW 1358 00:52:37,470 --> 00:52:41,140 A LOT OF RULE BREAKING AS WELL. 1359 00:52:41,140 --> 00:52:45,745 SO SOMETIMES STAFF ALLOWING 1360 00:52:45,745 --> 00:52:48,114 PARTICIPANTS TO REPEAT LABS BY 1361 00:52:48,114 --> 00:52:49,348 LIKE COACHING THEM ABOUT WHAT TO 1362 00:52:49,348 --> 00:52:52,285 DO SO THEY COULD GET INTO A 1363 00:52:52,285 --> 00:52:55,054 STUDY. SOMETIMES RECORDING THE 1364 00:52:55,054 --> 00:52:55,955 WRONG WEIGHT FOR A PARTICIPANT 1365 00:52:55,955 --> 00:52:57,857 IF THEY WERE GOING TO, LIKE, 1366 00:52:57,857 --> 00:53:01,627 EDGE OUT A LITTLE BIT WITH THEIR 1367 00:53:01,627 --> 00:53:02,662 BMI. THE OTHER THING IS THAT 1368 00:53:02,662 --> 00:53:05,531 GOING BACK TO THAT WASHOUT 1369 00:53:05,531 --> 00:53:07,600 PERIOD, MOST OF THE TIME I WOULD 1370 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,503 SAY THE STAFF KNEW IF SOMEBODY 1371 00:53:10,503 --> 00:53:11,804 HADN'T OBSERVED THEIR WASHOUT 1372 00:53:11,804 --> 00:53:14,473 PERIOD OR SUSPECTED THEY HADN'T 1373 00:53:14,473 --> 00:53:17,910 BECAUSE THEY WOULD COME IN WITH 1374 00:53:17,910 --> 00:53:19,612 FRESH PUNCTURE MARKS ON THEIR 1375 00:53:19,612 --> 00:53:22,815 ARMS OR HAVE ADHESIVE MARKS AND 1376 00:53:22,815 --> 00:53:23,983 THE STAFF WOULD SAY I ASKED THEM 1377 00:53:23,983 --> 00:53:25,651 IF THEY PARTICIPATED AND THEY 1378 00:53:25,651 --> 00:53:27,086 SAID THEY DIDN'T SO I CAN TAKE 1379 00:53:27,086 --> 00:53:28,854 THEM BY THEIR WORD SO I FEEL 1380 00:53:28,854 --> 00:53:32,925 THERE'S THIS COMPLICITY IN THE 1381 00:53:32,925 --> 00:53:33,693 INDUSTRY THAT EVERYBODY KIND OF 1382 00:53:33,693 --> 00:53:35,728 WANTS THE HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS TO 1383 00:53:35,728 --> 00:53:36,629 BE IN THERE. THEY WANT TO BE IN 1384 00:53:36,629 --> 00:53:38,030 THERE, THE STAFF WANT THEM TO BE 1385 00:53:38,030 --> 00:53:40,499 IN THERE AND SO I THINK IT DOES 1386 00:53:40,499 --> 00:53:41,667 REALLY RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT, 1387 00:53:41,667 --> 00:53:42,535 LIKE, HOW DO WE REALLY THINK 1388 00:53:42,535 --> 00:53:46,605 ABOUT THE DATA THAT ARE BEING 1389 00:53:46,605 --> 00:53:48,274 PRODUCED IF THERE ARE THESE 1390 00:53:48,274 --> 00:53:50,009 INCENTIVE TO GAME THE SYSTEM IN 1391 00:53:50,009 --> 00:53:51,677 THESE WAYS. 1392 00:53:51,677 --> 00:53:55,214 >> YOU MENTIONED THE STAFF 1393 00:53:55,214 --> 00:53:56,716 PREFERS TO HAVE THESE 1394 00:53:56,716 --> 00:53:58,484 REPEAT "REPEATERS" IN PART 1395 00:53:58,484 --> 00:53:59,251 BECAUSE THEY'RE FAMILIAR AND 1396 00:53:59,251 --> 00:54:03,856 SORT OF KNOW THE DRILL. 1397 00:54:03,856 --> 00:54:04,890 >> JILL: EVEN ON THAT POINT 1398 00:54:04,890 --> 00:54:08,127 STAFF AS WELL AS PARTICIPANTS 1399 00:54:08,127 --> 00:54:10,529 TOLD ME THAT THEY WOULD BAN OR 1400 00:54:10,529 --> 00:54:12,698 PUT ON A BLACKLIST PARTICIPANTS 1401 00:54:12,698 --> 00:54:13,532 WHO WERE SEEN AS THOSE WHO 1402 00:54:13,532 --> 00:54:19,271 REPORTED A LOT OF ADVERSE 1403 00:54:19,271 --> 00:54:19,505 EVENTS. 1404 00:54:19,505 --> 00:54:19,905 >> INTERESTING. 1405 00:54:19,905 --> 00:54:20,573 >> JILL: THE STAFF JUSTIFIED IT 1406 00:54:20,573 --> 00:54:22,441 BY SAYING THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO 1407 00:54:22,441 --> 00:54:24,210 ARE JUST TOO SENSITIVE WHICH YOU 1408 00:54:24,210 --> 00:54:25,911 KNOW THAT'S PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE 1409 00:54:25,911 --> 00:54:27,013 THE PATIENT POPULATION IS GOING 1410 00:54:27,013 --> 00:54:28,914 TO VARY BUT I KIND OF ALSO SAW 1411 00:54:28,914 --> 00:54:30,483 IT AS THEY CREATE A LOT MORE 1412 00:54:30,483 --> 00:54:31,350 WORK FOR THE STAFF IF THEY'RE 1413 00:54:31,350 --> 00:54:35,187 DOING A LOT OF AE REPORTING AND 1414 00:54:35,187 --> 00:54:35,855 PAPERWORK AS A RESULT SO THAT IS 1415 00:54:35,855 --> 00:54:38,591 ANOTHER BIG ASPECT OF IT SO THE 1416 00:54:38,591 --> 00:54:39,225 REPEAT PARTICIPANT WASN'T JUST 1417 00:54:39,225 --> 00:54:40,226 FOR PEOPLE'S COMPLIANCE OR 1418 00:54:40,226 --> 00:54:46,565 ADHERENCE TO THE RILES -- 1419 00:54:46,565 --> 00:54:49,368 RULES, IT WAS HOW MUCH ARE THEY 1420 00:54:49,368 --> 00:54:52,605 A REPORTER OR NOT REPORTED AES. 1421 00:54:52,605 --> 00:54:53,239 >> AUDIENCE: HI, THANK YOU, I 1422 00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,374 HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS BECAUSE 1423 00:54:55,374 --> 00:54:59,678 THIS IS VERY INTERESTING BUT I 1424 00:54:59,678 --> 00:55:02,281 WILL KEEP IT TO TWO FOR NOW. 1425 00:55:02,281 --> 00:55:03,783 THERE WAS A SLIDE WHO MENTIONED 1426 00:55:03,783 --> 00:55:05,684 SOMEBODY TALKING TO OTHER 1427 00:55:05,684 --> 00:55:07,253 PARTICIPANTS ABOUT WHAT VITAMIN 1428 00:55:07,253 --> 00:55:09,889 TO TAKE AND YOU WERE TALKING 1429 00:55:09,889 --> 00:55:11,557 ABOUT REPEAT PARTICIPANTS. 1430 00:55:11,557 --> 00:55:14,326 AND FAMILIARITY WITH STAFF. I'M 1431 00:55:14,326 --> 00:55:16,962 CURIOUS IF YOU OBSERVED 1432 00:55:16,962 --> 00:55:18,030 FAMILIARITY BETWEEN THE 1433 00:55:18,030 --> 00:55:20,232 PARTICIPANTS. AND WHAT THAT 1434 00:55:20,232 --> 00:55:20,733 LOOKED LIKE. 1435 00:55:20,733 --> 00:55:22,535 >> JILL: YES, THERE ARE FOLKS 1436 00:55:22,535 --> 00:55:23,235 WHO TRAVELLED TOGETHER AND 1437 00:55:23,235 --> 00:55:25,838 SOMETIMES WHEN THEY DO THESE 1438 00:55:25,838 --> 00:55:26,906 STUDIES THEY HAVE TO GO TO 1439 00:55:26,906 --> 00:55:28,240 CLINICS THAT ARE NOT THAT CLOSE 1440 00:55:28,240 --> 00:55:29,909 TO EACH OTHER SO DOING ROAD 1441 00:55:29,909 --> 00:55:31,177 TRIPS TOGETHER. ALTHOUGH THAT 1442 00:55:31,177 --> 00:55:33,212 CREATES PROBLEMS IF ONE GETS 1443 00:55:33,212 --> 00:55:35,247 INTO A STUDY AND OTHERS DON'T 1444 00:55:35,247 --> 00:55:39,151 BUT, YEAH, THEY DEFINITELY HAVE 1445 00:55:39,151 --> 00:55:40,853 THESE COMMUNITIES. SOME PEOPLE 1446 00:55:40,853 --> 00:55:42,388 HAVE GOTTEN INTO RELATIONSHIPS, 1447 00:55:42,388 --> 00:55:43,489 AT LEAST ONE PERSON MARRIED 1448 00:55:43,489 --> 00:55:45,925 SOMEONE THAT THEY HAD MET IN A 1449 00:55:45,925 --> 00:55:48,461 STUDY. SO THEY DEFINITELY MAKE 1450 00:55:48,461 --> 00:55:49,562 FRIENDSHIPS. I WOULD SAY THAT 1451 00:55:49,562 --> 00:55:52,098 ONE THING THAT HAPPENS WITH, 1452 00:55:52,098 --> 00:55:53,799 BECAUSE THEY'RE REPEAT 1453 00:55:53,799 --> 00:55:55,267 PARTICIPANTS IS THEY DON'T 1454 00:55:55,267 --> 00:55:55,935 NECESSARILY DECIDE IN ADVANCE TO 1455 00:55:55,935 --> 00:55:57,970 DO STUDIES TOGETHER BUT ONCE 1456 00:55:57,970 --> 00:56:00,106 THEY GET THERE THEY REALIZE I 1457 00:56:00,106 --> 00:56:01,073 KNOW THESE PEOPLE AND THAT 1458 00:56:01,073 --> 00:56:03,242 REALLY DOES FOR THE MOST PART 1459 00:56:03,242 --> 00:56:04,143 PROBABLY THERE ARE SOME NEGATIVE 1460 00:56:04,143 --> 00:56:06,812 EXAMPLES TOO BUT FOR THE MOST 1461 00:56:06,812 --> 00:56:10,916 PART ADDS TO THE ENJOYMENT OF 1462 00:56:10,916 --> 00:56:12,885 THE STUDY BECAUSE IT IS THEM 1463 00:56:12,885 --> 00:56:16,822 SEEING THEIR OLD FRIENDS AGAIN 1464 00:56:16,822 --> 00:56:22,461 THEY'RE MOTIVATED BY THE 1465 00:56:22,461 --> 00:56:23,796 FINANCIAL COMPENSATION BUT ALSO 1466 00:56:23,796 --> 00:56:24,997 MOTIVATED BY THE PEOPLE THEY 1467 00:56:24,997 --> 00:56:25,631 WORK WITH. 1468 00:56:25,631 --> 00:56:27,266 >> AUDIENCE: YEAH, THAT'S VERY 1469 00:56:27,266 --> 00:56:28,267 INTERESTING, THANK YOU AND I WAS 1470 00:56:28,267 --> 00:56:31,203 ALSO WONDERING, SO A LOT OF 1471 00:56:31,203 --> 00:56:33,506 THESE PLACES YOU'RE STAYING IN A 1472 00:56:33,506 --> 00:56:35,207 FACILITY FOR SEVERAL DAYS DID 1473 00:56:35,207 --> 00:56:36,575 YOU TALK TO ANY PEOPLE THAT HAD 1474 00:56:36,575 --> 00:56:37,443 UNSTABLE HOUSING CONDITIONS THAT 1475 00:56:37,443 --> 00:56:39,311 DID IT FOR THAT REASON OR, LIKE, 1476 00:56:39,311 --> 00:56:42,615 WHAT WAS THE SITUATION THERE? 1477 00:56:42,615 --> 00:56:43,716 >> JILL: YEAH, DEFINITELY THERE 1478 00:56:43,716 --> 00:56:45,117 WERE SOME FOLKS WHO DID HAVE 1479 00:56:45,117 --> 00:56:49,722 UNSTABLE HOUSING SITUATIONS. 1480 00:56:49,722 --> 00:56:51,257 VERY FEW PEOPLE WOULD BE WHAT WE 1481 00:56:51,257 --> 00:56:55,194 WOULD THINK OF AS UNHOUSED. 1482 00:56:55,194 --> 00:56:56,362 THERE WERE PEOPLE LIVING OUT OF 1483 00:56:56,362 --> 00:56:58,898 THEIR CARS BECAUSE THEY TALKED 1484 00:56:58,898 --> 00:57:00,499 HOW IT WAS GREAT TO BE IN A 1485 00:57:00,499 --> 00:57:01,800 FACILITY WITH A BED, HOT SHOWER 1486 00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:05,070 AND MEALS. THEY PROBABLY 1487 00:57:05,070 --> 00:57:07,206 WEREN'T THE NORM I THINK THEY 1488 00:57:07,206 --> 00:57:08,807 WERE MORE THE EXCEPTION. I 1489 00:57:08,807 --> 00:57:10,309 THINK MOST PEOPLE DID TYPICALLY 1490 00:57:10,309 --> 00:57:11,744 HAVE A HOME OR LIVING WITH 1491 00:57:11,744 --> 00:57:14,713 RELATIVES OR THINGS LIKE THAT 1492 00:57:14,713 --> 00:57:19,251 BUT ABSOLUTELY. I THINK THERE 1493 00:57:19,251 --> 00:57:20,953 WAS A SENSE OF VULNERABILITY FOR 1494 00:57:20,953 --> 00:57:23,255 A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE 1495 00:57:23,255 --> 00:57:26,058 DOING STUDIES. BUT I THINK SOME 1496 00:57:26,058 --> 00:57:27,259 WERE HOPING THAT THIS WAS GOING 1497 00:57:27,259 --> 00:57:29,128 TO KIND OF BE THE THING THAT GOT 1498 00:57:29,128 --> 00:57:30,262 THEM AHEAD SO THEY COULD GET 1499 00:57:30,262 --> 00:57:31,897 THEIR OWN APARTMENT OR THINGS 1500 00:57:31,897 --> 00:57:33,632 LIKE THAT BUT I WOULD SAY MOST 1501 00:57:33,632 --> 00:57:35,234 WEREN'T PEOPLE WHO WERE INHOUSED 1502 00:57:35,234 --> 00:57:39,271 IN THAT KIND OF CLASSIC SENSE. 1503 00:57:39,271 --> 00:57:41,173 YEAH. 1504 00:57:41,173 --> 00:57:43,709 >> AUDIENCE: ARE THERE ONLINE 1505 00:57:43,709 --> 00:57:43,976 QUESTIONS. 1506 00:57:43,976 --> 00:57:46,045 >> YOU CAN TAKE THE LAST TWO 1507 00:57:46,045 --> 00:57:47,112 MINUTES IF YOU LIKE. 1508 00:57:47,112 --> 00:57:48,047 >> AUDIENCE: OKAY, THERE'S 1509 00:57:48,047 --> 00:57:49,615 CLEARLY LIKE A LOT OF TENSION 1510 00:57:49,615 --> 00:57:51,283 HERE BETWEEN, LIKE, I DON'T 1511 00:57:51,283 --> 00:57:53,552 KNOW, HAVING COERCIVE AMOUNTS OF 1512 00:57:53,552 --> 00:57:54,787 MONEY AND THEN ALSO, LIKE, 1513 00:57:54,787 --> 00:57:57,323 PEOPLE WHO ARE DESPERATE, LIKE, 1514 00:57:57,323 --> 00:58:00,626 TAKING ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY AND 1515 00:58:00,626 --> 00:58:07,233 FEELING LIKE THAT'S O KOER 1516 00:58:07,233 --> 00:58:09,168 SIEVE. I'M CURIOUS HOW YOU 1517 00:58:09,168 --> 00:58:11,804 THINK THAT COULD BE RESOLVED. 1518 00:58:11,804 --> 00:58:14,873 >> JILL: WHEN WE WORK WITH 1519 00:58:14,873 --> 00:58:16,408 PARTICIPATION AND COMPENSATION I 1520 00:58:16,408 --> 00:58:20,746 FEEL THAT FRAMEWORKS BETTER THAN 1521 00:58:20,746 --> 00:58:22,715 HEALTHY TRIALS. THEN THE 1522 00:58:22,715 --> 00:58:24,116 FINANCIAL COMPENSATION HAVING 1523 00:58:24,116 --> 00:58:26,685 THIS OUTSIZED ROLE IN PEOPLE'S 1524 00:58:26,685 --> 00:58:27,219 DECISION-MAKING. 1525 00:58:27,219 --> 00:58:29,054 WHEN THEY MIGHT ALSO HAVE 1526 00:58:29,054 --> 00:58:30,656 MEDICAL BENEFITS. FOR INSTANCE. 1527 00:58:30,656 --> 00:58:32,725 BUT I FEEL LIKE WITH HEALTHY 1528 00:58:32,725 --> 00:58:33,359 VOLUNTEERS THEY'RE ALREADY DOING 1529 00:58:33,359 --> 00:58:35,661 IT FOR THE MONEY. SO IF WE TAKE 1530 00:58:35,661 --> 00:58:37,963 THAT AS THE STARTING POINT, 1531 00:58:37,963 --> 00:58:40,532 WE'RE, YOU KNOW, INDUCEMENT IS 1532 00:58:40,532 --> 00:58:42,668 ALREADY KIND OF THE BASIS OF ALL 1533 00:58:42,668 --> 00:58:44,536 OF THIS. SO WHAT BECOMES UNDUE? 1534 00:58:44,536 --> 00:58:46,272 THAT I THINK IS REALLY 1535 00:58:46,272 --> 00:58:49,241 PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE IF WE LOWER 1536 00:58:49,241 --> 00:58:50,643 COMPENSATION TOO MUCH, THEN 1537 00:58:50,643 --> 00:58:52,311 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE 1538 00:58:52,311 --> 00:58:54,747 THE "DESPERATE" PEOPLE WHO ARE 1539 00:58:54,747 --> 00:58:56,448 THE MOST LIKELY TO DO IT BECAUSE 1540 00:58:56,448 --> 00:58:58,550 THEY WILL SEE THAT'S NOT WORTH 1541 00:58:58,550 --> 00:59:01,086 MY TIME. I'M MUCH MORE 1542 00:59:01,086 --> 00:59:02,421 CONCERNED ABOUT EXPLOITATION OF 1543 00:59:02,421 --> 00:59:05,157 PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THESE 1544 00:59:05,157 --> 00:59:05,791 PRECARIOUS FINANCIAL SITUATIONS 1545 00:59:05,791 --> 00:59:07,393 THAN I AM ABOUT UNDUE INDUCEMENT 1546 00:59:07,393 --> 00:59:08,260 BECAUSE THEY ARE DOING IT FOR 1547 00:59:08,260 --> 00:59:10,763 THE MONEY. AND EVEN IF WE THINK 1548 00:59:10,763 --> 00:59:12,865 ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT HEALTHY 1549 00:59:12,865 --> 00:59:14,700 VOLUNTEERS MIGHT SAY ABOUT THIS, 1550 00:59:14,700 --> 00:59:16,568 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE COUNTING ON 1551 00:59:16,568 --> 00:59:19,104 THE FACT THAT RISKS ARE ALREADY 1552 00:59:19,104 --> 00:59:20,372 MINIMIZE. SO, YOU KNOW, FOR 1553 00:59:20,372 --> 00:59:22,007 THEM THEY'RE KIND OF THINKING, 1554 00:59:22,007 --> 00:59:23,342 WELL, IF THE RISK DOESN'T 1555 00:59:23,342 --> 00:59:24,476 CHANGE, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE 1556 00:59:24,476 --> 00:59:26,679 BETWEEN PAYING ME 2,000 DOLLARS 1557 00:59:26,679 --> 00:59:28,547 VERSUS PAYING ME 6,000 DOLLARS 1558 00:59:28,547 --> 00:59:32,251 SO PAY ME THE 6,000 DOLLARS. 1559 00:59:32,251 --> 00:59:33,118 SO I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER REALLY 1560 00:59:33,118 --> 00:59:35,921 BIG PIECE OF IT, YEAH. 1561 00:59:35,921 --> 00:59:36,789 >> AUDIENCE: GREAT, THANK YOU SO 1562 00:59:36,789 --> 00:59:36,989 MUCH. 1563 00:59:36,989 --> 00:59:46,365 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO NOW 1564 00:59:46,365 --> 00:59:51,337 WE'RE BACK TO ME. AND WE'RE 1565 00:59:51,337 --> 00:59:54,807 GOING TO DO A CASE AND I'M 1566 00:59:54,807 --> 00:59:55,474 HOPING THAT SLIDO IS GOING TO BE 1567 00:59:55,474 --> 01:00:01,580 OUR FRIEND TODAY. SO FIRST, MY 1568 01:00:01,580 --> 01:00:03,248 GENERAL DISCLAIMER, YOU'VE SEEN 1569 01:00:03,248 --> 01:00:04,650 MANY TIMES, THE NEXT IS THAT 1570 01:00:04,650 --> 01:00:08,654 WE'RE GOING TO USE SLIDO.COM 1571 01:00:08,654 --> 01:00:09,922 AGAIN AND THIS IS THE NUMBER 1572 01:00:09,922 --> 01:00:12,091 THAT I'M GOING TO HAVE YOU ENTER 1573 01:00:12,091 --> 01:00:13,726 IN ORDER TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS 1574 01:00:13,726 --> 01:00:15,561 I'M GOING TO ASK YOU. AND I'M 1575 01:00:15,561 --> 01:00:17,663 GOING TO SHOW THIS NUMBER AGAIN 1576 01:00:17,663 --> 01:00:19,264 BUT JUST, I'LL JUST READ IT OUT 1577 01:00:19,264 --> 01:00:29,308 FOR FOLKS, IT'S 2918976. SO LET 1578 01:00:29,308 --> 01:00:31,076 ME MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR CASE 1579 01:00:31,076 --> 01:00:35,681 SO, IMAGINE THAT, SO, THIS IS A 1580 01:00:35,681 --> 01:00:39,051 POST-COVID CLINICAL TRIAL FOR 1581 01:00:39,051 --> 01:00:42,588 THOSE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING A 1582 01:00:42,588 --> 01:00:53,132 POST-COVID SYNDROME. (READING). 1583 01:01:10,749 --> 01:01:13,852 SO THESE ARE FOLKS WHO HAD COVID 1584 01:01:13,852 --> 01:01:15,387 BAD ENOUGH TO BE HOSPITALIZED, 1585 01:01:15,387 --> 01:01:17,055 ARE LEAVING THE HOSPITAL NOW, 1586 01:01:17,055 --> 01:01:19,558 GOING BACK HOME BUT HAVE 1587 01:01:19,558 --> 01:01:20,893 LINGERING PULMONARY SYMPTOMS. 1588 01:01:20,893 --> 01:01:23,128 THE PATIENTS WILL BE RANDOMIZED 1589 01:01:23,128 --> 01:01:26,064 TO RECEIVE BB 8 OR A PLACEBO FOR 1590 01:01:26,064 --> 01:01:26,899 TWELVE WEEKS WITH A ONE YEAR 1591 01:01:26,899 --> 01:01:31,303 FOLLOW UP. ALL PATIENTS WILL 1592 01:01:31,303 --> 01:01:32,304 RECEIVE THE SAME BACKGROUND 1593 01:01:32,304 --> 01:01:34,506 CURRENT STANDARD OF CARE. 1594 01:01:34,506 --> 01:01:36,775 RIGHT? SO JUST TO REMIND YOU 1595 01:01:36,775 --> 01:01:37,643 ALL THE IDEA HERE IS THAT 1596 01:01:37,643 --> 01:01:41,013 THEY'RE COMING INTO THE HOSPITAL 1597 01:01:41,013 --> 01:01:43,215 FOR THIS CLINICAL TRIAL, BUT 1598 01:01:43,215 --> 01:01:45,551 THEY ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE 1599 01:01:45,551 --> 01:01:46,852 SOMEONE OUTSIDE WHO IS TAKING 1600 01:01:46,852 --> 01:01:48,754 CARE OF THEIR PRIMARY CARE BUT 1601 01:01:48,754 --> 01:01:51,924 IF ISSUES COME UP DURING THE 1602 01:01:51,924 --> 01:01:54,893 PROCESS OF THE STUDY, THAT IS 1603 01:01:54,893 --> 01:01:57,262 STANDARD OF CARE, THE HOSPITAL 1604 01:01:57,262 --> 01:02:00,799 WILL PROVIDE OR COVER THE COST 1605 01:02:00,799 --> 01:02:02,668 OF THAT. SO THE TRIAL IS A 1606 01:02:02,668 --> 01:02:05,871 COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE NIH 1607 01:02:05,871 --> 01:02:09,675 AND A PRIVATE COMPANY AS THE 1608 01:02:09,675 --> 01:02:14,379 COVID PANDEMIC HAS SLOWED THE 1609 01:02:14,379 --> 01:02:15,581 COMPANY IS WORRIED ABOUT MEETING 1610 01:02:15,581 --> 01:02:18,550 THEIR ENROLLMENT GOALS SO THE 1611 01:02:18,550 --> 01:02:21,987 TRIAL IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY IN 1612 01:02:21,987 --> 01:02:26,291 FOUR -- IN SITES IN FOUR STATES. 1613 01:02:26,291 --> 01:02:29,328 ONE OF THESE SITES IS IN STATE 1614 01:02:29,328 --> 01:02:29,928 X. AND THEY HAVE INDICATED 1615 01:02:29,928 --> 01:02:40,472 (READING). MEANING THEY HAVE NO 1616 01:02:41,406 --> 01:02:43,675 HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE. THE 1617 01:02:43,675 --> 01:02:44,309 HEALTH SYSTEM OF WHICH THEY ARE 1618 01:02:44,309 --> 01:02:54,820 (READING). SO, HERE IS YOUR 1619 01:02:59,525 --> 01:03:03,595 FIRST QUESTION. IS IT OKAY FOR 1620 01:03:03,595 --> 01:03:04,930 THE STATE X SITE TO LIMIT 1621 01:03:04,930 --> 01:03:07,866 ENROLLMENT IN THIS WAY? AND SO 1622 01:03:07,866 --> 01:03:09,201 THE FIRST QUESTION IS JUST A YES 1623 01:03:09,201 --> 01:03:12,104 OR NO. DO YOU THINK IT'S OKAY 1624 01:03:12,104 --> 01:03:15,541 AND WE'LL OF COURSE TALK ABOUT, 1625 01:03:15,541 --> 01:03:16,608 YOU KNOW, FURTHER ABOUT SOME OF 1626 01:03:16,608 --> 01:03:19,244 THE ISSUES BUT JUST YOUR GUT 1627 01:03:19,244 --> 01:03:21,880 RESPONSE. IS IT OKAY FOR THE 1628 01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:22,481 STATE TO LIMIT ENROLLMENT IN 1629 01:03:22,481 --> 01:03:33,025 THIS WAY? THANK YOU, ALL, FOR 1630 01:03:47,239 --> 01:03:48,974 PARTICIPATING, IT LOOKS ABOUT A 1631 01:03:48,974 --> 01:03:50,542 THIRD OF YOU SAY IT'S OKAY AND 1632 01:03:50,542 --> 01:03:57,316 ANOTHER TWO-THIRDS SAY IT'S NOT. 1633 01:03:57,316 --> 01:03:59,117 SO, OOPS, THAT'S -- INTERESTING 1634 01:03:59,117 --> 01:04:03,255 I I THOUGHT I HAD, I'M ASKING 1635 01:04:03,255 --> 01:04:08,126 YOU THE QUESTION NEXT. SO OF 1636 01:04:08,126 --> 01:04:09,595 THOSE OF YOU WHO SAID YES OR CAN 1637 01:04:09,595 --> 01:04:11,096 THINK OF A REASON WHY, WHY DID 1638 01:04:11,096 --> 01:04:12,864 YOU SAY YES? OR IF YOU SAID NO, 1639 01:04:12,864 --> 01:04:15,267 WHY DO YOU THINK SOMEONE WHO 1640 01:04:15,267 --> 01:04:18,637 SAID YES MIGHT SAY YES? AND 1641 01:04:18,637 --> 01:04:20,639 THESE ARE OPEN TEXT, YOU CAN 1642 01:04:20,639 --> 01:04:31,183 JUST CHIME IN WITH YOUR RESULTS. 1643 01:04:36,588 --> 01:04:38,490 GREAT SO ONE WOULD BE TO PREVENT 1644 01:04:38,490 --> 01:04:40,559 TOO MANY COSTS TO PARTICIPANTS. 1645 01:04:40,559 --> 01:04:42,094 RIGHT? IF THE SITE IS NOT GOING 1646 01:04:42,094 --> 01:04:44,196 TO COVER IT, THAT MEANS THAT THE 1647 01:04:44,196 --> 01:04:44,896 PARTICIPANT IS GOING TO HAVE TO 1648 01:04:44,896 --> 01:04:54,873 COVER THAT EXPENSE. GREAT. SO 1649 01:04:54,873 --> 01:04:57,242 SOMEONE SAID, I WAS TAKING THIS 1650 01:04:57,242 --> 01:04:58,844 FROM A VERY NARROW PERSPECTIVE 1651 01:04:58,844 --> 01:05:00,545 THE QUESTION OF IS IT LEGAL TO 1652 01:05:00,545 --> 01:05:03,048 DO THIS, YES, I THINK WE COULD 1653 01:05:03,048 --> 01:05:05,150 DECIDE THAT MAYBE IT'S LEGAL TO 1654 01:05:05,150 --> 01:05:07,252 DO THAT. BUT WE'RE GOING TO BE 1655 01:05:07,252 --> 01:05:09,721 TALKING ABOUT WHETHER IT'S 1656 01:05:09,721 --> 01:05:11,089 ETHICALLY APPROPRIATE. LET'S 1657 01:05:11,089 --> 01:05:13,291 SEE, IF IT'S DONE DURING THE 1658 01:05:13,291 --> 01:05:14,192 PROTOCOL DEVELOPMENT AND IS 1659 01:05:14,192 --> 01:05:18,063 AGREED UPON BY ALL THE SITES 1660 01:05:18,063 --> 01:05:20,232 THEN MAYBE THAT'S OKAY. THEY 1661 01:05:20,232 --> 01:05:21,566 MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO GET THEIR 1662 01:05:21,566 --> 01:05:23,068 FOLLOW UP CARE NEED. RIGHT. 1663 01:05:23,068 --> 01:05:26,171 THAT'S A PARTICIPANT FOCUSED 1664 01:05:26,171 --> 01:05:29,374 CONCERN. AND BECAUSE IT'S STILL 1665 01:05:29,374 --> 01:05:33,712 IMPROVED SOME ACCESS TO 1666 01:05:33,712 --> 01:05:36,148 PARTICIPANTS. GREAT. EVERYONE 1667 01:05:36,148 --> 01:05:39,284 SHOULD RECEIVE EQUAL TREATMENT 1668 01:05:39,284 --> 01:05:40,952 OR OPPORTUNITY. SO I GUESS WE 1669 01:05:40,952 --> 01:05:42,988 CAN TAKE THAT IN TWO DIFFERENT 1670 01:05:42,988 --> 01:05:46,591 WAYS, ONE, YOU CAN SAY THAT THAT 1671 01:05:46,591 --> 01:05:48,360 MEANS THAT IT WOULD -- IT'S OKAY 1672 01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:51,096 FOR THEM TO DO THIS. IF THEY 1673 01:05:51,096 --> 01:05:53,098 SPREAD THE OPPORTUNITY WIDELY 1674 01:05:53,098 --> 01:05:55,434 AMONG THOSE WHO REMAIN. OR SORT 1675 01:05:55,434 --> 01:05:59,104 OF THE OPPOSITE, IT PERHAPS 1676 01:05:59,104 --> 01:06:02,441 UNFAIRLY EXCLUDES A NUMBER OF 1677 01:06:02,441 --> 01:06:08,080 PEOPLE. AS LONG AS IT'S SET UP 1678 01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:10,415 AS AN EXCLUSIONARY CRITERIA 1679 01:06:10,415 --> 01:06:11,149 UPFRONT IT'S OKAY. THANK YOU 1680 01:06:11,149 --> 01:06:12,517 FOR ALL OF THAT. NOW WE'RE 1681 01:06:12,517 --> 01:06:13,885 GOING TO MOVE ONTO THOSE WHO 1682 01:06:13,885 --> 01:06:17,556 SAID NO OR FOR THOSE WHO SAID 1683 01:06:17,556 --> 01:06:19,024 YES BUT IMAGINE WHAT SOMEONE WHO 1684 01:06:19,024 --> 01:06:21,093 SAID NO WOULD SAY AND WE STARTED 1685 01:06:21,093 --> 01:06:22,394 TO GET SOME OF THOSE IN THE 1686 01:06:22,394 --> 01:06:27,599 RESPONSE TO THE LAST ONE. OH, 1687 01:06:27,599 --> 01:06:29,801 ACTUALLY, NO, I ALREADY STARTED 1688 01:06:29,801 --> 01:06:32,237 THIS, WOW, SO I ASKED THE NEXT 1689 01:06:32,237 --> 01:06:33,772 QUESTION WAS TO PUT IT INTO 1690 01:06:33,772 --> 01:06:35,340 ETHICS TERMS WHICH MANY OF YOU 1691 01:06:35,340 --> 01:06:38,810 HAVE ALREADY DONE. AND SO I 1692 01:06:38,810 --> 01:06:40,445 JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE 1693 01:06:40,445 --> 01:06:41,880 OF THOSE. YOU KNOW, FOLKS 1694 01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:47,252 TALKED ABOUT EQUAL OPPORTUNITY. 1695 01:06:47,252 --> 01:06:51,022 AND THINKING ABOUT WEATHER IT'S 1696 01:06:51,022 --> 01:06:51,957 -- WHETHER IT'S FAIR. 1697 01:06:51,957 --> 01:06:54,326 IS IT FAIR TO DO IT OR NOT? LET 1698 01:06:54,326 --> 01:06:56,795 ME JUST LOOK. PROMOTING HEALTH 1699 01:06:56,795 --> 01:07:01,833 AND SAFETY OF THE SUBJECTS. 1700 01:07:01,833 --> 01:07:03,101 RIGHT, BY EXCLUDING THEM, WE ARE 1701 01:07:03,101 --> 01:07:05,303 PROTECTING THEM. AND SO NOW I 1702 01:07:05,303 --> 01:07:07,539 AM GOING TO GO ONTO THE QUESTION 1703 01:07:07,539 --> 01:07:15,247 OF THOSE WHO SAID NO. OTHER 1704 01:07:15,247 --> 01:07:25,791 REASONS. TO SAY NO. SAY THAT 1705 01:07:31,363 --> 01:07:35,100 IN A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT WAY. 1706 01:07:35,100 --> 01:07:39,070 WHY SHOULDN'T STATE X LIMIT UP 1707 01:07:39,070 --> 01:07:43,241 -- ENROLLMENT IN THIS WAY? 1708 01:07:43,241 --> 01:07:47,112 UNFAIR EXCLUSION OF THE 1709 01:07:47,112 --> 01:07:49,614 UNINSURED. PERHAPS INEQUITABLE. 1710 01:07:49,614 --> 01:07:51,516 IT'S MAYBE SEEN AS 1711 01:07:51,516 --> 01:07:55,253 DISCRIMINATORY AGAINST THOSE WHO 1712 01:07:55,253 --> 01:07:58,290 ARE UNINSURED. YEAH. 1713 01:07:58,290 --> 01:07:59,624 EXCLUDEING THEM IS NOT 1714 01:07:59,624 --> 01:08:01,059 EQUITABLE. THE PROTOCOL SHOULD 1715 01:08:01,059 --> 01:08:03,261 ACCOUNT FOR THIS AND MAKE SURE 1716 01:08:03,261 --> 01:08:04,262 THE PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE THE 1717 01:08:04,262 --> 01:08:06,932 SAME CARE THAT OTHERS ARE 1718 01:08:06,932 --> 01:08:08,200 RECEIVING. WOULD LIMIT 1719 01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:11,269 SCIENTIFIC VALIDITY. YES, THANK 1720 01:08:11,269 --> 01:08:13,939 YOU. UNFAIR EXCLUSION WITHOUT 1721 01:08:13,939 --> 01:08:14,639 INSURANCE COULD BE A LARGE 1722 01:08:14,639 --> 01:08:16,975 DEMOGRAPHIC AND MAY HAVE OTHER 1723 01:08:16,975 --> 01:08:18,210 CHARACTERISTICS BY EXCLUDING 1724 01:08:18,210 --> 01:08:20,045 THEM YOU MAY NOT THEN BE ABLE TO 1725 01:08:20,045 --> 01:08:21,813 GENERALIZE TO THE LARGER 1726 01:08:21,813 --> 01:08:28,286 POPULATION. GREAT. LOTS OF 1727 01:08:28,286 --> 01:08:30,155 GOOD WORDS HERE. JUSTICE, 1728 01:08:30,155 --> 01:08:33,859 UNFAIR EXCLUSION, LIMITING 1729 01:08:33,859 --> 01:08:39,264 SCIENTIFIC VALIDITY. LESS 1730 01:08:39,264 --> 01:08:41,800 REPRESENTATIVE. YEAH. SO 1731 01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:47,405 IT -- LOTS OF GOOD TERMS HERE. 1732 01:08:47,405 --> 01:08:51,509 COULD IMPACT GENERALIZABILITY. 1733 01:08:51,509 --> 01:08:52,444 DISCRIMINATES AGAINST THOSE 1734 01:08:52,444 --> 01:08:54,913 WITHOUT INSURANCE. GREAT. AND 1735 01:08:54,913 --> 01:08:57,182 SO YOU'VE ALREADY, I'M REALLY 1736 01:08:57,182 --> 01:08:59,384 EXCITED, WEEK SIX, YOU'RE 1737 01:08:59,384 --> 01:09:00,151 ALREADY, I DON'T EVEN -- I DON'T 1738 01:09:00,151 --> 01:09:02,821 HAVE TO ASK YOU TO PUT THESE 1739 01:09:02,821 --> 01:09:04,422 INTO THE TERMS OF SOMEONE, OF 1740 01:09:04,422 --> 01:09:06,224 THINKING ABOUT ETHICS, YOU ARE 1741 01:09:06,224 --> 01:09:07,826 ALREADY PUTTING THEM INTO ETHICS 1742 01:09:07,826 --> 01:09:11,296 TERMS WHICH IS AWESOME. OKAY. 1743 01:09:11,296 --> 01:09:16,167 SO WHAT I WANT TO DO NOW IS JUST 1744 01:09:16,167 --> 01:09:17,269 COVER A COUPLE OF -- RECOVER A 1745 01:09:17,269 --> 01:09:18,503 COUPLE OF THE ISSUES THAT WE 1746 01:09:18,503 --> 01:09:20,272 ALREADY TALKED ABOUT AND THEN 1747 01:09:20,272 --> 01:09:23,441 ASK ONE MORE QUESTION. SO 1748 01:09:23,441 --> 01:09:24,809 YOU'VE ALREADY -- WE'VE ALREADY 1749 01:09:24,809 --> 01:09:27,846 TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THESE. SO 1750 01:09:27,846 --> 01:09:28,880 PARTICIPANTS SHOULD BE CHOSEN 1751 01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:30,916 BIASED PRIMARILY ON THE 1752 01:09:30,916 --> 01:09:32,083 SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE 1753 01:09:32,083 --> 01:09:33,451 TRIAL SO ISSUES AROUND 1754 01:09:33,451 --> 01:09:36,621 SCIENTIFIC VALIDITY, RIGHT? IF 1755 01:09:36,621 --> 01:09:40,091 SOMEONE IS MEDICALLY ELIGIBLE 1756 01:09:40,091 --> 01:09:41,993 ACCORDING TO THE CRITERIA, ONE 1757 01:09:41,993 --> 01:09:45,163 COULD SAY THAT EXCLUDING A 1758 01:09:45,163 --> 01:09:47,699 PARTICULAR GROUP BASED ON WHAT 1759 01:09:47,699 --> 01:09:50,302 WE MIGHT CALL A MORALLY 1760 01:09:50,302 --> 01:09:53,872 IRRELEVANT CHARACTERISTIC WOULD 1761 01:09:53,872 --> 01:09:55,240 BE INAPPROPRIATE. PARTICIPANTS 1762 01:09:55,240 --> 01:09:57,275 SHOULD BE CHOSEN IN A WAY THAT 1763 01:09:57,275 --> 01:09:58,977 REDUCES RISK AND ENHANCES 1764 01:09:58,977 --> 01:10:00,512 BENEFITS BOTH TO INDIVIDUALS AND 1765 01:10:00,512 --> 01:10:03,748 SOCIETY. RIGHT? SO, AGAIN, IF 1766 01:10:03,748 --> 01:10:06,818 THE GOAL HERE IS TO THINK ABOUT 1767 01:10:06,818 --> 01:10:10,588 BOTH THOSE WHO MIGHT BE 1768 01:10:10,588 --> 01:10:12,257 ELIGIBLE, THOSE WHO BENEFIT IF 1769 01:10:12,257 --> 01:10:13,658 ENROLLED AND THOSE PATIENTS IN 1770 01:10:13,658 --> 01:10:16,761 THE LONG RUN WHO MAY BENEFIT 1771 01:10:16,761 --> 01:10:18,029 FROM THE CONTRIBUTION THAT THESE 1772 01:10:18,029 --> 01:10:21,399 INDIVIDUALS MAKE. WE WANT TO 1773 01:10:21,399 --> 01:10:26,137 THINK ABOUT HOW WELL WE IDENTIFY 1774 01:10:26,137 --> 01:10:28,506 AND CONSIDER THE RISKS, REDUCE 1775 01:10:28,506 --> 01:10:29,674 THEM AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. AND SO 1776 01:10:29,674 --> 01:10:31,242 ONE THING THAT ALL OF YOU, MANY 1777 01:10:31,242 --> 01:10:35,113 OF YOU NOTED IS, LIKE, WHAT IS 1778 01:10:35,113 --> 01:10:36,581 REDUCE RISK MEAN IN THIS 1779 01:10:36,581 --> 01:10:38,783 CONTEXT? AND IT PICKS UP A 1780 01:10:38,783 --> 01:10:40,585 LITTLE ON WHAT JILL WAS 1781 01:10:40,585 --> 01:10:43,254 MENTIONING BEFORE. RIGHT? 1782 01:10:43,254 --> 01:10:45,156 INCLUDING SOMEONE WHO IS 1783 01:10:45,156 --> 01:10:48,693 UNINSURED MAY PUT THEM AT 1784 01:10:48,693 --> 01:10:51,329 FINANCIAL RISK. RIGHT? WHEN 1785 01:10:51,329 --> 01:10:53,565 SOMEONE IS UNINSURED THAT MEANS 1786 01:10:53,565 --> 01:10:54,332 THEY DON'T HAVE HEALTH 1787 01:10:54,332 --> 01:10:56,234 INSURANCE, RIGHT? AND FOR THOSE 1788 01:10:56,234 --> 01:11:01,172 OF YOU WHO HAVE EVER VISITED AN 1789 01:11:01,172 --> 01:11:01,873 EMERGENCY FOR EXAMPLE WHEN I 1790 01:11:01,873 --> 01:11:04,175 HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE, YOU'RE 1791 01:11:04,175 --> 01:11:06,978 GOING TO PAY SOME PORTION OF 1792 01:11:06,978 --> 01:11:09,547 THAT BILL. IF YOU DON'T HAVE 1793 01:11:09,547 --> 01:11:11,249 HEALTH INSURANCE AND AS A SIDE 1794 01:11:11,249 --> 01:11:14,519 NOTE, RIGHT, THOSE RATES ARE 1795 01:11:14,519 --> 01:11:15,520 NEGOTIATED WITH THE INSURANCE 1796 01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:17,389 COMPANIES, LARGE ACADEMIC 1797 01:11:17,389 --> 01:11:18,690 MEDICAL CENTERS OR HEALTH 1798 01:11:18,690 --> 01:11:20,658 SYSTEMS GET DISCOUNTS ON THAT 1799 01:11:20,658 --> 01:11:22,460 RATE. BUT IF YOU'RE A REGULAR 1800 01:11:22,460 --> 01:11:24,029 OLD PERSON WHO DOES NOT HAVE 1801 01:11:24,029 --> 01:11:27,165 HEALTH INSURANCE, YOU ARE PAYING 1802 01:11:27,165 --> 01:11:29,801 THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE CARE 1803 01:11:29,801 --> 01:11:32,003 PROVIDED. SO YOU MAY END UP 1804 01:11:32,003 --> 01:11:33,371 PAYING MUCH MORE WHEN YOU 1805 01:11:33,371 --> 01:11:35,974 COMPARE THE TWO COSTS FROM 1806 01:11:35,974 --> 01:11:39,811 SOMEONE WHO IS INSURED AND WHO 1807 01:11:39,811 --> 01:11:42,680 IS NOT. THAT'S A GENERAL 1808 01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:45,850 INJUSTICE IN OUR SYSTEM BUT 1809 01:11:45,850 --> 01:11:46,551 ENROLLING SOMEONE WHEN THERE'S 1810 01:11:46,551 --> 01:11:48,620 AN EXPECTATION THAT THERE IS 1811 01:11:48,620 --> 01:11:50,055 GOING TO BE STANDARD OF █CARE AD 1812 01:11:50,055 --> 01:11:51,156 SOMEONE'S GOING TO HAVE TO PAY 1813 01:11:51,156 --> 01:11:53,591 FOR IT. IT'S GOING TO BE 1814 01:11:53,591 --> 01:11:55,193 OUT-OF-POCKET FOR THAT 1815 01:11:55,193 --> 01:11:57,495 PARTICIPANT. SO ARE WE PUTTING 1816 01:11:57,495 --> 01:11:59,898 THEM AT FINANCIAL RISK OF 1817 01:11:59,898 --> 01:12:01,099 INCLUDING THEM? AND THEN WE 1818 01:12:01,099 --> 01:12:04,035 NEED TO BALANCE THAT ALONG WITH 1819 01:12:04,035 --> 01:12:05,470 THE PHYSICAL SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL 1820 01:12:05,470 --> 01:12:07,305 RISK OF BEING IN THE STUDY AND 1821 01:12:07,305 --> 01:12:10,608 THEN WHAT THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS 1822 01:12:10,608 --> 01:12:15,246 ARE. SO MAYBE WE WOULD WANT TO 1823 01:12:15,246 --> 01:12:18,483 ENGAGE WITH A PERSON IN AN 1824 01:12:18,483 --> 01:12:20,452 INFORMED CONSENT CONVERSATION 1825 01:12:20,452 --> 01:12:24,389 ABOUT WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IF THEY 1826 01:12:24,389 --> 01:12:26,591 ENROLL? WHAT ADDITIONAL 1827 01:12:26,591 --> 01:12:27,258 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES THEY 1828 01:12:27,258 --> 01:12:28,893 MIGHT HAVE. WHAT IS REQUIRED BY 1829 01:12:28,893 --> 01:12:32,363 THE STUDY? IS THAT THIS 1830 01:12:32,363 --> 01:12:35,200 PARTICULAR BASELINE CARE BE 1831 01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:37,168 COVERED? AND SO MAYBE THEY WANT 1832 01:12:37,168 --> 01:12:39,571 TO MAKE A DECISION TO ENROLL 1833 01:12:39,571 --> 01:12:45,176 DESPITE THAT RISK. IS IT 1834 01:12:45,176 --> 01:12:46,878 APPROPRIATE FOR "US" OR IF THE 1835 01:12:46,878 --> 01:12:48,913 CLINICAL STUDY TEAM TO MAKE THAT 1836 01:12:48,913 --> 01:12:52,817 DECISION ON BEHALF OF THE 1837 01:12:52,817 --> 01:12:54,519 INDIVIDUAL? AND THEN LASTLY AS 1838 01:12:54,519 --> 01:12:55,987 IT RELATE TO FAIR PARTICIPANT 1839 01:12:55,987 --> 01:12:57,455 SELECTION, AGAIN, WE'VE TALKED 1840 01:12:57,455 --> 01:12:59,190 ABOUT THIS, THE IMPORTANCE OF 1841 01:12:59,190 --> 01:13:01,960 SORT OF SHARING THE RISKS, 1842 01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:05,196 BURDENS AND POTENTIAL BENEFITS 1843 01:13:05,196 --> 01:13:06,331 OF PARTICIPATION ACROSS ALL 1844 01:13:06,331 --> 01:13:09,434 INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETAL GROUPS 1845 01:13:09,434 --> 01:13:12,170 AS POSSIBLE. SO WE WORRY ABOUT 1846 01:13:12,170 --> 01:13:15,740 BOTH EXCLUSION AND INCLUSION. 1847 01:13:15,740 --> 01:13:17,942 INCLUSION AS IT MEANS SOMEONE 1848 01:13:17,942 --> 01:13:21,146 HAS AN OPPORTUNITY OR A 1849 01:13:21,146 --> 01:13:22,981 POSSIBILITY OF BENEFITTING AN 1850 01:13:22,981 --> 01:13:25,283 EXCLUSION IN TERMS OF WHETHER OR 1851 01:13:25,283 --> 01:13:27,252 NOT THAT PARTICULAR GROUP IS 1852 01:13:27,252 --> 01:13:29,787 TAKING ON TOO MUCH OF THE BURDEN 1853 01:13:29,787 --> 01:13:34,125 OF THE TRIAL AND/OR WON'T 1854 01:13:34,125 --> 01:13:36,027 BENEFIT AS A RESULT OF THEIR 1855 01:13:36,027 --> 01:13:37,061 PARTICIPATION THE GROUP FROM 1856 01:13:37,061 --> 01:13:40,665 WHICH THEY COME IS LESS LIKELY 1857 01:13:40,665 --> 01:13:42,767 TO BENEFIT FROM THE FINDINGS OF 1858 01:13:42,767 --> 01:13:44,335 THE STUDY. WE'LL TALK MORE 1859 01:13:44,335 --> 01:13:48,373 ABOUT THAT NEXT WEEK WHEN WE 1860 01:13:48,373 --> 01:13:52,110 TRANSITION TO INTERNATIONAL 1861 01:13:52,110 --> 01:13:55,713 ISSUES. SO JILL MENTIONED UNDUE 1862 01:13:55,713 --> 01:13:58,850 INDUCEMENT AND SO ONE MIGHT BE 1863 01:13:58,850 --> 01:14:02,020 CONCERNED THAT IF THE PERSON WHO 1864 01:14:02,020 --> 01:14:03,888 ISN'T INSURED AND WANTS TO 1865 01:14:03,888 --> 01:14:07,258 ENROLL AT ONE OF THE SITES WHERE 1866 01:14:07,258 --> 01:14:09,894 THE STANDARD OF CARE WILL BE 1867 01:14:09,894 --> 01:14:11,229 COVERED, IF, LET ME SAY THAT A 1868 01:14:11,229 --> 01:14:13,064 DIFFERENT WAY, AT THE OTHER 1869 01:14:13,064 --> 01:14:17,435 THREE SITES, THEY PLAN TO ENROLL 1870 01:14:17,435 --> 01:14:19,103 UNINSURED PARTICIPANTS AND THE 1871 01:14:19,103 --> 01:14:22,674 SITES WILL COVER THE STANDARD OF 1872 01:14:22,674 --> 01:14:24,642 CARE COSTS FOR THOSE 1873 01:14:24,642 --> 01:14:25,143 PARTICIPANTS. SO THE 1874 01:14:25,143 --> 01:14:27,245 PARTICIPANTS IN THOSE OTHER 1875 01:14:27,245 --> 01:14:29,948 THREE SITES WILL NOT BE AT 1876 01:14:29,948 --> 01:14:32,717 FINANCIAL RISK. THIS OTHER SITE 1877 01:14:32,717 --> 01:14:35,286 WANTS TO EXCLUDE ANYONE WHO IS 1878 01:14:35,286 --> 01:14:38,590 INSURED BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT 1879 01:14:38,590 --> 01:14:40,458 TO COVER THAT COST. AND SO THE 1880 01:14:40,458 --> 01:14:42,393 ONE WORRY MIGHT BE FOR THE FOLKS 1881 01:14:42,393 --> 01:14:46,698 WHO ARE IN THOSE OTHER SITES OF 1882 01:14:46,698 --> 01:14:48,132 IS PROVIDING COVERING STANDARD 1883 01:14:48,132 --> 01:14:49,834 OF CARE FOR THE PERIOD OF THIS 1884 01:14:49,834 --> 01:14:52,937 TRIAL WHICH IS UP TO A YEAR IS 1885 01:14:52,937 --> 01:14:55,273 THAT SOMEHOW AN UNDO INDUCEMENT 1886 01:14:55,273 --> 01:14:58,576 FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS? AND I 1887 01:14:58,576 --> 01:14:59,978 WOULD ARGUE THAT IT'S LIKELY 1888 01:14:59,978 --> 01:15:02,213 NOT. THAT IT'S RELATIVELY 1889 01:15:02,213 --> 01:15:05,717 MODEST AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT 1890 01:15:05,717 --> 01:15:07,118 UNDUE INDUCEMENT AND JILL 1891 01:15:07,118 --> 01:15:08,419 MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, SOMETIMES 1892 01:15:08,419 --> 01:15:10,388 WE THINK ABOUT IT IN THE SETTING 1893 01:15:10,388 --> 01:15:12,757 OF IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 1894 01:15:12,757 --> 01:15:15,260 PEOPLE WHO HAVE A CONDITION, 1895 01:15:15,260 --> 01:15:17,729 THESE FOLKS ARE ALL AT HIGH RISK 1896 01:15:17,729 --> 01:15:24,002 OF HAVING LONG COVID. WHEN 1897 01:15:24,002 --> 01:15:29,007 THERE IS A POTENTIAL BENEFIT FOR 1898 01:15:29,007 --> 01:15:30,508 INDIVIDUAL WHO IS ENROLL MAYBE 1899 01:15:30,508 --> 01:15:31,342 THAT'S ENOUGH. 1900 01:15:31,342 --> 01:15:33,745 AND THEN WE DON'T TRADITIONALLY 1901 01:15:33,745 --> 01:15:34,612 PAY THEM FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION 1902 01:15:34,612 --> 01:15:36,581 BUT IN THIS CASE, THERE IS GOING 1903 01:15:36,581 --> 01:15:40,151 TO BE FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN THOSE 1904 01:15:40,151 --> 01:15:41,819 OTHER SITES, SOME FINANCIAL 1905 01:15:41,819 --> 01:15:43,388 BENEFIT IN COVERING THE STANDARD 1906 01:15:43,388 --> 01:15:46,858 OF CARE PROCEDURES THAT THEY 1907 01:15:46,858 --> 01:15:48,926 OTHERWISE WOULDN'T RECEIVE, 1908 01:15:48,926 --> 01:15:50,995 RIGHT? BECAUSE THEY ARE 1909 01:15:50,995 --> 01:15:53,064 UNINSURED, THEY ARE AT RISK OF 1910 01:15:53,064 --> 01:15:54,766 LONG COVID. THEY ARE GOING TO 1911 01:15:54,766 --> 01:15:57,368 BE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY. MAYBE 1912 01:15:57,368 --> 01:15:58,102 THERE'S SOMETHING THAT IS OF 1913 01:15:58,102 --> 01:16:02,206 UNDUE INDUCEMENT FOR THEM. BUT 1914 01:16:02,206 --> 01:16:12,750 IN THE CONTEXT OF A -- THAT FROM 1915 01:16:14,886 --> 01:16:17,422 MY PERSPECTIVE AND I TALKED A 1916 01:16:17,422 --> 01:16:19,057 LITTLE ABOUT THIS BEFORE, UNDUE 1917 01:16:19,057 --> 01:16:23,227 INDUCEMENT SORT OF KICKS IN WHEN 1918 01:16:23,227 --> 01:16:25,663 THE BENEFIT THAT THE PERSON MAY 1919 01:16:25,663 --> 01:16:30,768 RECEIVE AND IN THIS CASE IT'S A 1920 01:16:30,768 --> 01:16:33,671 POTENTIAL BENEFIT FROM THE 1921 01:16:33,671 --> 01:16:34,505 COMPOUND AND SOME FINANCIAL 1922 01:16:34,505 --> 01:16:38,576 BENEFIT OF HAVING STANDARD OF 1923 01:16:38,576 --> 01:16:40,845 CARE AVAILABLE. OVERWHELMS 1924 01:16:40,845 --> 01:16:44,215 THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT THE RISK OF 1925 01:16:44,215 --> 01:16:46,184 THE INTERVENTION THAT THEY MAY 1926 01:16:46,184 --> 01:16:48,286 BE RANDOMIZED TO. SO ANOTHER 1927 01:16:48,286 --> 01:16:51,255 WAY TO SAY THAT IS THAT BECAUSE 1928 01:16:51,255 --> 01:16:53,391 THE COVERAGE OF THE STANDARD OF 1929 01:16:53,391 --> 01:16:56,427 CARE IS SO VALUABLE TO THEM, IT 1930 01:16:56,427 --> 01:16:57,362 WOULD SWAMP THEIR ABILITY TO 1931 01:16:57,362 --> 01:17:00,365 MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION ABOUT 1932 01:17:00,365 --> 01:17:01,466 ENROLLMENT BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING 1933 01:17:01,466 --> 01:17:05,269 TO UNDERESTIMATE OR DIMINISH THE 1934 01:17:05,269 --> 01:17:06,404 POTENTIAL RISK FOR THEM. AND 1935 01:17:06,404 --> 01:17:08,706 FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I DON'T 1936 01:17:08,706 --> 01:17:10,608 THINK THAT PROVIDING STANDARD OF 1937 01:17:10,608 --> 01:17:11,576 COVERAGE FOR STANDARD OF CARE 1938 01:17:11,576 --> 01:17:15,246 FOR THOSE OTHER FOLKS IS 1939 01:17:15,246 --> 01:17:16,247 PROBLEMATIC. AND YOU GUYS 1940 01:17:16,247 --> 01:17:20,685 BROUGHT THIS UP. CATEGORICALLY 1941 01:17:20,685 --> 01:17:21,719 EXCLUDING UNINSURED PATIENTS 1942 01:17:21,719 --> 01:17:23,955 WOULD BE A DISPROPORTIONATE 1943 01:17:23,955 --> 01:17:26,557 RESPONSE TO UNDUE INDUCEMENT 1944 01:17:26,557 --> 01:17:27,592 CONCERNS AND WOULD LIKELY 1945 01:17:27,592 --> 01:17:28,659 VIOLATE THAT PRINCIPLE ABOVE 1946 01:17:28,659 --> 01:17:31,195 THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN TERMS OF 1947 01:17:31,195 --> 01:17:32,663 FAIR PARTICIPANT SELECTION. SO 1948 01:17:32,663 --> 01:17:36,167 I WANT TO END WITH SORT OF A 1949 01:17:36,167 --> 01:17:39,771 MORE META QUESTION IN THINKING 1950 01:17:39,771 --> 01:17:42,673 ABOUT CLINICAL TRIALS AND THE 1951 01:17:42,673 --> 01:17:45,910 ETHICS OF CLINICAL TRIALS. 1952 01:17:45,910 --> 01:17:47,678 SOMETHING THAT AGAIN, I'M GOING 1953 01:17:47,678 --> 01:17:52,216 TO SORRY, IT HAS TO RECONNECT 1954 01:17:52,216 --> 01:17:55,253 ITSELF. MY LAST QUESTION, IF 1955 01:17:55,253 --> 01:17:57,121 WE'RE THINKING ABOUT FAIRNESS, 1956 01:17:57,121 --> 01:18:01,292 RIGHT? IS IT, SO, AGAIN, JUST 1957 01:18:01,292 --> 01:18:02,660 TO REMIND YOU, WE HAVE THREE 1958 01:18:02,660 --> 01:18:04,462 SITES THAT ARE GOING TO ENROLL 1959 01:18:04,462 --> 01:18:10,201 PEOPLE WHO ARE UNINSURED OR 1960 01:18:10,201 --> 01:18:11,869 REGARDLESS OF THEIR INSURED 1961 01:18:11,869 --> 01:18:13,004 STATUS AND ANOTHER SITE THAT 1962 01:18:13,004 --> 01:18:15,306 WANTS TO EXCLUDE THEM. NOW IS 1963 01:18:15,306 --> 01:18:19,577 THAT FAIR TO OTHER PARTICIPANTS? 1964 01:18:19,577 --> 01:18:22,680 RIGHT? SO ANOTHER WAY TO THINK 1965 01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:27,485 ABOUT THAT IS, IF COVERING THAT 1966 01:18:27,485 --> 01:18:30,955 COST FOR THOSE WHO HAVE 1967 01:18:30,955 --> 01:18:31,622 INSURANCE OR CHARGING INSURANCE 1968 01:18:31,622 --> 01:18:33,191 IS COVERING THE COST FOR THOSE 1969 01:18:33,191 --> 01:18:38,229 WHO ARE UNINSURED UNFAIR TO THE 1970 01:18:38,229 --> 01:18:40,231 LARGER PARTICIPANT POPULATION? 1971 01:18:40,231 --> 01:18:45,236 AND/OR IS KOVRPING IT -- 1972 01:18:45,236 --> 01:18:46,871 COVERING IT AT ONE SITE UNFAIR 1973 01:18:46,871 --> 01:18:48,172 TO THE OTHER SITES. 1974 01:18:48,172 --> 01:18:49,407 I MENTION THESE JUST IN THE 1975 01:18:49,407 --> 01:18:51,008 SENSE THAT YOU GENERALLY WHEN 1976 01:18:51,008 --> 01:18:52,810 WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE CONDUCT 1977 01:18:52,810 --> 01:18:55,146 OF CLINICAL TRIALS, WE'RE 1978 01:18:55,146 --> 01:18:57,181 THINKING, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE 1979 01:18:57,181 --> 01:18:59,050 CLINICAL TRIAL ITSELF. WE'RE 1980 01:18:59,050 --> 01:19:00,785 THINKING ABOUT THE RISK TO 1981 01:19:00,785 --> 01:19:03,955 PARTICIPANTS, THE BENEFITS TO 1982 01:19:03,955 --> 01:19:04,922 PARTICIPANTS, MAKING SURE THAT 1983 01:19:04,922 --> 01:19:08,493 IS BALANCED, CONSIDERING 1984 01:19:08,493 --> 01:19:10,261 INFORMED CONSENT. INCREASING 1985 01:19:10,261 --> 01:19:13,931 THE LIKELIHOOD THAT PEOPLE WILL 1986 01:19:13,931 --> 01:19:15,500 UNDERSTAND. SOMETIMES WE HAVE 1987 01:19:15,500 --> 01:19:17,902 TO LOOK AT HOW THE TRIAL ITSELF 1988 01:19:17,902 --> 01:19:21,906 IS BEING DESIGNED. AND HOW 1989 01:19:21,906 --> 01:19:25,109 DIFFERENT SITES OR DIFFERENT 1990 01:19:25,109 --> 01:19:27,678 POLICIES OR DIFFERENT CRITERIA 1991 01:19:27,678 --> 01:19:37,655 MIGHT INVITE DISPARITIES OR 1992 01:19:37,655 --> 01:19:40,224 INEQUALITIES AMONG SITES AND/OR 1993 01:19:40,224 --> 01:19:41,826 PARTICIPANTS AND SHOULD IT BE A 1994 01:19:41,826 --> 01:19:44,095 GOAL THAT EVERYONE IS DOING THE 1995 01:19:44,095 --> 01:19:46,264 SAME THING. IS THAT A 1996 01:19:46,264 --> 01:19:48,699 REASONABLE THING FOR US TO THINK 1997 01:19:48,699 --> 01:19:52,036 ABOUT WHEN WE'RE EVALUATING A 1998 01:19:52,036 --> 01:19:53,371 CLINICAL TRIAL. I DON'T THINK 1999 01:19:53,371 --> 01:19:56,107 WE -- SO I WILL SAY FROM MY 2000 01:19:56,107 --> 01:20:00,912 EXPERIENCE OF BEING ON MANY 2001 01:20:00,912 --> 01:20:03,247 IRBS, I AM NOT SURE THAT THE 2002 01:20:03,247 --> 01:20:05,416 AVERAGE INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW 2003 01:20:05,416 --> 01:20:07,685 BOARD THINKS AS MUCH AS THEY 2004 01:20:07,685 --> 01:20:10,454 SHOULD IN SOME CASES ABOUT 2005 01:20:10,454 --> 01:20:12,423 WHETHER OR NOT SOME OF THESE 2006 01:20:12,423 --> 01:20:13,491 ARRANGEMENTS ARE FAIR OR NOT. 2007 01:20:13,491 --> 01:20:17,361 AND SO I AM WONDERING, I WOULD 2008 01:20:17,361 --> 01:20:21,332 LIKE TO JUST OPEN THE DISCUSSION 2009 01:20:21,332 --> 01:20:22,300 AND FOLKS WHO ARE HERE ARE 2010 01:20:22,300 --> 01:20:25,670 WELCOME TO GO TO THE MICS AND/OR 2011 01:20:25,670 --> 01:20:28,439 FOLKS OUT IN VIDEO LAND CAN POST 2012 01:20:28,439 --> 01:20:32,977 RESPONSES TO MY QUESTION ON THE 2013 01:20:32,977 --> 01:20:38,082 DISCUSSION BOARD OF WHAT -- 2014 01:20:38,082 --> 01:20:40,384 IS -- WHETHER OR NOT TO INCLUDE 2015 01:20:40,384 --> 01:20:45,389 PARTICIPANTS WHO ARE UNINSURED. 2016 01:20:45,389 --> 01:20:48,426 SHOULD WE SAY IN A SYSTEM THAT 2017 01:20:48,426 --> 01:20:51,796 IS ALREADY UNFAIR THAT IT WOULD 2018 01:20:51,796 --> 01:20:53,097 BE INAPPROPRIATE TO ALWAYS OR 2019 01:20:53,097 --> 01:20:54,865 CONSIDER TO EXCLUDE PEOPLE WHO 2020 01:20:54,865 --> 01:20:58,603 ARE UNINSURED? OR DO WE SAY, 2021 01:20:58,603 --> 01:21:02,707 WELL, GIVEN THAT OUR SYSTEM IS 2022 01:21:02,707 --> 01:21:05,309 BY DEFINITION UNFAIR WE 2023 01:21:05,309 --> 01:21:07,845 SHOULDN'T DOUBLY PLACE A BURDEN 2024 01:21:07,845 --> 01:21:09,847 ON THOSE WHO ARE UNINSURED AND 2025 01:21:09,847 --> 01:21:11,816 THEREFORE SHOULD MAKE SURE WE 2026 01:21:11,816 --> 01:21:13,551 INCLUDE THEM AS OFTEN AS WE CAN. 2027 01:21:13,551 --> 01:21:14,885 DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY SORT OF 2028 01:21:14,885 --> 01:21:21,392 OPINION OR THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT? 2029 01:21:21,392 --> 01:21:23,227 AND I WILL MENTION THIS IS A 2030 01:21:23,227 --> 01:21:25,663 UNIQUE ISSUE FOR US IN THE 2031 01:21:25,663 --> 01:21:27,064 UNITED STATES IN THAT IT'S NOT 2032 01:21:27,064 --> 01:21:29,934 THE CASE THAT EVERYBODY HAS 2033 01:21:29,934 --> 01:21:31,569 ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE. ANOTHER 2034 01:21:31,569 --> 01:21:33,537 WAY OF SAYING THAT WOULD BE IS 2035 01:21:33,537 --> 01:21:34,772 WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THIS 2036 01:21:34,772 --> 01:21:38,109 CONVERSATION IN OTHER SETTINGS 2037 01:21:38,109 --> 01:21:40,177 WHERE BASIC HEALTH CARE IS 2038 01:21:40,177 --> 01:21:42,113 PROVIDED TO EVERYONE. RIGHT? 2039 01:21:42,113 --> 01:21:44,482 ONE WAY TO ADDRESS THE ETHICAL 2040 01:21:44,482 --> 01:21:46,417 CONCERN IS TO SAY, WELL, LET'S 2041 01:21:46,417 --> 01:21:48,219 MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S INSURED. 2042 01:21:48,219 --> 01:21:50,688 WE CAN'T DO THAT. SO THEN WE 2043 01:21:50,688 --> 01:21:52,623 HAVE TO SORT OF MANAGE IS IT 2044 01:21:52,623 --> 01:21:54,692 OKAY, SHOULD WE ALWAYS INCLUDE 2045 01:21:54,692 --> 01:21:56,394 OR SHOULD WE EXCLUDE? AND WHAT 2046 01:21:56,394 --> 01:21:58,596 WOULD THE JUSTIFICATIONS FOR 2047 01:21:58,596 --> 01:22:01,065 THAT BE? ANY THOUGHTS? DANIEL, 2048 01:22:01,065 --> 01:22:03,801 YOU'RE KIND OF MOVING TOWARDS 2049 01:22:03,801 --> 01:22:05,736 THE MIC? WELL, IF YOU WOULDN'T 2050 01:22:05,736 --> 01:22:07,905 MIND GO TO THE MIC SO FOLKS OUT 2051 01:22:07,905 --> 01:22:10,374 IN THE WORLD CAN HEAR YOU A 2052 01:22:10,374 --> 01:22:15,446 LITTLE BETTER. 2053 01:22:15,446 --> 01:22:16,781 >> AUDIENCE: YEAH I CAN SEE 2054 01:22:16,781 --> 01:22:19,517 MAYBE AN ARGUMENT FOR EXCLUDING 2055 01:22:19,517 --> 01:22:22,853 THE UNINSURED IF THE COSTS OF 2056 01:22:22,853 --> 01:22:25,189 INCLUDING THEM WOULD 2057 01:22:25,189 --> 01:22:26,757 EXTERNALIZED SPECIFICALLY ONTO 2058 01:22:26,757 --> 01:22:29,126 THE INSURED PARTICIPANTS LIKE IF 2059 01:22:29,126 --> 01:22:32,463 THEY RECEIVED LESS COMPENSATION 2060 01:22:32,463 --> 01:22:34,398 BECAUSE MORE MONEY HAD TO BE 2061 01:22:34,398 --> 01:22:39,236 GIVEN TO, LIKE, PAY FOR THE CARE 2062 01:22:39,236 --> 01:22:41,672 OF THE INUNINSURED BUT EVEN THEN 2063 01:22:41,672 --> 01:22:43,874 IT SEEMS LIKE THE OTHER SIDE OF 2064 01:22:43,874 --> 01:22:45,609 JUST -- OF THAT IS YOU HAVE TO 2065 01:22:45,609 --> 01:22:48,145 EXCLUDE A BUNCH OF UNINSURED 2066 01:22:48,145 --> 01:22:49,447 POSSIBLE PARTICIPANTS AND THAT 2067 01:22:49,447 --> 01:22:51,749 JUST SEEMS TO BE AN OVERRIDING, 2068 01:22:51,749 --> 01:22:52,416 LIKE, ISSUE. 2069 01:22:52,416 --> 01:22:56,153 THAT JUST SEEMS PARTICULARLY 2070 01:22:56,153 --> 01:22:57,988 DISCRIMINATORY TO ME SO YEAH, I 2071 01:22:57,988 --> 01:22:59,256 THINK IT WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE 2072 01:22:59,256 --> 01:23:02,993 TO JUST HAVE, LIKE, IDEALLY SOME 2073 01:23:02,993 --> 01:23:06,464 SORT OF INSTITUTION, AT LEAST IN 2074 01:23:06,464 --> 01:23:10,234 THIS CASE, YOU KNOW, SUBSIDIZE 2075 01:23:10,234 --> 01:23:11,936 AND PAY FOR THE UNINSURED 2076 01:23:11,936 --> 01:23:13,971 MEDICAL CARE AND I GUESS EVEN 2077 01:23:13,971 --> 01:23:15,039 MORE IDEALLY WE WOULD HAVE A 2078 01:23:15,039 --> 01:23:16,474 DIFFERENT INSURANCE REGIME WHERE 2079 01:23:16,474 --> 01:23:18,476 IT'S NOT PRIVATE IN SUCH A WAY 2080 01:23:18,476 --> 01:23:22,480 IT WORKS WHERE PEOPLE ARE 2081 01:23:22,480 --> 01:23:24,315 UNINSURED. 2082 01:23:24,315 --> 01:23:27,718 >> HOLLY: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE 2083 01:23:27,718 --> 01:23:31,255 OF AN ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER, 2084 01:23:31,255 --> 01:23:34,925 WHEN I WAS AT HOPKINS THE SCHOOL 2085 01:23:34,925 --> 01:23:37,128 OF MEDICINE WOULD NOT ROUTINELY 2086 01:23:37,128 --> 01:23:38,629 EXCLUDE INDIVIDUALS BASED ON 2087 01:23:38,629 --> 01:23:42,233 THEIR INSURANCE STATUS. WHAT 2088 01:23:42,233 --> 01:23:44,135 THEY WOULD DO IS ONCE SOMEONE IS 2089 01:23:44,135 --> 01:23:44,902 IDENTIFIED AS ELIGIBLE AND 2090 01:23:44,902 --> 01:23:48,405 INSURANCE WAS HIGHLIGHTED AS A 2091 01:23:48,405 --> 01:23:50,641 CONCERN, THEY WOULD BASICALLY 2092 01:23:50,641 --> 01:23:52,476 SEND THE PERSON TO THE SOCIAL 2093 01:23:52,476 --> 01:23:56,814 WORKER WHO IS IN CHARGE OF 2094 01:23:56,814 --> 01:23:57,681 MAKING SURE THEY'RE RECEIVING 2095 01:23:57,681 --> 01:23:58,849 ALL THE BENEFITS THEY'RE 2096 01:23:58,849 --> 01:24:00,351 ELIGIBLE FOR. SOMEONE WHO IS 2097 01:24:00,351 --> 01:24:02,720 NEVER ENROLLED IN MEDICAID OR 2098 01:24:02,720 --> 01:24:04,388 LIVES IN A STATE LIKE MARYLAND 2099 01:24:04,388 --> 01:24:05,623 WHERE THERE ARE SAFETY NET 2100 01:24:05,623 --> 01:24:07,224 PROGRAMS THAT INDIVIDUALS CAN 2101 01:24:07,224 --> 01:24:08,292 APPLY FOR TO GET THEIR HEALTH 2102 01:24:08,292 --> 01:24:11,695 CARE INSURED. SO THAT'S, I 2103 01:24:11,695 --> 01:24:14,598 THINK THAT'S ONE WAY, IT DOESN'T 2104 01:24:14,598 --> 01:24:15,566 ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM, RIGHT? 2105 01:24:15,566 --> 01:24:18,869 THERE MAY BE SOME INDIVIDUALS, 2106 01:24:18,869 --> 01:24:21,572 RIGHT, WHO JUST ARE NOT ELIGIBLE 2107 01:24:21,572 --> 01:24:24,141 FOR -- THEY MAKE TOO MUCH OR 2108 01:24:24,141 --> 01:24:25,776 THEY'RE MALE OR THEY'RE NOT 2109 01:24:25,776 --> 01:24:27,444 PREGNANT OR ALL SORTS OF 2110 01:24:27,444 --> 01:24:29,146 REASONS. THEY MAY NOT QUALIFY 2111 01:24:29,146 --> 01:24:32,082 FOR ANY OF THE PUBLIC BENEFITS 2112 01:24:32,082 --> 01:24:34,985 AVAILABLE TO THEM THAT THEY WILL 2113 01:24:34,985 --> 01:24:37,922 BE UNINSURED. THEY DON'T HAVE A 2114 01:24:37,922 --> 01:24:39,757 JOB. MOST PEOPLE GET INSURANCE 2115 01:24:39,757 --> 01:24:41,759 THROUGH THEIR JOBS. SO THAT'S A 2116 01:24:41,759 --> 01:24:46,497 WAY OF AT LEAST TRYING TO CLOSE 2117 01:24:46,497 --> 01:24:49,166 THAT GAP. AND THE OTHER THING 2118 01:24:49,166 --> 01:24:52,369 TO THINK ABOUT, I MEAN, MY -- 2119 01:24:52,369 --> 01:24:55,239 THE MOST EXPERIENCE I HAVE AS IT 2120 01:24:55,239 --> 01:24:57,942 RELATE TO INCLUSION OF 2121 01:24:57,942 --> 01:25:02,980 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE UNINSURED IS 2122 01:25:02,980 --> 01:25:03,380 RAE 2123 01:25:03,380 --> 01:25:06,283 -- EARLIER IN THE HIV EPIDEMIC, 2124 01:25:06,283 --> 01:25:07,785 THERE WERE TRIALS THAT WERE OPEN 2125 01:25:07,785 --> 01:25:08,619 BACK THEN. 2126 01:25:08,619 --> 01:25:10,855 YOU WERE RANDOMIZED TO A PLACEBO 2127 01:25:10,855 --> 01:25:13,591 OR AN ACTIVE COMPOUND, YOU KNOW, 2128 01:25:13,591 --> 01:25:16,460 AS TIME WENT BY, THERE WOULD BE 2129 01:25:16,460 --> 01:25:19,230 MANY FEWER PLACEBO CONTROLLED 2130 01:25:19,230 --> 01:25:22,066 TRIALS BUT STILL TRIALS THAT 2131 01:25:22,066 --> 01:25:23,067 TESTED THE STANDARD TOWARDS THE 2132 01:25:23,067 --> 01:25:27,771 NEW NOVEL THING. THAT GROUP BY 2133 01:25:27,771 --> 01:25:29,240 DEMOGRAPHICALLY WERE MUCH LESS 2134 01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:31,475 LIKELY TO BE INSURED THAN THE 2135 01:25:31,475 --> 01:25:34,478 AVERAGE PERSON. IN TERMS OF 2136 01:25:34,478 --> 01:25:36,480 THEIR ABILITY TO QUALIFY FOR 2137 01:25:36,480 --> 01:25:38,015 DISABILITY ON MEDICARE, THEIR 2138 01:25:38,015 --> 01:25:41,051 ABILITY TO HOLD DOWN A JOB, ET 2139 01:25:41,051 --> 01:25:44,154 CETERA. SO, YOU KNOW, A BLANKET 2140 01:25:44,154 --> 01:25:47,224 EXCLUSION OF EXCLUDING THOSE 2141 01:25:47,224 --> 01:25:48,626 INDIVIDUALS MEANT THAT THEY 2142 01:25:48,626 --> 01:25:50,227 WOULD BASICALLY BE WITHOUT 2143 01:25:50,227 --> 01:25:53,731 HEALTH CARE FOR A PERIOD OF 2144 01:25:53,731 --> 01:25:55,599 TIME. OR THEY WOULD EXTEND THE 2145 01:25:55,599 --> 01:25:57,368 TIME WITH WHICH THEY DIDN'T HAVE 2146 01:25:57,368 --> 01:25:58,802 ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE. SO 2147 01:25:58,802 --> 01:26:01,372 REALLY SAW THIS AS AN 2148 01:26:01,372 --> 01:26:03,207 OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE STABLE 2149 01:26:03,207 --> 01:26:05,943 HEALTH CARE. WHICH, AGAIN, 2150 01:26:05,943 --> 01:26:07,878 ETHICALLY I FIND PROBLEMATIC BUT 2151 01:26:07,878 --> 01:26:09,313 I'M NOT GOING TO SAY AND 2152 01:26:09,313 --> 01:26:10,681 THEREFORE WE SHOULD EXCLUDE THEM 2153 01:26:10,681 --> 01:26:13,784 BECAUSE IF THAT'S THE ONLY WAY 2154 01:26:13,784 --> 01:26:16,387 TO HAVE ACCESS TO STABLE HEALTH 2155 01:26:16,387 --> 01:26:19,223 CARE THERE'S A TRADE-OFF THERE. 2156 01:26:19,223 --> 01:26:23,794 RIGHT? AND MY INCLINATION IS TO 2157 01:26:23,794 --> 01:26:25,396 SAY IF THAT'S THE ONLY WAY TO 2158 01:26:25,396 --> 01:26:27,231 HAVE ACCESS IT SEEMS, GIVEN THE 2159 01:26:27,231 --> 01:26:29,633 BACKGROUND CONDITIONS, GIVEN THE 2160 01:26:29,633 --> 01:26:31,001 CONTEXTUAL CONDITIONS IT SEEMS, 2161 01:26:31,001 --> 01:26:33,370 YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY REASONABLE 2162 01:26:33,370 --> 01:26:35,172 BUT IMPORTANT TO FACILITATE 2163 01:26:35,172 --> 01:26:38,208 ENROLLMENT IN CLINICAL TRIALS 2164 01:26:38,208 --> 01:26:43,314 AND ON THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS 2165 01:26:43,314 --> 01:26:46,550 CHRISTINE SHOWED, THERE WERE A 2166 01:26:46,550 --> 01:26:48,152 SERIES OF ERAS OF CLINICAL 2167 01:26:48,152 --> 01:26:51,221 RESEARCH AND ONE OF THOSE ERAS 2168 01:26:51,221 --> 01:26:54,425 WAS THE EARLY ADVOCACY FOR HIV 2169 01:26:54,425 --> 01:26:57,294 AND THE SIGNS THAT MANY WOULD 2170 01:26:57,294 --> 01:27:00,197 HOLD HERE AT THE NIH AND FDA IS 2171 01:27:00,197 --> 01:27:01,932 CLINICAL TRIALS IS HEALTH CARE. 2172 01:27:01,932 --> 01:27:03,567 RIGHT? AND SOME PEOPLE SAID, 2173 01:27:03,567 --> 01:27:04,401 WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT SHOULDN'T 2174 01:27:04,401 --> 01:27:07,638 BE THE CASE, RIGHT? LIKE 2175 01:27:07,638 --> 01:27:09,640 CLINICAL -- YOU SHOULDN'T THINK 2176 01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:10,708 OF CLINICAL TRIALS AS HEALTH 2177 01:27:10,708 --> 01:27:12,643 CARE, THAT'S A THERAPEUTIC 2178 01:27:12,643 --> 01:27:13,744 MISCONCEPTION BUT FOR THEM IT 2179 01:27:13,744 --> 01:27:15,546 WAS LITERAL IN THE SENSE OF 2180 01:27:15,546 --> 01:27:17,381 HAVING ACCESS TO A CLINICAL 2181 01:27:17,381 --> 01:27:19,416 TRIAL MEANS THAT I MIGHT HAVE 2182 01:27:19,416 --> 01:27:21,518 ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE HEALTH 2183 01:27:21,518 --> 01:27:25,489 CARE. SO, THAT'S IT FOR ME 2184 01:27:25,489 --> 01:27:28,225 TODAY. WE ARE GOING TO RETURN 2185 01:27:28,225 --> 01:27:32,696 AT 10:10. I'M VERY EXCITED TO 2186 01:27:32,696 --> 01:27:38,002 HAVE A GROUP FROM THE PATIENT 2187 01:27:38,002 --> 01:27:40,738 ADVISORY GROUP FROM THE CLINICAL 2188 01:27:40,738 --> 01:27:43,774 CENTER WHO WILL THEIR EXPERIENCE 2189 01:27:43,774 --> 01:27:45,876 OF BEING PARTICIPANTS OF TRIALS 2190 01:27:45,876 --> 01:27:47,611 HERE AT THE CLINICAL CENTER. SO 2191 01:27:47,611 --> 01:27:48,230 WE WILL REGROUP AT 10:10. THANK YOU. 2192 01:27:54,066 --> 01:27:59,438 >> WE ARE GETTING GUESTS FROM A 2193 01:27:59,438 --> 01:28:00,840 DISTANCE ON THE SCREEN. SO 2194 01:28:00,840 --> 01:28:02,675 FIRST I WANTED TO WELCOME AND 2195 01:28:02,675 --> 01:28:04,043 THANK OUR MEMBERS FROM THE 2196 01:28:04,043 --> 01:28:06,512 PARTICIPANT ADVISORY GROUP FOR 2197 01:28:06,512 --> 01:28:10,783 JOINING US TODAY MY GOAL, OUR 2198 01:28:10,783 --> 01:28:13,286 GOAL IS TO GIVE YOU INSIGHT INTO 2199 01:28:13,286 --> 01:28:15,187 WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE A 2200 01:28:15,187 --> 01:28:16,822 PARTICIPANT IN A RESEARCH 2201 01:28:16,822 --> 01:28:18,958 PROTOCOL HERE AT THE CLINICAL 2202 01:28:18,958 --> 01:28:22,194 CENTER AND I'M GOING TO BE A BIT 2203 01:28:22,194 --> 01:28:24,764 OF AN MC AND ASK FOLKS 2204 01:28:24,764 --> 01:28:26,332 QUESTIONS. AND THEN WE WILL 2205 01:28:26,332 --> 01:28:27,933 OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS FROM 2206 01:28:27,933 --> 01:28:30,102 THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE HERE IN THE 2207 01:28:30,102 --> 01:28:32,605 AUDIENCE. AND THOSE OF YOU WHO 2208 01:28:32,605 --> 01:28:37,109 ARE JOINING US BY VIDEO SO FIRST 2209 01:28:37,109 --> 01:28:38,611 I WANT TO GO AROUND THE ROOM, 2210 01:28:38,611 --> 01:28:40,579 WE'LL CALL IT. AND HAVE YOU 2211 01:28:40,579 --> 01:28:44,350 EACH INTRODUCE YOURSELVES TO THE 2212 01:28:44,350 --> 01:28:51,691 GROUP AND THEN WE'LL GET INTO 2213 01:28:51,691 --> 01:28:59,432 QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE. 2214 01:28:59,432 --> 01:29:02,902 >> HELLO, MY NAME IS ELLEN AND I 2215 01:29:02,902 --> 01:29:07,073 HAVE BEEN A PATIENT AT NIH SINCE 2216 01:29:07,073 --> 01:29:11,644 2001. SO A VERY LONG TIME. I 2217 01:29:11,644 --> 01:29:14,413 WAS ELIGIBLE FOR A PROTOCOL 2218 01:29:14,413 --> 01:29:18,084 BECAUSE I HAD SEVERE 2219 01:29:18,084 --> 01:29:19,852 HYPOGLYCEMIA UNAWARENESS WHERE I 2220 01:29:19,852 --> 01:29:22,621 WOULD PASS OUT WITH NO WARNING 2221 01:29:22,621 --> 01:29:24,690 FROM LOW BLOOD SUGAR. I'VE BEEN 2222 01:29:24,690 --> 01:29:27,493 A DIABETIC SINCE I WAS 13. A 2223 01:29:27,493 --> 01:29:32,598 MERE TEN YEARS AGO. AND SO I 2224 01:29:32,598 --> 01:29:35,401 KNEW WHAT A LOW BLOOD SUGAR WAS 2225 01:29:35,401 --> 01:29:38,971 LIKE. BUT I KIND OF LOST THE 2226 01:29:38,971 --> 01:29:48,581 ABILITY TO SENSE THAT AND THEN I 2227 01:29:48,581 --> 01:29:50,649 WOULD JUST CRASH AND SOMETIMES 2228 01:29:50,649 --> 01:29:55,121 IT WAS WHEN I WAS DRIVING THE 2229 01:29:55,121 --> 01:29:57,456 CAR AND I ALWAYS KNEW TO PULL 2230 01:29:57,456 --> 01:29:58,858 OVER AND STOP THE CAR AND THE 2231 01:29:58,858 --> 01:30:00,025 EMERGENCY PEOPLE WOULD BE THERE 2232 01:30:00,025 --> 01:30:01,327 TAKING ME OUT OF THE CAR, TAKING 2233 01:30:01,327 --> 01:30:03,496 ME TO THE HOSPITAL AND, YOU 2234 01:30:03,496 --> 01:30:06,699 KNOW, IT'S NOT A GOOD THING WHEN 2235 01:30:06,699 --> 01:30:08,801 THE EMERGENCY PEOPLE KNOW YOU ON 2236 01:30:08,801 --> 01:30:10,469 A FIRST NAME BASIS. THEY HAD 2237 01:30:10,469 --> 01:30:13,506 COME SO MANY TIMES TO MY HOME OR 2238 01:30:13,506 --> 01:30:16,108 TO MY OFFICE WHEN I WAS WORKING. 2239 01:30:16,108 --> 01:30:19,578 SO I STARTED TO LOOK INTO 2240 01:30:19,578 --> 01:30:21,547 RESEARCH TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS 2241 01:30:21,547 --> 01:30:24,717 GOING ON AND MY FATHER HEARD 2242 01:30:24,717 --> 01:30:27,453 ABOUT AN EYE LET CELL TRANSPLANT 2243 01:30:27,453 --> 01:30:30,389 ON THE NEWS AND SO HE CALLED ME 2244 01:30:30,389 --> 01:30:32,191 RIGHT UP AND SAID ELLEN YOU GOT 2245 01:30:32,191 --> 01:30:33,225 TO CHECK THIS OUT. 2246 01:30:33,225 --> 01:30:36,729 SO I STARTED TO CHECK IT OUT AND 2247 01:30:36,729 --> 01:30:39,598 I DID GET AN EYE LET CELL 2248 01:30:39,598 --> 01:30:43,002 TRANSPLANT IN 2001. DR. DAVID 2249 01:30:43,002 --> 01:30:45,037 HARLAN WAS MY PHYSICIAN. HE WAS 2250 01:30:45,037 --> 01:30:47,773 HERE AT NIH FOR MANY YEARS. 2251 01:30:47,773 --> 01:30:50,609 HE HAS SINCE MOVED ON. I HAVE 2252 01:30:50,609 --> 01:30:54,213 SINCE MOVED ON TOO. I HAD 2253 01:30:54,213 --> 01:30:56,882 FUNCTIONING EYE LETS THAT THEY 2254 01:30:56,882 --> 01:30:59,452 TOOK THE BETA CELLS WHICH ARE 2255 01:30:59,452 --> 01:31:00,953 THE LITTLE TINY CELLS THAT 2256 01:31:00,953 --> 01:31:03,322 PRODUCE INSULIN IN YOUR 2257 01:31:03,322 --> 01:31:05,691 PANCREAS, THEY TOOK THOSE FROM A 2258 01:31:05,691 --> 01:31:12,097 CADAVER AND PUT THEM INTO MY 2259 01:31:12,097 --> 01:31:14,099 LIVER. THEY'D LIVED HAPPILY IN 2260 01:31:14,099 --> 01:31:18,537 MY LIVER FOR ABOUT TEN YEARS SO 2261 01:31:18,537 --> 01:31:20,473 I NO LONGER HAD TO TAKE SHOTS 2262 01:31:20,473 --> 01:31:22,541 AND NO LONGER PASSING OUT 2263 01:31:22,541 --> 01:31:24,243 WITHOUT WARNING SO THAT WAS THE 2264 01:31:24,243 --> 01:31:25,845 CRITICAL PART AND FOR ME THAT 2265 01:31:25,845 --> 01:31:29,381 WAS THE SUCCESS OF THE CLINICAL 2266 01:31:29,381 --> 01:31:31,884 TRIAL. SO I THANK ALL OF YOU 2267 01:31:31,884 --> 01:31:34,119 WHO ARE INVOLVED IN RESEARCH 2268 01:31:34,119 --> 01:31:35,688 BECAUSE WITHOUT THAT ADVANCES 2269 01:31:35,688 --> 01:31:39,758 LIKE THIS COULD NOT HAPPEN. AND 2270 01:31:39,758 --> 01:31:46,932 THE OBJECT OF THE PROTOCOL WAS 2271 01:31:46,932 --> 01:31:49,468 NOT PROOF OF PURCHASE LIKE AT 2272 01:31:49,468 --> 01:31:54,507 THE STORE BUT A PROOF OF 2273 01:31:54,507 --> 01:31:56,976 CONCEPT. SEE MY CONCEPT WAS 2274 01:31:56,976 --> 01:31:58,210 GONE. PROOF OF CONCEPT AND THEY 2275 01:31:58,210 --> 01:32:02,181 DID PROVE THAT THAT CONCEPT DID 2276 01:32:02,181 --> 01:32:04,416 WORK. I WAS THE FIFTH ONE AT 2277 01:32:04,416 --> 01:32:06,619 NIH TO HAVE IT AND THE LONGEST 2278 01:32:06,619 --> 01:32:08,387 ONE TO HAVE FUNCTIONING EYE 2279 01:32:08,387 --> 01:32:10,155 LETS. I NO LONGER HAVE 2280 01:32:10,155 --> 01:32:12,958 FUNCTIONING EYE LETS BUT THAT'S 2281 01:32:12,958 --> 01:32:15,394 OKAY. I'M -- THE TECHNOLOGY HAS 2282 01:32:15,394 --> 01:32:17,730 IMPROVED SO MUCH SINCE I FIRST 2283 01:32:17,730 --> 01:32:19,632 STARTED COMING HERE. THAT I NOW 2284 01:32:19,632 --> 01:32:23,369 HAVE AN INSULIN PUMP AND A 2285 01:32:23,369 --> 01:32:26,672 CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITOR SO MY 2286 01:32:26,672 --> 01:32:29,942 DIABETES IS VERY GOOD CONTROL. 2287 01:32:29,942 --> 01:32:34,213 MY A 1C IS ABOUT 6.7 NOW SO I AM 2288 01:32:34,213 --> 01:32:35,381 PLEASED WITH THAT. 2289 01:32:35,381 --> 01:32:37,917 AND MY ENDOCRINOLOGIST IS VERY 2290 01:32:37,917 --> 01:32:39,652 PLEASED WITH THAT. THAT'S MY 2291 01:32:39,652 --> 01:32:42,521 BRIEF HISTORY. 2292 01:32:42,521 --> 01:32:44,189 >> THANK YOU AND WE'LL COME BACK 2293 01:32:44,189 --> 01:32:45,157 WITH OTHER QUESTIONS. 2294 01:32:45,157 --> 01:32:46,458 >> GOOD MORNING I WANT TO START 2295 01:32:46,458 --> 01:32:48,360 AND SAY THANK YOU GUYS FOR BEING 2296 01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:49,061 DEDICATED TO RESEARCH BECAUSE 2297 01:32:49,061 --> 01:32:50,663 YOU GUYS ARE HELPING US OUT A 2298 01:32:50,663 --> 01:32:53,432 LOT I HAVE BEEN A PATIENT AT THE 2299 01:32:53,432 --> 01:32:55,801 NIH FOR TWELVE YEARS. IT'S HARD 2300 01:32:55,801 --> 01:32:58,170 FOR ME TO PROCESS THAT BUT IT 2301 01:32:58,170 --> 01:33:00,072 GOES BY REALLY FAST. OFF RARE 2302 01:33:00,072 --> 01:33:01,840 EYE DISEASE IT'S PROGRESSIVE AND 2303 01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:05,411 I'M SEEN AT THE NEI. I'M NOT 2304 01:33:05,411 --> 01:33:06,645 ENROLLED IN A CLINICAL TRIAL BUT 2305 01:33:06,645 --> 01:33:08,314 THEY LIKE TO COLLECT DATA ON ME 2306 01:33:08,314 --> 01:33:12,318 TO SEE HOW THE PROGRESSION OF MY 2307 01:33:12,318 --> 01:33:13,919 VISUAL IMPAIRMENT IS GOING IT'S 2308 01:33:13,919 --> 01:33:15,688 BEEN AN INTERESTING RIDE BUT I 2309 01:33:15,688 --> 01:33:16,755 CAN SAY IT'S NOT NECESSARILY 2310 01:33:16,755 --> 01:33:18,524 BEEN A ROLLER COASTER FOR ME IN 2311 01:33:18,524 --> 01:33:20,593 THIS EXPERIENCE IT'S BEEN A 2312 01:33:20,593 --> 01:33:21,860 STEADY TRAIN RIDE SO, YEAH. 2313 01:33:21,860 --> 01:33:23,729 STILL HERE, STILL TRYING TO 2314 01:33:23,729 --> 01:33:26,398 FIGURE OUT IF THEY CAN FIGURE 2315 01:33:26,398 --> 01:33:29,034 OUT WHAT MY EYE DISEASE IS. 2316 01:33:29,034 --> 01:33:29,234 SO.... 2317 01:33:29,234 --> 01:33:30,970 >> THANK YOU. LIAM, WHY DON'T 2318 01:33:30,970 --> 01:33:31,804 WE GO TO YOU. 2319 01:33:31,804 --> 01:33:36,609 >> YEAH, SO, I'VE BEEN AN NIH 2320 01:33:36,609 --> 01:33:38,644 PATIENT FOR ABOUT FOUR YEARS NOW 2321 01:33:38,644 --> 01:33:40,946 OR -- NO, NO, TWO YEARS, I'VE 2322 01:33:40,946 --> 01:33:43,482 BEEN AN NIH PATIENT NOW FOR TWO 2323 01:33:43,482 --> 01:33:47,019 YEARS AND I CURRENTLY GO TO 2324 01:33:47,019 --> 01:33:49,288 COLLEGE AS A JUNIOR. BUT THE 2325 01:33:49,288 --> 01:33:51,056 RARE DISEASE THAT I HAVE IS 2326 01:33:51,056 --> 01:33:55,127 CALLED CLASSIC CONGENITAL 2327 01:33:55,127 --> 01:33:56,562 HYPERPLASIA WHICH BASICALLY 2328 01:33:56,562 --> 01:33:58,897 MEANS I DON'T PRODUCE CORTISOL 2329 01:33:58,897 --> 01:34:00,766 AND I JOINED A CLINICAL TRIAL AT 2330 01:34:00,766 --> 01:34:05,437 THE SAME TIME BACK IN 2022. YOU 2331 01:34:05,437 --> 01:34:06,839 KNOW, IN ORDER TO HOPE -- 2332 01:34:06,839 --> 01:34:07,673 BASICALLY THE GOAL WAS THAT YOU 2333 01:34:07,673 --> 01:34:12,177 WANT TO REDUCE THE STEROID USAGE 2334 01:34:12,177 --> 01:34:15,414 THAT I CURRENTLY TAKE BECAUSE 2335 01:34:15,414 --> 01:34:16,448 LONG-TERM STEROIDS IS PRETTY BAD 2336 01:34:16,448 --> 01:34:18,817 SO THE GOAL WITH THE MEDICATION 2337 01:34:18,817 --> 01:34:20,953 IS TO REDUCE THAT STEROID USAGE 2338 01:34:20,953 --> 01:34:22,688 AND, YOU KNOW, OVERALL I WOULD 2339 01:34:22,688 --> 01:34:25,290 SAY THE TRIAL'S BEEN GOING 2340 01:34:25,290 --> 01:34:26,825 PRETTY WELL. I MEAN, THAT'S 2341 01:34:26,825 --> 01:34:28,460 PRETTY MUCH IT TO BE HONEST. I 2342 01:34:28,460 --> 01:34:30,129 DON'T HAVE MUCH ELSE TO SAY. 2343 01:34:30,129 --> 01:34:32,264 >> GREAT, WELL WE'LL GET TO SOME 2344 01:34:32,264 --> 01:34:33,799 DETAILS WHEN WE GO AROUND WITH 2345 01:34:33,799 --> 01:34:35,634 SOME OTHER QUESTIONS. NINA, 2346 01:34:35,634 --> 01:34:39,838 PLEASE GO AHEAD AND INTRODUCE 2347 01:34:39,838 --> 01:34:40,472 YOURSE 2348 01:34:40,472 --> 01:34:40,739 YOURSELF. 2349 01:34:40,739 --> 01:34:42,808 >> HI, EVERYONE, I'M NINA AND 2350 01:34:42,808 --> 01:34:45,544 I'M TALKING TO YOU FROM NEBRASKA 2351 01:34:45,544 --> 01:34:47,413 TODAY. SO I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE. 2352 01:34:47,413 --> 01:34:48,747 THIS IS REALLY EXCITING 2353 01:34:48,747 --> 01:34:49,782 DISCUSSION. AND THIS IS AN 2354 01:34:49,782 --> 01:34:52,084 IMPORTANT DISCUSSION AS WELL. I 2355 01:34:52,084 --> 01:34:57,690 HAVE A RARE DISEASE CALLED 2356 01:34:57,690 --> 01:34:59,958 GENERAL SIN'S CON DROE DYSPLASIA 2357 01:34:59,958 --> 01:35:04,630 AND I DIDN'T GET DIAGNOSED UNTIL 2358 01:35:04,630 --> 01:35:08,834 I -- HAD PASSED IT DOWN TO MY 2359 01:35:08,834 --> 01:35:11,103 TWO CHILDREN AND I WAS 32 YEARS 2360 01:35:11,103 --> 01:35:12,738 OLD WHICH AFFECTS LESS THAN 30 2361 01:35:12,738 --> 01:35:13,739 PEOPLE WORLDWIDE. 2362 01:35:13,739 --> 01:35:16,608 SO I AM ONE OF THE OLDEST WITH 2363 01:35:16,608 --> 01:35:19,845 THIS CONDITION STILL LIVING. 2364 01:35:19,845 --> 01:35:24,416 AND I MOVED TO AMERICA FROM THE 2365 01:35:24,416 --> 01:35:27,720 MIDDLE EAST. WHEN WE FOUND OUT 2366 01:35:27,720 --> 01:35:32,658 THAT THERE WAS PROBABLY SOME 2367 01:35:32,658 --> 01:35:34,560 GLIMMER OF HOPE THAT WE COULD 2368 01:35:34,560 --> 01:35:35,227 TREAT THIS CONDITION I'VE BEEN 2369 01:35:35,227 --> 01:35:37,763 AT THE NIH, FAIRLY NEW, IN 2370 01:35:37,763 --> 01:35:39,331 COMPARISON TO SOME OF MY OTHER 2371 01:35:39,331 --> 01:35:41,033 COLLEAGUES HERE ON THE PANEL. 2372 01:35:41,033 --> 01:35:49,775 I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 2022. AND 2373 01:35:49,775 --> 01:35:55,581 WE ARE UNDER THE CARE OF A 2374 01:35:55,581 --> 01:35:57,683 DOCTOR AND WILL BE PART OF A 2375 01:35:57,683 --> 01:35:59,518 CLINICAL TRIAL AND I WILL BE THE 2376 01:35:59,518 --> 01:36:02,087 FIRST PATIENT TREATED WITH AN 2377 01:36:02,087 --> 01:36:02,621 INVERSE AGONIST FOR MY 2378 01:36:02,621 --> 01:36:04,623 CONDITION. PRETTY SOON HERE. 2379 01:36:04,623 --> 01:36:06,225 SO WHAT WE ARE DOING IS WORKING 2380 01:36:06,225 --> 01:36:08,627 ON THE NATURAL HISTORY STUDY OF 2381 01:36:08,627 --> 01:36:10,729 THIS VERY ULTRA RARE DISEASE 2382 01:36:10,729 --> 01:36:14,133 THAT HAS HARDLY ANY PATIENTS. 2383 01:36:14,133 --> 01:36:16,635 SO IT'S A VERY DIFFERENT 2384 01:36:16,635 --> 01:36:18,904 APPROACH BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY 2385 01:36:18,904 --> 01:36:20,405 UNKNOWNS. AND SO WE DON'T 2386 01:36:20,405 --> 01:36:22,241 REALLY HAVE A CLEAR PATH AS, YOU 2387 01:36:22,241 --> 01:36:24,977 KNOW, WHAT RESEARCH SHOULD LOOK 2388 01:36:24,977 --> 01:36:32,618 LIKE IN AN IN A ONE OR A FEW 2389 01:36:32,618 --> 01:36:34,419 WHEN THERE'S NO HISTORY BUT 2390 01:36:34,419 --> 01:36:36,622 GIVEN THE DISEASE IS PROGRESSIVE 2391 01:36:36,622 --> 01:36:38,090 AND DEBILITATING IT'S URGENT. 2392 01:36:38,090 --> 01:36:41,960 SO THE FACT THAT WE GOT TO MOVE 2393 01:36:41,960 --> 01:36:42,961 QUICKLY AND AT THE SAME TIME 2394 01:36:42,961 --> 01:36:44,930 UNDERSTAND THIS DISEASE WHILE 2395 01:36:44,930 --> 01:36:47,699 ALSO GETTING PATIENTS INTO THE 2396 01:36:47,699 --> 01:36:49,768 CLINIC AND MANY OF THEM ARE 2397 01:36:49,768 --> 01:36:52,204 CHILDREN. I THINK IT REALLY 2398 01:36:52,204 --> 01:36:56,675 SETS UP FOR NOT JUST A 2399 01:36:56,675 --> 01:36:57,976 CHALLENGING RESEARCH STUDY BUT 2400 01:36:57,976 --> 01:37:00,979 ALSO ONE THAT REQUIRES A LOT OF 2401 01:37:00,979 --> 01:37:02,314 COLLABORATION BETWEEN PATIENT 2402 01:37:02,314 --> 01:37:05,651 AND RESEARCHER ON A JOURNEY OF 2403 01:37:05,651 --> 01:37:07,519 DISCOVERY AS WELL AS FINDING 2404 01:37:07,519 --> 01:37:10,789 TREATMENTS FOR A POPULATION THAT 2405 01:37:10,789 --> 01:37:12,424 IS SO SMALL THAT COULD BE 2406 01:37:12,424 --> 01:37:14,526 CONSIDERED TOTALLY 2407 01:37:14,526 --> 01:37:15,894 INSIGNIFICANT. YET, SO 2408 01:37:15,894 --> 01:37:17,963 IMPORTANT, BECAUSE IT WILL LEAD 2409 01:37:17,963 --> 01:37:19,598 US TO IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES THAT 2410 01:37:19,598 --> 01:37:21,300 WILL HELP GENERAL DISEASES. SO 2411 01:37:21,300 --> 01:37:23,735 I AM HAPPY TO BE PARTICIPATING 2412 01:37:23,735 --> 01:37:24,636 IN THIS DISCUSSION TODAY BECAUSE 2413 01:37:24,636 --> 01:37:28,307 EVEN IN THIS TWO YEARS, I'VE 2414 01:37:28,307 --> 01:37:29,408 LEARNED SO MUCH AND IN THIS 2415 01:37:29,408 --> 01:37:30,909 PROCESS AND I'M REALLY EXCITED 2416 01:37:30,909 --> 01:37:34,012 FOR THE WORK THAT IS GOING TO 2417 01:37:34,012 --> 01:37:35,113 COME, NOT JUST FROM THIS JOURNEY 2418 01:37:35,113 --> 01:37:38,183 BUT ALSO FROM THE DISCUSSION 2419 01:37:38,183 --> 01:37:38,984 HERE TODAY. 2420 01:37:38,984 --> 01:37:40,886 >> THANK YOU, ALL, SO MUCH AND 2421 01:37:40,886 --> 01:37:43,355 MAYBE I WILL COME BACK TO YOU, 2422 01:37:43,355 --> 01:37:45,390 NINA TO ASK, SOUND LIKE YOU'RE 2423 01:37:45,390 --> 01:37:55,033 ON THE EDGE OF ENROLLING IN AN 2424 01:37:55,033 --> 01:37:57,803 ALREADY UNIQUE TRIAL AND I'M 2425 01:37:57,803 --> 01:37:59,004 WONDERING IF YOU CAN SHARE SOME 2426 01:37:59,004 --> 01:38:00,606 OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE BEEN 2427 01:38:00,606 --> 01:38:01,573 THINKING ABOUT OR HAVE THOUGHT 2428 01:38:01,573 --> 01:38:02,374 ABOUT IN ANTICIPATION OF 2429 01:38:02,374 --> 01:38:04,543 ENROLLING IN A TRIAL THAT IS 2430 01:38:04,543 --> 01:38:05,844 BASICALLY THE FIRST, SOUNDS LIKE 2431 01:38:05,844 --> 01:38:07,813 IT'S GOING TO BE THE FIRST IN 2432 01:38:07,813 --> 01:38:12,150 HUMAN TRIAL OF THIS 2433 01:38:12,150 --> 01:38:12,484 INTERVENTION. 2434 01:38:12,484 --> 01:38:16,021 >> YES, SO THERE ARE A COUPLE OF 2435 01:38:16,021 --> 01:38:17,923 THINGS. ONE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, 2436 01:38:17,923 --> 01:38:21,293 WHEN YOU ARE SO RARE, AND WHEN 2437 01:38:21,293 --> 01:38:23,395 YOU LIVED WITH A DISEASE FOR SO 2438 01:38:23,395 --> 01:38:25,998 LONG AND HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS 2439 01:38:25,998 --> 01:38:28,400 AND NOW SUDDENLY YOU KNOW, FAST 2440 01:38:28,400 --> 01:38:30,469 FORWARD AND YOU ARE ON THE VERGE 2441 01:38:30,469 --> 01:38:32,804 OF A TREATMENT. I MEAN, THE 2442 01:38:32,804 --> 01:38:34,172 SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT IS 2443 01:38:34,172 --> 01:38:36,375 SOMETIMES SO OVERWHELMING THAT 2444 01:38:36,375 --> 01:38:39,845 YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A MINUTE 2445 01:38:39,845 --> 01:38:41,847 TO REALLY WORNED WHAT YOU'VE 2446 01:38:41,847 --> 01:38:45,717 DONE, RIGHT? SO WHEN WE GOT A 2447 01:38:45,717 --> 01:38:46,718 DIAGNOSIS, THE FIRST IDEA WAS 2448 01:38:46,718 --> 01:38:50,722 LIKE, HOW DO WE GET A TREATMENT? 2449 01:38:50,722 --> 01:38:52,891 AND WHEN I READ UP ABOUT THE 2450 01:38:52,891 --> 01:38:53,859 CONDITION, IN FACT THERE WAS 2451 01:38:53,859 --> 01:38:56,561 NOTHING WRITTEN, IT WAS JUST ONE 2452 01:38:56,561 --> 01:39:00,599 LINE IN ONE RESEARCH PAPER THAT 2453 01:39:00,599 --> 01:39:01,400 SAID WE COULD POSSIBLY TURN OFF 2454 01:39:01,400 --> 01:39:03,769 THE, YOU KNOW, I HAVE AN 2455 01:39:03,769 --> 01:39:05,804 OVERACTIVE PTH RECEPTOR SO WE 2456 01:39:05,804 --> 01:39:08,607 COULD POSSIBLY TURN THAT OFF BY 2457 01:39:08,607 --> 01:39:10,375 CREATING AN INVERSE AGONIST AND 2458 01:39:10,375 --> 01:39:13,578 IT WAS ONE LINE IN ONE RESEARCH 2459 01:39:13,578 --> 01:39:15,480 PAPER AND WE PACKED OUR BAG TO 2460 01:39:15,480 --> 01:39:17,082 FIND THE RESEARCHER THAT HAD 2461 01:39:17,082 --> 01:39:18,116 WRITTEN THAT PAPER AND THEN 2462 01:39:18,116 --> 01:39:20,619 TOGETHER WITH HIM AND WE STARTED 2463 01:39:20,619 --> 01:39:23,121 THE FOUNDATION FOR THIS DISEASE 2464 01:39:23,121 --> 01:39:24,556 CALLED THE GENERAL SIN'S 2465 01:39:24,556 --> 01:39:27,626 FOUNDATION AND THEN IT WAS A LOT 2466 01:39:27,626 --> 01:39:29,061 TO FIND OUT IF WE COULD GET 2467 01:39:29,061 --> 01:39:30,896 FIRST THE FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO 2468 01:39:30,896 --> 01:39:32,597 MOVE THIS INTO TREATMENT BECAUSE 2469 01:39:32,597 --> 01:39:42,808 IN RARE DISEASES, YOU KNOW SH, 2470 01:39:42,808 --> 01:39:47,713 THERE'S JUST NOT ENOUGH 2471 01:39:47,713 --> 01:39:48,947 RESOURCES, NOT ENOUGH FUNDING. 2472 01:39:48,947 --> 01:39:50,382 AT FIRST THERE WERE ONLY THREE 2473 01:39:50,382 --> 01:39:52,617 PATIENTS ME AND MY TWO BOYS. 2474 01:39:52,617 --> 01:39:55,487 AND IT'S OUR LIVES DON'T MATTER. 2475 01:39:55,487 --> 01:39:57,656 THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT THEY'RE 2476 01:39:57,656 --> 01:39:59,024 SAYING. YOU HAVE ALL THIS 2477 01:39:59,024 --> 01:40:00,292 SCIENCE AND WE DON'T MATTER. IT 2478 01:40:00,292 --> 01:40:02,260 WAS A JOURNEY TO CHANGE THAT 2479 01:40:02,260 --> 01:40:04,596 NARRATIVE. AND ONCE WE GOT A 2480 01:40:04,596 --> 01:40:06,264 RESEARCHER ON BOARD AND 2481 01:40:06,264 --> 01:40:08,900 DR. SMITH FROM THE NIH I THINK 2482 01:40:08,900 --> 01:40:10,135 THAT WE DIDN'T, IT WAS VERY 2483 01:40:10,135 --> 01:40:12,571 UNIQUE BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE 2484 01:40:12,571 --> 01:40:15,374 TIME TO THINK ABOUT, OKAY, AM I 2485 01:40:15,374 --> 01:40:17,109 GOING TO GET INTO THIS RESEARCH 2486 01:40:17,109 --> 01:40:18,610 INTO AND IS SOMETHING NEGATIVE 2487 01:40:18,610 --> 01:40:22,114 GOING TO HAPPEN? I HAD TO JUMP 2488 01:40:22,114 --> 01:40:23,849 IN WITH HOPE. HOPE AND TRUST 2489 01:40:23,849 --> 01:40:25,417 AND THESE ARE IMPORTANT FOR ANY 2490 01:40:25,417 --> 01:40:26,618 RESEARCH. I CAN'T SEE THE ROOM 2491 01:40:26,618 --> 01:40:28,620 BUT TO THOSE IN THE ROOM, TRUST 2492 01:40:28,620 --> 01:40:30,489 IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. WE 2493 01:40:30,489 --> 01:40:34,960 DON'T GET INTO RESEARCH BECAUSE, 2494 01:40:34,960 --> 01:40:37,162 YOU KNOW, WE THINK THAT, YOU 2495 01:40:37,162 --> 01:40:39,197 KNOW, THERE IS SOME, YOU KNOW, 2496 01:40:39,197 --> 01:40:41,767 YES, IN MANY WAYS WE ARE 2497 01:40:41,767 --> 01:40:43,168 THINKING, WOW, WE'RE GOING TO 2498 01:40:43,168 --> 01:40:44,603 CHANGE SCIENCE AND WE'RE HERE 2499 01:40:44,603 --> 01:40:45,771 GIVING OURSELVES FOR RESEARCH 2500 01:40:45,771 --> 01:40:46,738 BUT YOU'VE GOT TO ALSO 2501 01:40:46,738 --> 01:40:48,340 UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE GIVING 2502 01:40:48,340 --> 01:40:49,574 OURSELF TO THE TRUST THAT WE 2503 01:40:49,574 --> 01:40:52,611 HAVE IN YOU. AS A PARTNER. AS 2504 01:40:52,611 --> 01:40:54,546 AN EQUAL IN THIS PROCESS, 2505 01:40:54,546 --> 01:40:56,681 ESPECIALLY IN ULTRA RARE 2506 01:40:56,681 --> 01:41:00,619 DISEASES. OR IN RARE DISEASES. 2507 01:41:00,619 --> 01:41:03,555 THAT IS WHAT PROPELS US SO THE 2508 01:41:03,555 --> 01:41:05,490 WHOLE PROCESS HAS BEEN I HAVE TO 2509 01:41:05,490 --> 01:41:07,259 SAY PRETTY INCREDIBLY POSITIVE. 2510 01:41:07,259 --> 01:41:09,194 YOU KNOW, WE'VE GONE THROUGH THE 2511 01:41:09,194 --> 01:41:13,098 INFORMED CONSENT PROCESS. AYE 2512 01:41:13,098 --> 01:41:18,036 HAD MY CHILDREN HAVE TO CONSENT 2513 01:41:18,036 --> 01:41:19,971 AS WELL THAT PROCESS HAS BEEN 2514 01:41:19,971 --> 01:41:20,639 PRETTY SEAMLESS WE HAVE 2515 01:41:20,639 --> 01:41:21,473 UNDERSTOOD RIGHT FROM THE 2516 01:41:21,473 --> 01:41:23,108 BEGINNING WHAT THAT PROCESS HAS 2517 01:41:23,108 --> 01:41:28,613 BEEN LIKE. BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S 2518 01:41:28,613 --> 01:41:30,782 ALSO UNDERSTANDING THAT RISK 2519 01:41:30,782 --> 01:41:33,652 BENEFIT RATIO. RIGHT? WHAT AM 2520 01:41:33,652 --> 01:41:35,587 I GOING TO DO? WHAT AM I GOING 2521 01:41:35,587 --> 01:41:37,189 TO COMMIT TO IN ORDER TO MAKE 2522 01:41:37,189 --> 01:41:38,657 SURE THAT MY CHILDREN AND OTHERS 2523 01:41:38,657 --> 01:41:41,326 WITHIN MY COMMUNITY WILL HAVE A 2524 01:41:41,326 --> 01:41:42,594 TREATMENT? WHAT SAFEGUARDS ARE 2525 01:41:42,594 --> 01:41:44,763 IN PLACE TO PROTECT MY CHILDREN 2526 01:41:44,763 --> 01:41:46,965 FROM ANY PHYSICAL EMOTIONAL OR 2527 01:41:46,965 --> 01:41:48,600 PSYCHOLOGICAL HARM? THAT IS 2528 01:41:48,600 --> 01:41:52,604 GOING TO HAPPEN DURING THE 2529 01:41:52,604 --> 01:41:54,906 STUDY? SO I THINK THAT'S 2530 01:41:54,906 --> 01:41:56,675 DEFINITELY GOING THROUGH MY MIND 2531 01:41:56,675 --> 01:41:59,845 BUT PREDOMINANTLY IT WAS MY 2532 01:41:59,845 --> 01:42:01,980 TRUST IN DR. SMITH, IN THE 2533 01:42:01,980 --> 01:42:03,915 CLINICAL CENTER, EVERY PERSON I 2534 01:42:03,915 --> 01:42:05,484 CAME ACROSS AT THE CENTER WAS 2535 01:42:05,484 --> 01:42:07,686 POSITIVE, WAS ENCOURAGING, WAS 2536 01:42:07,686 --> 01:42:11,123 HELPFUL. YOU KNOW, THEY WERE 2537 01:42:11,123 --> 01:42:16,595 ALL FASCINATED BY OUR STORY. 2538 01:42:16,595 --> 01:42:18,763 WHICH THAT'S ANOTHER THING. 2539 01:42:18,763 --> 01:42:19,798 IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO 2540 01:42:19,798 --> 01:42:20,866 REMEMBER THAT THESE ARE HUMAN 2541 01:42:20,866 --> 01:42:22,234 BEINGS AND THEY COME WITH 2542 01:42:22,234 --> 01:42:22,901 STORIES AND BACKGROUNDS AND ALL 2543 01:42:22,901 --> 01:42:26,404 THESE HOPES AND, YOU KNOW, AND 2544 01:42:26,404 --> 01:42:29,241 FEARS AND SO REALLY BEGIN TO 2545 01:42:29,241 --> 01:42:30,909 DISMANTLE THAT THROUGH THE WHOLE 2546 01:42:30,909 --> 01:42:32,477 RESEARCH PROCESS AND BE THERE IN 2547 01:42:32,477 --> 01:42:36,081 A SUPPORTIVE MANNER, I THINK IS 2548 01:42:36,081 --> 01:42:37,048 REALLY PARAMOUNT. 2549 01:42:37,048 --> 01:42:39,351 >> GREAT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2550 01:42:39,351 --> 01:42:42,387 SO I'D LIKE TO GO TO YOU NEXT, 2551 01:42:42,387 --> 01:42:43,922 LIAM, IF YOU CAN TELL US A 2552 01:42:43,922 --> 01:42:44,756 LITTLE BIT ABOUT, IT SOUND LIKE 2553 01:42:44,756 --> 01:42:47,459 A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO YOU HAD 2554 01:42:47,459 --> 01:42:51,129 THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENROLL IN THE 2555 01:42:51,129 --> 01:42:52,264 STUDY. IF YOU CAN TELL US A BIT 2556 01:42:52,264 --> 01:42:53,899 ABOUT WHAT WAS THAT LIKE, WHAT 2557 01:42:53,899 --> 01:42:54,766 WAS THINKING ABOUT THE 2558 01:42:54,766 --> 01:42:55,867 OPPORTUNITY TO ENROLL IN A 2559 01:42:55,867 --> 01:42:58,570 CLINICAL STUDY LIKE? WHAT WERE 2560 01:42:58,570 --> 01:42:59,337 YOU THINKING ABOUT? 2561 01:42:59,337 --> 01:43:01,239 >> YEAH SO THE STUDY ACTUALLY 2562 01:43:01,239 --> 01:43:02,841 WAS RIGHT BEFORE, I ACTUALLY 2563 01:43:02,841 --> 01:43:07,779 WENT TO NIH IN 2022 AND I WAS 2564 01:43:07,779 --> 01:43:09,915 GOING -- THIS WAS RIGHT BEFORE 2565 01:43:09,915 --> 01:43:11,283 COLLEGE LIKE ENTERING COLLEGE 2566 01:43:11,283 --> 01:43:12,951 AND BASICALLY THE GOAL OF THE 2567 01:43:12,951 --> 01:43:15,487 GOING TO THE NIH WAS FOR THEIR 2568 01:43:15,487 --> 01:43:17,455 LIFELONG STUDY OF CAH WHICH IS 2569 01:43:17,455 --> 01:43:22,727 JUST TO MONITOR PATIENTS, MALE 2570 01:43:22,727 --> 01:43:23,728 PATIENTS THROUGHOUT THEIR WHOLE 2571 01:43:23,728 --> 01:43:24,629 LIFE AND THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME 2572 01:43:24,629 --> 01:43:25,997 I STARTED LOOKING AT THE 2573 01:43:25,997 --> 01:43:26,831 CLINICAL TRIAL. 2574 01:43:26,831 --> 01:43:29,467 SEEING IF I WANTED TO JOIN, ET 2575 01:43:29,467 --> 01:43:30,936 CETERA. AND WE WERE GOING TO GO 2576 01:43:30,936 --> 01:43:34,539 THROUGH NIH WITH THE CLINICAL 2577 01:43:34,539 --> 01:43:40,612 TRIAL AND AL THAT POINT I 2578 01:43:40,612 --> 01:43:44,382 COULDN'T GET INTO NIH BECAUSE 2579 01:43:44,382 --> 01:43:47,953 ALL THE SPOTS FILLED UP. 2580 01:43:47,953 --> 01:43:52,424 FORTUNATELY MY SCHOOL HAD THE 2581 01:43:52,424 --> 01:43:53,858 CLINICAL TRIAL AND I COULD JOIN. 2582 01:43:53,858 --> 01:43:55,660 AND I LOOKED AT THE BIG 2583 01:43:55,660 --> 01:43:57,796 QUESTION, IS IT SAFE AND, YOU 2584 01:43:57,796 --> 01:44:00,599 KNOW, WHAT ARE THE RISKS OF THE 2585 01:44:00,599 --> 01:44:01,866 CLINICAL TRIAL? RIGHT? THAT 2586 01:44:01,866 --> 01:44:02,434 WAS PROBABLY BEFORE I WAS 2587 01:44:02,434 --> 01:44:04,236 CONSIDERING ENROLLING WHAT WAS 2588 01:44:04,236 --> 01:44:06,304 MY BIGGEST TWO CONCERNS BECAUSE 2589 01:44:06,304 --> 01:44:09,908 AT THAT TIME I WAS 18. AND I 2590 01:44:09,908 --> 01:44:11,876 WOULD STILL CONSIDER MYSELF A 2591 01:44:11,876 --> 01:44:14,012 YOUNG ADULT KID BUT, AND THEN 2592 01:44:14,012 --> 01:44:15,280 WHAT KIND OF MADE ME I GUESS 2593 01:44:15,280 --> 01:44:18,683 PUSH MYSELF OVER THE EDGE TO 2594 01:44:18,683 --> 01:44:21,419 JOIN WAS BASICALLY I KNOW THIS 2595 01:44:21,419 --> 01:44:23,488 SOUNDS KIND OF MESSED UP THE 2596 01:44:23,488 --> 01:44:24,556 FACT THAT THERE WERE OTHER KIDS 2597 01:44:24,556 --> 01:44:26,791 IN THE TRIAL MADE ME REALIZE OR 2598 01:44:26,791 --> 01:44:28,126 AT LEAST FEEL SAFE THAT, YOU 2599 01:44:28,126 --> 01:44:29,594 KNOW, IF THEY'RE TESTING ON KIDS 2600 01:44:29,594 --> 01:44:33,832 AT THIS POINT THEN THE DRUG IS 2601 01:44:33,832 --> 01:44:36,301 PROBABLY PRETTY SAFE OR I HOPE 2602 01:44:36,301 --> 01:44:37,869 IT IS AND IT WAS ALSO A PHASE 2603 01:44:37,869 --> 01:44:40,605 THREE TRIAL AT THAT POINT SO IT 2604 01:44:40,605 --> 01:44:41,840 HAD BEEN GOING ON FOR TWO TO 2605 01:44:41,840 --> 01:44:42,974 THREE YEARS NOW AND I WAS 2606 01:44:42,974 --> 01:44:44,342 ACTUALLY I THINK THE LAST PERSON 2607 01:44:44,342 --> 01:44:47,379 TO JOIN OF THE TRIAL LIKE I 2608 01:44:47,379 --> 01:44:50,448 JOINED NOVEMBER 2022 AND THEN IT 2609 01:44:50,448 --> 01:44:52,350 SHUT DOWN DECEMBER 1ST SO I WAS 2610 01:44:52,350 --> 01:44:56,721 ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE. AND, 2611 01:44:56,721 --> 01:44:59,624 YOU KNOW, BASICALLY I STILL HAD 2612 01:44:59,624 --> 01:45:02,027 TIME TO BACK OUT, LIKE, UNTIL 2613 01:45:02,027 --> 01:45:03,094 JANUARY SO WHEN WE WERE JUST 2614 01:45:03,094 --> 01:45:04,296 KIND OF GETTING INTO THE MAKING 2615 01:45:04,296 --> 01:45:08,600 SURE MY LEVELS WERE, YOU KNOW, 2616 01:45:08,600 --> 01:45:09,634 QUALIFIED, ET CETERA I WAS STILL 2617 01:45:09,634 --> 01:45:13,338 THINKING ABOUT HOW SAFE IS IT? 2618 01:45:13,338 --> 01:45:14,472 I GUESS THAT'S ALWAYS A BIG 2619 01:45:14,472 --> 01:45:17,676 CONCERN OF MINE. IF I TAKE THIS 2620 01:45:17,676 --> 01:45:19,411 DRUG I WOULD BE ONE OF THE FIRST 2621 01:45:19,411 --> 01:45:20,612 PEOPLE TO TAKE THIS DRUG 2622 01:45:20,612 --> 01:45:22,113 THROUGHOUT MY LIFE SO WE DON'T 2623 01:45:22,113 --> 01:45:23,415 KNOW WHAT THE LONG-TERM 2624 01:45:23,415 --> 01:45:25,350 SITUATIONS ARE. SO I HAD 2625 01:45:25,350 --> 01:45:27,085 ANXIETY ABOUT THAT. BUT, YOU 2626 01:45:27,085 --> 01:45:29,354 KNOW, ONCE I ACTUALLY GOT ON THE 2627 01:45:29,354 --> 01:45:33,191 DRUG, I SAW THE BENEFITS OF IT, 2628 01:45:33,191 --> 01:45:36,094 LIKE, MY STEROID USAGE WENT DOWN 2629 01:45:36,094 --> 01:45:38,263 STRAIGHTAWAY. NOT STRAIGHTAWAY 2630 01:45:38,263 --> 01:45:39,798 BUT PRETTY SOON AND, YOU KNOW, 2631 01:45:39,798 --> 01:45:41,466 LIKE I JUST SAW A LOT OF THE 2632 01:45:41,466 --> 01:45:43,768 SIDE EFFECTS OF CAH ALSO GET 2633 01:45:43,768 --> 01:45:46,805 MINIMIZED BECAUSE I WASN'T ON AS 2634 01:45:46,805 --> 01:45:48,406 MUCH STEROIDS. SO THE ANXIETY 2635 01:45:48,406 --> 01:45:49,808 OF THE LONG-TERM IS NOT AS BIG 2636 01:45:49,808 --> 01:45:51,743 OF A DEAL TO ME BECAUSE, WELL, I 2637 01:45:51,743 --> 01:45:55,347 GUESS THE SHORT-TERM I'M SEEING 2638 01:45:55,347 --> 01:45:57,949 BENEFITS. AND I GUESS FOR ME 2639 01:45:57,949 --> 01:46:00,051 THAT WEIGHS, I GUESS THAT 2640 01:46:00,051 --> 01:46:04,422 OUTWEIGHS THE LONG-TERM STEROID 2641 01:46:04,422 --> 01:46:05,890 USAGE BASICALLY, I'M TRYING TO 2642 01:46:05,890 --> 01:46:10,729 THINK OF THE WAY TO SAY IT. THE 2643 01:46:10,729 --> 01:46:12,597 LONG-TERM STEROID USAGE 2644 01:46:12,597 --> 01:46:15,100 BASICALLY GOT, HOW CAN I SAY IT? 2645 01:46:15,100 --> 01:46:17,802 >> IT'S A TRADE-OFF, RIGHT? 2646 01:46:17,802 --> 01:46:20,472 BETWEEN IMAGINING BEING ON THOSE 2647 01:46:20,472 --> 01:46:22,941 STEROIDS FOR A LIFETIME VERSUS 2648 01:46:22,941 --> 01:46:23,708 GIVING THIS DRUG A TRY. 2649 01:46:23,708 --> 01:46:28,613 >> YES, YES, EXACTLY. THANK 2650 01:46:28,613 --> 01:46:28,780 YOU. 2651 01:46:28,780 --> 01:46:31,015 >> YEAH, SURE. SO WHY DON'T YOU 2652 01:46:31,015 --> 01:46:32,183 TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW 2653 01:46:32,183 --> 01:46:35,153 YOU FIRST ENROLLED IN THE TRIAL? 2654 01:46:35,153 --> 01:46:37,822 >> SURE. FOR ME, I WAS PROBABLY 2655 01:46:37,822 --> 01:46:40,658 AN UNDERGRAD AND I HAD A LOW 2656 01:46:40,658 --> 01:46:42,694 VISION SPECIALIST OUTSIDE WHO 2657 01:46:42,694 --> 01:46:44,696 DID -- HE WOULD COME TO THE NIH 2658 01:46:44,696 --> 01:46:47,365 AT THE NEI, THE NATIONAL EYE 2659 01:46:47,365 --> 01:46:49,868 INSTITUTE, ONCE A MONTH AND HE 2660 01:46:49,868 --> 01:46:51,002 THOUGHT I WAS REALLY STRUGGLING 2661 01:46:51,002 --> 01:46:56,141 GOING TO SKOCHOOL, READING BOOK 2662 01:46:56,141 --> 01:46:57,375 AND STUFF AND HE SAID MY HANDS 2663 01:46:57,375 --> 01:47:00,245 ARE TIED WHY DON'T WE TRY TAKING 2664 01:47:00,245 --> 01:47:03,114 YOU TO THE NIH AND FOR ME IT WAS 2665 01:47:03,114 --> 01:47:06,317 LIKE, YEAH, LET'S GO. 2666 01:47:06,317 --> 01:47:09,654 I WAS WILL BE AND EXCITED TO 2667 01:47:09,654 --> 01:47:10,922 COME, DEFINITELY. THAT FIRST 2668 01:47:10,922 --> 01:47:13,625 INITIAL DAY WHEN I CAME AND I 2669 01:47:13,625 --> 01:47:16,528 GOT TO MEET DR. Z, GOSH IT FEELS 2670 01:47:16,528 --> 01:47:18,730 LIKE YESTERDAY BUT IT WAS JUST 2671 01:47:18,730 --> 01:47:20,698 MY HOPE LIGHT JUST WAS GETTING 2672 01:47:20,698 --> 01:47:22,267 BRIGHTER AND BRIGHTER AND 2673 01:47:22,267 --> 01:47:24,235 BRIGHTER. AGAIN, KIND OF 2674 01:47:24,235 --> 01:47:28,606 HEARING WHAT NINA WAS SAYING IT 2675 01:47:28,606 --> 01:47:31,643 IS A RARE DISEASE THAT I HAVE. 2676 01:47:31,643 --> 01:47:33,978 IT WASN'T A RARE DISEASE AND 2677 01:47:33,978 --> 01:47:36,114 THERE'S A CLINICAL TRIAL I HOPE 2678 01:47:36,114 --> 01:47:38,716 ONE DAY I CAN BE THAT FIRST IN 2679 01:47:38,716 --> 01:47:40,585 HUMAN PROCESS. I AM IN THE 2680 01:47:40,585 --> 01:47:42,187 BACKS. I WANT PEOPLE TO BE 2681 01:47:42,187 --> 01:47:43,655 AWARE OF THIS BECAUSE THERE IS 2682 01:47:43,655 --> 01:47:45,056 SOMEWHERE OUT THERE THAT 2683 01:47:45,056 --> 01:47:47,125 PROBABLY HAS THE SAME DISEASE AS 2684 01:47:47,125 --> 01:47:49,227 ME. SO THAT IS WHAT MOTIVATED 2685 01:47:49,227 --> 01:47:50,762 ME TO GO SAYING HEY, THERE IS 2686 01:47:50,762 --> 01:47:53,097 NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE BOOKS 2687 01:47:53,097 --> 01:47:56,201 HAVING THE ISSUES I AM HAVING. 2688 01:47:56,201 --> 01:47:59,037 MAYBE I CAN BE THE FIRST ONE AND 2689 01:47:59,037 --> 01:48:00,438 HELP PEOPLE MOVE THIS DISEASE 2690 01:48:00,438 --> 01:48:02,173 FORWARD IN HELPING PEOPLE DOWN 2691 01:48:02,173 --> 01:48:03,308 THE ROAD. 2692 01:48:03,308 --> 01:48:05,743 >> ELLEN IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR DAD 2693 01:48:05,743 --> 01:48:07,445 CALLED AND SAID, OH MY GOSH YOU 2694 01:48:07,445 --> 01:48:09,080 SHOULD GET IN THIS TRIAL, TELL 2695 01:48:09,080 --> 01:48:10,114 US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT 2696 01:48:10,114 --> 01:48:10,448 STORY. 2697 01:48:10,448 --> 01:48:12,484 >> YEAH, HE FIRST KNEW OF THIS. 2698 01:48:12,484 --> 01:48:14,586 AND SO THEN I STARTED TO DO 2699 01:48:14,586 --> 01:48:18,156 RESEARCH. YOU KNOW, AND I WENT 2700 01:48:18,156 --> 01:48:22,861 TO CLINICAL TRIALS AND FOUND 2701 01:48:22,861 --> 01:48:23,661 CLINICALTRIALS.GOV AND FOUND THE 2702 01:48:23,661 --> 01:48:24,429 ACTUAL CLINICAL TRIAL AND READ 2703 01:48:24,429 --> 01:48:26,397 ALL THE DETAILS AND MY DISEASE 2704 01:48:26,397 --> 01:48:31,002 IS NOT RARE, UNFORTUNATELY. BUT 2705 01:48:31,002 --> 01:48:33,671 MY PARTICULAR DIFFICULTY WITH IT 2706 01:48:33,671 --> 01:48:35,807 WAS RARE AND IT WAS AFFECTING ME 2707 01:48:35,807 --> 01:48:38,343 SO I WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT 2708 01:48:38,343 --> 01:48:39,644 THAT. BECAUSE I NEVER KNEW IF I 2709 01:48:39,644 --> 01:48:41,613 WAS GOING TO KILL SOMEONE ELSE 2710 01:48:41,613 --> 01:48:43,348 OR MYSELF. WHEN I WOULD PASS 2711 01:48:43,348 --> 01:48:45,216 OUT. AND I WOULD HAVE TO CHANGE 2712 01:48:45,216 --> 01:48:47,418 MY WHOLE LIFE AND NOT WORK 2713 01:48:47,418 --> 01:48:49,354 ANYMORE AND, YOU KNOW, SO I WAS 2714 01:48:49,354 --> 01:48:50,889 VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. AND 2715 01:48:50,889 --> 01:48:55,727 THEN I FIGURED OUT ALL, READ 2716 01:48:55,727 --> 01:48:58,363 EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. AND YOU 2717 01:48:58,363 --> 01:49:00,698 KNOW IT WAS LIKE, WELL WHY NOT? 2718 01:49:00,698 --> 01:49:02,734 NOTHING ELSE HAS WORKED. I'VE 2719 01:49:02,734 --> 01:49:05,803 TRIED MANY THINGS. GONE TO MANY 2720 01:49:05,803 --> 01:49:07,505 DOCTORS. AND THEY JUST DIDN'T 2721 01:49:07,505 --> 01:49:08,940 KNOW. THEY DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO 2722 01:49:08,940 --> 01:49:11,209 WAKE MY BODY UP SO I KNEW WHEN I 2723 01:49:11,209 --> 01:49:13,511 WAS GOING TO GO LOW. AND THEY 2724 01:49:13,511 --> 01:49:15,713 THOUGHT THAT, YOU KNOW, SO I 2725 01:49:15,713 --> 01:49:17,815 TALK IT OVER WITH MY REGULAR 2726 01:49:17,815 --> 01:49:19,417 PRACTITIONER AND SHE SAID, WELL, 2727 01:49:19,417 --> 01:49:21,519 I THINK YOU SHOULD GIVE IT A 2728 01:49:21,519 --> 01:49:23,721 TRY. WHY NOT? AND IT WAS A 2729 01:49:23,721 --> 01:49:25,557 QUESTION OF WHY NOT. BUT THEN 2730 01:49:25,557 --> 01:49:27,392 IT WAS, LIKE, WELL, OF COURSE. 2731 01:49:27,392 --> 01:49:30,828 YOU KNOW, LIKE HERE I AM. LIKE 2732 01:49:30,828 --> 01:49:33,932 YOU SAID TOO, HERE I AM, LET'S 2733 01:49:33,932 --> 01:49:36,568 GO. AND I CAME FOR ALL THE 2734 01:49:36,568 --> 01:49:38,069 INTERVIEWS. AND ONE OF THEM, 2735 01:49:38,069 --> 01:49:41,873 YOU KNOW, THEY CONTINUALLY SAID 2736 01:49:41,873 --> 01:49:42,507 THROUGHOUT, YOU KNOW, AND YOU 2737 01:49:42,507 --> 01:49:45,276 CAN DROP OUT AT ANY POINT, YOU 2738 01:49:45,276 --> 01:49:48,546 KNOW. BUT I REALLY FELT I WAS A 2739 01:49:48,546 --> 01:49:51,316 MEMBER OF THE TEAM THAT IT WAS A 2740 01:49:51,316 --> 01:49:52,850 GROUP DECISION AND ANYTHING THAT 2741 01:49:52,850 --> 01:49:55,620 WENT ON WE ALL GOT TO TALK ABOUT 2742 01:49:55,620 --> 01:49:58,990 IT FIRST, YOU KNOW, AND I REALLY 2743 01:49:58,990 --> 01:50:00,825 FELT THAT IT WAS, I WAS THE 2744 01:50:00,825 --> 01:50:02,927 VALUABLE MEMBER OF THAT TEAM 2745 01:50:02,927 --> 01:50:04,529 BECAUSE IT WAS ME THEY WERE 2746 01:50:04,529 --> 01:50:06,331 GOING TO DO IT ON BUT THEY 2747 01:50:06,331 --> 01:50:07,632 REALLY RESPECTED WHO I WANTED TO 2748 01:50:07,632 --> 01:50:11,936 DO AND WHAT I THOUGHT WAS GOING 2749 01:50:11,936 --> 01:50:13,438 TO HAPPEN SO REALLY WAS EXCITED 2750 01:50:13,438 --> 01:50:15,273 ABOUT THAT. SO THAT'S WHEN I 2751 01:50:15,273 --> 01:50:16,608 SAID, YEAH, OKAY, LET'S GO 2752 01:50:16,608 --> 01:50:18,576 AHEAD. ONCE I APPROVED. ONCE I 2753 01:50:18,576 --> 01:50:19,644 WAS APPROVED THERE WAS NO 2754 01:50:19,644 --> 01:50:21,779 QUESTION, I HAD GOTTEN THAT FAR 2755 01:50:21,779 --> 01:50:22,880 AND THOUGHT NO, THERE'S NO 2756 01:50:22,880 --> 01:50:24,549 REASON FOR ME NOT TO CONTINUE 2757 01:50:24,549 --> 01:50:26,551 WITH THIS, YES, I AM GOING TO 2758 01:50:26,551 --> 01:50:27,952 CONTINUE. I'M NOT GOING TO DROP 2759 01:50:27,952 --> 01:50:29,520 OUT AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME. BUT 2760 01:50:29,520 --> 01:50:31,723 THEY REALLY EM NO SIZED THAT 2761 01:50:31,723 --> 01:50:35,526 THAT WAS AN OPTION. YOU KNOW. 2762 01:50:35,526 --> 01:50:36,427 SO I WAS VERY GRATEFUL THAT I 2763 01:50:36,427 --> 01:50:39,497 WAS ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2764 01:50:39,497 --> 01:50:39,697 TRIAL. 2765 01:50:39,697 --> 01:50:41,332 >> GREAT, SO MAYBE I WILL STAY 2766 01:50:41,332 --> 01:50:43,868 WITH YOU. IF YOU CAN TELL US, 2767 01:50:43,868 --> 01:50:48,439 LIKE, IMAGINE, YOU KNOW, I OR 2768 01:50:48,439 --> 01:50:50,775 ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE HAS 2769 01:50:50,775 --> 01:50:51,743 NEVER PARTICIPATED IN A CLINICAL 2770 01:50:51,743 --> 01:50:52,777 TRIAL WHAT YOU SAY WHAT WAS THE 2771 01:50:52,777 --> 01:50:54,078 PROCESS LIKE? HOW OFTEN DID YOU 2772 01:50:54,078 --> 01:50:55,747 HAVE TO COME? WAS THERE 2773 01:50:55,747 --> 01:50:59,417 ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED THAT YOU 2774 01:50:59,417 --> 01:51:00,652 WAS UNEXPECTED? 2775 01:51:00,652 --> 01:51:02,854 >> I THINK THAT WAS UNEXPECTED 2776 01:51:02,854 --> 01:51:04,589 WAS HOW MANY TIMES I HAD TO 2777 01:51:04,589 --> 01:51:08,026 COME. I CAME FREQUENTLY. AND I 2778 01:51:08,026 --> 01:51:11,229 CAME TO NIH BEFORE I WAS EVEN 2779 01:51:11,229 --> 01:51:11,829 ACCEPT BLOOD THE TRIAL THERE 2780 01:51:11,829 --> 01:51:13,798 WERE MANY INTERVIEWS. YOU KNOW, 2781 01:51:13,798 --> 01:51:15,233 THERE WAS A SOCIAL WORKER 2782 01:51:15,233 --> 01:51:18,069 INTERVIEW TO FIND OUT IF I HAD A 2783 01:51:18,069 --> 01:51:19,671 SUPPORT NETWORK. THERE WAS ALL 2784 01:51:19,671 --> 01:51:22,607 THE CLINICIANS. YOU KNOW, AND 2785 01:51:22,607 --> 01:51:23,875 PEOPLE WOULD CHANGE THROUGHOUT 2786 01:51:23,875 --> 01:51:28,079 THE PROCESS TOO. SOME OF THE 2787 01:51:28,079 --> 01:51:30,615 FELLOWS WOULD COME AND GO AND I 2788 01:51:30,615 --> 01:51:31,649 WOULD GET TO KNOW THEM AND THEY 2789 01:51:31,649 --> 01:51:33,785 WOULD FOLLOW ME THROUGH AND 2790 01:51:33,785 --> 01:51:35,953 INITIALLY AS PART OF THE TRIAL I 2791 01:51:35,953 --> 01:51:38,056 HAD TO COME VERY FREQUENTLY TO 2792 01:51:38,056 --> 01:51:39,691 GET BLOOD WORK DRAWN. VERY 2793 01:51:39,691 --> 01:51:43,061 FREQUENTLY. AND I AM A VERY 2794 01:51:43,061 --> 01:51:45,596 HARD STICK. SO, YOU KNOW, 2795 01:51:45,596 --> 01:51:48,599 THEY'D SEE ME COMING IN 2796 01:51:48,599 --> 01:51:51,936 PHLEBOTOMY AND THEY WOULD GO 2797 01:51:51,936 --> 01:51:55,239 (GROANS) OH, HERE SHE COMES 2798 01:51:55,239 --> 01:51:58,009 AGAIN. I SAVED ALL THE WRAPS 2799 01:51:58,009 --> 01:51:58,943 AFTER YOU HAVE THE BLOOD DRAWN 2800 01:51:58,943 --> 01:52:00,144 AND WRAPPED THEM AROUND MYSELF 2801 01:52:00,144 --> 01:52:01,879 AND TOOK A PICTURE OF THAT AND 2802 01:52:01,879 --> 01:52:03,981 SEND IT TO THE WRAP PEOPLE AND 2803 01:52:03,981 --> 01:52:05,683 SAID THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN DO 2804 01:52:05,683 --> 01:52:07,051 WITH YOUR WRAPS. THAT'S HOW 2805 01:52:07,051 --> 01:52:09,120 MANY TIMES I WAS COMING TO THE 2806 01:52:09,120 --> 01:52:10,855 NIH TO GET MY BLOOD DRAWN SO I 2807 01:52:10,855 --> 01:52:14,158 THINK THAT WAS UNEXPECTED THAT I 2808 01:52:14,158 --> 01:52:16,694 DIDN'T REALIZE HOW MANY TIMES 2809 01:52:16,694 --> 01:52:18,663 AFTER THE ACTUAL TRANSPLANT THAT 2810 01:52:18,663 --> 01:52:19,330 I WOULD HAVE TO COME. 2811 01:52:19,330 --> 01:52:22,066 >> YEAH. YEAH. AND IT SOUNDS 2812 01:52:22,066 --> 01:52:25,570 LIKE YOU'RE IN A NATURAL HISTORY 2813 01:52:25,570 --> 01:52:28,106 STUDY. HOW OFTEN DO YOU COME? 2814 01:52:28,106 --> 01:52:29,607 >> I COME IN ONCE A YEAR AND 2815 01:52:29,607 --> 01:52:32,610 IT'S A FULL DAY FROM 8 A.M. TO 5 2816 01:52:32,610 --> 01:52:34,645 P.M. IT'S PRETTY LONG. I'M 2817 01:52:34,645 --> 01:52:35,947 CONSTANTLY DOING DIFFERENT TYPES 2818 01:52:35,947 --> 01:52:37,348 OF MACHINE EXAMS, TAKING 2819 01:52:37,348 --> 01:52:38,549 PICTURES OF MY EYES AND THE 2820 01:52:38,549 --> 01:52:40,551 FIRST DAY WHEN I CAME I JUST WAS 2821 01:52:40,551 --> 01:52:42,820 LIKE THIS ISN'T JUST A REGULAR 2822 01:52:42,820 --> 01:52:44,388 EYE DOCTOR VISIT IT WAS 2823 01:52:44,388 --> 01:52:45,990 BACK-TO-BACK TO BACK BUT 2824 01:52:45,990 --> 01:52:47,492 EMPHASIZING WHAT ELLEN WAS 2825 01:52:47,492 --> 01:52:48,693 SAYING THAT WHOLE TEAM, THEY 2826 01:52:48,693 --> 01:52:51,095 WERE WITH YOU IN THE MORNING ALL 2827 01:52:51,095 --> 01:52:53,064 THE WAY UNTIL THE END. IT'S 2828 01:52:53,064 --> 01:52:54,298 REALLY, THEY DON'T LEAVE YOU 2829 01:52:54,298 --> 01:52:55,333 ALONE, THEY'RE CONSTANTLY 2830 01:52:55,333 --> 01:52:56,667 CHECKING IN WITH YOU, MY DAD 2831 01:52:56,667 --> 01:52:59,170 ALWAYS COMES WITH ME. SOME 2832 01:52:59,170 --> 01:53:00,905 SMALL LITTLE THING OF GETTING A 2833 01:53:00,905 --> 01:53:02,774 LITTLE BROWN BAG THAT HAD A 2834 01:53:02,774 --> 01:53:04,809 BANANA, APPLE, CHEESE, JUST TO 2835 01:53:04,809 --> 01:53:06,344 GET US THROUGH THE DAY THAT MADE 2836 01:53:06,344 --> 01:53:07,879 THE EXPERIENCE SO MUCH BETTER 2837 01:53:07,879 --> 01:53:10,848 FOR US. AGAIN, IT'S LONG DAYS. 2838 01:53:10,848 --> 01:53:12,350 YOU'RE NOT NECESSARILY, LIKE, 2839 01:53:12,350 --> 01:53:14,619 YEAH, LET'S, YOU GET TIRED. BUT 2840 01:53:14,619 --> 01:53:16,921 THE TECHNICIAN, YOU BECOME -- I 2841 01:53:16,921 --> 01:53:18,356 BECAME SO CLOSE TO MY TECHNICIAN 2842 01:53:18,356 --> 01:53:19,557 I WOULD SEE HIM EVERY YEAR, IT 2843 01:53:19,557 --> 01:53:22,226 WAS UPDATES, WHAT'S GOING ON 2844 01:53:22,226 --> 01:53:24,262 WITH YOUR LIFE, HERE'S THIS NEW 2845 01:53:24,262 --> 01:53:25,463 MACHINE, DO YOU WANT TO TRY IT? 2846 01:53:25,463 --> 01:53:27,265 >> SURE. YEAH. 2847 01:53:27,265 --> 01:53:30,802 >> SO THOSE LITTLE THINGS MADE 2848 01:53:30,802 --> 01:53:32,770 THAT TEAM MORE PERSONABLE AND 2849 01:53:32,770 --> 01:53:34,505 THIS IS WHAT SHE LIKES TO DO 2850 01:53:34,505 --> 01:53:36,474 FIRST VERSUS WE'LL DO THIS STUFF 2851 01:53:36,474 --> 01:53:37,742 LATER. THAT MADE IT MUCH MORE 2852 01:53:37,742 --> 01:53:39,877 EASIER TO COME AND TO HAVE THOSE 2853 01:53:39,877 --> 01:53:40,711 LONG DAYS. 2854 01:53:40,711 --> 01:53:42,313 >> I THINK THAT IS THE GOOD 2855 01:53:42,313 --> 01:53:43,447 POINT IS THEY KNOW YOU AS A 2856 01:53:43,447 --> 01:53:44,615 PERSON AND RESPECT YOU AS A 2857 01:53:44,615 --> 01:53:48,586 PERSON AND YOU'RE A PART OF THE 2858 01:53:48,586 --> 01:53:51,656 TEA 2859 01:53:51,656 --> 01:53:51,856 TEAM. 2860 01:53:51,856 --> 01:53:54,559 >> LIAM, TELL US WHAT AN AVERAGE 2861 01:53:54,559 --> 01:53:55,927 STUDY VISIT IS LIKE FOR YOU. 2862 01:53:55,927 --> 01:53:58,196 >> FORTUNATELY I HAVE MY 2863 01:53:58,196 --> 01:53:59,497 CLINICAL TRIAL AT MY UNIVERSITY. 2864 01:53:59,497 --> 01:54:01,766 JUST LIKE RIGHT ACROSS THE 2865 01:54:01,766 --> 01:54:03,801 STREET. AND I MEAN, OVERALL, I 2866 01:54:03,801 --> 01:54:05,903 WOULD SAY THE EXPERIENCE WAS 2867 01:54:05,903 --> 01:54:07,471 GOOD. THE PROBLEM ALSO FOR ME 2868 01:54:07,471 --> 01:54:09,740 WAS THE BEGINNING WHERE THEY HAD 2869 01:54:09,740 --> 01:54:13,744 TO DO A BUNCH OF BLOOD DRAWS. 2870 01:54:13,744 --> 01:54:16,113 BECAUSE I AM A COLLEGE STUDENT I 2871 01:54:16,113 --> 01:54:19,183 AM MISSING CLASS BUT I AM GOING 2872 01:54:19,183 --> 01:54:21,085 IN FOR A BLOOD DRAW EVERY OTHER 2873 01:54:21,085 --> 01:54:22,386 WEEK AND THE ISSUE WOULD 2874 01:54:22,386 --> 01:54:25,990 BECOME -- WE WOULD GET THE BLOOD 2875 01:54:25,990 --> 01:54:27,758 DRAWN AND I WOULD SIT THERE FOR 2876 01:54:27,758 --> 01:54:30,695 TWO TO THREE HOURS AND I HAD TO 2877 01:54:30,695 --> 01:54:32,029 WAIT AND DO MY BLOOD AGAIN SO 2878 01:54:32,029 --> 01:54:34,232 THERE WAS A BUNCH OF DEAD SPACE 2879 01:54:34,232 --> 01:54:36,033 IN BETWEEN WHERE I WOULD JUST BE 2880 01:54:36,033 --> 01:54:37,668 SITTING THERE DOING NOTHING 2881 01:54:37,668 --> 01:54:40,371 EXACTLY, BUT I HAD TO DO THAT 2882 01:54:40,371 --> 01:54:41,038 BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THE CLINICAL 2883 01:54:41,038 --> 01:54:42,640 TRIAL AND IT WAS JUST VERY TOUGH 2884 01:54:42,640 --> 01:54:44,342 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I HAD A BUNCH 2885 01:54:44,342 --> 01:54:46,677 OF CLASSES AND IT WAS FRESHMAN 2886 01:54:46,677 --> 01:54:51,115 YEAR SO I WAS STILL ADJUSTING TO 2887 01:54:51,115 --> 01:54:51,716 COLLEGE. KNEW UNFORTUNATELY 2888 01:54:51,716 --> 01:54:53,651 LIKE WHAT THE OTHERS SAID. 2889 01:54:53,651 --> 01:54:55,653 THEY TREATED YOU AS A TEAM 2890 01:54:55,653 --> 01:54:55,887 MEMBER. 2891 01:54:55,887 --> 01:54:57,288 I FELT THE SAME WAY. I ACTUALLY 2892 01:54:57,288 --> 01:55:00,157 WAS WORKING WITH THE DOCTOR THAT 2893 01:55:00,157 --> 01:55:02,360 I MET WHEN I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD 2894 01:55:02,360 --> 01:55:03,895 AND THEN LEFT FOR LIKE TEN YEARS 2895 01:55:03,895 --> 01:55:06,464 AND I NEVER SAW HIM BUT I CAME 2896 01:55:06,464 --> 01:55:07,565 BACK AND HE WAS STILL THERE AND 2897 01:55:07,565 --> 01:55:09,500 NOW HE WAS DOING THE CLINICAL 2898 01:55:09,500 --> 01:55:11,102 TRIAL SO, YOU KNOW, IN THAT 2899 01:55:11,102 --> 01:55:12,937 SENSE AT LEAST I WAS ABLE TO, 2900 01:55:12,937 --> 01:55:14,005 YOU KNOW, RECONNECT WITH HIM AND 2901 01:55:14,005 --> 01:55:15,940 KIND OF JUST TALK ABOUT, LIKE, 2902 01:55:15,940 --> 01:55:17,408 WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON THESE 2903 01:55:17,408 --> 01:55:19,577 PAST TEN YEARS WHICH WAS NICE. 2904 01:55:19,577 --> 01:55:22,013 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE TO SIT 2905 01:55:22,013 --> 01:55:23,814 THERE FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS EVERY 2906 01:55:23,814 --> 01:55:26,450 OTHER WEEK. OVERALL THE 2907 01:55:26,450 --> 01:55:27,451 EXPERIENCE, I WOULD STILL DO IT 2908 01:55:27,451 --> 01:55:28,586 AGAIN. NOW THAT I'M LONGER IN 2909 01:55:28,586 --> 01:55:30,054 THE TRIAL, IT'S BEEN ABOUT A 2910 01:55:30,054 --> 01:55:32,857 YEAR AND A HALF, TWO YEARS. I 2911 01:55:32,857 --> 01:55:34,992 MEAN, I AM THERE FOR PROBABLY 2912 01:55:34,992 --> 01:55:36,594 LIKE 40 MINUTES AND THEN WE'RE 2913 01:55:36,594 --> 01:55:38,029 DONE. ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS DRAW 2914 01:55:38,029 --> 01:55:39,964 THE BLOOD AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, 2915 01:55:39,964 --> 01:55:42,800 AS WAS MENTIONED BEFORE THE 2916 01:55:42,800 --> 01:55:45,369 CLINICAL TRIAL DOES WORK, LIKE 2917 01:55:45,369 --> 01:55:47,905 MY STEROID USAGE WENT FROM 25 2918 01:55:47,905 --> 01:55:49,006 MILLIGRAMS TO 17 AND A HALF AND, 2919 01:55:49,006 --> 01:55:52,343 YOU KNOW, I FEEL GREAT. I DON'T 2920 01:55:52,343 --> 01:55:53,911 FEEL ANY SIDE EFFECTS OR ANY 2921 01:55:53,911 --> 01:55:56,948 RISK AT ALL AND I MEAN, 2922 01:55:56,948 --> 01:55:59,583 UNFORTUNATELY THE CLINICAL 2923 01:55:59,583 --> 01:56:02,253 TRIAL, THAT UNFORTUNATELY FOR ME 2924 01:56:02,253 --> 01:56:07,758 BECAUSE I WILL HAVE TO DO THIS 2925 01:56:07,758 --> 01:56:10,061 IN DECEMBER WHEN THE CLINICAL 2926 01:56:10,061 --> 01:56:12,163 TRIAL ENDS. WE'LL SEE. 2927 01:56:12,163 --> 01:56:13,898 >> NINA, IT SOUNDS LIKE SO FAR 2928 01:56:13,898 --> 01:56:15,866 YOU'VE BEEN IN A NATURAL HISTORY 2929 01:56:15,866 --> 01:56:17,568 STUDY AND SOUNDS LIKE YOUR SONS 2930 01:56:17,568 --> 01:56:18,903 AS WELL. TELL US A BIT ABOUT 2931 01:56:18,903 --> 01:56:22,073 WHAT THOSE VISITS ARE LIKE. 2932 01:56:22,073 --> 01:56:27,745 >> YEAH. ABSOLUTELY. SO I 2933 01:56:27,745 --> 01:56:29,680 THINK THAT THEY'RE UNIQUE 2934 01:56:29,680 --> 01:56:32,583 CHALLENGES FOR ADULTS AND FOR 2935 01:56:32,583 --> 01:56:33,918 CHILDREN. WE DEFINITELY, ALL OF 2936 01:56:33,918 --> 01:56:36,921 US TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS IS, 2937 01:56:36,921 --> 01:56:38,556 EXTREMELY A BLESSING. IT'S A 2938 01:56:38,556 --> 01:56:39,890 PRIVILEGE TO BE A PART OF THIS 2939 01:56:39,890 --> 01:56:42,660 BUT SOMETIMES WHEN YOU REFLECT 2940 01:56:42,660 --> 01:56:47,765 ON WHAT THE EXPERIENCE IS LIKE, 2941 01:56:47,765 --> 01:56:51,235 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE, IT'S 2942 01:56:51,235 --> 01:56:51,869 OVERSHADOWED REALLY THAT 2943 01:56:51,869 --> 01:56:53,771 ANTICIPATION OF BEING PART OF 2944 01:56:53,771 --> 01:56:54,872 SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL AND 2945 01:56:54,872 --> 01:56:56,507 GREAT THAT CAN HELP OTHERS. 2946 01:56:56,507 --> 01:56:58,809 SOMETIMES CAN BE OVERSHADOWED BY 2947 01:56:58,809 --> 01:57:00,611 THE REALITIES OF BEING IN A 2948 01:57:00,611 --> 01:57:03,314 STUDY AND THE STUDY ENVIRONMENT 2949 01:57:03,314 --> 01:57:06,517 PER SE. SO FOR US WE HAD TO BE 2950 01:57:06,517 --> 01:57:10,921 THERE A WEEK AND IT WAS PRETTY 2951 01:57:10,921 --> 01:57:13,290 GRUELLING IN THAT, YOU KNOW, 2952 01:57:13,290 --> 01:57:14,725 BECAUSE WE'RE -- AND I HAVE TO 2953 01:57:14,725 --> 01:57:16,394 PREFACE THIS BY THE FACT THAT 2954 01:57:16,394 --> 01:57:19,630 NOBODY HAS EVER STUDIED THIS 2955 01:57:19,630 --> 01:57:23,901 BEFORE. SO IT HAS BEEN A LOT OF 2956 01:57:23,901 --> 01:57:26,137 LET'S DO EVERY SINGLE TEST 2957 01:57:26,137 --> 01:57:29,373 POSSIBLE AND THEN BEGIN TO SORT 2958 01:57:29,373 --> 01:57:32,076 OF REFINE THOSE, RIGHT? AS WE 2959 01:57:32,076 --> 01:57:33,244 UNDERSTOOD YES IT DOESN'T IMPACT 2960 01:57:33,244 --> 01:57:36,781 THIS AREA OR YES, IT DOESN'T 2961 01:57:36,781 --> 01:57:40,484 REALLY -- OR YES IT DOES IMPACT 2962 01:57:40,484 --> 01:57:42,486 THIS AREA SO NOW WE NEED MORE 2963 01:57:42,486 --> 01:57:44,355 TESTS FOR THIS. IN A SENSE WE 2964 01:57:44,355 --> 01:57:47,191 REALLY ARE CHARTING A NEW PATH, 2965 01:57:47,191 --> 01:57:50,094 RIGHT? SO THAT CAN ALWAYS BE 2966 01:57:50,094 --> 01:57:51,695 DIFFICULT BECAUSE YOU HAVE A 2967 01:57:51,695 --> 01:57:52,897 SCHEDULE OF APPOINTMENTS AND 2968 01:57:52,897 --> 01:57:55,299 TESTS AND PROCEDURES THAT NOT 2969 01:57:55,299 --> 01:57:58,402 NECESSARILY ARE THE SAME. RIGHT 2970 01:58:00,671 --> 01:58:02,073 RIGHT? BECAUSE THE FIRST TIME 2971 01:58:02,073 --> 01:58:05,910 WE WENT THERE WE HAD A WHOLE 2972 01:58:05,910 --> 01:58:08,145 BATTERY OF TESTS. AND SOME WERE 2973 01:58:08,145 --> 01:58:10,014 A LITTLE BIT OF TESTS THAT WERE 2974 01:58:10,014 --> 01:58:10,748 MORE INTENSE THAN OTHERS AND I 2975 01:58:10,748 --> 01:58:14,885 THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US AS 2976 01:58:14,885 --> 01:58:16,587 PATIENTS AND WHO KNOW OR 2977 01:58:16,587 --> 01:58:18,122 CONDITION THE BEST TO BE ABLE TO 2978 01:58:18,122 --> 01:58:20,091 SAY NO, I DON'T WANT THIS TEST. 2979 01:58:20,091 --> 01:58:22,893 THIS TEST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 2980 01:58:22,893 --> 01:58:23,961 BECAUSE WE ARE THE BEST PEOPLE 2981 01:58:23,961 --> 01:58:26,430 TO PROVIDE THAT INPUT. AND I 2982 01:58:26,430 --> 01:58:29,900 THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE 2983 01:58:29,900 --> 01:58:32,970 RESEARCH FINGER TO LISTEN AND 2984 01:58:32,970 --> 01:58:36,006 UNDERSTAND THAT AND TO 2985 01:58:36,006 --> 01:58:36,941 CONFERENCE WITH US. TO SIT 2986 01:58:36,941 --> 01:58:40,344 THERE AT THE TABLE AND PLAN IT 2987 01:58:40,344 --> 01:58:43,547 OUT SO LIKE I MENTIONED OURS IS 2988 01:58:43,547 --> 01:58:45,449 A UNIQUE RESEARCH PATH IT'S NOT 2989 01:58:45,449 --> 01:58:47,218 YOUR STANDARD SET OF TEST. IT'S 2990 01:58:47,218 --> 01:58:50,087 SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO 2991 01:58:50,087 --> 01:58:51,188 COMMUNICATE AND TO HAVE 2992 01:58:51,188 --> 01:58:52,256 CONVERSATION AROUND WHAT THIS 2993 01:58:52,256 --> 01:58:54,158 TEST DAY IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE, 2994 01:58:54,158 --> 01:58:55,860 WHAT MY SCHEDULE IS GOING TO BE 2995 01:58:55,860 --> 01:58:57,027 AND WHETHER THIS IS IMPORTANT OR 2996 01:58:57,027 --> 01:58:59,997 IS THIS JUST GOING TO BE 2997 01:58:59,997 --> 01:59:02,099 BURDENSOME WITH NO REAL BENEFIT 2998 01:59:02,099 --> 01:59:04,602 TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE 2999 01:59:04,602 --> 01:59:06,604 PATIENT JOURNEY OR THE PATIENT 3000 01:59:06,604 --> 01:59:07,938 NEEDS INTO PROGRESSION SO I 3001 01:59:07,938 --> 01:59:09,540 THINK WE HAD A LOT OF OPEN 3002 01:59:09,540 --> 01:59:10,641 CONVERSATION WHICH I REALLY, 3003 01:59:10,641 --> 01:59:12,743 REALLY APPRECIATED. WE WERE 3004 01:59:12,743 --> 01:59:16,180 ABLE TO CHANGE OUR SCHEDULE 3005 01:59:16,180 --> 01:59:19,216 QUITE A BIT FROM TIME TO TIME SO 3006 01:59:19,216 --> 01:59:21,252 IT WASN'T AS BURDENSOME TO THE 3007 01:59:21,252 --> 01:59:23,420 PATIENTS AND FOR ME BEING THE 3008 01:59:23,420 --> 01:59:25,856 ADULT AND THE ONE WHO HAS LIVED 3009 01:59:25,856 --> 01:59:27,024 WITH THIS DISEASE THE LONGEST I 3010 01:59:27,024 --> 01:59:29,160 AM THE EXPERT IN THE ROOM AND I 3011 01:59:29,160 --> 01:59:30,461 THINK THAT IS SO IMPORTANT TO 3012 01:59:30,461 --> 01:59:32,096 UNDERSTAND AS RESEARCHERS, YOUR 3013 01:59:32,096 --> 01:59:36,400 PATIENT IS THE EXPERT. SO YOU 3014 01:59:36,400 --> 01:59:38,102 MAY HAVE ALL THE SCIENTIFIC 3015 01:59:38,102 --> 01:59:39,703 INFORMATION BUT REALLY LIVING 3016 01:59:39,703 --> 01:59:41,472 THE DISEASE IS SOMETHING SO 3017 01:59:41,472 --> 01:59:43,174 DIFFERENT. I CAN TELL YOU FROM 3018 01:59:43,174 --> 01:59:44,608 MY EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW, WHAT 3019 01:59:44,608 --> 01:59:48,445 PARTS OF MY BODY MY DISEASE HAS 3020 01:59:48,445 --> 01:59:50,114 IMPACTED WITHOUT YOU RUNNING TEN 3021 01:59:50,114 --> 01:59:52,016 BATTERY OF TESTS, RIGHT? SO I 3022 01:59:52,016 --> 01:59:53,651 THINK IT'S A GIVE AND TAKE. 3023 01:59:53,651 --> 01:59:56,420 IT'S ABOUT UNDERSTANDING TO BE 3024 01:59:56,420 --> 01:59:58,756 ABLE TO THEN SCHEDULE 3025 01:59:58,756 --> 01:59:59,690 ASSESSMENTS ACCORDINGLY AND 3026 01:59:59,690 --> 02:00:02,927 REALLY TAKE THAT INPUT SO THAT 3027 02:00:02,927 --> 02:00:04,595 WAS REALLY VERY CRUCIAL FOR OUR 3028 02:00:04,595 --> 02:00:06,730 JOURNEY AND OUR PATH AT THE 3029 02:00:06,730 --> 02:00:08,599 CENTER AND I HAVE TO SAY ALL OUR 3030 02:00:08,599 --> 02:00:10,134 RESEARCHERS WHO WERE SO OPEN AND 3031 02:00:10,134 --> 02:00:12,369 SO WILLING TO UNDERSTAND THAT 3032 02:00:12,369 --> 02:00:15,439 AND PIVOT AS NEEDED. I THINK 3033 02:00:15,439 --> 02:00:18,442 THAT AS ALREADY MENTIONED, IT'S 3034 02:00:18,442 --> 02:00:20,811 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE 3035 02:00:20,811 --> 02:00:23,647 RESEARCHERS THAT CAN BE SO 3036 02:00:23,647 --> 02:00:24,748 EMPOWERING. AND POSITIVE AND 3037 02:00:24,748 --> 02:00:25,816 MAKE THE EXPERIENCE MORE 3038 02:00:25,816 --> 02:00:30,020 MANAGEABLE. WE HAVE HAD A 3039 02:00:30,020 --> 02:00:30,921 REALLY POSITIVE EXPERIENCE. I 3040 02:00:30,921 --> 02:00:33,224 WOULD SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S 3041 02:00:33,224 --> 02:00:35,726 IMPORTANT FOR DISEASES LIKE 3042 02:00:35,726 --> 02:00:36,961 OURS. LIKE SOMETIMES WE COME TO 3043 02:00:36,961 --> 02:00:38,596 THE CENTER I HAD NOTICED THAT 3044 02:00:38,596 --> 02:00:40,030 THE PERSON WHO DID MY EYE TEST 3045 02:00:40,030 --> 02:00:43,500 OR THE ONE WHO DID MY AUDITORY 3046 02:00:43,500 --> 02:00:45,169 TEST WAS NOT THE SECOND PERSON 3047 02:00:45,169 --> 02:00:46,704 THE SAME TIME AROUND SO IT 3048 02:00:46,704 --> 02:00:48,606 ALMOST FEELS LIKE THEY DIDN'T 3049 02:00:48,606 --> 02:00:50,040 UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WERE SEEING 3050 02:00:50,040 --> 02:00:51,809 AND SO THEY STARTED ORDERING 3051 02:00:51,809 --> 02:00:54,078 MORE THINGS BUT IF WE HAD THE 3052 02:00:54,078 --> 02:00:57,748 SAME PERSON WHO WAS DOING THE 3053 02:00:57,748 --> 02:00:59,416 TESTING AT THE SAME SET OF 3054 02:00:59,416 --> 02:01:00,951 SCHEDULE, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN 3055 02:01:00,951 --> 02:01:02,553 ABLE TO PIECE THE -- MAKE THE 3056 02:01:02,553 --> 02:01:04,588 PIECES MAKE SENSE IN THE PUZZLE. 3057 02:01:04,588 --> 02:01:06,090 AND THEY WOULDN'T THEN, YOU 3058 02:01:06,090 --> 02:01:07,992 KNOW, KEEP US LONGER OR, YOU 3059 02:01:07,992 --> 02:01:09,893 KNOW, SAY, OH I THINK I FOUND 3060 02:01:09,893 --> 02:01:11,128 SOMETHING AND THAT CAUSES A LOT 3061 02:01:11,128 --> 02:01:14,098 OF ANXIETY FOR US AS PATIENTS, 3062 02:01:14,098 --> 02:01:16,800 RIGHT? SO THAT WAS A CHANGE 3063 02:01:16,800 --> 02:01:18,902 THAT I HAD REQUESTED THAT, YOU 3064 02:01:18,902 --> 02:01:21,105 KNOW, EVERY PERSON THAT DOES OUR 3065 02:01:21,105 --> 02:01:24,642 TESTS REMAIN THE SAME AS MUCH AS 3066 02:01:24,642 --> 02:01:28,145 POSSIBLE. AND SO THEN THE STUDY 3067 02:01:28,145 --> 02:01:30,514 TEAM BEGAN TO SEE THE PICTURE. 3068 02:01:30,514 --> 02:01:32,449 RIGHT? IT WAS THE STORY STARTED 3069 02:01:32,449 --> 02:01:33,651 MAKING SENSE AND I THINK 3070 02:01:33,651 --> 02:01:36,587 RESEARCH IS ABOUT THAT. 3071 02:01:36,587 --> 02:01:37,921 ESPECIALLY IN NATURAL STUDY IT'S 3072 02:01:37,921 --> 02:01:39,390 ABOUT FINDING THE PUZZLE PIECES 3073 02:01:39,390 --> 02:01:41,725 THAT THEN TELL A STORY OF THE 3074 02:01:41,725 --> 02:01:43,827 DISEASE. BUT IF YOU KEEP 3075 02:01:43,827 --> 02:01:45,929 CHANGING PEOPLE OUT. THEN THAT 3076 02:01:45,929 --> 02:01:46,697 BECOMES HARDER AND MORE 3077 02:01:46,697 --> 02:01:48,465 BURDENSOME ON THE PATIENT TO 3078 02:01:48,465 --> 02:01:51,835 HAVE TO TELL, YOU KNOW, MY STORY 3079 02:01:51,835 --> 02:01:54,038 FROM A-Z AGAIN TO A PERSON 3080 02:01:54,038 --> 02:01:56,040 SOMETIMES THAT BECOMES REALLY 3081 02:01:56,040 --> 02:01:57,441 HARD AND YOU LOSE IMPORTANT 3082 02:01:57,441 --> 02:02:00,311 PIECES OF THE STORY. SO THAT 3083 02:02:00,311 --> 02:02:02,112 WAS THE FEEDBACK I HAD GIVEN TO 3084 02:02:02,112 --> 02:02:05,349 MY RESEARCH TEAM AND I QUICKLY 3085 02:02:05,349 --> 02:02:06,717 MADE THAT CHANGE AND THEY TRIED 3086 02:02:06,717 --> 02:02:08,852 TO GET EVERYBODY ON BOARD THAT 3087 02:02:08,852 --> 02:02:11,989 WAS SEEING THE DIFFERENT 3088 02:02:11,989 --> 02:02:13,557 PATIENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY TO BE 3089 02:02:13,557 --> 02:02:15,993 THE SAME BECAUSE REMEMBER ONCE 3090 02:02:15,993 --> 02:02:18,128 WE ENTERED THE NATURAL HISTORY 3091 02:02:18,128 --> 02:02:21,031 STUDY WAS NOT JUST ME AND MY 3092 02:02:21,031 --> 02:02:23,734 CHILDREN BUT WE HAD THREE OTHER 3093 02:02:23,734 --> 02:02:24,268 PATIENTS THAT CAME FROM 3094 02:02:24,268 --> 02:02:26,203 DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD AND 3095 02:02:26,203 --> 02:02:28,105 THIS DISEASE JOURNEY, THAT ONE 3096 02:02:28,105 --> 02:02:30,674 PERSON WAS SEEING ALL THESE 3097 02:02:30,674 --> 02:02:32,109 CHILDREN. AND NOT LIKE FOUR 3098 02:02:32,109 --> 02:02:33,510 DIFFERENT PEOPLE SEEING, YOU 3099 02:02:33,510 --> 02:02:35,946 KNOW, THESE CHILDREN, YOU JUST 3100 02:02:35,946 --> 02:02:39,183 CAN'T MAKE SENSE OF THE STORY. 3101 02:02:39,183 --> 02:02:41,452 SO THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS 3102 02:02:41,452 --> 02:02:44,054 IMPORTANT TO US. THE OTHER 3103 02:02:44,054 --> 02:02:46,657 THING I WOULD SAY IS THE 3104 02:02:46,657 --> 02:02:48,592 CHILDREN. SO MY KIDS ARE RIGHT 3105 02:02:48,592 --> 02:02:50,828 NOW 14 AND 16 AND WHEN THEY 3106 02:02:50,828 --> 02:02:52,896 STARTED, THEY WERE YOUNGER THAN 3107 02:02:52,896 --> 02:02:54,365 THAT. TWO YEARS YOUNGER THAN 3108 02:02:54,365 --> 02:02:55,899 THAT. IT WAS REALLY DIFFICULT 3109 02:02:55,899 --> 02:02:57,534 IN THE BEGINNING. THERE IS A 3110 02:02:57,534 --> 02:03:01,605 SENSE OF LIKE ONCE YOU ENTER, 3111 02:03:01,605 --> 02:03:03,307 ESPECIALLY SINCE AFTER COVID, 3112 02:03:03,307 --> 02:03:04,308 SOME OF THE RULES HAD CHANGED SO 3113 02:03:04,308 --> 02:03:08,112 THERE WAS A SENSE OF FEELING 3114 02:03:08,112 --> 02:03:09,780 TRAPPED. I KEPT HEARING FROM MY 3115 02:03:09,780 --> 02:03:12,116 KIDS THAT THEY WERE GETTING 3116 02:03:12,116 --> 02:03:12,916 RESTLESS AND FRUSTRATED AND I 3117 02:03:12,916 --> 02:03:14,551 THINK WHILE THE CENTER HAS LOTS 3118 02:03:14,551 --> 02:03:20,124 OF THINGS FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE 3119 02:03:20,124 --> 02:03:20,824 YOUNG 3120 02:03:20,824 --> 02:03:25,529 YOUNGER I THINK THAT TEENAGE OF 3121 02:03:25,529 --> 02:03:27,965 13 AND ABOVE WAS REALLY HARD. 3122 02:03:27,965 --> 02:03:29,400 THERE'S NOT AGE APPROPRIATE 3123 02:03:29,400 --> 02:03:30,434 THINGS TO DO. AND WE WEREN'T 3124 02:03:30,434 --> 02:03:33,303 ABLE TO LEAVE THE CENTER. WHICH 3125 02:03:33,303 --> 02:03:39,410 I FOUGHT FOR. BUT I LOST. AND 3126 02:03:39,410 --> 02:03:42,212 JUST KEPT SAYING IT WAS 3127 02:03:42,212 --> 02:03:43,347 IMPORTANT FOR THESE CHILDREN TO 3128 02:03:43,347 --> 02:03:45,449 HAVE PATH TO LEAVE THE CENTER IF 3129 02:03:45,449 --> 02:03:46,517 THEY'RE NOT HOOKED ONTO ANYTHING 3130 02:03:46,517 --> 02:03:48,952 THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO LEAVE THE 3131 02:03:48,952 --> 02:03:50,154 CENTER BUT WE WEREN'T ABLE TO 3132 02:03:50,154 --> 02:03:51,522 AND THAT FEELING OF BEING 3133 02:03:51,522 --> 02:03:53,924 TRAPPED IN THERE CAN INCREASE A 3134 02:03:53,924 --> 02:03:56,560 SENSE OF FEELING, YOU KNOW, 3135 02:03:56,560 --> 02:03:58,395 STRESS AND ANXIETY. EVEN THOUGH 3136 02:03:58,395 --> 02:03:59,496 THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE THERE 3137 02:03:59,496 --> 02:04:00,597 FOR, THEY CAN UNDERSTAND IT. 3138 02:04:00,597 --> 02:04:04,601 THEY WERE FINDING IT HARD TO 3139 02:04:04,601 --> 02:04:08,672 COPE WITH THE WEEK LONG STAY 3140 02:04:08,672 --> 02:04:11,975 ESPECIALLY WITH THE SENSE OF I 3141 02:04:11,975 --> 02:04:15,212 FEEL TRAPPED AND HELPLESS 3142 02:04:15,212 --> 02:04:16,647 COMPOUNDED WITH THE FACT THAT 3143 02:04:16,647 --> 02:04:18,449 CHILDREN VALUE AUTONOMY, THE 3144 02:04:18,449 --> 02:04:20,150 ABILITY TO MAKE CHOICES AND 3145 02:04:20,150 --> 02:04:21,852 BEING IN A CONTROLLED 3146 02:04:21,852 --> 02:04:23,487 ENVIRONMENT CAN BE 3147 02:04:23,487 --> 02:04:24,588 DISHEARTENING, IT'S NOTHING THE 3148 02:04:24,588 --> 02:04:25,422 FAULT OF OUR RESEARCH TEAM IT'S 3149 02:04:25,422 --> 02:04:29,426 JUST THE WAY RESEARCH IS SET UP. 3150 02:04:29,426 --> 02:04:35,232 SO I'M WONDERING HOW TO MAKE 3151 02:04:35,232 --> 02:04:36,099 THAT EASIER TO MAKE IT TO LEAVE 3152 02:04:36,099 --> 02:04:38,969 THE CENTER. THERE'S LOTS OF 3153 02:04:38,969 --> 02:04:39,903 THINGS AROUND TO DO IN THE AREA. 3154 02:04:39,903 --> 02:04:41,905 WE DIDN'T HAVE A WAY TO DO THAT. 3155 02:04:41,905 --> 02:04:43,907 THERE WAS NO PATH TO GET ON A 3156 02:04:43,907 --> 02:04:45,609 BUS AND GO SOMEWHERE SO BRINGING 3157 02:04:45,609 --> 02:04:47,578 IN SOME OF THOSE WOULD BE NICE. 3158 02:04:47,578 --> 02:04:48,879 THE OTHER THING IS THAT YOU 3159 02:04:48,879 --> 02:04:52,282 KNOW, FOR A WEEK, YOU ARE 3160 02:04:52,282 --> 02:04:53,750 WITHOUT YOUR FRIENDS, YOU'RE 3161 02:04:53,750 --> 02:04:56,854 DISCONNECT FROM SCHOOL. SO 3162 02:04:56,854 --> 02:05:01,091 THERE IS A LOT OF ANXIETY ON HOW 3163 02:05:01,091 --> 02:05:02,459 TO GET BACK TO OUR -- THE 3164 02:05:02,459 --> 02:05:05,762 ACADEMIC STANDING OR THE MISSING 3165 02:05:05,762 --> 02:05:07,831 OUT OF ACADEMICS SO HOW CAN WE 3166 02:05:07,831 --> 02:05:09,433 FACTOR THAT IN ESPECIALLY WHEN 3167 02:05:09,433 --> 02:05:12,035 YOUR WHOLE DAY IS BUSY WITH 3168 02:05:12,035 --> 02:05:13,804 ACTIVITY AND TESTS AND THINGS. 3169 02:05:13,804 --> 02:05:16,773 I THINK IT DOES TAKE A CHUNK OUT 3170 02:05:16,773 --> 02:05:19,776 OF THEIR SOCIAL LIVES. SO, YOU 3171 02:05:19,776 --> 02:05:21,879 KNOW, THERE WAS, ESPECIALLY FOR 3172 02:05:21,879 --> 02:05:23,447 US, THERE'S NO PEER GROUP, 3173 02:05:23,447 --> 02:05:24,982 RIGHT? THERE'S NO PEER GROUP 3174 02:05:24,982 --> 02:05:27,150 ACTIVITY BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE HAS 3175 02:05:27,150 --> 02:05:35,826 THIS DISEASE. SO THAT IS 3176 02:05:35,826 --> 02:05:38,362 ANOTHER THING TO CONSIDER. TO 3177 02:05:38,362 --> 02:05:39,463 GET CHILDREN IN THESE 3178 02:05:39,463 --> 02:05:40,631 DISCUSSIONS AND SORT OF VOICE 3179 02:05:40,631 --> 02:05:41,865 IT. MORE AND MORE WHEN I THINK 3180 02:05:41,865 --> 02:05:45,235 ABOUT IT, THE MENTAL HEALTH 3181 02:05:45,235 --> 02:05:48,005 IMPACT OF BEING IN A STUDY OR 3182 02:05:48,005 --> 02:05:51,008 BEING IN RESEARCH IS NOT GIVEN 3183 02:05:51,008 --> 02:05:53,410 ENOUGH ATTENTION. AND SO, YOU 3184 02:05:53,410 --> 02:05:55,412 KNOW, ARE THERE COUNSELORS THAT 3185 02:05:55,412 --> 02:05:58,215 THESE KIDS CAN TALK TO? AS THEY 3186 02:05:58,215 --> 02:06:00,584 ARE GOING THROUGH ALL THIS? 3187 02:06:00,584 --> 02:06:02,553 BUT, YES, I WILL STOP THERE 3188 02:06:02,553 --> 02:06:03,153 BECAUSE.... 3189 02:06:03,153 --> 02:06:04,021 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH THAT WAS 3190 02:06:04,021 --> 02:06:05,789 LOVELY AND A LOT TO TAKE IN. 3191 02:06:05,789 --> 02:06:08,158 AND I AM GOING TO PUT A COUPLE 3192 02:06:08,158 --> 02:06:15,365 WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH. IN 3193 02:06:15,365 --> 02:06:17,000 TRANSITIONING IS WHAT IS THE 3194 02:06:17,000 --> 02:06:19,870 MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR STUDY 3195 02:06:19,870 --> 02:06:21,872 MEMBERS TO KNOW ABOUT 3196 02:06:21,872 --> 02:06:22,639 PARTICIPANTS AND ONE YOU 3197 02:06:22,639 --> 02:06:23,640 HIGHLIGHTED IS THAT YOU'RE THE 3198 02:06:23,640 --> 02:06:25,075 EXPERT. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S A 3199 02:06:25,075 --> 02:06:27,044 RARE DISEASE, THAT YOU'RE A TEAM 3200 02:06:27,044 --> 02:06:28,445 MEMBER. AND THAT YOU WANT, LIKE 3201 02:06:28,445 --> 02:06:29,813 YOU WANT TO BE A TEAM MEMBER. 3202 02:06:29,813 --> 02:06:31,882 THAT MAY NOT BE TRUE FOR 3203 02:06:31,882 --> 02:06:34,484 EVERYONE BUT FOR YOU, IN 3204 02:06:34,484 --> 02:06:35,986 PARTICULAR, OF BEING A TEAM 3205 02:06:35,986 --> 02:06:38,889 MEMBER AND RESPECTING THAT ROLE 3206 02:06:38,889 --> 02:06:40,023 AND THEN ALSO JUST THAT 3207 02:06:40,023 --> 02:06:42,926 PARTICIPANTS ARE HUMANS. RIGHT? 3208 02:06:42,926 --> 02:06:44,761 NOT TO SAY THAT THAT'S, YOU 3209 02:06:44,761 --> 02:06:47,831 KNOW, OF COURSE THAT'S OBVIOUS. 3210 02:06:47,831 --> 02:06:49,299 BUT THE SORT OF THINGS THAT YOU 3211 02:06:49,299 --> 02:06:51,535 WERE TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF, 3212 02:06:51,535 --> 02:06:53,737 YOU KNOW, YOUR KIDS, THAT THEY 3213 02:06:53,737 --> 02:06:56,840 ARE HUMAN TEENAGERS. AND HAVE 3214 02:06:56,840 --> 02:06:59,276 PARTICULAR, YOU KNOW, NEEDS AND 3215 02:06:59,276 --> 02:07:00,143 INTERESTS THAT IT WOULD BE 3216 02:07:00,143 --> 02:07:02,179 IMPORTANT FOR THE STUDY TEAM TO 3217 02:07:02,179 --> 02:07:05,148 TAKE, YOU KNOW, TO KEEP IN MIND. 3218 02:07:05,148 --> 02:07:08,185 ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO ADD TO 3219 02:07:08,185 --> 02:07:09,753 THAT LIST OF WHAT YOU'VE MADE 3220 02:07:09,753 --> 02:07:14,191 YOUR STUDY TEAM AWARE OF OR 3221 02:07:14,191 --> 02:07:15,892 ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR THAT YOU 3222 02:07:15,892 --> 02:07:17,694 WANT TO EMPHASIZE ABOUT WHAT 3223 02:07:17,694 --> 02:07:21,164 THEY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEIR 3224 02:07:21,164 --> 02:07:21,498 PARTICIPANTS? 3225 02:07:21,498 --> 02:07:24,501 >> YES, I WILL GIVE YOU AN 3226 02:07:24,501 --> 02:07:25,102 ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE AFTER A 3227 02:07:25,102 --> 02:07:26,970 REALLY LONG DAY OF TESTS AND 3228 02:07:26,970 --> 02:07:28,572 THIS WAS PROBABLY BY THE FOURTH 3229 02:07:28,572 --> 02:07:32,209 DAY, OF THE WEEK, WE WERE THERE, 3230 02:07:32,209 --> 02:07:34,244 I OVERHEARD A CONVERSATION 3231 02:07:34,244 --> 02:07:36,046 BETWEEN MY KIDS AND MY YOUNGER 3232 02:07:36,046 --> 02:07:39,282 ONE, HE WAS REALLY TIRED. YOU 3233 02:07:39,282 --> 02:07:43,387 KNOW, THEY HAD POKED HIM MANY 3234 02:07:43,387 --> 02:07:44,221 TIMES AND MISSED THE VEIN AND HE 3235 02:07:44,221 --> 02:07:48,859 WAS REALLY EMOTIONALLY KIND OF 3236 02:07:48,859 --> 02:07:51,461 SPENT AND WE HAD GONE INTO MANY 3237 02:07:51,461 --> 02:07:52,596 EASIER TESTS, ONE THAT HE 3238 02:07:52,596 --> 02:08:00,504 ACTUALLY ENJOYED DOING AND HE 3239 02:08:00,504 --> 02:08:02,639 LOOKED AT HIS BROTHER AND SAID 3240 02:08:02,639 --> 02:08:04,508 DO WE HAVE TO DO THIS AND MY 3241 02:08:04,508 --> 02:08:09,413 OLDER SON SAID TO HIM, WE DON'T 3242 02:08:09,413 --> 02:08:12,449 HAVE A CHOICE. IT'S FOR THE 3243 02:08:12,449 --> 02:08:15,652 GREATER GOOD. RIGHT? AND SO MY 3244 02:08:15,652 --> 02:08:18,021 HEART AS A MOTHER REALLY BROKE 3245 02:08:18,021 --> 02:08:19,656 BECAUSE I WAS THINKING ALL THIS 3246 02:08:19,656 --> 02:08:21,358 TIME I WAS THINKING THAT, YOU 3247 02:08:21,358 --> 02:08:22,459 KNOW, AND WE HAD SEVERAL 3248 02:08:22,459 --> 02:08:24,594 DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IT. WE TALKED 3249 02:08:24,594 --> 02:08:26,830 ABOUT IT BEFORE WE REACHED CARE 3250 02:08:26,830 --> 02:08:29,700 AND AS A MOM TO HEAR THAT AND 3251 02:08:29,700 --> 02:08:31,702 I'M GETTING EMOTIONAL JUST 3252 02:08:31,702 --> 02:08:34,371 THINKING ABOUT IT BUT AS A MOM 3253 02:08:34,371 --> 02:08:36,173 THINKING ABOUT IT DO WE CLEARLY 3254 02:08:36,173 --> 02:08:37,574 EXPLAIN TO THE CHILDREN THAT 3255 02:08:37,574 --> 02:08:39,776 THEY HAVE A CHOICE. YOU KNOW, 3256 02:08:39,776 --> 02:08:41,511 BEING THE FIRST IS DRAMATIC. 3257 02:08:41,511 --> 02:08:44,114 IT'S COOL, IT'S EXCITING. BUT 3258 02:08:44,114 --> 02:08:46,516 DO WE HAVE A CHOICE IN THE 3259 02:08:46,516 --> 02:08:48,018 MATTER? ARE WE MAKING IT CLEAR 3260 02:08:48,018 --> 02:08:49,619 TO THE CHILDREN IN LANGUAGE THAT 3261 02:08:49,619 --> 02:08:51,321 IS CLEARLY UNDERSTANDABLE THAT 3262 02:08:51,321 --> 02:08:53,657 THEY HAVE A CHOICE TO DO THIS? 3263 02:08:53,657 --> 02:08:54,524 BECAUSE SOMETIMES A CHOICE IS 3264 02:08:54,524 --> 02:08:56,193 TAKEN OUT OF OUR HANDS BECAUSE 3265 02:08:56,193 --> 02:08:57,828 THEY KNOW IF THEY DON'T DO THIS 3266 02:08:57,828 --> 02:09:00,197 THEY DON'T GET TREATMENT. 3267 02:09:00,197 --> 02:09:02,199 THEY'LL CONTINUE TO SORT OF LIVE 3268 02:09:02,199 --> 02:09:05,368 WITH JANSEN'S IN A VERY 3269 02:09:05,368 --> 02:09:08,605 DEBILITATING WAY. BOTH MY KIDS 3270 02:09:08,605 --> 02:09:09,973 USE WHEELCHAIRS THE FACT THAT 3271 02:09:09,973 --> 02:09:13,944 THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT 3272 02:09:13,944 --> 02:09:18,115 DISCUSSION. IN THAT HOW DO WE 3273 02:09:18,115 --> 02:09:19,549 COMMUNICATE WITH THE CHILDREN 3274 02:09:19,549 --> 02:09:21,284 AND IN WAYS THAT HAVE R 3275 02:09:21,284 --> 02:09:21,885 INDIVIDUALIZED. YOU'RE NOT 3276 02:09:21,885 --> 02:09:22,352 TALKING TO CHILDREN. 3277 02:09:22,352 --> 02:09:24,921 THEY'RE NOT ALL THE SAME. EVEN 3278 02:09:24,921 --> 02:09:25,689 BETWEEN MY TWO KIDS THEY HAVE 3279 02:09:25,689 --> 02:09:28,592 DIFFERENT APPROACH TO THE TRIAL. 3280 02:09:28,592 --> 02:09:30,660 SO THAT'S SIGNIFICANT TO 3281 02:09:30,660 --> 02:09:31,428 UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYONE GOING 3282 02:09:31,428 --> 02:09:32,929 INTO THE TRIAL IS AN INDIVIDUAL. 3283 02:09:32,929 --> 02:09:36,600 THEY HAVE THEIR OWN FEARS, THEIR 3284 02:09:36,600 --> 02:09:38,735 OWN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROCESS 3285 02:09:38,735 --> 02:09:43,140 AND THEIR OWN FEELINGS OF HOW 3286 02:09:43,140 --> 02:09:44,174 THEY'RE DEALING WITH IT. WHICH 3287 02:09:44,174 --> 02:09:45,942 IS WHY I'M SAYING IT IS TO 3288 02:09:45,942 --> 02:09:47,344 IMPORTANT TO HAVE A COUNSELOR ON 3289 02:09:47,344 --> 02:09:48,378 BOARD. WHEN YOU ARE DEALING 3290 02:09:48,378 --> 02:09:50,213 WITH A CHILDREN, THAT'S SO 3291 02:09:50,213 --> 02:09:51,715 CRITICAL TO MAKE THEM 3292 02:09:51,715 --> 02:09:53,283 UNDERSTAND, TO ALLOW THEM TO 3293 02:09:53,283 --> 02:09:56,119 VOICE THEIR OPINIONS. SHARE 3294 02:09:56,119 --> 02:10:00,023 THEIR CONCERNS IN WAYS THAT ARE 3295 02:10:00,023 --> 02:10:01,992 COGNITIVELY RELEVANT TO THAT 3296 02:10:01,992 --> 02:10:03,727 COMMUNITY AS WELL AS THE 3297 02:10:03,727 --> 02:10:05,562 CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF, OR -- 3298 02:10:05,562 --> 02:10:07,264 WITH THE CULTURAL SENSITIVITY 3299 02:10:07,264 --> 02:10:10,801 THAT THEY'RE BRINGING TO THAT 3300 02:10:10,801 --> 02:10:15,605 RESEARCH. RIGHT? SO ALL OF 3301 02:10:15,605 --> 02:10:17,207 THESE BECOME SO IMPORTANT TO THE 3302 02:10:17,207 --> 02:10:18,542 DISCUSSION. IT'S NOT YEAH, 3303 02:10:18,542 --> 02:10:20,177 HERE'S YOUR NEXT TEST, NO, WHAT 3304 02:10:20,177 --> 02:10:21,611 WAS THE DISCUSSION BEFORE THAT? 3305 02:10:21,611 --> 02:10:23,480 WHAT ARE THE -- IT'S NOT JUST 3306 02:10:23,480 --> 02:10:24,848 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO EXPECT TO 3307 02:10:24,848 --> 02:10:27,017 HAVE TO DO BUT TALK TO THEIR 3308 02:10:27,017 --> 02:10:28,652 MIND? TALK TO THEIR HEART? 3309 02:10:28,652 --> 02:10:30,921 TALK TO THEIR SOUL. SO I THINK 3310 02:10:30,921 --> 02:10:32,289 THIS IS SOME OF THE CHALLENGES I 3311 02:10:32,289 --> 02:10:35,292 THINK WE NEED TO BEGIN TO 3312 02:10:35,292 --> 02:10:35,525 UNPACK. 3313 02:10:35,525 --> 02:10:37,160 AND, YOU KNOW, I KEEP REFLECTING 3314 02:10:37,160 --> 02:10:38,929 THAT AS A CHILD WHEN I WENT INTO 3315 02:10:38,929 --> 02:10:41,131 THE HOSPITAL, I FELT LIKE I WAS 3316 02:10:41,131 --> 02:10:44,234 SO NAIVE AND SO DUMB AND 3317 02:10:44,234 --> 02:10:45,468 CHILDREN TODAY ARE NOT. THEY 3318 02:10:45,468 --> 02:10:46,770 ASK QUESTIONS, THEY WANT TO 3319 02:10:46,770 --> 02:10:50,640 KNOW. THEY WANT TO BE INVOLVED. 3320 02:10:50,640 --> 02:10:53,243 THEY WANT TO FEEL THAT THEY HAVE 3321 02:10:53,243 --> 02:10:54,778 SOME CONTROL. YOU KNOW, IF I 3322 02:10:54,778 --> 02:10:56,746 WAS SEVEN AND THEY TOLD ME TO 3323 02:10:56,746 --> 02:10:59,249 GET UP ONTO THIS YOU KNOW STUDY 3324 02:10:59,249 --> 02:11:01,651 TABLE I WOULD HAVE JUST JUMPED 3325 02:11:01,651 --> 02:11:02,519 UP WITHOUT ANY THOUGHT BUT 3326 02:11:02,519 --> 02:11:03,453 TODAY'S CHILDREN ARE NOT LIKE 3327 02:11:03,453 --> 02:11:04,588 THAT AND I THINK WE HAVE TO 3328 02:11:04,588 --> 02:11:05,989 THINK ABOUT THAT AND THINK ABOUT 3329 02:11:05,989 --> 02:11:08,859 HOW ARE WE CHANGING OUR STUDY 3330 02:11:08,859 --> 02:11:10,994 ENVIRONMENT TO REFLECT THESE 3331 02:11:10,994 --> 02:11:11,595 CHANGING NORMS. 3332 02:11:11,595 --> 02:11:13,263 >> GREAT. NOW NOT TO PUT YOU ON 3333 02:11:13,263 --> 02:11:15,498 THE SPOT, LIAM AS THE YOUNGEST 3334 02:11:15,498 --> 02:11:19,002 MEMBER OF OUR PANEL, BUT I'M 3335 02:11:19,002 --> 02:11:20,303 WONDERING IF YOU HAVE HAD ANY 3336 02:11:20,303 --> 02:11:22,639 SORT OF THOUGHTS AS NINA'S BEEN 3337 02:11:22,639 --> 02:11:24,574 TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WERE 3338 02:11:24,574 --> 02:11:26,943 THERE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU TO 3339 02:11:26,943 --> 02:11:30,680 TALK WITH FOLKS ABOUT YOUR 3340 02:11:30,680 --> 02:11:32,449 PARTICIPATION OR DID YOU FEEL 3341 02:11:32,449 --> 02:11:35,051 SORT OF ABLE TO MAKE A DECISION. 3342 02:11:35,051 --> 02:11:36,720 TELL US A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THAT 3343 02:11:36,720 --> 02:11:38,288 IF YOU DON'T MIND. 3344 02:11:38,288 --> 02:11:39,723 >> YEAH, SO, I MEAN, I THINK THE 3345 02:11:39,723 --> 02:11:42,292 BEST WAY TO EXPLAIN THAT IS I 3346 02:11:42,292 --> 02:11:45,328 DID HAVE QUESTIONS LIKE SHE 3347 02:11:45,328 --> 02:11:50,033 MENTIONED. BUT IT WAS BEFORE 3348 02:11:50,033 --> 02:11:51,134 THE CLINICAL TRIAL. I WAS 3349 02:11:51,134 --> 02:11:53,169 LOOKING AT ALL MY OPTIONS KIND 3350 02:11:53,169 --> 02:11:55,071 OF SITUATION. LIKE THIS -- 3351 02:11:55,071 --> 02:11:56,306 THERE WAS ANOTHER TRIAL THAT WAS 3352 02:11:56,306 --> 02:11:58,108 KIND OF THE SAME -- IT'S LIKE 3353 02:11:58,108 --> 02:12:00,176 THE COMPETITIVE MY TRIAL THAT I 3354 02:12:00,176 --> 02:12:02,879 COULD HAVE DONE. I COULD HAVE 3355 02:12:02,879 --> 02:12:06,549 DONE GENE THERAPY OR I COULD 3356 02:12:06,549 --> 02:12:09,419 HAVE DONE A HYDROCORTISONE 3357 02:12:09,419 --> 02:12:10,921 RELEASE DRUG. BASICALLY I HAD 3358 02:12:10,921 --> 02:12:12,589 E-MAILED SO MANY DOCTORS ABOUT 3359 02:12:12,589 --> 02:12:14,591 THESE OTHER TRIALS BECAUSE I I 3360 02:12:14,591 --> 02:12:20,563 WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I 3361 02:12:20,563 --> 02:12:21,164 DISE -- 3362 02:12:21,164 --> 02:12:22,666 WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WASN'T 3363 02:12:22,666 --> 02:12:24,601 GETTING A BIASED ANSWER EITHER. 3364 02:12:24,601 --> 02:12:26,503 I DIDN'T ASK THE TRIAL DOCTORS, 3365 02:12:26,503 --> 02:12:30,140 AS IN THE PEOPLE DOING THE 3366 02:12:30,140 --> 02:12:33,743 TRIALS, I WOULD ASK DOCTORS THE 3367 02:12:33,743 --> 02:12:34,344 ENDOCR 3368 02:12:34,344 --> 02:12:35,378 ENDOCRINOLOGISTS ABOUT THE 3369 02:12:35,378 --> 02:12:36,713 TRIALS BUT WERE NOT PART OF THE 3370 02:12:36,713 --> 02:12:38,348 TRIALS. I E-MAILED A DOCTOR, 3371 02:12:38,348 --> 02:12:39,883 YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF 3372 02:12:39,883 --> 02:12:42,252 THE GENE THERAPY TRIAL? AND HE 3373 02:12:42,252 --> 02:12:45,355 SAID, PERSONALLY, I WOULD NOT DO 3374 02:12:45,355 --> 02:12:46,923 IT, I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND IT 3375 02:12:46,923 --> 02:12:48,191 AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S RIGHT 3376 02:12:48,191 --> 02:12:49,225 BECAUSE I WOULDN'T SAY HE'S 3377 02:12:49,225 --> 02:12:52,395 RIGHT BUT TWO YEARS LATER THE 3378 02:12:52,395 --> 02:12:55,332 GENE THERAPY TRIAL GOT SHUT DOWN 3379 02:12:55,332 --> 02:12:56,533 BECAUSE THE MEDICAL TEAM DECIDED 3380 02:12:56,533 --> 02:12:58,535 THAT THEY DIDN'T WANT TO PURSUE 3381 02:12:58,535 --> 02:12:59,502 IT ANYMORE THAT THERE WASN'T 3382 02:12:59,502 --> 02:13:01,671 ENOUGH EVIDENCE OF, YOU KNOW, 3383 02:13:01,671 --> 02:13:02,772 IMPROVEMENT WITH THE GENE 3384 02:13:02,772 --> 02:13:04,574 THERAPY SO THERE WAS JUST NO 3385 02:13:04,574 --> 02:13:07,277 POINT. AND IF I HAD JOINED THAT 3386 02:13:07,277 --> 02:13:08,411 GENE THERAPY WELL I COULDN'T 3387 02:13:08,411 --> 02:13:10,447 HAVE JOINED THIS TRIAL WHICH, 3388 02:13:10,447 --> 02:13:12,349 YOU KNOW, HAS MORE PROMISE 3389 02:13:12,349 --> 02:13:13,149 CLEARLY BECAUSE NOW IT'S 3390 02:13:13,149 --> 02:13:15,018 ACTUALLY ABOUT TO BE RELEASED 3391 02:13:15,018 --> 02:13:16,152 VERSUS THE GENE THERAPY WHICH 3392 02:13:16,152 --> 02:13:19,756 AGAIN IS SHUT DOWN. AND, BUT, 3393 02:13:19,756 --> 02:13:21,324 YOU KNOW, OVERALL I WOULD SAY 3394 02:13:21,324 --> 02:13:23,059 LIKE WITH MY EXPERIENCE OF 3395 02:13:23,059 --> 02:13:24,661 PARTICIPATING, ONCE I GOT IN THE 3396 02:13:24,661 --> 02:13:25,829 CLINICAL TRIAL IT WAS PRETTY 3397 02:13:25,829 --> 02:13:28,598 MUCH, YOU KNOW, NORMAL. I FELT 3398 02:13:28,598 --> 02:13:30,433 COMFORTABLE. THE ONLY PROBLEMS 3399 02:13:30,433 --> 02:13:32,435 I WOULD SAY WOULD BE THAT AS, 3400 02:13:32,435 --> 02:13:35,572 LIKE, STUDY TEAM MEMBERS WOULD 3401 02:13:35,572 --> 02:13:37,173 NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IS ONE, BE A 3402 02:13:37,173 --> 02:13:40,143 BIT MORE, LIKE, I GUESS CARING 3403 02:13:40,143 --> 02:13:41,678 IN THE SENSE THAT SOME OF THE 3404 02:13:41,678 --> 02:13:43,513 PROCEDURES CAN BE EXTREMELY 3405 02:13:43,513 --> 02:13:47,017 INVASIVE. AND YOU GUYS, SOME OF 3406 02:13:47,017 --> 02:13:48,284 THEM CAN BE LIKE WHEN DO YOU 3407 02:13:48,284 --> 02:13:50,787 WANT TO SCHEDULE IT? I'M LIKE 3408 02:13:50,787 --> 02:13:51,755 LET ME THINK ABOUT THAT REAL 3409 02:13:51,755 --> 02:13:52,889 QUICK AND THE OTHER ONE WOULD 3410 02:13:52,889 --> 02:13:56,092 BE, YOU KNOW, I GUESS IT COMES 3411 02:13:56,092 --> 02:13:57,060 DOWN TO THE FACT THAT SCHEDULING 3412 02:13:57,060 --> 02:13:59,829 AT THE END OF THE DAY, I GET 3413 02:13:59,829 --> 02:14:00,897 THAT THE CLINICAL TRIAL PEOPLE 3414 02:14:00,897 --> 02:14:02,966 ALSO HAVE THEIR OWN SCHEDULES. 3415 02:14:02,966 --> 02:14:05,068 BUT THERE CAN BE TIMES WHERE IT 3416 02:14:05,068 --> 02:14:06,503 BE LIKE OH CAN YOU COME IN 3417 02:14:06,503 --> 02:14:08,304 MONDAY, CAN YOU COME IN TUESDAY 3418 02:14:08,304 --> 02:14:11,374 BUT I HAD JUST COME IN MONDAY 3419 02:14:11,374 --> 02:14:13,943 LIKE FIVE TIMES IN A ROW AND I 3420 02:14:13,943 --> 02:14:15,945 CANNOT MISS ANOTHER MONDAY 3421 02:14:15,945 --> 02:14:18,114 CLASS. BUT FOR THEM THAT'S WHAT 3422 02:14:18,114 --> 02:14:19,315 THEIR SCHEDULE WORKS SO IT KIND 3423 02:14:19,315 --> 02:14:21,184 OF BECAME LIKE A, YOU KNOW, A 3424 02:14:21,184 --> 02:14:23,720 SITUATION WHERE WE HAD TO FIGURE 3425 02:14:23,720 --> 02:14:25,321 OUT HOW TO BALANCE EACH OTHER'S 3426 02:14:25,321 --> 02:14:27,123 SCHEDULE, NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, 3427 02:14:27,123 --> 02:14:28,625 NOT JUST MY SCHEDULE AT THE END 3428 02:14:28,625 --> 02:14:31,261 OF THE DAY OR THEIR SCHEDULE 3429 02:14:31,261 --> 02:14:32,462 BECAUSE, IF WE HAVE STUFF WE 3430 02:14:32,462 --> 02:14:33,897 HAVE STUFF AND WE CAN'T JUST 3431 02:14:33,897 --> 02:14:36,332 DROP IT ALL. BUT, YEAH. 3432 02:14:36,332 --> 02:14:40,036 >> GREAT. THANK YOU. HOW ABOUT 3433 02:14:40,036 --> 02:14:41,404 YOU IN TERMS OF YOU SHARING YOUR 3434 02:14:41,404 --> 02:14:43,239 THOUGHTS ABOUT THE STUDY TEAM S 3435 02:14:43,239 --> 02:14:44,474 THERE ANYTHING YOU HAVEN'T 3436 02:14:44,474 --> 02:14:47,377 MENTIONED THAT YOU WANT STUDY 3437 02:14:47,377 --> 02:14:49,345 TEAMS TO KNOW ABOUT YOU OR 3438 02:14:49,345 --> 02:14:50,480 PARTICIPANTS MORE GENERALLY? 3439 02:14:50,480 --> 02:14:51,448 >> SURE, ABSOLUTELY. 3440 02:14:51,448 --> 02:14:54,684 I AM GOING TO ECHO KIND OF WHAT 3441 02:14:54,684 --> 02:14:55,418 NINA WAS SAYING FOR 3442 02:14:55,418 --> 02:14:56,920 COMMUNICATION AND LIAM FOR 3443 02:14:56,920 --> 02:14:58,788 CARING I WILL ADD ACCOMMODATING. 3444 02:14:58,788 --> 02:15:00,056 A LITTLE BIT GOES A LONG WAY I 3445 02:15:00,056 --> 02:15:02,258 CAN GIVE YOU GUYS AN EXAMPLE. 3446 02:15:02,258 --> 02:15:03,626 EVERY PATIENT IS VERY UNIQUE AND 3447 02:15:03,626 --> 02:15:05,862 FOR ME ONCE MY EYES GOT DILATED 3448 02:15:05,862 --> 02:15:08,131 MY VISUAL ACUITY WAS VERY 3449 02:15:08,131 --> 02:15:09,432 MINIMAL AND MY TECHNICIAN I WAS 3450 02:15:09,432 --> 02:15:13,103 TELLING YOU GUYS ABOUT, HE WAS 3451 02:15:13,103 --> 02:15:15,271 SO GOOD AT ONCE THOSE EYES WERE 3452 02:15:15,271 --> 02:15:16,573 GETTING SUPER DIE LATED AND WE 3453 02:15:16,573 --> 02:15:18,374 WERE GOING TO GO TO ANOTHER 3454 02:15:18,374 --> 02:15:21,411 TESTING HE WAS SO GREAT AT 3455 02:15:21,411 --> 02:15:22,479 BECOMING MORE VOCAL AND VERBAL 3456 02:15:22,479 --> 02:15:23,446 WITH THINGS. 3457 02:15:23,446 --> 02:15:25,515 AND HE SAID HEY, I'M GOING TO 3458 02:15:25,515 --> 02:15:27,784 WALK MY HAND RIGHT NOW AND AN 3459 02:15:27,784 --> 02:15:28,885 ALCOHOL WIPE TO WIPE DOWN THE 3460 02:15:28,885 --> 02:15:30,787 MACHINE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE 3461 02:15:30,787 --> 02:15:32,489 USING. THOSE LITTLE SMALL 3462 02:15:32,489 --> 02:15:34,157 THINGS MADE ME FEEL SO 3463 02:15:34,157 --> 02:15:35,592 COMFORTABLE AND SAFE BECAUSE I 3464 02:15:35,592 --> 02:15:37,560 WAS -- I CAN'T SEE, I DON'T KNOW 3465 02:15:37,560 --> 02:15:39,629 WHAT IS GOING ON. SO I KNOW FOR 3466 02:15:39,629 --> 02:15:41,998 YOU GUYS AS STUDY MEMBERS EVERY 3467 02:15:41,998 --> 02:15:43,399 PATIENT ROOM THERE'S A LITTLE 3468 02:15:43,399 --> 02:15:44,534 SMALL CHANGE OR TWEAK I THINK 3469 02:15:44,534 --> 02:15:46,102 WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE FOR 3470 02:15:46,102 --> 02:15:48,605 YOU GUYS, COMMUNICATION, YES, 3471 02:15:48,605 --> 02:15:50,507 ABSOLUTELY BUT KIND OF RINGING 3472 02:15:50,507 --> 02:15:51,741 THAT ACCOMMODATION, EVEN JUST 3473 02:15:51,741 --> 02:15:53,042 ASKING THE PATIENT HOW CAN I 3474 02:15:53,042 --> 02:15:53,877 MAKE THIS EXPERIENCE A LITTLE 3475 02:15:53,877 --> 02:15:55,778 BIT MORE EASIER? BECAUSE IT IS 3476 02:15:55,778 --> 02:15:58,681 LONG DAYS AND A LOT OF TIMES I 3477 02:15:58,681 --> 02:15:59,682 KNOW. JUST WANT TO GET ALL 3478 02:15:59,682 --> 02:16:02,619 THOSE TEN TESTS DONE BUT THOSE 3479 02:16:02,619 --> 02:16:04,220 SMALL LITTLE THINGS MAKE A HUGE 3480 02:16:04,220 --> 02:16:05,922 DIFFERENCE AND I CAN'T EMPHASIZE 3481 02:16:05,922 --> 02:16:08,858 THAT MORE FOR MAKING THE 3482 02:16:08,858 --> 02:16:10,059 EXPERIENCE BETTER FOR THE 3483 02:16:10,059 --> 02:16:10,460 PATIENT. 3484 02:16:10,460 --> 02:16:12,195 >> AND HOW ABOUT YOU, ELLEN? 3485 02:16:12,195 --> 02:16:14,464 >> I AGREE, EVEN THOUGH WHEN I 3486 02:16:14,464 --> 02:16:16,900 GO INTO PHLEBOTOMY, THEY REALLY 3487 02:16:16,900 --> 02:16:19,068 DIDN'T WANT TO DO ME. THEY 3488 02:16:19,068 --> 02:16:19,936 WOULD. YOU KNOW. AND THEN 3489 02:16:19,936 --> 02:16:21,971 THEY'D -- WE'D ALL CELEBRATE 3490 02:16:21,971 --> 02:16:24,407 WHEN THEY FINALLY GOT A VEIN 3491 02:16:24,407 --> 02:16:27,243 LIKE OH, YAY, WE GOT ONE. SO 3492 02:16:27,243 --> 02:16:30,113 THEY FELT MY ANXIETY THAT, OH, 3493 02:16:30,113 --> 02:16:30,914 IS THIS PERSON GOING TO BE ABLE 3494 02:16:30,914 --> 02:16:32,815 TO GET IT SO NOW I ALWAYS HAVE 3495 02:16:32,815 --> 02:16:34,817 TO ASK FOR THEIR BEST PERSON AND 3496 02:16:34,817 --> 02:16:37,587 A HEATING PAD. I KNOW WHAT TO 3497 02:16:37,587 --> 02:16:39,822 DO NOW. AND THEY KNOW WHAT TO 3498 02:16:39,822 --> 02:16:41,558 DO. SO IT'S ALL WORKED OUT 3499 02:16:41,558 --> 02:16:43,026 BECAUSE AGAIN THEY TREAT YOU AS 3500 02:16:43,026 --> 02:16:45,061 A PERSON. YOU KNOW, AND I THINK 3501 02:16:45,061 --> 02:16:46,663 THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY'S HAD TO 3502 02:16:46,663 --> 02:16:50,600 SAY, THEY TREAT YOU AS AN EA 3503 02:16:50,600 --> 02:16:53,269 EARN -- PERSON. 3504 02:16:53,269 --> 02:16:55,405 >> ONE MORE QUESTION FROM ME AND 3505 02:16:55,405 --> 02:16:58,074 THEN WE'LL OPEN IT UP TO THE 3506 02:16:58,074 --> 02:16:59,542 AUDIENCE AND I ALSO WANT TO 3507 02:16:59,542 --> 02:17:02,078 WELCOME TONY JONES WHO JOINED 3508 02:17:02,078 --> 02:17:04,047 US. SHE'S MOST RECENTLY THE 3509 02:17:04,047 --> 02:17:06,516 PARTICIPANT ADVOCATE HERE AT THE 3510 02:17:06,516 --> 02:17:08,151 CLINICAL CENTER AND HAS MOVED 3511 02:17:08,151 --> 02:17:08,918 ONTO A DIFFERENT POSITION BUT 3512 02:17:08,918 --> 02:17:10,887 WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ANY THOUGHTS 3513 02:17:10,887 --> 02:17:13,256 YOU MIGHT WANT TO ADD TONY, ONCE 3514 02:17:13,256 --> 02:17:15,325 WE FINISH UP. SO THE LAST 3515 02:17:15,325 --> 02:17:16,626 QUESTION I WANTED TO ASK AND 3516 02:17:16,626 --> 02:17:19,329 THEN START WITH YOU ELLEN ABOUT 3517 02:17:19,329 --> 02:17:21,731 IF I AM THINKING ABOUT COMING TO 3518 02:17:21,731 --> 02:17:23,633 THE CLINICAL CENTER OR ENROLLING 3519 02:17:23,633 --> 02:17:26,402 IN A CLINICAL TRIAL, WHAT SORT 3520 02:17:26,402 --> 02:17:28,605 OF ADVICE WOULD YOU HAVE FOR ME 3521 02:17:28,605 --> 02:17:30,740 IN MAKING SURE THAT I KNOW WHAT 3522 02:17:30,740 --> 02:17:34,110 I AM DOING OR WHAT TO EXPECT? 3523 02:17:34,110 --> 02:17:36,479 >> I WOULD FIRST WANT TO KNOW 3524 02:17:36,479 --> 02:17:38,581 WHY. WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN 3525 02:17:38,581 --> 02:17:40,850 THIS TRIAL? AND WHAT ARE YOUR 3526 02:17:40,850 --> 02:17:43,686 HOPES FOR THE TRIAL? BECAUSE A 3527 02:17:43,686 --> 02:17:46,055 HOPE SHOULD NOT BE A CURE. 3528 02:17:46,055 --> 02:17:47,323 BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT DOING IT FOR 3529 02:17:47,323 --> 02:17:50,526 A CURE. THAT'S NOT GOING TO 3530 02:17:50,526 --> 02:17:52,161 HAPPEN. USUALLY BUT TO FIND OUT 3531 02:17:52,161 --> 02:17:56,232 MORE PERMANSONALLY FROM YOU AS 3532 02:17:56,232 --> 02:17:57,934 PERSON WHY IS IT THAT YOU WANT 3533 02:17:57,934 --> 02:17:59,569 TO DO THIS AND THEN I WOULD OF 3534 02:17:59,569 --> 02:18:02,305 COURSE TELL YOU WHAT A SUCCESS I 3535 02:18:02,305 --> 02:18:03,706 HAD. BUT, AND KIND OF THINGS 3536 02:18:03,706 --> 02:18:07,010 THAT I'VE DONE AND WHAT, YOU 3537 02:18:07,010 --> 02:18:08,544 KNOW, THERE'S CONSTRUCTION ALL 3538 02:18:08,544 --> 02:18:10,480 THE TIME. SO YOU HAVE TO GET 3539 02:18:10,480 --> 02:18:12,215 AROUND THAT. FINDING A WAY 3540 02:18:12,215 --> 02:18:14,083 AROUND. AND LET THEM KNOW 3541 02:18:14,083 --> 02:18:16,619 THAT -- AND I DID REFER ANOTHER 3542 02:18:16,619 --> 02:18:18,454 PERSON THAT WAS COMING FOR A 3543 02:18:18,454 --> 02:18:20,523 TRIAL AND I SAID I WILL GO WITH 3544 02:18:20,523 --> 02:18:23,793 YOU. THE FIRST TIME. JUST SO 3545 02:18:23,793 --> 02:18:24,527 YOU CAN SEE WHERE PHLEBOTOMY IS 3546 02:18:24,527 --> 02:18:26,896 AND HOW TO GET TO THE PLACES AND 3547 02:18:26,896 --> 02:18:28,665 SHE WAS VERY GRATEFUL FOR THAT 3548 02:18:28,665 --> 02:18:31,634 AND SHE'S STILL PART OF A TRIAL. 3549 02:18:31,634 --> 02:18:31,934 SO.... 3550 02:18:31,934 --> 02:18:34,671 >> I REALLY APPRECIATE WHERE YOU 3551 02:18:34,671 --> 02:18:36,339 STARTED. RIGHT? OF, YOU KNOW, 3552 02:18:36,339 --> 02:18:38,308 WANTING TO KNOW WHERE THEY'RE 3553 02:18:38,308 --> 02:18:39,342 COMING FROM FIRST. BEFORE SORT 3554 02:18:39,342 --> 02:18:43,513 OF SAYING, OH, APPRECIATE THAT. 3555 02:18:43,513 --> 02:18:44,547 >> I WOULD LOVE TO START WITH 3556 02:18:44,547 --> 02:18:45,915 JUST ME. BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS 3557 02:18:45,915 --> 02:18:47,250 ABOUT ME. I WILL GIVE THEM A 3558 02:18:47,250 --> 02:18:48,618 CHANCE FIRST. 3559 02:18:48,618 --> 02:18:49,786 >> GOOD. GOOD. 3560 02:18:49,786 --> 02:18:50,887 >> LET'S SEE, I WOULD PROBABLY 3561 02:18:50,887 --> 02:18:54,324 SAY THE FIRST THING, DON'T BE 3562 02:18:54,324 --> 02:18:55,725 SCARED. I WAS -- IT'S REALLY 3563 02:18:55,725 --> 02:18:57,927 OVERWHELMING HERE. THERE'S A LOT 3564 02:18:57,927 --> 02:18:59,696 OF INFORMATION THEY GIVE AT YOU 3565 02:18:59,696 --> 02:19:00,596 AT THE SAME TIME AND JUST BE 3566 02:19:00,596 --> 02:19:02,565 WILLING TO NAVIGATE WITH THEM I 3567 02:19:02,565 --> 02:19:04,233 THINK DON'T BE SCARED, TAKE THAT 3568 02:19:04,233 --> 02:19:05,768 FIRST STEP AND I WISH I HAD THIS 3569 02:19:05,768 --> 02:19:08,271 WHEN I FIRST STARTED, HAVING A 3570 02:19:08,271 --> 02:19:09,539 BUDDY OR SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN 3571 02:19:09,539 --> 02:19:11,274 HERE, NOW THE CLINICAL WEBSITE 3572 02:19:11,274 --> 02:19:12,442 HAS THIS GREAT WEB PAGE OF 3573 02:19:12,442 --> 02:19:13,876 PATIENTS TALKING ABOUT THEIR 3574 02:19:13,876 --> 02:19:14,977 EXPERIENCE, REACHING OUT TO THEM 3575 02:19:14,977 --> 02:19:17,113 AND SAYING, HEY, I'M THINKING 3576 02:19:17,113 --> 02:19:18,681 ABOUT DOING THIS, WHAT IS YOUR 3577 02:19:18,681 --> 02:19:20,083 EXPERIENCE. I WISH I HAD THAT. 3578 02:19:20,083 --> 02:19:22,485 I WAS SO IN THIS BOX AND I WAS 3579 02:19:22,485 --> 02:19:24,921 LIKE OKAY I GUESS I WILL DO IT. 3580 02:19:24,921 --> 02:19:26,589 HAVING CREATE A NETWORK WHETHER 3581 02:19:26,589 --> 02:19:28,725 IT'S IN THE CLINICAL CENTER OR 3582 02:19:28,725 --> 02:19:29,726 OUTSIDE HAVING THAT SUPPORT 3583 02:19:29,726 --> 02:19:31,461 SYSTEM BECAUSE IT IS A HUGE 3584 02:19:31,461 --> 02:19:32,729 DIFFERENCE. IT IS OVERWHELMING 3585 02:19:32,729 --> 02:19:33,963 COMING HERE AND I AM SURE YOU 3586 02:19:33,963 --> 02:19:36,532 GUYS COMING TO THIS AUDITORIUM 3587 02:19:36,532 --> 02:19:38,735 MIGHT HAVE BEEN HARD. SO JUST, 3588 02:19:38,735 --> 02:19:40,603 YEAH, NOT BEING SCARED AND JUST 3589 02:19:40,603 --> 02:19:41,637 FINDING THAT NETWORK EVEN IF 3590 02:19:41,637 --> 02:19:42,939 IT'S ONE PERSON OR A BUNCH OF 3591 02:19:42,939 --> 02:19:44,107 PEOPLE I THINK THAT'S A HUGE 3592 02:19:44,107 --> 02:19:45,708 THING THAT IS GOING TO HELP THE 3593 02:19:45,708 --> 02:19:46,609 PATIENT NAVIGATE THIS. 3594 02:19:46,609 --> 02:19:51,848 >> GREAT. HOW ABOUT YOU, LIAM? 3595 02:19:51,848 --> 02:19:53,583 >> I WOULD JUST SAY FOR ME I 3596 02:19:53,583 --> 02:19:55,818 HAVE A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE I FEEL 3597 02:19:55,818 --> 02:19:57,787 BUT LOOK AT ALL THE ADVANTAGES 3598 02:19:57,787 --> 02:20:00,590 OF PARTICIPATING IN RESEARCH, ET 3599 02:20:00,590 --> 02:20:01,424 CETERA. THAT YOU CAN TAKE 3600 02:20:01,424 --> 02:20:03,960 ADVANTAGE OF BECAUSE FOR ME, 3601 02:20:03,960 --> 02:20:05,395 BEFORE JOINING THIS CLINICAL 3602 02:20:05,395 --> 02:20:07,096 TRIAL I DIDN'T THINK I WAS GOING 3603 02:20:07,096 --> 02:20:09,465 TO BE YOU KNOW ANYTHING MEDICAL 3604 02:20:09,465 --> 02:20:10,933 RELATED OR HAVE ANY INTEREST IN 3605 02:20:10,933 --> 02:20:12,402 MEDICAL STUFF AT ALL BUT ONCE I 3606 02:20:12,402 --> 02:20:14,237 JOINED THE MEDICAL TRIAL, LIKE 3607 02:20:14,237 --> 02:20:17,940 OUTSIDE OF THE MIEDICAL TRIAL I 3608 02:20:17,940 --> 02:20:19,509 WAS ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 3609 02:20:19,509 --> 02:20:20,309 OTHER OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE I 3610 02:20:20,309 --> 02:20:21,611 WAS IN THIS MEDICAL TRIAL LIKE 3611 02:20:21,611 --> 02:20:22,812 FOR INSTANCE I WAS ABLE TO JOIN 3612 02:20:22,812 --> 02:20:25,381 THE FDA PANEL ON HOW, YOU KNOW, 3613 02:20:25,381 --> 02:20:27,617 CLINICAL TRIAL INITIATIVES THAT 3614 02:20:27,617 --> 02:20:28,584 THEIR PARTNERSHIP WITH DUKE. SO 3615 02:20:28,584 --> 02:20:30,720 I WORK WITH THEM NOW AND, YOU 3616 02:20:30,720 --> 02:20:32,555 KNOW, AS A COLLEGE STUDENT 3617 02:20:32,555 --> 02:20:33,756 THAT'S BENEFICIAL FOR ME IN 3618 02:20:33,756 --> 02:20:35,792 TERMS OF A RESUME KIND OF 3619 02:20:35,792 --> 02:20:38,060 SITUATION. AND I ALSO GET TO 3620 02:20:38,060 --> 02:20:40,596 WORK WITH THE CLINICAL TRIAL 3621 02:20:40,596 --> 02:20:43,032 COMPANY THAT I'M IN NOW AS AN 3622 02:20:43,032 --> 02:20:45,968 ADVISOR AS WELL, A PATIENT 3623 02:20:45,968 --> 02:20:47,170 ADVISOR, BEFORE THEY RELEASE THE 3624 02:20:47,170 --> 02:20:49,338 DRUG SO THEY CAN GET ADVICE ON 3625 02:20:49,338 --> 02:20:51,908 HOW TO GO ABOUT IT FROM A 3626 02:20:51,908 --> 02:20:53,009 PATIENT PERSPECTIVE AND OVERALL, 3627 02:20:53,009 --> 02:20:55,611 I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IF I HAD NOT 3628 02:20:55,611 --> 02:20:57,146 JOINED THE CLINICAL TRIAL I 3629 02:20:57,146 --> 02:20:58,448 WOULDN'T HAVE HAD THOSE 3630 02:20:58,448 --> 02:21:00,249 OPPORTUNITIES AND I WOULDN'T 3631 02:21:00,249 --> 02:21:02,552 HAVE HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY AS 3632 02:21:02,552 --> 02:21:04,620 WELL. IT'S DEFINITELY LIKE 3633 02:21:04,620 --> 02:21:06,622 EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES OUT THERE 3634 02:21:06,622 --> 02:21:08,424 THAT YOU WOULDN'T REALLY THINK 3635 02:21:08,424 --> 02:21:09,725 OF WHEN YOU'RE CONSIDERING 3636 02:21:09,725 --> 02:21:10,793 PARTICIPATING IN THE RESEARCH 3637 02:21:10,793 --> 02:21:12,361 BUT LIKE ONCE YOU START GETTING 3638 02:21:12,361 --> 02:21:15,665 INTO THE RESEARCH AND YOU START 3639 02:21:15,665 --> 02:21:17,133 BECOMING MORE INVOLVED BECAUSE 3640 02:21:17,133 --> 02:21:21,337 HERE YOU ARE GETTING TESTED AS A 3641 02:21:21,337 --> 02:21:23,005 PERSON YOU TOOK THAT BIG STEP 3642 02:21:23,005 --> 02:21:24,607 THAT ISN'T KNOWN ABOUT THAT CAN 3643 02:21:24,607 --> 02:21:26,542 BE RISKY. YOU BECOME MORE 3644 02:21:26,542 --> 02:21:28,377 CARING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, YOUR 3645 02:21:28,377 --> 02:21:29,612 CONDITION ABOUT THE DRUG AND 3646 02:21:29,612 --> 02:21:31,447 JUST OVERALL A COMMUNITY THAT 3647 02:21:31,447 --> 02:21:33,516 YOU'RE INVOLVED IN SO, I MEAN, 3648 02:21:33,516 --> 02:21:35,485 YEAH, MY BIGGEST ADVICE IS LOOK 3649 02:21:35,485 --> 02:21:37,353 AT ALL YOUR OPTIONS AND 3650 02:21:37,353 --> 02:21:38,654 CONSIDER, YOU KNOW, THE 3651 02:21:38,654 --> 02:21:40,823 POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES OF JOINING, 3652 02:21:40,823 --> 02:21:42,525 YOU KNOW, A CLINICAL TRIAL. 3653 02:21:42,525 --> 02:21:44,360 >> GREAT, THANK YOU AND I WILL 3654 02:21:44,360 --> 02:21:46,596 GIVE YOU THE LAST WORD NINA 3655 02:21:46,596 --> 02:21:47,930 ABOUT WHAT YOU WOULD SHARE IF I 3656 02:21:47,930 --> 02:21:51,834 WAS THINKING ABOUT ENROLLING? 3657 02:21:51,834 --> 02:21:53,669 >> THANK YOU. YEAH. SO BECAUSE 3658 02:21:53,669 --> 02:21:54,537 I'VE GONE THROUGH THIS 3659 02:21:54,537 --> 02:21:57,340 EXPERIENCE AND BECAUSE I'M ALSO 3660 02:21:57,340 --> 02:21:59,642 THE LEAD ON -- THE LEADER IN MY 3661 02:21:59,642 --> 02:22:02,044 COMMUNITY AND I AM THE DIRECTOR 3662 02:22:02,044 --> 02:22:04,313 OF OUR FOUNDATION AND I HAVE TO 3663 02:22:04,313 --> 02:22:07,283 ENCOURAGE OTHERS IN MY COMMUNITY 3664 02:22:07,283 --> 02:22:08,284 TO PARTICIPATE, I REALLY THOUGHT 3665 02:22:08,284 --> 02:22:11,754 LONG AND HARD ABOUT THIS 3666 02:22:11,754 --> 02:22:14,657 QUESTION. AND ACTUALLY I 3667 02:22:14,657 --> 02:22:21,864 DEVELOPED A SORT OF CHEAT SHEET. 3668 02:22:21,864 --> 02:22:23,733 THE FIRST THING I ALWAYS SAY IS 3669 02:22:23,733 --> 02:22:25,902 DO YOUR RESEARCH AND I WOULD 3670 02:22:25,902 --> 02:22:26,669 DEFINITELY SHARE INFORMATION 3671 02:22:26,669 --> 02:22:30,239 ABILITY FAMILIARIZING YOURSELF 3672 02:22:30,239 --> 02:22:31,507 WITH WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE 3673 02:22:31,507 --> 02:22:33,142 STUDY, WHAT ARE THE PROCEDURES, 3674 02:22:33,142 --> 02:22:35,645 NOW THAT WE HAVE THAT CLEARLY 3675 02:22:35,645 --> 02:22:37,179 DEFINED, HERE IS WHAT THAT LOOKS 3676 02:22:37,179 --> 02:22:39,415 LIKE, WHAT IS THE POTENTIAL 3677 02:22:39,415 --> 02:22:40,416 RISKS AND BENEFITS OF THIS 3678 02:22:40,416 --> 02:22:41,951 RESEARCH? AND ASK QUESTIONS 3679 02:22:41,951 --> 02:22:44,487 UNTIL YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH 3680 02:22:44,487 --> 02:22:46,756 THE INFORMATION. AND IT'S 3681 02:22:46,756 --> 02:22:47,423 REALLY IMPORTANT TO HAVE THAT 3682 02:22:47,423 --> 02:22:50,526 SPACE TO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS. 3683 02:22:50,526 --> 02:22:51,694 COMMUNICATE OPENLY. TALK TO THE 3684 02:22:51,694 --> 02:22:53,062 RESEARCH TEAM. DON'T HESITATE 3685 02:22:53,062 --> 02:22:56,232 TO DISCUSS CONCERNS OR ASK FOR 3686 02:22:56,232 --> 02:22:58,267 ANY CLARIFICATION. OPEN 3687 02:22:58,267 --> 02:23:00,703 COMMUNICATION LIKE I'VE SAID, 3688 02:23:00,703 --> 02:23:02,672 OVER AND OVER IN THIS DISCUSSION 3689 02:23:02,672 --> 02:23:04,440 IT HELP TO BUILD THAT TRUST THAT 3690 02:23:04,440 --> 02:23:06,709 IS SO IMPORTANT. CONSIDER YOUR 3691 02:23:06,709 --> 02:23:07,710 OWN COMFORT LEVEL. LIKE YOU 3692 02:23:07,710 --> 02:23:10,546 HAVE TO ASSESS YOUR READINESS. 3693 02:23:10,546 --> 02:23:12,415 YOU THINK ABOUT WHETHER YOU FEEL 3694 02:23:12,415 --> 02:23:14,684 EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY 3695 02:23:14,684 --> 02:23:16,085 PREPARED TO PARTICIPATE. I 3696 02:23:16,085 --> 02:23:18,287 MEAN, SOME OF THESE STUDIES, 3697 02:23:18,287 --> 02:23:20,022 IT'S A LONG HAUL AND IF 3698 02:23:20,022 --> 02:23:21,490 SOMETHING DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT IF 3699 02:23:21,490 --> 02:23:23,025 YOU DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH 3700 02:23:23,025 --> 02:23:24,527 ONE PERSON ON YOUR STUDY TEAM, 3701 02:23:24,527 --> 02:23:27,229 IT'S OKAY TO DECLINE OR TO WAIT 3702 02:23:27,229 --> 02:23:29,265 UNTIL YOU FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE. 3703 02:23:29,265 --> 02:23:31,367 I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. 3704 02:23:31,367 --> 02:23:36,606 I NEVER UNDERSTOOD HOW MUCH 3705 02:23:36,606 --> 02:23:39,108 OF -- HOW MUCH THIS IS GOING TO 3706 02:23:39,108 --> 02:23:41,911 TAKE OUT OF ME AND MY COMMUNITY 3707 02:23:41,911 --> 02:23:42,745 TO BE INVOLVED AND YET KNOW THIS 3708 02:23:42,745 --> 02:23:44,013 IS THE ONLY WAY WE WOULD GET TO 3709 02:23:44,013 --> 02:23:46,749 A TREATMENT. IT'S A SIGNIFICANT 3710 02:23:46,749 --> 02:23:47,717 STEP AND SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE 3711 02:23:47,717 --> 02:23:49,852 YOU HAVE TO CHOICES. AND SO 3712 02:23:49,852 --> 02:23:52,221 WHEN YOU'RE IN THAT SITUATION, 3713 02:23:52,221 --> 02:23:54,056 YOU REALLY NEED TO ASSESS ALL OF 3714 02:23:54,056 --> 02:23:56,425 THESE POINTS. INVOLVE YOUR 3715 02:23:56,425 --> 02:23:57,793 SUPPORT SYSTEM, ENGAGE WITH YOUR 3716 02:23:57,793 --> 02:24:00,129 FAMILY AND FRIENDS, DISCUSS YOUR 3717 02:24:00,129 --> 02:24:02,164 DECISION WITH YOUR LOVED ONES. 3718 02:24:02,164 --> 02:24:03,466 YOU KNOW, THEIR SUPPORT CAN BE 3719 02:24:03,466 --> 02:24:04,600 SO IMPORTANT TO THE WHOLE 3720 02:24:04,600 --> 02:24:07,803 PROCESS AND HOW YOU NAVIGATE 3721 02:24:07,803 --> 02:24:09,405 THIS EXPERIENCE. AND ANOTHER 3722 02:24:09,405 --> 02:24:11,774 IMPORTANT THING IS TO KNOW YOUR 3723 02:24:11,774 --> 02:24:14,076 RIGHTS. UNDERSTAND INFORMED 3724 02:24:14,076 --> 02:24:14,744 CONSENT. FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF 3725 02:24:14,744 --> 02:24:16,612 WITH YOUR RIGHTS AS A 3726 02:24:16,612 --> 02:24:17,947 PARTICIPANT. INCLUDING YOUR 3727 02:24:17,947 --> 02:24:21,117 RIGHT TO WITHDRAW FROM THE STUDY 3728 02:24:21,117 --> 02:24:23,919 WITHOUT ANY ADVERSE, YOU KNOW, 3729 02:24:23,919 --> 02:24:27,390 EFFECT OR ANY KIND OF PENALTY. 3730 02:24:27,390 --> 02:24:32,528 YOU KNOW, IN DISEASES, RARE 3731 02:24:32,528 --> 02:24:33,963 DISEASES, WE HAVE HAD PATIENTS 3732 02:24:33,963 --> 02:24:35,631 TELL ME WE DON'T WANT TO 3733 02:24:35,631 --> 02:24:37,667 PARTICIPATE. RIGHT? BECAUSE 3734 02:24:37,667 --> 02:24:39,101 THEY DON'T TRUST THE SYSTEM OR 3735 02:24:39,101 --> 02:24:40,870 THEY DON'T TRUST. ESPECIALLY, 3736 02:24:40,870 --> 02:24:42,438 AND THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO 3737 02:24:42,438 --> 02:24:44,440 KNOW, WE HAVE HAD PATIENTS FROM 3738 02:24:44,440 --> 02:24:45,574 OUTSIDE THE U.S. WHO DID NOT 3739 02:24:45,574 --> 02:24:46,676 WANT TO PARTICIPATE BECAUSE THEY 3740 02:24:46,676 --> 02:24:50,413 HAVE A VERY NEGATIVE IMPRESSION 3741 02:24:50,413 --> 02:24:52,081 OF AMERICAN MEDICINE OR THE NIH 3742 02:24:52,081 --> 02:24:54,250 AND THAT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW. 3743 02:24:54,250 --> 02:24:57,153 AND THAT IS IMPORTANT TO COUNTER 3744 02:24:57,153 --> 02:24:59,388 AND TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY 3745 02:24:59,388 --> 02:25:00,489 UNDERSTAND SO THE TRANSPARENCY 3746 02:25:00,489 --> 02:25:03,025 OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IS SO 3747 02:25:03,025 --> 02:25:06,595 IMPORTANT. BE AWARE OF TIME 3748 02:25:06,595 --> 02:25:07,897 COMMITMENTS LIKE PLAN FOR WHAT 3749 02:25:07,897 --> 02:25:12,301 THESE APPOINTMENTS ARE GOING TO 3750 02:25:12,301 --> 02:25:14,470 LOOK LIKE. WE HAVE TO BE REALLY 3751 02:25:14,470 --> 02:25:15,504 REALISTIC ABOUT THE TIME THAT'S 3752 02:25:15,504 --> 02:25:16,972 REQUIRED FOR THESE VISITS, 3753 02:25:16,972 --> 02:25:18,307 TESTS, THE FOLLOW UPS AND ALL OF 3754 02:25:18,307 --> 02:25:20,843 THE UNKNOWNS THAT COME WITH IT. 3755 02:25:20,843 --> 02:25:22,812 SO EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED. 3756 02:25:22,812 --> 02:25:26,549 RIGHT? WE HAVE TO STAY FLEXIBLE 3757 02:25:26,549 --> 02:25:29,185 IN DOING THAT. BE OPEN TO 3758 02:25:29,185 --> 02:25:33,589 SHARING WHAT'S UNEXPECTED AND 3759 02:25:33,589 --> 02:25:35,057 THE OUTCOMES THAT COME WITH IT 3760 02:25:35,057 --> 02:25:36,992 AND BE ABLE TO ADAPT AND TALK TO 3761 02:25:36,992 --> 02:25:38,761 YOUR TEAM AND MANAGE ANY OF THE 3762 02:25:38,761 --> 02:25:39,528 SURPRISES THAT MIGHT HAPPEN 3763 02:25:39,528 --> 02:25:42,798 ALONG THIS JOURNEY. AND IF AT 3764 02:25:42,798 --> 02:25:45,334 ALL POSSIBLE, IF THERE IS 3765 02:25:45,334 --> 02:25:47,436 OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH 3766 02:25:47,436 --> 02:25:48,504 OTHER PARTICIPANTS I THINK 3767 02:25:48,504 --> 02:25:49,839 THAT'S IMPORTANT TO SEEK 3768 02:25:49,839 --> 02:25:50,539 COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND THEN 3769 02:25:50,539 --> 02:25:54,076 FINALLY I WOULD SAY TRUST YOUR 3770 02:25:54,076 --> 02:25:56,345 INSTINCTS, RIGHT? FOLLOW YOUR 3771 02:25:56,345 --> 02:25:58,314 GUT, ULTIMATELY TRUST YOUR 3772 02:25:58,314 --> 02:26:05,921 INSTINCTS ABOUT O WHETHER TO 3773 02:26:05,921 --> 02:26:06,255 PARTICIPATE. 3774 02:26:06,255 --> 02:26:07,690 THE REALITY IS IT'S A HARD ROAD 3775 02:26:07,690 --> 02:26:09,458 TO BE THE FIRST. AND WE HAVE TO 3776 02:26:09,458 --> 02:26:11,227 BE PREPARED MENTALLY FOR IT. 3777 02:26:11,227 --> 02:26:13,095 IF IT'S NOT YOUR ROAD IF IT'S 3778 02:26:13,095 --> 02:26:14,396 NOT SOMETHING YOU FEEL GOOD 3779 02:26:14,396 --> 02:26:16,532 ABOUT IT'S OKAY TO STEP BACK. 3780 02:26:16,532 --> 02:26:17,867 SO, YOU KNOW, FINALLY 3781 02:26:17,867 --> 02:26:20,002 PARTICIPATING IN RESEARCH CAN BE 3782 02:26:20,002 --> 02:26:20,636 ABSOLUTELY MEANINGFUL AND 3783 02:26:20,636 --> 02:26:22,605 CONTRIBUTE TO SCIENTIFIC 3784 02:26:22,605 --> 02:26:24,607 KNOWLEDGE. AND YOU HELP OTHERS. 3785 02:26:24,607 --> 02:26:26,842 IT'S ALTRUISTIC. IT'S 3786 02:26:26,842 --> 02:26:28,611 PHENOMENAL. BUT IT'S ESSENTIAL 3787 02:26:28,611 --> 02:26:31,647 TO APPROACH THE DECISION REALLY 3788 02:26:31,647 --> 02:26:32,214 THOUGHTFULLY AND WITH CARE. 3789 02:26:32,214 --> 02:26:36,619 >> GREAT. WELL, THANK YOU, ALL, 3790 02:26:36,619 --> 02:26:38,587 I SO APPRECIATE YOUR 3791 02:26:38,587 --> 02:26:40,156 PARTICIPATING TODAY AND SHARING 3792 02:26:40,156 --> 02:26:41,190 YOUR STORIES. I -- SO, THANK 3793 02:26:41,190 --> 02:26:43,692 YOU VERY, VERY MUCH. I AM GOING 3794 02:26:43,692 --> 02:26:44,593 TO NOW -- 3795 02:26:44,593 --> 02:26:47,463 >> AUDIENCE: (APPLAUSE). 3796 02:26:47,463 --> 02:26:48,764 >> YOU'RE VERY WELCOME. 3797 02:26:48,764 --> 02:26:50,900 >> I'M GOING TO PUT TONY ON THE 3798 02:26:50,900 --> 02:26:53,202 SPOT AND SEE IF SHE HAS ANYTHING 3799 02:26:53,202 --> 02:26:54,837 SHE WOULD LIKE TO ADD AS I 3800 02:26:54,837 --> 02:26:59,008 MENTIONED EARLIER, TONY HAS SORT 3801 02:26:59,008 --> 02:26:59,942 OF THE POPULATION BASED 3802 02:26:59,942 --> 02:27:00,609 KNOWLEDGE AND PERSPECTIVE ON 3803 02:27:00,609 --> 02:27:03,212 WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A 3804 02:27:03,212 --> 02:27:04,613 PARTICIPANT AND THEN FOLKS IF 3805 02:27:04,613 --> 02:27:05,614 YOU HAVE QUESTIONS FEEL FREE TO 3806 02:27:05,614 --> 02:27:07,216 COME TO THE MICS. 3807 02:27:07,216 --> 02:27:08,584 >> GOOD MORNING, I APOLOGIZE FOR 3808 02:27:08,584 --> 02:27:11,821 BEING A LITTLE LATE. BUT I JUST 3809 02:27:11,821 --> 02:27:13,556 HAVE TO SAY FIRST OF ALL HATS 3810 02:27:13,556 --> 02:27:17,193 OFF TO THE FOUR OF YOU. YOU 3811 02:27:17,193 --> 02:27:20,262 KNOW, I'M OVERWHELMED. I'M NOT 3812 02:27:20,262 --> 02:27:22,097 SURPRISED. YOU GUYS ARE 3813 02:27:22,097 --> 02:27:22,665 PHENOMENAL. THANK YOU FOR 3814 02:27:22,665 --> 02:27:23,999 PARTICIPATING AND I TOOK A 3815 02:27:23,999 --> 02:27:25,701 COUPLE NOTES. SOME OF THESE 3816 02:27:25,701 --> 02:27:26,969 THINGS YOU ALL HAVE SAID 3817 02:27:26,969 --> 02:27:28,604 BEAUTIFULLY AND I CAN'T SAY THEM 3818 02:27:28,604 --> 02:27:31,974 ANY BETTER I DID THE ROLE OF THE 3819 02:27:31,974 --> 02:27:32,775 PATIENT REPRESENTATIVE HERE FOR 3820 02:27:32,775 --> 02:27:37,146 NINE YEARS AND SO MUCH I LEARNED 3821 02:27:37,146 --> 02:27:40,649 THAT I LIKE TO SHARE TO FOLKS 3822 02:27:40,649 --> 02:27:41,851 THAT I THINK IT'S HELPFUL TO 3823 02:27:41,851 --> 02:27:43,452 KEEP IN MIND AND ONE IS WE ASK A 3824 02:27:43,452 --> 02:27:46,121 LOT OF THEM. IT'S NOT EASY TO 3825 02:27:46,121 --> 02:27:49,925 BE ON A CLINICAL TRIAL. AND 3826 02:27:49,925 --> 02:27:51,927 KEEP THAT IN MIND AS THEY HAVE 3827 02:27:51,927 --> 02:27:53,495 MENTIONED SO NICELY WE INVITE 3828 02:27:53,495 --> 02:27:54,763 THEM IN. WE HAVE SOMETHING WE 3829 02:27:54,763 --> 02:27:55,764 WANT TO OFFER BUT WE'RE ASKING 3830 02:27:55,764 --> 02:27:58,667 THEM TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES TO 3831 02:27:58,667 --> 02:27:59,501 CONTRIBUTE TO SCIENCE. SO 3832 02:27:59,501 --> 02:28:00,703 REMEMBER THAT. THAT WE ARE 3833 02:28:00,703 --> 02:28:02,271 ASKING A LOT OF THEM. SOME OF 3834 02:28:02,271 --> 02:28:04,340 THE THINGS WE ASK OF THEM 3835 02:28:04,340 --> 02:28:05,774 THEY'RE FINE WITH BUT SOME 3836 02:28:05,774 --> 02:28:06,442 THINGS ARE CHALLENGING AND SO IF 3837 02:28:06,442 --> 02:28:07,743 WE CAN KEEP THAT IN THE BACKS OF 3838 02:28:07,743 --> 02:28:10,479 OUR MINDS OR IN THE FOREFRONT 3839 02:28:10,479 --> 02:28:11,914 ACTUALLY AT ALL TIMES THAT WOULD 3840 02:28:11,914 --> 02:28:14,416 BE -- HELP THE RELATIONSHIP. 3841 02:28:14,416 --> 02:28:15,951 THE POWER OF COMMUNICATION AND 3842 02:28:15,951 --> 02:28:16,919 THEY'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS SO 3843 02:28:16,919 --> 02:28:18,721 MUCH. THIS IDEA OF EXPLAINING 3844 02:28:18,721 --> 02:28:19,955 THINGS THAT YOU'RE DOING THAT 3845 02:28:19,955 --> 02:28:21,557 COME SECOND NATURE TO US AS THE 3846 02:28:21,557 --> 02:28:23,359 PROVIDERS AND THE CLINICIANS. 3847 02:28:23,359 --> 02:28:25,594 BUT NOT TO THEM. EVEN THE 3848 02:28:25,594 --> 02:28:27,963 SIMPLE EXAMPLE AND THE BEAUTIFUL 3849 02:28:27,963 --> 02:28:30,232 EXAMPLE THAT SHOW MA GAVE THAT 3850 02:28:30,232 --> 02:28:32,468 ONCE SHE COULDN'T SEE TO TELL 3851 02:28:32,468 --> 02:28:34,436 SOMEONE WHAT YOU'RE DOING. IT 3852 02:28:34,436 --> 02:28:37,139 SEEMS SMALL BUT HAS SUCH A HUGE 3853 02:28:37,139 --> 02:28:38,774 IMPACT AND CREATING AN 3854 02:28:38,774 --> 02:28:40,109 ENVIRONMENT OF COMFORT FOR 3855 02:28:40,109 --> 02:28:42,211 PATIENT TO GIVE YOU FEEDBACK. 3856 02:28:42,211 --> 02:28:44,380 THERE IS STILL A POWER 3857 02:28:44,380 --> 02:28:45,014 DIFFERENTIAL WHEN YOU ARE THE 3858 02:28:45,014 --> 02:28:46,949 TEAM AND THEY ARE THE PATIENT. 3859 02:28:46,949 --> 02:28:48,617 PARTICULARLY BECAUSE PATIENTS, 3860 02:28:48,617 --> 02:28:49,785 THEY WANT WHAT YOU HAVE TO OFFER 3861 02:28:49,785 --> 02:28:50,953 SO THEY DON'T ALWAYS WANT TO 3862 02:28:50,953 --> 02:28:52,955 COME FORWARD AND GIVE YOU SOME 3863 02:28:52,955 --> 02:28:54,123 FEEDBACK THAT MAY INDICATE THAT 3864 02:28:54,123 --> 02:28:55,658 YOU'RE NOT AS FANTASTIC AS YOU 3865 02:28:55,658 --> 02:28:57,693 THINK YOU ARE. BUT IF WE CAN 3866 02:28:57,693 --> 02:28:59,728 CREATE THE ENVIRONMENT THAT 3867 02:28:59,728 --> 02:29:03,165 SAYS, IN ORDER FOR US TO GET 3868 02:29:03,165 --> 02:29:04,833 BETTER WE HAVE TO HEAR FROM YOU 3869 02:29:04,833 --> 02:29:05,668 BECAUSE YOU HAVE EYES DIFFERENT 3870 02:29:05,668 --> 02:29:07,536 THAN OURS SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE 3871 02:29:07,536 --> 02:29:08,304 YOU TO CREATE THAT ENVIRONMENT 3872 02:29:08,304 --> 02:29:09,805 THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET 3873 02:29:09,805 --> 02:29:11,273 ANGRY OR RETALIATE IF YOU TELL 3874 02:29:11,273 --> 02:29:14,043 US WE MESSED UP WE WANT TO KNOW. 3875 02:29:14,043 --> 02:29:15,511 WE WANT INPUT ON HOW TO MAKE THE 3876 02:29:15,511 --> 02:29:17,479 EXPERIENCE BETTER FOR YOU AND 3877 02:29:17,479 --> 02:29:19,315 FOR FUTURE PARTICIPANTS. SO, 3878 02:29:19,315 --> 02:29:20,582 AGAIN, THAT PIECE OF 3879 02:29:20,582 --> 02:29:22,051 COMMUNICATION. LISTENING TO THE 3880 02:29:22,051 --> 02:29:24,386 PATIENT. YOU SAID THAT SO WELL 3881 02:29:24,386 --> 02:29:26,689 THEY ARE THE EXPERTS. I'VE BEEN 3882 02:29:26,689 --> 02:29:28,590 A NURSE FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS. 3883 02:29:28,590 --> 02:29:29,792 I'VE BEEN AT THE CLINICAL CENTER 3884 02:29:29,792 --> 02:29:31,627 FOR 37 AND I CAN REMEMBER AT THE 3885 02:29:31,627 --> 02:29:33,529 BEDSIDE COMING HERE, EVERYONE 3886 02:29:33,529 --> 02:29:34,430 DOESN'T HAVE A RARE DISEASE BUT 3887 02:29:34,430 --> 02:29:35,664 MANY PEOPLE DO AND THEY KNOW IT 3888 02:29:35,664 --> 02:29:39,568 BETTER THAN YOU KNOW IT. TRUST 3889 02:29:39,568 --> 02:29:43,138 WHAT THEY KNOW. LISTEN TO YOUR 3890 02:29:43,138 --> 02:29:44,640 PATIENT. THEY CAN GIVE YOU SO 3891 02:29:44,640 --> 02:29:45,874 MUCH INFORMATION TO MAKE YOU 3892 02:29:45,874 --> 02:29:52,114 BETTER PROVIDE IRS ERS. 3893 02:29:52,114 --> 02:29:54,683 REMEMBER THEY HAVE A LIFE. LIAM 3894 02:29:54,683 --> 02:29:56,251 YOU SAID. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN BE 3895 02:29:56,251 --> 02:29:56,652 FLEXIBLE WITH ME. 3896 02:29:56,652 --> 02:29:58,420 THE BETTER THAT RELATIONSHIP, 3897 02:29:58,420 --> 02:29:59,822 NOW THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT 3898 02:29:59,822 --> 02:30:01,423 YOU HAVE DEADLINES AND HARD 3899 02:30:01,423 --> 02:30:02,858 STOPS. THEY GET THAT. BUT 3900 02:30:02,858 --> 02:30:05,160 THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU CAN BE 3901 02:30:05,160 --> 02:30:05,861 FLEXIBLE AND SOMETIMES WE 3902 02:30:05,861 --> 02:30:07,196 FORGET, AND WE DON'T ENGAGE THAT 3903 02:30:07,196 --> 02:30:10,032 CREATIVE PART OF THE PROCESS. 3904 02:30:10,032 --> 02:30:11,400 THIS IDEA OF PARTNERSHIP. SO WE 3905 02:30:11,400 --> 02:30:13,602 SAY WE'RE PARTNERS, WE HAVE TO 3906 02:30:13,602 --> 02:30:15,537 BEHAVE LIKE WE'RE PARTNERS THAT 3907 02:30:15,537 --> 02:30:17,906 MEANS RESEARCH TEAMS AND THE 3908 02:30:17,906 --> 02:30:18,741 CLINICAL CENTER BECAUSE THE 3909 02:30:18,741 --> 02:30:20,042 CLINICAL CENTER'S THE 3910 02:30:20,042 --> 02:30:21,110 INFRASTRUCTURE. WE'RE THE ONES 3911 02:30:21,110 --> 02:30:23,078 HELPING YOU TO GET YOUR STUDY 3912 02:30:23,078 --> 02:30:24,213 DONE SO TALKING AMONGST EACH 3913 02:30:24,213 --> 02:30:25,948 OTHER ABOUT HOW YOU CAN MAKE THE 3914 02:30:25,948 --> 02:30:28,217 EXPERIENCE BETTER FOR PATIENTS I 3915 02:30:28,217 --> 02:30:30,386 THINK WE CAN ALWAYS IMPROVE 3916 02:30:30,386 --> 02:30:33,489 AROUND THAT. NEEMA MENTIONED 3917 02:30:33,489 --> 02:30:35,024 THIS IDEA OF FEELING TRAPPED IN 3918 02:30:35,024 --> 02:30:36,125 THERE BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING 3919 02:30:36,125 --> 02:30:37,993 THAT CAN BE NEGOTIATED AND 3920 02:30:37,993 --> 02:30:39,728 FIGURED OUT. I DON'T KNOW BUT I 3921 02:30:39,728 --> 02:30:42,131 AM SAYING THAT OFTENTIMES 3922 02:30:42,131 --> 02:30:43,632 BECAUSE WE HAVE 18 INSTITUTES 3923 02:30:43,632 --> 02:30:46,268 RUNNING STUDIES HERE WE BECOME 3924 02:30:46,268 --> 02:30:49,071 SILOED AND WE DON'T ALWAYS 3925 02:30:49,071 --> 02:30:50,506 ENGAGE AROUND WHAT WE MIGHT DO 3926 02:30:50,506 --> 02:30:52,207 TOGETHER. I WOULD SAY AS STUDY 3927 02:30:52,207 --> 02:30:54,276 TEAMS BE TALKING TO THE CLINICAL 3928 02:30:54,276 --> 02:30:55,377 CENTER OR LEADERSHIP ABOUT WHAT 3929 02:30:55,377 --> 02:30:57,513 WE MIGHT DO OR IF YOU IDENTIFY, 3930 02:30:57,513 --> 02:30:59,448 HM, I WONDER IF WE CAN GET THIS 3931 02:30:59,448 --> 02:31:01,283 THING, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET 3932 02:31:01,283 --> 02:31:03,018 IT BUT MAYBE THE CLINICAL CENTER 3933 02:31:03,018 --> 02:31:04,053 HASN'T HEARD ABOUT THAT. BE 3934 02:31:04,053 --> 02:31:05,521 WILLING TO SHARE THAT 3935 02:31:05,521 --> 02:31:06,588 INFORMATION AND THEN THE LAST 3936 02:31:06,588 --> 02:31:08,157 THING I WOULD JUST SAY IS, 3937 02:31:08,157 --> 02:31:10,092 ALWAYS THANK THEM FOR THEIR 3938 02:31:10,092 --> 02:31:10,626 PARTICIPATION. WHENEVER 3939 02:31:10,626 --> 02:31:12,094 PATIENTS WILL COME TO ME WITH A 3940 02:31:12,094 --> 02:31:14,096 CONCERN OR EVEN A COMPLAINT, I 3941 02:31:14,096 --> 02:31:17,299 TRY TO SAY TO THEM, THANK YOU 3942 02:31:17,299 --> 02:31:19,234 FOR BEING COURAGEOUS ENOUGH TO 3943 02:31:19,234 --> 02:31:20,035 GIVE US THE FEEDBACK. AGAIN, 3944 02:31:20,035 --> 02:31:22,337 THAT'S THE IDEA OF CREATING THE 3945 02:31:22,337 --> 02:31:22,971 ENVIRONMENT THAT IT'S OKAY TO 3946 02:31:22,971 --> 02:31:24,373 TELL US HOW TO GET BETTER SO 3947 02:31:24,373 --> 02:31:25,941 SAYING TO THEM, THANK YOU FOR 3948 02:31:25,941 --> 02:31:27,142 TAKING THE TIME BECAUSE WE KNOW 3949 02:31:27,142 --> 02:31:28,577 YOU'RE NAVIGATING A LOT AND SO 3950 02:31:28,577 --> 02:31:31,146 TO DO THAT, REALLY TAKES AN 3951 02:31:31,146 --> 02:31:32,614 EXTRA STEP SO, THANK YOU ALL, 3952 02:31:32,614 --> 02:31:33,782 AGAIN, FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION 3953 02:31:33,782 --> 02:31:36,618 AND JUST FOR BEING A PART OF 3954 02:31:36,618 --> 02:31:42,491 THIS NIH FAMILY AND THAT'S IT. 3955 02:31:42,491 --> 02:31:46,161 >> THANK YOU. QUESTIONS HERE, 3956 02:31:46,161 --> 02:31:47,529 UNFORTUNATELY MY COMPUTER DIED 3957 02:31:47,529 --> 02:31:49,665 SO I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTION -- 3958 02:31:49,665 --> 02:31:51,800 I HAVE ONE QUESTION FROM THE 3959 02:31:51,800 --> 02:32:00,609 VIDEO THAT I WILL ASK. AND ALEX 3960 02:32:00,609 --> 02:32:06,048 AND GOING TO MONITOR FOR ME. GO 3961 02:32:06,048 --> 02:32:07,416 AHEAD, JONATHAN. 3962 02:32:07,416 --> 02:32:09,485 >> AUDIENCE: HI. OH, THAT WAS 3963 02:32:09,485 --> 02:32:11,820 LOUD. THANKS FOR COMING OUT. 3964 02:32:11,820 --> 02:32:14,523 THAT WAS REALLY, REALLY 3965 02:32:14,523 --> 02:32:16,592 INFORMATIVE. I WAS WONDERING IF 3966 02:32:16,592 --> 02:32:17,659 YOU COULD SAY A LITTLE BIT 3967 02:32:17,659 --> 02:32:20,229 ABOUT, SO THIS IS FOR ANYONE FOR 3968 02:32:20,229 --> 02:32:21,964 WHOM IT'S RELEVANT IF YOU COULD 3969 02:32:21,964 --> 02:32:23,899 SAY A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE 3970 02:32:23,899 --> 02:32:25,934 EXPERIENCE OF SEEING A DOCTOR 3971 02:32:25,934 --> 02:32:29,138 AND SORT OF THEM NOT KNOWING 3972 02:32:29,138 --> 02:32:30,973 WHAT IS GOING ON. BECAUSE THAT 3973 02:32:30,973 --> 02:32:33,642 SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD BE, WELL, I 3974 02:32:33,642 --> 02:32:34,843 IMAGINE IT WOULD BE SCARY. BUT 3975 02:32:34,843 --> 02:32:36,211 I'M ALSO JUST CURIOUS, YOU KNOW, 3976 02:32:36,211 --> 02:32:39,615 HOW YOU NAVIGATED THAT. AND I'M 3977 02:32:39,615 --> 02:32:42,284 ALSO CURIOUS IF YOU HAVE 3978 02:32:42,284 --> 02:32:44,086 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DOCTORS 3979 02:32:44,086 --> 02:32:45,487 ABOUT HOW THEY SHOULD APPROACH 3980 02:32:45,487 --> 02:32:47,756 THOSE KINDS OF ISSUES. YOU 3981 02:32:47,756 --> 02:32:48,891 KNOW, LIKE HOW TACTFUL THEY 3982 02:32:48,891 --> 02:32:50,559 SHOULD BE OR IF THEY SHOULD JUST 3983 02:32:50,559 --> 02:32:52,594 SORT OF SAY I HAVE NO IDEA 3984 02:32:52,594 --> 02:32:54,229 WHAT'S GOING ON. YEAH. 3985 02:32:54,229 --> 02:32:56,565 HOPEFULLY THOSE QUESTIONS MAKE 3986 02:32:56,565 --> 02:32:57,099 SENSE. THANKS. 3987 02:32:57,099 --> 02:32:59,334 >> ANYONE WANT TO TAKE THAT ON? 3988 02:32:59,334 --> 02:33:01,069 >> YEAH, I WILL. 3989 02:33:01,069 --> 02:33:06,141 >> GO AHEAD, ELLEN. 3990 02:33:06,141 --> 02:33:08,744 >> WHEN THEY FIRST EXPLAINED THE 3991 02:33:08,744 --> 02:33:11,680 PROTOCOL TO ME IN-PERSON MY 3992 02:33:11,680 --> 02:33:13,882 DOCTOR WAS VERY HONEST IN 3993 02:33:13,882 --> 02:33:15,050 SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT 3994 02:33:15,050 --> 02:33:16,618 SURE. THIS IS WHAT A CLINICAL 3995 02:33:16,618 --> 02:33:18,654 TRIAL IS ABOUT. WE'RE NOT SURE 3996 02:33:18,654 --> 02:33:21,723 WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. BUT WE 3997 02:33:21,723 --> 02:33:24,526 APPRECIATE YOU COMING HERE TO 3998 02:33:24,526 --> 02:33:26,562 HELP US FIND OUT WILL THIS WORK. 3999 02:33:26,562 --> 02:33:30,265 SO HE WAS RIGHT UP THERE RIGHT 4000 02:33:30,265 --> 02:33:31,967 AWAY WITH NO, I DON'T KNOW 4001 02:33:31,967 --> 02:33:33,402 EVERYTHING. YOU KNOW? YOU 4002 02:33:33,402 --> 02:33:34,636 NEVER FEEL GREAT WHEN YOU GO 4003 02:33:34,636 --> 02:33:37,172 THROUGH A DOCTOR AND THEY SAY, 4004 02:33:37,172 --> 02:33:38,874 WELL, WE'VE NEVER SEEN THIS 4005 02:33:38,874 --> 02:33:39,474 BEFORE. THESE ARE NOT WORDS 4006 02:33:39,474 --> 02:33:41,710 THAT ARE ENCOURAGING BUT BEING 4007 02:33:41,710 --> 02:33:43,745 HONEST ABOUT, WELL, YOU KNOW, I 4008 02:33:43,745 --> 02:33:44,846 DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO YET BUT 4009 02:33:44,846 --> 02:33:47,482 WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND FIND OUT 4010 02:33:47,482 --> 02:33:49,885 TOGETHER. THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT 4011 02:33:49,885 --> 02:33:52,588 PART FOR ME AND, YOU KNOW, I 4012 02:33:52,588 --> 02:33:55,424 HAVE DEVELOPED A FRIENDSHIP WITH 4013 02:33:55,424 --> 02:34:00,028 MY DOCTOR AND I SAW HIM OUTSIDE 4014 02:34:00,028 --> 02:34:01,029 THE CLINICAL CENTER AND HAD 4015 02:34:01,029 --> 02:34:02,798 LUNCH WITH HIM. HE BECAME A 4016 02:34:02,798 --> 02:34:04,633 FRIEND AFTER THE MANY TIMES I 4017 02:34:04,633 --> 02:34:06,535 CAME HERE TO SEE HIM HE CAME TO 4018 02:34:06,535 --> 02:34:08,770 SEE ME ONCE IN MY WORLD SO THAT 4019 02:34:08,770 --> 02:34:11,006 MAKES A DIFFERENCE TOO. 4020 02:34:11,006 --> 02:34:12,641 >> ANYONE ELSE WANT TO TAKE THAT 4021 02:34:12,641 --> 02:34:12,941 ON? 4022 02:34:12,941 --> 02:34:14,776 >> SURE I WILL TAKE IT ON TOO. 4023 02:34:14,776 --> 02:34:16,578 THANKS FOR THAT QUESTION. I 4024 02:34:16,578 --> 02:34:19,381 THINK FROM MY CASE WE DON'T 4025 02:34:19,381 --> 02:34:20,482 NECESSARILY HAVE SOMETHING TO 4026 02:34:20,482 --> 02:34:21,717 HELP ME OUT AND I THINK THE LAST 4027 02:34:21,717 --> 02:34:25,287 TWO OR THREE YEARS I GOT REALLY 4028 02:34:25,287 --> 02:34:28,790 FRUSTRATED BECAUSE IT BECAME 4029 02:34:28,790 --> 02:34:30,659 SCRIPTED HEY, WE HAVEN'T FOUND 4030 02:34:30,659 --> 02:34:32,361 ANYTHING YET AND THE THING THAT 4031 02:34:32,361 --> 02:34:36,965 MADE IT DIFFERENT FROM MY 4032 02:34:36,965 --> 02:34:38,767 PHYSICIAN I HAD THE SPACE TO SAY 4033 02:34:38,767 --> 02:34:39,868 I WANT TO PREVENT IT FROM 4034 02:34:39,868 --> 02:34:41,770 GETTING WORSE. I FEEL IT. IT'S 4035 02:34:41,770 --> 02:34:44,206 GOING DOWNHILL AND FOR HIM 4036 02:34:44,206 --> 02:34:45,474 GIVING ME THE CHANCE TO 4037 02:34:45,474 --> 02:34:48,277 COMMUNICATE WAS HUGE. IT WAS 4038 02:34:48,277 --> 02:34:49,945 EXTREMELY SCARY FOR ME I NEVER 4039 02:34:49,945 --> 02:34:51,647 WANT TO HURT PEOPLE'S FEELINGS 4040 02:34:51,647 --> 02:34:53,081 BUT IT WAS HARD HEARING THE SAME 4041 02:34:53,081 --> 02:34:55,183 THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN EVERY 4042 02:34:55,183 --> 02:34:57,185 YEAR. THANKS FOR COMING BUT 4043 02:34:57,185 --> 02:34:57,853 THERE STILL HASN'T BEEN ANYTHING 4044 02:34:57,853 --> 02:35:01,189 TO HELP YOU OUT YET. BUT 4045 02:35:01,189 --> 02:35:01,990 REMINDING ME IN SOMETHING THAT 4046 02:35:01,990 --> 02:35:03,992 HE DOES ALL THE TIME AND I THINK 4047 02:35:03,992 --> 02:35:05,494 THAT HELPS ME AGAIN SHINE MY 4048 02:35:05,494 --> 02:35:08,063 HOPE LIGHT IS SAYING, HEY, HAVE 4049 02:35:08,063 --> 02:35:09,231 YOU HEARD, FOR THIS PARTICULAR 4050 02:35:09,231 --> 02:35:11,300 EYE PATIENT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO 4051 02:35:11,300 --> 02:35:13,135 FIND A STEM CELL RESEARCH THAT 4052 02:35:13,135 --> 02:35:15,203 IS HELPING THEM AND ONE DAY THIS 4053 02:35:15,203 --> 02:35:16,505 CAN HELP YOU KIND OF MAKING IT 4054 02:35:16,505 --> 02:35:18,273 LIKE THERE IS OTHER OPTIONS, 4055 02:35:18,273 --> 02:35:19,174 THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE, 4056 02:35:19,174 --> 02:35:21,143 AGAIN, BEING OPEN AND HONEST AND 4057 02:35:21,143 --> 02:35:22,477 ALLOWING ME TO VENT AND DUMP ON 4058 02:35:22,477 --> 02:35:24,313 HIM AS WELL WAS I THINK A HUGE 4059 02:35:24,313 --> 02:35:25,747 THING AND IT MADE ME LIKE, OKAY; 4060 02:35:25,747 --> 02:35:29,084 THIS IS A PROCESS. IT MIGHT NOT 4061 02:35:29,084 --> 02:35:30,819 HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. IT MIGHT BE 4062 02:35:30,819 --> 02:35:33,221 FIVE YEARS OR TEN YEARS FROM NOW 4063 02:35:33,221 --> 02:35:35,924 BUT HE'S BEING HONEST WITH ME IS 4064 02:35:35,924 --> 02:35:37,993 A HUGE, HUGE THING AND THAT'S 4065 02:35:37,993 --> 02:35:39,628 HARD SOMETIMES OF NOT HAVING AN 4066 02:35:39,628 --> 02:35:41,063 ANSWER. I'M VERY FRUSTRATED 4067 02:35:41,063 --> 02:35:42,698 BECAUSE IT TAKES A LOT OUT OF 4068 02:35:42,698 --> 02:35:44,199 OUR DAILY LIVES AND WE DO WANT 4069 02:35:44,199 --> 02:35:47,002 TO BE LIKE THAT, OH, WE FOUND 4070 02:35:47,002 --> 02:35:47,736 THAT SPECIAL, SPECIAL TOOL TO 4071 02:35:47,736 --> 02:35:49,805 HELP ME BUT I THINK THAT'S 4072 02:35:49,805 --> 02:35:50,439 HONEST THAT YOU'RE ASKING THAT 4073 02:35:50,439 --> 02:35:52,607 BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES IT'S 4074 02:35:52,607 --> 02:35:55,210 SCARY TO SAY HEY, I'M REALLY 4075 02:35:55,210 --> 02:35:56,311 FRUSTRATED BUT, YEAH, THAT'S 4076 02:35:56,311 --> 02:35:58,547 KIND OF MY SENSE OF BEING OPEN, 4077 02:35:58,547 --> 02:36:00,482 HONEST AND SAYING, YOU KNOW WHAT 4078 02:36:00,482 --> 02:36:01,717 YOUR CASE MAY NOT BUT THERE'S 4079 02:36:01,717 --> 02:36:03,452 SOMETHING SIMILAR TO IT THAT IS 4080 02:36:03,452 --> 02:36:07,089 HOPEFUL AND THERE'S EXCITEMENT 4081 02:36:07,089 --> 02:36:08,857 FOR THAT PARTICULAR SCIENTIFIC 4082 02:36:08,857 --> 02:36:11,526 DISCOVERY THAT THEY MADE. THAT 4083 02:36:11,526 --> 02:36:11,727 HELPS. 4084 02:36:11,727 --> 02:36:13,795 >> I THINK I CAN ALSO ADD A 4085 02:36:13,795 --> 02:36:14,796 LITTLE BIT. WHEN YOU HAVE A 4086 02:36:14,796 --> 02:36:17,165 RARE DISEASE YOU COME ACROSS 4087 02:36:17,165 --> 02:36:18,700 LOTS OF DOCTORS WHO DON'T KNOW 4088 02:36:18,700 --> 02:36:20,102 AND THAT'S OKAY. AND SO I 4089 02:36:20,102 --> 02:36:23,739 APPRECIATE YOUR QUESTION. I 4090 02:36:23,739 --> 02:36:24,606 THINK AS MY COLLEAGUES ON THE 4091 02:36:24,606 --> 02:36:27,509 PANEL HAVE SAID, IT'S OKAY TO 4092 02:36:27,509 --> 02:36:28,643 ACKNOWLEDGE IF YOU DON'T KNOW SO 4093 02:36:28,643 --> 02:36:32,247 BE HONEST, RIGHT? AND THE THING 4094 02:36:32,247 --> 02:36:33,915 THAT'S FUNDAMENTAL. I'VE HAD 4095 02:36:33,915 --> 02:36:35,584 DOCTORS WHO TOLD ME OH, YEAH, I 4096 02:36:35,584 --> 02:36:37,586 HAVE SEEN LOTS OF JANSEN'S 4097 02:36:37,586 --> 02:36:40,422 PATIENTS AND I KNEW HE WAS LYING 4098 02:36:40,422 --> 02:36:44,126 SO I IMMEDIATELY LEAVE THE ROOM. 4099 02:36:44,126 --> 02:36:44,693 SO DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE 4100 02:36:44,693 --> 02:36:48,397 PATIENT KNOWS. AND THAT'S 4101 02:36:48,397 --> 02:36:49,464 IMPORTANT. AND THAT THE PATIENT 4102 02:36:49,464 --> 02:36:50,632 CAN TELL THAT YOU'RE LYING 4103 02:36:50,632 --> 02:36:52,401 BECAUSE WE CAN. WE -- THIS 4104 02:36:52,401 --> 02:36:54,202 ISN'T OUR FIRST RODEO, YOU'RE 4105 02:36:54,202 --> 02:36:55,804 PROBABLY NOT THE FIRST DOCTOR 4106 02:36:55,804 --> 02:36:57,506 THAT'S LOOKED AT SOMEBODY'S 4107 02:36:57,506 --> 02:36:59,307 IMAGES AND SAID, YOU KNOW, 4108 02:36:59,307 --> 02:37:01,610 SOMETHING CRAZY. SO BE HONEST. 4109 02:37:01,610 --> 02:37:03,211 YOU KNOW, DOCTORS SHOULD REALLY 4110 02:37:03,211 --> 02:37:04,613 OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU 4111 02:37:04,613 --> 02:37:06,882 DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS AND 4112 02:37:06,882 --> 02:37:08,550 THAT'S FINE BECAUSE AS WE JUST 4113 02:37:08,550 --> 02:37:14,723 HEARD D HONESTY BUILDS TRUST. 4114 02:37:14,723 --> 02:37:16,224 AND LISTEN ACTIVELY. YOU HAVE 4115 02:37:16,224 --> 02:37:18,093 TO LISTEN TO THE PATIENT'S 4116 02:37:18,093 --> 02:37:19,928 CONCERNS BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO 4117 02:37:19,928 --> 02:37:21,696 THAT, YOU ARE GETTING INTO THEIR 4118 02:37:21,696 --> 02:37:22,898 SPACE, RIGHT? YOU ARE ENTERING 4119 02:37:22,898 --> 02:37:23,865 INTO THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH 4120 02:37:23,865 --> 02:37:24,566 THEM. 4121 02:37:24,566 --> 02:37:27,068 IT SHOWS THAT YOU VALUE THE 4122 02:37:27,068 --> 02:37:28,303 PATIENT'S EXPERIENCE AND ARE 4123 02:37:28,303 --> 02:37:29,037 COMMITTED TO FINDING A SOLUTION 4124 02:37:29,037 --> 02:37:30,772 AND I THINK THAT COMMITMENT 4125 02:37:30,772 --> 02:37:33,542 FINDING ANSWERS IS WHY WE KEEP 4126 02:37:33,542 --> 02:37:35,710 COMING BACK TO A DOCTOR. RIGHT? 4127 02:37:35,710 --> 02:37:37,245 THE DOCTOR SHOULD EXPRESS THAT 4128 02:37:37,245 --> 02:37:39,481 WILLINGNESS TO INVESTIGATE 4129 02:37:39,481 --> 02:37:42,250 FURTHER. OR TO -- OR SAY HEY, 4130 02:37:42,250 --> 02:37:44,085 I'M GOING TO CONSULT WITH 4131 02:37:44,085 --> 02:37:45,320 SOMEBODY, LOOK AT THE MEDICAL 4132 02:37:45,320 --> 02:37:47,022 LITERATURE, REFER YOU TO 4133 02:37:47,022 --> 02:37:47,756 SPECIALISTS IN THE FIELD. 4134 02:37:47,756 --> 02:37:52,861 THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEN IT 4135 02:37:52,861 --> 02:37:54,863 SHOWS YOU ENTERED INTO OUR WORLD 4136 02:37:54,863 --> 02:37:56,331 IF YOU SAY I DON'T KNOW AND STEP 4137 02:37:56,331 --> 02:37:57,799 BACK IT SHOWS THAT YOU DON'T 4138 02:37:57,799 --> 02:37:59,067 CARE. WE CAN PICK UP ON THAT 4139 02:37:59,067 --> 02:38:00,969 INSTANTLY AND THE DOCTORS THAT 4140 02:38:00,969 --> 02:38:02,304 ENTER INTO RELATIONSHIPS WITH 4141 02:38:02,304 --> 02:38:04,606 PARENTS AND ENGAGE IN 4142 02:38:04,606 --> 02:38:07,075 PARTNERSHIPS, THEY ENGAGE IN 4143 02:38:07,075 --> 02:38:08,143 COLLABORATIVE LEARNING 4144 02:38:08,143 --> 02:38:12,280 EXPERIENCES. SO WE ARE THEN A 4145 02:38:12,280 --> 02:38:13,615 TEAM. WE BEGIN TO WORK TOGETHER 4146 02:38:13,615 --> 02:38:17,319 TO ACCESS DATABASES, REGISTRIES, 4147 02:38:17,319 --> 02:38:19,855 PATIENT ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS 4148 02:38:19,855 --> 02:38:21,256 AND WE FIND INFORMATION THAT 4149 02:38:21,256 --> 02:38:22,557 BECOMES VALUABLE AND SUPPORTIVE 4150 02:38:22,557 --> 02:38:24,593 AND THAT WHOLE IDEA OF 4151 02:38:24,593 --> 02:38:25,327 MAINTAINING OPEN COMMUNICATION 4152 02:38:25,327 --> 02:38:27,863 FOLLOW UP, YOU KNOW, WHAT DID -- 4153 02:38:27,863 --> 02:38:28,930 FOLLOW UP AND SAY IT, WHAT DID 4154 02:38:28,930 --> 02:38:30,332 YOU LEARN? WHAT DID YOU FIND 4155 02:38:30,332 --> 02:38:34,603 AND HOW CAN WE THEN ENCOURAGE 4156 02:38:34,603 --> 02:38:36,738 PATIENTS' ENROLLMENT AND EMPOWER 4157 02:38:36,738 --> 02:38:40,909 PATIENTS IN THEIR OWN JOURNEY 4158 02:38:40,909 --> 02:38:42,811 THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS 4159 02:38:42,811 --> 02:38:44,513 AND THE UNKNOWN IS IMPORTANT 4160 02:38:44,513 --> 02:38:47,949 BECAUSE WE ARE ON A JOURNEY OF 4161 02:38:47,949 --> 02:38:50,318 DISCOVERY TOGETHER AND I THINK 4162 02:38:50,318 --> 02:38:51,586 IN THAT JOURNEY WE ALSO HAVE TO 4163 02:38:51,586 --> 02:38:52,487 DOCUMENT FINDINGS. IT'S REALLY 4164 02:38:52,487 --> 02:38:55,457 IMPORTANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, KEEP 4165 02:38:55,457 --> 02:38:57,092 DETAILED NOTES OF WHAT WE FOUND 4166 02:38:57,092 --> 02:38:58,827 THAT DIDN'T WORK. WHAT NEW 4167 02:38:58,827 --> 02:39:01,396 FINDINGS CAME ACROSS THAT WE 4168 02:39:01,396 --> 02:39:02,631 BOTH HAVE BEEN ON TOGETHER AND I 4169 02:39:02,631 --> 02:39:06,535 THINK THAT IS WHAT CREATES A 4170 02:39:06,535 --> 02:39:08,036 LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP AND 4171 02:39:08,036 --> 02:39:10,539 PARTNERSHIP THAT WILL EVENTUALLY 4172 02:39:10,539 --> 02:39:13,909 LEAD TO SOLVING SOME OF THESE 4173 02:39:13,909 --> 02:39:14,175 MYSTERIES. 4174 02:39:14,175 --> 02:39:15,610 >> GREAT. THE ONE QUESTION THAT 4175 02:39:15,610 --> 02:39:17,679 WE HAD FROM THE DISCUSSION BOARD 4176 02:39:17,679 --> 02:39:19,714 WAS FOR, I'M GOING TO DIRECT TO 4177 02:39:19,714 --> 02:39:21,082 YOU, NINA BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED 4178 02:39:21,082 --> 02:39:24,653 IT THAT WHEN YOU AND YOUR SONS 4179 02:39:24,653 --> 02:39:30,225 WERE HERE FOR A WHOLE WEEK THERE 4180 02:39:30,225 --> 02:39:30,926 WERE LIMITATIONS ON YOUR ABILITY 4181 02:39:30,926 --> 02:39:32,594 TO LEAVE THE CAMPUS. WHAT'S THE 4182 02:39:32,594 --> 02:39:35,163 ANSWER TO THAT? WHY DID THEY 4183 02:39:35,163 --> 02:39:39,067 SAY YOU HAVE TO STAY HERE? 4184 02:39:39,067 --> 02:39:40,268 >> I THINK THAT IT'S -- IT WAS 4185 02:39:40,268 --> 02:39:42,003 SAFETY. RIGHT? I MEAN, I'M 4186 02:39:42,003 --> 02:39:45,273 PRETTY SURE IT'S SAFETY AND IT 4187 02:39:45,273 --> 02:39:48,410 WAS SOME OF THESE PREPANDEMIC OR 4188 02:39:48,410 --> 02:39:50,211 THE PANDEMIC RULES THAT JUST 4189 02:39:50,211 --> 02:39:51,947 DIDN'T HAVE -- THAT DIDN'T 4190 02:39:51,947 --> 02:39:55,283 CHANGE AND I THINK MISS TONY 4191 02:39:55,283 --> 02:39:58,119 COULD PROBABLY WEIGH IN HERE. I 4192 02:39:58,119 --> 02:39:59,321 THINK THERE'S A DISCONNECT HERE 4193 02:39:59,321 --> 02:40:00,288 BETWEEN THE TWO TEAMS. THEY 4194 02:40:00,288 --> 02:40:01,456 HAVE TO TAKE MORE. WE HAVE TO 4195 02:40:01,456 --> 02:40:05,727 COME UP WITH CREATIVE SOLUTIONS. 4196 02:40:05,727 --> 02:40:06,628 RIGHT? MY KIDS WERE NOT 4197 02:40:06,628 --> 02:40:08,196 STRAPPED TO ANYTHING. THEY WERE 4198 02:40:08,196 --> 02:40:09,864 NOT PLUGGED IN OR TIED IN. THEY 4199 02:40:09,864 --> 02:40:11,399 COULD LEAVE. RIGHT? AND WE 4200 02:40:11,399 --> 02:40:13,435 COULD COME BACK IN THE EVENING 4201 02:40:13,435 --> 02:40:16,571 THEY COULD HAVE GONE OUT. WE 4202 02:40:16,571 --> 02:40:18,173 COULD HAVE HAD DINNER OUTSIDE. 4203 02:40:18,173 --> 02:40:21,409 JUST GETTING OUTSIDE OF THE 4204 02:40:21,409 --> 02:40:23,211 CENTER WOULD BE VERY WELCOMING 4205 02:40:23,211 --> 02:40:24,579 AND I KNOW SOMEBODY MENTIONED ON 4206 02:40:24,579 --> 02:40:26,681 THE FLOOR THAT HEY, WE USED TO 4207 02:40:26,681 --> 02:40:28,583 DO THIS. BEFORE THE PANDEMIC 4208 02:40:28,583 --> 02:40:30,719 AND THEN THEY SHUT IT DOWN BUT 4209 02:40:30,719 --> 02:40:32,587 THEY NEVER REINSTATED. SO THERE 4210 02:40:32,587 --> 02:40:34,489 WAS A DISCONTRADICT. WE HAD 4211 02:40:34,489 --> 02:40:38,893 SOME INFORMATION FROM ONE OF THE 4212 02:40:38,893 --> 02:40:40,962 NURSES THAT YES, IT WAS A 4213 02:40:40,962 --> 02:40:41,396 POSSIBILITY. 4214 02:40:41,396 --> 02:40:42,597 THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS THE 4215 02:40:42,597 --> 02:40:44,733 POSSIBILITY AND WE COULDN'T FIND 4216 02:40:44,733 --> 02:40:48,303 SINGLE THAT COULD VETO AND IT I 4217 02:40:48,303 --> 02:40:51,106 WENT TO THE HEAD HONCHO AND HE 4218 02:40:51,106 --> 02:40:52,674 SAID NO WAY ARE YOU LEAVING THE 4219 02:40:52,674 --> 02:40:54,309 CENTER. I'M ALSO ON THE 4220 02:40:54,309 --> 02:40:55,877 ADVISORY BOARD HERE AND THIS IS 4221 02:40:55,877 --> 02:40:57,245 IMPORTANT. 4222 02:40:57,245 --> 02:41:00,749 I THINK THAT KIDS NEED TO BE 4223 02:41:00,749 --> 02:41:04,452 ABLE TO LEAVE. THAT THEY FEEL 4224 02:41:04,452 --> 02:41:06,488 TRAPPED THERE AND WE HAVE TO 4225 02:41:06,488 --> 02:41:08,390 FIND A WAY TO DO THAT. WHETHER 4226 02:41:08,390 --> 02:41:09,324 IT'S A DAY PASS THEY SAID 4227 02:41:09,324 --> 02:41:10,492 WHETHER WE WERE AT THE HOUSE WE 4228 02:41:10,492 --> 02:41:12,293 COULD DO THAT BUT WE WEREN'T, WE 4229 02:41:12,293 --> 02:41:14,262 WERE -- BECAUSE I HAD TWO KIDS 4230 02:41:14,262 --> 02:41:17,599 AND THEY WERE BOTH IN DIFFERENT 4231 02:41:17,599 --> 02:41:19,601 ROOMS, THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE 4232 02:41:19,601 --> 02:41:21,002 FOR THEM TO LEAVE AND I'M NOT 4233 02:41:21,002 --> 02:41:25,607 SURE WHAT THAT MEANS BY THE WORD 4234 02:41:25,607 --> 02:41:27,942 IMPOSSIBLE, IN OUR WORLD, IS 4235 02:41:27,942 --> 02:41:29,344 MEANT TO BE MADE INTO POSSIBLE, 4236 02:41:29,344 --> 02:41:32,681 RIGHT? BECAUSE THAT'S THE LIVES 4237 02:41:32,681 --> 02:41:36,584 WE LIVE, SO THERE'S GOT TO BE 4238 02:41:36,584 --> 02:41:38,353 CREATIVE WAYS TO DO THAT. AND 4239 02:41:38,353 --> 02:41:39,454 I'M PRETTY SURE WE CAN DO THAT. 4240 02:41:39,454 --> 02:41:40,955 IT'S ABOUT HOW TO DO IT SAFELY 4241 02:41:40,955 --> 02:41:42,290 AND MAKE SURE THAT NOBODY ELSE 4242 02:41:42,290 --> 02:41:46,728 IS HARMED IN WE DO SO BUT IT HAS 4243 02:41:46,728 --> 02:41:48,430 TO HAPPEN. 4244 02:41:48,430 --> 02:41:50,732 >> TONY'S GOING TO GIVE US 4245 02:41:50,732 --> 02:41:52,400 FEEDBACK ON THAT QUESTION. 4246 02:41:52,400 --> 02:41:53,902 >> I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THOSE 4247 02:41:53,902 --> 02:41:55,403 EXAMPLE WHERE IS THE RULES AND 4248 02:41:55,403 --> 02:42:00,108 REGULATIONS CAN BUMP UP AGAINST 4249 02:42:00,108 --> 02:42:00,442 THE DESIRES. 4250 02:42:00,442 --> 02:42:01,876 AND AS POINTED OUT ABSOLUTELY 4251 02:42:01,876 --> 02:42:04,846 THE PANDEMIC RESTRICTIONS WERE A 4252 02:42:04,846 --> 02:42:08,850 HUGE PART OF THE INABILITY TO 4253 02:42:08,850 --> 02:42:12,754 ALLOW A PAS WHICH IS SOMETHING 4254 02:42:12,754 --> 02:42:14,923 THAT USED TO HAPPEN IN THE 4255 02:42:14,923 --> 02:42:16,024 CLINIC AND THAT THEY DON'T WANT 4256 02:42:16,024 --> 02:42:17,625 TO REENGAGE. SO THAT'S ONE 4257 02:42:17,625 --> 02:42:19,027 PIECE WHERE YOU'VE GOT A RULE 4258 02:42:19,027 --> 02:42:20,495 AND YOU'VE GOT TO TRY TO FIGURE 4259 02:42:20,495 --> 02:42:21,362 OUT HOW TO NAVIGATE. 4260 02:42:21,362 --> 02:42:22,764 AND SOMETIMES IT'S NOT THE 4261 02:42:22,764 --> 02:42:24,265 ANSWER WE WANT. THAT DOES 4262 02:42:24,265 --> 02:42:26,401 HAPPEN. ALTHOUGH I DO THINK 4263 02:42:26,401 --> 02:42:29,170 THAT IDEA OF HAVING 4264 02:42:29,170 --> 02:42:30,538 CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN TEAMS AND 4265 02:42:30,538 --> 02:42:31,372 CLINICAL CENTER SO YOU CAN START 4266 02:42:31,372 --> 02:42:33,341 THINKING ABOUT AND PLANNING 4267 02:42:33,341 --> 02:42:34,609 AHEAD. HOW DO YOU -- MAYBE YOU 4268 02:42:34,609 --> 02:42:36,311 CAN DO SOMETHING NUANCED FOR A 4269 02:42:36,311 --> 02:42:38,446 CHILD OR A CERTAIN POPULATION. 4270 02:42:38,446 --> 02:42:40,582 WHERE YOU'RE NOT BREAKING THE 4271 02:42:40,582 --> 02:42:42,117 ENTIRE RULE OF MAINTAINING THE 4272 02:42:42,117 --> 02:42:44,085 SAFETY BUT WHEN YOU COME UP ON 4273 02:42:44,085 --> 02:42:45,653 IT IN THE MOMENT AND YOU DON'T 4274 02:42:45,653 --> 02:42:47,155 HAVE A PLAN THERE'S VERY LITTLE 4275 02:42:47,155 --> 02:42:48,256 YOU CAN DO BECAUSE THEN EVERYONE 4276 02:42:48,256 --> 02:42:53,561 SORT OF BRISTLES AND GET XOOEXCD 4277 02:42:53,561 --> 02:42:54,696 AND NERVOUS ABOUT IT AND WE 4278 02:42:54,696 --> 02:42:56,231 THINK PROACTIVELY HOW DO WE 4279 02:42:56,231 --> 02:42:57,732 THINK ABOUT THIS NEXT YEAR OR 4280 02:42:57,732 --> 02:43:00,368 THE NEXT PATIENT THEN WE MIGHT 4281 02:43:00,368 --> 02:43:02,470 COME UP WITH SOME CREATIVE 4282 02:43:02,470 --> 02:43:02,737 SOLUTIONS. 4283 02:43:02,737 --> 02:43:04,272 >> THE PATIENT, SO I THINK I 4284 02:43:04,272 --> 02:43:06,174 SAID THIS EARLIER, OUR GUESTS 4285 02:43:06,174 --> 02:43:09,978 TODAY ARE FROM THE PATIENT 4286 02:43:09,978 --> 02:43:11,146 ADVISORY GROUP FROM THE CENTER 4287 02:43:11,146 --> 02:43:12,213 HERE. I HAVE NOW DOUBT THEY'RE 4288 02:43:12,213 --> 02:43:15,049 GOING TO PUT THIS ON THE AGENDA 4289 02:43:15,049 --> 02:43:17,152 TO EXPLORE FURTHER. SO I JUST 4290 02:43:17,152 --> 02:43:19,120 WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU, AGAIN, 4291 02:43:19,120 --> 02:43:21,990 SO MUCH, FOR THE TIME AND EFFORT 4292 02:43:21,990 --> 02:43:26,327 AND INCONVENIENCE OF NAVIGATING 4293 02:43:26,327 --> 02:43:28,596 THROUGH THE WELCOME CENTER HERE 4294 02:43:28,596 --> 02:43:31,699 ON CAMPUS. AND REALLY 4295 02:43:31,699 --> 02:43:32,333 APPRECIATE YOUR PARTICIPATION 4296 02:43:32,333 --> 02:43:35,336 AND SHARING ALL OF YOUR THOUGHTS 4297 02:43:35,336 --> 02:43:36,805 AND COMMENTS. 4298 02:43:36,805 --> 02:43:39,140 >> THANK YOU. 4299 02:43:39,140 --> 02:43:42,277 >> THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DON'T 4300 02:43:42,277 --> 02:43:44,579 WE WOULDN'T BE HERE WITHOUT ANY 4301 02:43:44,579 --> 02:43:45,346 OF YOU. 4302 02:43:45,346 --> 02:43:47,916 >> THANKS, EVERYBODY, FOR 4303 02:43:47,916 --> 02:43:49,083 JOINING US TODAY. NEXT WEEK IS 4304 02:43:49,083 --> 02:43:51,119 INTERNATIONAL DAY SO WE'RE GOING 4305 02:43:51,119 --> 02:43:52,787 TO HAVE ROBERT STEELE WHO IS 4306 02:43:52,787 --> 02:43:54,989 FROM OUR DEPARTMENT AND THEN TWO 4307 02:43:54,989 --> 02:43:57,192 GUESTS, JOE M WHO USED TO BE IN 4308 02:43:57,192 --> 02:43:59,327 OUR DEPARTMENT BUT HAS FLED TO 4309 02:43:59,327 --> 02:44:02,530 SCOTLAND AND THEN DIR KUS WHO IS 4310 02:44:02,530 --> 02:44:04,599 JOINING US FROM KENYA. NEXT 4311 02:44:04,599 --> 02:44:06,234 WEEK, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE AND 4312 02:44:06,234 --> 02:44:07,669 THAT'S OUR LAST SESSION. 4313 02:44:07,669 --> 02:44:09,337 I'M VERY SAD ABOUT THAT. HOPE 4314 02:44:09,337 --> 02:44:19,714 TO SEE YOU ALL THERE.