Episode 29 - Patient-Focused Drug Design, Enrollment Challenges, and More With Hannah Kemp

Tune into this month’s episode of the Scope of Things, where host Deborah Borfitz covers the use of AI for trial screening and recruitment purposes, a diabetes drug that may help treat sleep apnea, questionable advice from the FDA given to departing staffers, why the entire clinical trial enterprise may need to be revamped to eliminate systemic biases, and more. Hannah Kemp, vice president of strategic client engagement at Surgo Health, also joins the conversation to talk about how Surgo Health is helping companies recruit participants and her SCOPE 2024 presentation, as well as her thoughts on patient-focused drug design and the challenge of getting study sponsors on-board with enrollment strategies. 

SHOW NOTES 

News Roundup 

AI for clinical trial screening  

• Study in NEJM AI 

AI for trial recruitment  

• Study in Ophthalmology Science  

Drug therapy for sleep apnea 

• Study in NEJM    

Investigation on departing FDA employees 

• Article in The BMJ  

N-Power Medicine/Merck collaboration 

• Press release 

Youth prediabetes/diabetes dataset 

• Link to POND web portal 

Systemic biases in randomized controlled trials 

• Study in Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse 

 

GUEST BIO 

Hannah Kemp, vice president of strategic client engagement, Surgo Health 

Hannah Kemp is the Vice President of Strategic Client Engagement at Surgo Health.  

In her role, she helps clients develop more patient-centric healthcare and clinical trials leveraging Surgo’s novel data. Ms. Kemp has led large-scale projects across multiple therapeutic areas from infectious disease, maternal health, vaccines, and cancer and published. Ms. Kemp brings an ecosystem perspective having worked across healthcare from clinical trials to digital health to payors. Prior to joining Surgo, Ms. Kemp worked with Deloitte consulting as well as directly for the US government. She has a BA from the University of Virginia and an MPA from George Washington University. 

The Scope of Things podcast explores clinical research and its possibilities, promise, and pitfalls. Clinical Research News senior writer, Deborah Borfitz, welcomes guests who are visionaries closest to the topics, but who can still see past their piece of the puzzle. Focusing on game-changing trends and out-of-the-box operational approaches in the clinical research field, the Scope of Things podcast is your no-nonsense, insider’s look at clinical research today.