Meetings and Events



Endpoints and Outcomes Conference 2009:
Optimizing Clinical Trials in FGID



Wednesday, April 15, 2009

8:00 - 8:05am Welcome   Lin Chang
8:05 - 8:15am Historical Perspective, Rome Outcomes Conference, WCOG Vienna 1998   William Whitehead
8:15 - 8:30am Goals & aims of this conference   Lin Chang

8:30 - 10:25am Clinical trial Endpoints
Moderator: Sander van Zanten
 
8:30 - 9:00am Results from the Rome Endpoints/Outcomes in IBS working team  
Introduction: How did we get here?   Michael Camilleri
Results from the Endpoints Analysis   Brennan Spiegel
9:00 - 9:20am Outcome Measures for IBS Clinical Trials: Qualitative Interviews and Quantitative Assessment of PRO Items in a Phase 2b Linaclotide Study   Jeffrey Johnston
9:20 - 9:40am How Well do the Rome III Guidelines for Trials Outcomes Measure Up?   Jan Irvine
9:40 - 10:00am Feasibility of using responder definition based on primary Endpoint - The experience from Japan   Kei Matsueda
10:00 - 10:30am Discussion
  Peter Tugwell

10:45 - 11:45am Meaningful outcomes for patients
Moderator: Doug Drossman
 
10:45 - 11:05am Translation of outcome measures to meaningful Endpoints   Donald Patrick
11:05 - 11:25am Measures of clinical benefit
(MCID, MCII, etc)
  Fasiha Kanwal
11:25 - 11:45am Discussion   Brennan Spiegel

11:45 - 12:45pm Risk-benefit assessment
Moderator: Bill Whitehead
 
11:45 - 12:05pm Risk and medications in IBS patients   Brian Lacy
12:05 - 12:25pm IFFGD survey of risk-benefit assessment   Nancy Norton
12:25am-12:45pm Discussion   Brennan Spiegel

1:45 - 2:45pm Panel discussion: Perspectives from Industry, Regulatory Agencies and NIH about Drug Regulation and Development in FGIDs
Moderator: B. Chey
 
1:45 - 1:55pm Perceptions of industry on drug regulation   Charles Baum
1:55 - 2:05pm Perspective of US regulatory agencies on drug development   Ann Marie Trentacosti
2:05 - 2:15pm Proposed Interim Endpoints for IBS clinical trials   Ruyi He
2:15 - 2:25pm Perspective of EU regulatory agencies on drug development   Sif Ormarsdóttir
2:25 - 2:45pm Discussion
 

2:45 - 3:35pm Severity of FGID
Moderator: Peter Whorwell
 
2:45 - 3:15pm Update on severity assessment
(Rome working team, severity focus group, FBDSI, IBS-SS)
  Douglas Drossman
3:15pm-3:25pm Discussion   Fermín Mearin

3:45pm-6:30pm Breakout sessions on other outcome measures
Moderator: Magnus Simren
 
3:45 - 4:05pm Role of biomarkers   Robin Spiller
4:05 - 4:20pm Psychological symptoms and co-morbidities   Bruce Naliboff
4:20 - 4:35pm Health behaviors, economic outcomes, HRQOL   Brennan Spiegel
4:35 - 4:50pm Clinical Endpoints for gastroparesis   Henry Parkman
5:00 - 6:30pm Breakout groups
(4 simultaneous sessions)
 
1. Biomarkers
Motility & Transit
Visceral sensitivity measurement
Mucosal inflammation
Cytokines, Microbiota
Genetic polymorphisms
 
John Kellow
Jan Tack
Giovanni Barbara
Eamonn Quigley
Nicholas Talley
2. Psychological symptoms and co-morbidities
  Naliboff/Sperber/Lydiard
3. Health behaviors, economic outcomes, HRQOL
Health-Related Quality of Life Handout
Outcome Measures in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Health Behaviors, Economic Outcomes, and Health Related Quality of Life
A Checklist for Evaluating Scales
 

Brennan Spiegel

C. J. Bijkerk

Brennan Spiegel
David L. Streiner
4. Clinical Endpoints for Gastroparesis
Relationship of Gastric Function and Symptoms. A Role for Gastroparesis Tests in Endpoints
GCSI and PAGI-SYM: Development and Recent Studies
Other Clinical Trial Endpoints for Gastroparesis
Assessing Severity of Gastroparesis: Quality of Life, Gastric Emptying, Other measures
 


Michael Camilleri

Dennis Revicki

Richard McCallum


Bill Hasler

Thursday, April 15, 2009


8:00 - 10:00am Presentations of breakout group discussion
Moderator: Jan Irvine
 
8:00 - 8:15am Biomarkers   Robin Spiller
8:30 - 8:45am Psychological symptoms and co-morbidities   Bruce Naliboff
9:00 - 9:15am Health behaviors, economic outcomes, HRQOL   Brennan Spiegel
9:30 - 9:45am Clinical Endpoints for gastroparesis   Henry Parkman

10:30 - 11:30am Endpoints and outcome measures in Pediatric FGIDs
Moderator: Carlo Di Lorenzo
Summary
 
10:30 - 10:45am The urgent need for pediatric Endpoints: The scope of the problem   Jan Taminiau
10:45 - 11:00am What do we know about pediatrics and how do we go about developing pediatric Endpoints in FGID?   Sam Nurko

11:30 - 1:00pm Discussion of Outcomes Development project
Moderator: Lin Chang
 
11:30 - 12:00pm Patient Reported Outcomes Consortium: Proposed IBS Working Group
Framework for a Public-Private Partnership