HCR chairing session at DIA meeting in Atlanta

Harrison Clinical Research will be chairing a session at the 43rd Annual DIA Meeting to be held this year in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from June 17 - 20. We will also be pleased to receive you at our booth no: 1563 and tell you about our 20 year's of expertise activities so please come and talk to us.

Dr. Barbara Schnurr, HCR's Chief Quality Assurance Manager, will chair the session "Conducting effective CAPA (Corrective Action Preventative Action) following an audit". This will take place on 18. June at 13:00 to 15:00 hr and will address stategies, structure, control assessment and effective systems improvement. For full details of this session, please see the programme below and for full 43 rd Annual DIA programme details see www.diahome.org/DIAHome/

18 June 2007, 1:30 - 3:00 pm

Session Title

Conducting Effective CAPA Following an Audit.

Session description

Audit follow-up activities are guided by CAPA procedures (Corrective Action Preventative Action) which are critical for improving the quality and acceptability of clinical data. They form an essential part of compliance processes.
This session will present theoretical and practical aspects of CAPA and will discuss various strategies of implementing, controlling and formally closing out post-audit CAPA. The audit follow-up process will be examined from the perspective of audited site, auditor and audit client.

Learning Objectives´

1. Understand various strategies of corrective and preventative actions
2. Discuss structure, control and assess the follow-up process
3. Effectively improve systems within an organization

Session difficulty level

Intermediate

Speakers and presentation titles

Corrective and Preventative Actions - Theoretical and Practical
Aspects Valerie Willetts, RN, CCRA, CCRT President ASKA Research A
Division of Valerie Willetts & Associates Inc.
# 410 - 1385 West 8th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
Canada, V6H 3V9

How to Achieve and Maintain Compliance - A Site Perspective Yvonne
McCracken, CCRC, MPH President/CEO Carolinas Research Associates
4808 Pellyn Farm Court
Charlotte, NC 28226

How to Achieve and Maintain Compliance - An Auditor and Audit Client
Perspective Barbara Schnurr, DrS, MS Director Quality Management
Harrison Clinical Research Albrechtstr. 43
80636 Munich
Germany