IMPACT Meetings
2025 Concept Development Workshop
Workshop Aims
This highly interactive and collaborative workshop aims to further support the development of maternal and perinatal clinical trials within the IMPACT Network. Held over two days, the workshop will be guided by highly experienced facilitators who will support you taking your trial from idea to fully fleshed out concept and supported by experts in all aspects of clinical trials from over Australia and New Zealand to also provide information, advice, and guidance.
Faculty
Senior IMPACT Network members
Expert trialists, health economics, ethics, statistics and more!
IMPACT Network Consumer representation
Who should attend?
Concept investigators and collaborators: bring along your team and brainstorm your concept with expert input from colleagues experienced in clinical trials design and conduct
Emerging researchers and those wishing to observe and gain skills in the process of clinical trial development
Consumers interested in clinical trial research in maternal and perinatal health
Clinicians and researchers in maternal and perinatal health interested in new collaborations
Take a look at the 2025 Program:
Day 1: Build your Trial Proposals
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Start |
End |
Speaker |
Session |
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8:30am |
8:50am |
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Registration |
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8:50am |
9:00am |
Kirsten Palmer & Adrienne Gordon |
Welcome/IMPACT updates |
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9:00am |
9:30am |
Professor David MacIntyre |
Importance of mechanistic studies in perinatal randomised controlled clinical trials |
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9:30am |
9:55am |
Professor Alice Rumbold |
Challenges in conducting perinatal nutrition trials |
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9:55am |
10:20am |
Professor Gillian Harvey |
Hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials |
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10:20am |
10:45am |
Dr Karen Best |
Insights into the SAHMRI experience with decentralised trials and the role of e-recruitment/consent |
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10:45am |
10:55am |
Morning Tea |
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10:55am |
11:00am |
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Introduction to concept session (2 short updates/new idea and questions and 4 concepts for full facilitation-rules/process) |
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11:00am |
11:20am |
Annie McDougall (10 min talk, 10 min Q and A) |
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of oral L-arginine and L-citrulline in pregnant women |
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11:20am |
11:40am |
Amir Zayegh (10 min talk, 10 min Q and A) |
A Novel Consent Matrix To Assist Neonatal Researchers In Choosing Ethically Defensible And Evidence Based Recruitment And Consent Methods |
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11:40am |
12:00pm |
Ashlea Hambleton (10 min talk, 10 min Q and A) |
Strengthening Perinatal Mental Health Systems: A Data-Driven, Digital, and Workforce-Based Approach to Perinatal Eating Disorders |
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12:00pm |
12:15pm |
Arun Sett |
Lung ultrasound to reduce the number of chest X-rays in very preterm infants in the first 2 weeks after birth: A randomised controlled trial (MINI T-Rex) |
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12:15pm |
12:30pm |
Amanda Poprzeczny |
Reimagining GDM: CGM for diagnosis of hyperglycemia in pregnancy |
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12:30pm |
12:45pm |
Adrienne Gordon |
PRIMROSE |
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12:45pm |
1:00pm |
Kathryn Martinello |
MOM NOSE BEST: Mothers Own Milk intraNasally Or Standard carE in preterm BabiES wiTh in traventricular haemorrhage |
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1:00pm |
1:05pm |
Miranda Davies-Tuck |
Workshop overview and introduction to faculty |
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1:05pm |
2:30pm |
Lunch |
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2:30pm |
3:15pm |
Group Work |
To cover with facilitators and roving experts:
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3:15 |
3:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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3:30pm |
5:00pm |
Group Work |
Continue to cover with facilitators and roving experts:
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5:00pm |
5:30pm |
Teams to finalise and submit proposal to their facilitators |
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Day 2: Review your Trial Proposals
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Start |
End |
Speaker |
Session |
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9:00am |
9:15am |
Chairs |
Introduction to review panel - Economist - Consumers - Obstetric Trialist - Midwifery/Neonatal Trialist - Neonatal Trialist - Epidemiology Statistics |
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9:15am |
11:15am |
Chairs |
Refined Concept Presentation and review panel feedback (10 min concept lead presentation + 20 min feedback) |
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11:15am |
11:30am |
Morning Tea |
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11:30am |
12:30pm |
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Split into Break Out Rooms Small Groups to review feedback and establish next steps |
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12:30pm |
12:50pm |
Himanshu Popat and Annie Cox |
Return to Auditorium Concept outline of next steps (5 mins each) |
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12:50pm |
1:00pm |
Kirsten Palmer and Adrienne Gordon |
Close |
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1:00pm |
2:00pm |
Lunch and Networking |
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12 - 13 September 2025
LOCATION:
- The Robinson Research Institute, Norwich Building 55 King William Road, North Adelaide