During this Everyday, Jinming Xing describes his personal experiences that drive his passion for microsampling. As a pharmacist, he was influenced by the understanding that some children are simply scared of needles – a 5 second shot could take an hours conversation. He was also personally influenced by the amount of blood that was drawn from his own sick son. Now, Jinming works closely with the early stages of clinical research related to sick children, focusing on microsampling. He puts all of his efforts, Everyday, into reducing the burden for paediatric clinical trial participants.
JJ Kim, Nottingham Children’s Hospital/University of Nottingham
“It’s really about what patients need, and (what) your colleagues need. And listening to them.” – JJ Kim, Nottingham Children’s Hospital/University of Nottingham
JJ Kim delivers a presentation on the development of CountOnMe, and the care taken while working with patients and at home micro sampling. He describes a survey and system of feedback that can be used to improve education and for increased engagement with patients. During this CPSA Everyday, he discusses that the best results come from actually listening to the patient, and not only the contributions from the 1% of the community that pushes out a test or result. Also, he finds that microsampling is not just a replacement for a hospital visit. He asks the questions: How can we use micro sampling to demarcate needs and to give patients more independence? And how do we truly understand a patient’s condition and need? This is what JJ and his team are evaluating, with continuous feedback from patients, and persistence to what is needed next.
Program Chair – 23rd Clinical & Pharmaceutical Solutions through Analysis USA (CPSA USA 2020)
Ganesh Moorthy, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
“(CPSA conversations) redefined my goals” – Ganesh Moorthy, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Ganesh delivers a passionate CPSA Everyday, discussing how the collaborative spirit in clinical research can significantly contribute to fields such as therapeutic drug monitoring in sick children. He brings a broad background, working in pediatric clinical research the last 11 years, understanding that microsampling technology is a path to improving patient care. A convert, he can see that microsampling can make a big change to a child’s quality of care – even moving into remote sampling to help families reduce the burden of travel to hospitals or clinics. Ganesh works though the dream of using microsampling technology to create meaningful data for drug monitoring in sick children – and quality data for clinicians to make accurate decisions.
