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Welcome to Innovating Clinical Trials, the podcast designed for clinical research professionals eager to deepen their understanding of clinical trials through concise, insightful segments. Join your hosts, Liam Eves and Ted Trafford, as they uncover the core issues in clinical research, reflect on the industry, and challenge conventional wisdom.
Ted Trafford - https://probitymedical.com/
With 30 years of experience in clinical research, Ted serves as the Director of Business Development, driving business growth and leading Feasibility and Site Relationship teams at Probity Medical Research, a clinical trial site administrative support company with a consortium of 75+ sites across four countries. As a writer and speaker, Ted contributes to thought leadership and strategic initiatives in the clinical trials industry, leveraging his extensive experience and creative approach to drive meaningful discussion and progress for Sponsors, CROs, Sites and Technology Vendors.
Liam Eves - https://www.theendpointpodcast.com/
Liam's held executive roles in SMOs and CROs, and led all major functions of trial delivery. His journey into the field began unexpectedly after an injury ended his career as a professional footballer. Over the years Liam has optimized trial delivery methods / systems for effective enrollment and trial delivery. Currently, he focuses on building and advising companies in the clinical trial space.
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Ep 2.23: Jill Fikowski on Why Participants Drop Out and What to Do About It (3/3)
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May 21, 2026 |
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Ep 2.22: Jill Fikowski on Designing Trials That Communities Actually Want to Join (2/3)
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May 20, 2026 |
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Ep 2.21: Jill Fikowski on on Substance Use, Stigma, and the Research That Actually Changed Policy (1/3)
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May 19, 2026 |
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ICT Ep 2.20: What Monty Python Can Teach Us About Clinical Trials
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May 14, 2026 |
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ICT Ep 2.19: Everyone Has a Plan Until the Trial Starts
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May 06, 2026 |
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ICT Ep 2.18 What Recruitment Is Missing: Time, Trust, and a Cup of Tea
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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ICT Ep 2.17 Borrowing the F1 Playbook: What Formula One Gets Right That Clinical Trials Don't
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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ICT Ep. 2.16 Leading Teams That Take Risks and Deliver Results With Frank Watanabe (3/3)
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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ICT Ep. 2.15 Innovation, Risk and Building Great Teams With Frank Watanabe (2/3)
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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ICT Ep. 2.14 From Navy Officer to CEO: The DNA of Leadership with Frank Watanabe (1/3)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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ICT Ep 2.13: The Hidden Complexity of Trial Feasibility
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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ICT Ep: 2.12: Dropping the Baton: Why Clinical Trial Handoffs Keep Failing
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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ICT Ep 2.11: The Top 10 Signs Your Site Feasibility Process Is Off Track
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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ICT Ep 2.10 Where Clinical Trials Break Down, Even With Good Teams
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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ICT EP 2.9: Designing Eligibility Criteria That Work in the Real World
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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ICT EP 2.8: The Cost of Fragmented Enrollment Ownership And Why Leadership Must Step In
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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ICT EP 2.7: Rethinking How Sponsors Build Site Relationships
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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ICT EP 2.6: What Shapes the Trajectory of a Clinical Trial
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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ICT EP 2.5: Why Enrollment Is Slow and the Questions We’re Not Asking
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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ICT Ep 2.4: The Impact of Getting Site and Patient Engagement Right
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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ICT Ep 2.3: The Cost of Sponsors’ Extra Requests and what Sites can do about it
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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ICP Ep 2.2: Building Better Sponsor-Site Partnerships
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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ICT Ep 2.1: How Sponsors Win by Checking In Early with Sites
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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ICT Ep29: Feasibility is Broken: Maya Zlatanova on Redesigning Feasibility
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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ICT Ep28: Recruitment Solutions with Jill Pellegrino
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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ICT Ep25: A deep dive into Feasibility with Nick Palumbo (Part 1 of 3)
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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ICT Ep26: Balancing Data, Technology, and Human Expertise in Feasibility with Nick Palumbo (Part 2 of 3)
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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ICT Ep27: Expanding the Scope of Feasibility in Clinical Trials with Nick Palumbo (Part 3 of 3)
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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ICT Ep23: Q3 Results with Joel White (Part 2)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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ICT Ep24: Q3 Results with Joel White (Part 3)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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ICT Ep22: Q3 Results with Joel White (Part 1)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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ICT Ep19: The World of Site Startup in Clinical Trials
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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ICT Ep20: New ways of thinking about trial delivery
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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ICT Ep21: Everything but the Kitchen Sink!
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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ICT Ep16: Revolutionizing Cancer Trial Enrollment with Selin Kurnaz (Part 1 of 3)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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ICT Ep17: Exploring Enrollment Gaps in Oncology Trials with Selin Kurnaz (Part 2 of 3)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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ICT Ep18: Advice for Startups in the Clinical Trial Space with Selin Kurnaz (Part 3 of 3)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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ICT Ep13: Q2'24 The quarterly recap with Joel White (Part 1 of 3)
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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ICT Ep14: Q2'24 The quarterly recap with Joel White (Part 2 of 3)
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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ICT Ep15: Q2'24 The quarterly recap with Joel White (Part 3 of 3)
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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ICT Ep9: What are the consequences of poorly designed protocols?
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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ICT Ep10: Don't mistake the map for the territory
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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ICT Ep11: Effective Leadership in Clinical Trial Delivery
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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ICT Ep12: How to Spot a Great Clinical Trial Site?
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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ICT Ep7: The Princess Bride and Clinical Trial Sites
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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ICT Ep8: Recruitment isn't Enrollment
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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ICT Ep4: The Theory of Constraints in Clinical trials
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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ICT Ep5: How to get sites to pick your study
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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ICT Ep6: The Clinical Trial Industry's approach to Baking Bread
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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ICT Ep3: The 'Joys' of Acronyms in Clinical Trials
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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ICT Ep2: Clinical Trial Metrics
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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ICT Ep1: Transforming the Enrollment Process
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Jun 04, 2024 |