Feasibility Meetings
The Institute for Clinical Research (ICR) offers Feasibility Meetings, a service for newly submitted protocols and contracts. This meeting serves several purposes. It provides an optimum environment to review the specifics of the protocol, informed consent form, contract, budget, and Human Research Billing Analysis Form (HRBAF). This meeting helps to ensure accuracy by bringing any potential contract, budgeting, billing compliance, and/or patient recruitment issues to light at the onset of negotiation. Investigators and their research teams who have participated in a Feasibility Meeting, have found that it can reduce a lengthy negotiation period, add additional funding to their budgets and have a greater understanding of the contracting and budgeting process at WCMC. Attendees of this meeting will include the Principal Investigator, the Coordinator, a Contract Specialist, OCTA's Senior Financial Analyst and a Bioethicist. The meeting is usually relatively short, lasting between 30 and 45 minutes, but highly productive and beneficial to the success of a Clinical Trial.
