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Agenda
| 8.30 | COFFEE | |
| 9.10 | Welcome | Marijke Eyssen, General Director a.i. KCE Pedro Facon, Deputy CEO, RIZIV-INAMI Frank Vandenbroucke, Minister of Public Health and Social Affairs |
| 9.30 | The power of large pragmatic randomised clinical trials | Marion Mafham, Associate Professor Oxford University (UK) |
| 9.55 | New statistical methods for patient-centred outcomes in randomised clinical trials | Marc Buyse, Chief Scientific Officer at IDDI (Belgium) |
| 10.20 | Real World Data and new statistical methods from a regulatory point of view | Kit Roes, Professor of Biostatistics Radboud University Medical Center and Chair EMA Methodology Working Party (The Netherlands) |
| 10.45 | Real World Data and Health Technology Assessment | Beate Wieseler, Head of Department Drug Assessment, IQWIG (Germany) |
| 11.10 | Coffee | |
| 11.50 | KCE Trials, a funder and facilitator of large pragmatic non- commercial clinical trials in Belgium | France Vrijens, Head of KCE Trials |
| 12.05 | Results from the DOMINO trial: diet or medication for patients with irritable bowel syndrome | Jan Tack, Gastroenterology UZ Leuven and TARGID KU Leuven |
| 12.20 | Results from the CONFIDENT trial: convalescent plasma for mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19 | Benoit Misset, Head of Intensive Care Unit CHU Liège |
| 12.35 | Results from the ADVOR trial: acetazolamide in patients with decompensated heart failure and volume overload | Wilfried Mullens, Cardiology Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg and Universiteit Hasselt |
| 12.50 | Sandwich lunch | |
| 14.00 | Surgical Trials Methodology: a Bright Future | Deborah Stocken, NIHR Research Professor, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research (UK) |
| 14.30 | Presentation of three ongoing trials in surgery:
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Annemie Smeets, Postdoc researcher, Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine KU Leuven/UZ Leuven Christophe Oosterbos, Neurosurgical trainee UZ Leuven Sorcha Ni Dhubhghaill, Ophthalmic Surgeon UZA |
| 15.15 | Creating a needs-driven healthcare ecosystem, episode 1: steering R&D through the identification of patient and societal needs | Irina Cleemput, Scientific Programme Director KCE and co-lead of the Belgian EU Presidency Unmet Medical Needs Working Group |
| 15.35 | Closure | |
| 15.40 | Networking drink | |
