You’re Invited! We hope you’ll join us for our next Empowered #patientchat discussion as we explore patient involvement in research and development with special guest Salem Oaks (@SalemOaks).

Salem Oaks is committed to working with patients, their advocates, biopharmaceutical companies, regulators and other stakeholders to develop education tools that help patients bridge the gap between themselves and Biopharma R&D.

We hope to see you Friday, April 6th on Twitter (or tchat.io/rooms/patientchat) at 10:00 am Pacific | 1:00 pm Eastern. Be sure to include the hashtag #patientchat in all your responses!

Guiding our discussion will be the following Topic (T#:) Questions:

T1: What are some of the barriers of patient involvement in research and development?

T2: What perceptions do you have about the role of patients in medicine development?

T3: What perceptions do you have about the time it takes to develop a new treatment?

T4: Which presents the biggest opportunity for involvement: Improving how clinical trials are run? OR Influencing which treatments are being studied? Why?

T5: How might patients, care partners, and advocates contribute more actively to research and development?

T6: What would you want to know more about in order to be more influential with research and development folks?

Click HERE to learn more about the Empowered #patientchat Series plus read tips on how to participate.

Regularly scheduled Empowered Patient Chats (#patientchat) are held every other Friday at 10:00 am Pacific | 1:00 pm Eastern. Click HERE to learn more about the Empowered #patientchat Series plus read tips on how to participate.

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