September 30, 2025

11:00 am ET - 12:30 pm ET

Location:

AI Digital Twins and Synthetic Data: Application to Clinical Trials

Webinar

Please join us on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, from 11:00 am–12:30 pm ET for a webinar on the applications of AI digital twins and synthetic data to clinical trials. Digital twins refer to simulated models of individual patients designed to predict disease trajectories and/or treatment responses, offering the potential to enhance statistical power, optimize trial design, and limit the number of participants assigned to a control arm. Synthetic data are artificially generated datasets that mirror the statistical properties of verified clinical data. Both technologies are or are being developed for use in the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials, and with the intention of use for regulatory submissions. This webinar will serve as an introduction to these emerging technologies and a starting point for examining their implications, opportunities, and challenges in clinical research.

Key Topics:

• Introduction to digital twins and synthetic data, including their core functions and how they differ from traditional statistical modeling approaches.
• Exploration of ethical, statistical, and regulatory considerations for adopting digital twins and synthetic data in the design and conduct of clinical trials.
• A panel discussion featuring expert perspectives on the evolving role of AI digital twins and synthetic data in clinical research. 

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Bioethics Collaborative

October 30, 2025

12:00 pm ET - 1:00 pm ET

Location:

Applied Health Literacy: Using Teach-Back in Conversations about Clinical Research

October is Health Literacy Month! Please join us on Thursday, October 30, from 12 – 1 PM ET for a webinar to explore teach-back (TB) within the clinical research context. 

We begin with teach-back—its essential elements, how to use it, and why it is important to safe, high-quality, equitable health care and research. We then explore approaches for incorporating teach-back into different types of clinical research conversations.

The session will center on the importance of strong verbal communication skills and the ways teach-back can be used by study teams to foster clear, impactful, and empowering dialogue with patients, participants, and caregivers.  

We will explore how study teams can simplify complex verbal information through plain language, assess and confirm understanding via teach-back throughout the recruiting and informed consent process, and support participant understanding throughout their clinical research experience.  Registrants will receive tips and resources to support incorporating this best practice into their everyday clinical research processes.   

Objectives:

• Explain what teach-back is, its importance, and why to use it;  
• Describe approaches that support incorporating teach-back into clinical research conversations across the clinical trial life cycle;
• Identify and access resources that explain how to use teach-back.

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