Jennifer Gewandter
Associate Professor University of Rochester Medical Center
Jennifer Gewandter, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor at the University of Rochester, a former Associate Director of the ACTTION public-private partnership, and the PI of the University of Rochester Clinical Hub of the NIH-sponsored Early Phase Pain Investigation Clinical Network (EPPIC-Net). Her research and scholarly activities are focused on optimizing the design, conduct, and transparent dissemination of clinical trials for pain and peripheral neuropathy treatments as well as researching interventions for painful peripheral neuropathic pain. She has been the overall PI of 2 NIH-sponsored, multi-site clinical trials and is a site PI for multiple industry-sponsored clinical trials of chronic pain. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has served as an Associate editor for the Clinical Journal of Pain and Co-section editor for Pain Medicine. She has mentored over 40 medical students, residents, postdoctoral fellows, and clinical faculty members in clinical research and scientific writing.
Seminars
Traditional pain measures often fail to capture the complexity of patient experiences and can lack standardisation across trials leading to issues with data accuracy, and regulatory alignment. This workshop explores evolving methods for PROs, balancing real-world patient realities with scientific rigor, and leveraging technology that’s developed significantly in the last two decades, to improve data quality.
Workshop Highlights:
- Discover latest strategies to learn methods to improve accuracy in pain reporting through technology that can reduce subjectivity and recall bias
- Focus on aligning PROs and trial endpoints with regulatory expectations
- Evaluate different strategies towards PRO’s with your peers and hear directly from Vertex on their approved framework
- Learn to assess pain in context, and the benefits, rather than average pain scores
