The Fall edition of the ELPA Educational Training took place on November 9, 19, and 23, 2022. ELPA members could listen to presentations by industries and stakeholders this year focused on updates about rare liver diseases, liver cancer, NASH, and Hepatitis D.
For its members, ELPA also launched the ELPA Clinical Programme 2022 – Building patient experts – understanding clinical trials in November. The program aims to improve patient centricity by training patient experts. The area of interest is NASH and NAFLD, a topic of increasing importance. It is a peer-to-peer training where some EUPATI fellows and some topic experts from ELPA members will be the trainers.
The first part of the program, held on November 20, focused on the following topics:
- Overview Research & Development
- Patient participation in clinical trials – The role of patients and patients organizations
- Understanding Preclinical Drug Development
- Clinical Trials and Patients – Part 1
Clinical Trials and Patients – Part 2