ISN Webinar: Innovative trial designs and generalizability in clinical research

Recorded On: 09/09/2025

This webinar is a preparatory module for the Clinical Trials Pre-Course at WCN’26. This webinar will address two main areas of discussion: novel trial designs and generalizability. Sub-topics will include issues related to sex, gender, age, and what we can learn from those different groups. Challenges and needs in pediatric nephrology will also be discussed.

Learning objectives:

- To gain an understanding of the value of different trial designs to answer important questions.
- To gain an understanding of issues related including people across the age, sex, gender, ethnicity spectrum, and the value of inclusivity in interpreting clinical trials.
- To understand the specific challenges of studies in pediatric populations, and ways to overcome them.

Adeera Levin

Canada

Andrea Viecelli

Australia

A/Prof Andrea Viecelli is an academic nephrologist at Princess Alexandra Hospital and was awarded her PhD in 2019 through the University of Queensland. As a clinical trialist of the Australasian Kidney Trials Network (AKTN) she plays a key role in designing and conducting international clinical trials in people with chronic kidney disease. As a Coordinating Committee member and Vascular Access Project Coordinator of the global SONG initiative, she is conducting clinical and qualitative research to establish standardised core outcome measures based on the shared priorities of patients, clinicians, researchers and policy makers from >100 countries to improve the relevance and reliability of kidney research to inform patient-centred care. As the recipient of a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant and a Queensland Advancing Clinical Research Fellowship she currently pursues a program of clinical research to improve patient-important outcomes in haemodialysis.