What is the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) Patient Advisory Committee?
The ACRIN Patient Advocacy (PA) Committee has been created to foster interaction between the imaging clinical research community and cancer patient advocates. ACRIN’s overarching goal, through clinical trials of diagnostic imaging and image-guided therapeutic technologies, is to generate information that will lengthen and improve the quality of the lives of patients. Patient Advocates provide an invaluable perspective to the development and conduct of clinical trials as performed by ACRIN investigators. What are the goals of the Patient Advisory Committee? • Participating with the Disease Site Committees to generate ideas for trials • Working with Protocol Teams to develop and implement trials • Promoting awareness and support of ACRIN activities to constituent advocacy groups, NCI and the public at large • Promoting subject accrual into ACRIN trials • Providing input for all trial concept design proposals • Providing written reviews of all proposed protocols, including Informed Consen
