Agenda: MAGI 2026

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Sunday, April 12, 2026
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Light Breakfast
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Good Clinical Practice (GCP)	Quality/Regulatory
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	AI in Clinical Research: From Hype to Practice	Clinical Operations
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA): Intellectual Property, Data Ownership & Confidentiality	Contracts
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Study Budget Workshop - Part 1	Budgets
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Billing Compliance: Part 1	Billing Compliance
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Networking Break	Networking
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Study Budget Workshop - Part 2	Budgets
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Artificial Intelligence (AI): Build and Lead	Clinical Operations
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Billing Compliance: Part 2	Billing Compliance
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA): Indemnification, Limitation of Liability, Subject Injury & Insurance	Contracts
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Boxed Lunch
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Organizational Leadership & People Centered Communication	Clinical Operations
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	CTA Workshop: Poor Practices That Cost Us Time, and How to Fix Them	Contracts
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Sponsors' Perspectives: Budgets, Negotiations, and Efficient Startups	Budgets
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Initial and Ongoing Research Compliance Training for Site Investigators and Staff	Billing Compliance
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Opening Reception	Networking
Monday, April 13, 2026
7:15 AM - 7:45 AM	Yoga
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM	Welcome Remarks	Plenary
9:15 AM - 11:00 AM	Innovation Challenge	Plenary
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Networking Break
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Site Innovation for Study Start Up	Budgets
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Monitoring Oversight: Turning Sponsor Accountability into Actionable Quality	Clinical Operations
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Research Compliance Meets Billing Ethics: What Does it Take to Achieve Informed Consent Regarding Patient Care Costs?	Billing Compliance
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	AI, Digital Tools, and Data-Sharing Clauses in Contracts	Contracts
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	R3 Ready: Transforming Your SOPs for the Next Era of GCP	Quality/Regulatory
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch - Birds of a Feather
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Dessert
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Go! When Compliance Can’t Wait — One Year, A New CTMS, 40 Hospitals: Rebuilding Your Research Compliance Program	Billing Compliance
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	The Benefits Site Accreditation	Quality/Regulatory
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Before the First Redline: Setting Contract Negotiations Up for Success	Contracts
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	You Put ANOTHER Amendment in it? Streamlining Protocol Amendments from Start-Up and Beyond	Budgets
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Beyond Stipends: Ethical, Equitable, and Standardized Participant Support in Modern Clinical Trials	Clinical Operations
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Networking Break
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	KEYNOTE: Stronger Together: Reimagining Pediatric Patient Advocacy Through Collaboration, Creativity, and Community	Plenary
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Social Hour
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
7:15 AM - 7:45 AM	Yoga
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Plenary	Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Accelerating Study Start Up: Transformative Models for Trial Initiation	Clinical Operations
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Navigating the Current Landscape of Data Privacy in Research Contracts	Contracts
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	R3 and the Diversity Action Plan	Quality/Regulatory
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	CAR-T and Cell Therapies in Practice: Advanced Coverage Analysis, Coding, and Billing	Billing Compliance
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Applied Innovation: When Technology Works FOR You! (Case Studies)	Budgets
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch - Regions
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Dessert
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Securing (More) Studies: Building and Maintaining Your Site's BD Pipeline	Budgets
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Stump the Experts - RBC	Billing Compliance
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	The Expanding Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Clinical Research	Clinical Operations
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Panel Discussion: Contracts & Regulatory Strategy to Achieve Faster Activation	Contracts
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	What to Expect When You’re Inspected	Quality/Regulatory
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Moving the Needle: Group 4	Billing Compliance
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Moving the Needle: Group 2
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Moving the Needle: Group 3
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Moving the Needle: Group 1
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Moving the Needle Readouts and Voting
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Light Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Influence Without Authority: Communicating Effectively in Complex Clinical Research Environments	Professional Development
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Architects of Ambition: Building a Culture of Organizational Excellence	Professional Development
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Professional Development	Professional Development
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Networking Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Beyond the Org Chart: Leading Up, Across, and Through	Professional Development
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Professional Development	Professional Development
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Reading the Room: Using Behavioral Cues and Body Language to Improve Professional Communication	Professional Development

Schedule of Events

Exhibit Hall Hours

Quiet Room

Mother's Room

AI in Clinical Research: From Hype to Practice
AI, Digital Tools, and Data-Sharing Clauses in Contracts
Accelerating Study Start Up: Transformative Models for Trial Initiation
Applied Innovation: When Technology Works FOR You! (Case Studies)
Architects of Ambition: Building a Culture of Organizational Excellence
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Build and Lead
Before the First Redline: Setting Contract Negotiations Up for Success
Beyond Stipends: Ethical, Equitable, and Standardized Participant Support in Modern Clinical Trials
Beyond the Org Chart: Leading Up, Across, and Through
Billing Compliance: Part 1
Billing Compliance: Part 2
Boxed Lunch
Breakfast
CAR-T and Cell Therapies in Practice: Advanced Coverage Analysis, Coding, and Billing
CTA Workshop: Poor Practices That Cost Us Time, and How to Fix Them
Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA): Indemnification, Limitation of Liability, Subject Injury & Insurance
Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA): Intellectual Property, Data Ownership & Confidentiality
Dessert
Go! When Compliance Can’t Wait — One Year, A New CTMS, 40 Hospitals: Rebuilding Your Research Compliance Program
Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
Influence Without Authority: Communicating Effectively in Complex Clinical Research Environments
Initial and Ongoing Research Compliance Training for Site Investigators and Staff
Innovation Challenge
KEYNOTE: Stronger Together: Reimagining Pediatric Patient Advocacy Through Collaboration, Creativity, and Community
Light Breakfast
Lunch - Birds of a Feather
Lunch - Regions
Monitoring Oversight: Turning Sponsor Accountability into Actionable Quality
Moving the Needle Readouts and Voting
Moving the Needle: Group 1
Moving the Needle: Group 2
Moving the Needle: Group 3
Moving the Needle: Group 4
Navigating the Current Landscape of Data Privacy in Research Contracts
Networking Break
Opening Reception
Organizational Leadership & People Centered Communication
Panel Discussion: Contracts & Regulatory Strategy to Achieve Faster Activation
Plenary
Professional Development
R3 Ready: Transforming Your SOPs for the Next Era of GCP
R3 and the Diversity Action Plan
Reading the Room: Using Behavioral Cues and Body Language to Improve Professional Communication
Research Compliance Meets Billing Ethics: What Does it Take to Achieve Informed Consent Regarding Patient Care Costs?
Securing (More) Studies: Building and Maintaining Your Site's BD Pipeline
Site Innovation for Study Start Up
Social Hour
Sponsors' Perspectives: Budgets, Negotiations, and Efficient Startups
Study Budget Workshop - Part 1
Study Budget Workshop - Part 2
Stump the Experts - RBC
The Benefits Site Accreditation
The Expanding Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Clinical Research
Welcome Remarks
What to Expect When You’re Inspected
Yoga
You Put ANOTHER Amendment in it? Streamlining Protocol Amendments from Start-Up and Beyond

• Cheryl Abrahamian - Director QA Audit & Inspection Managem...
• Chad Adams - AVP | COO - HonorHealth Research Institute
• Megan Albaugh - Assistant General Counsel - ICE Global Con...
• Melissa Alesse
• Bishoy Anastasi - Senior Director, Research Finance & Stra...
• Candida Barlow - Director of Clinical Research - Oklahoma
• Scott Beasley - Senior Director - Biorasi
• Brigid Boggan - Senior Coverage Analyst - Houston Methodis...
• David Borasky - VP - WCG Clinical
• Phil Boyce - CEO - Boyce Life Sciences, LLC
• Kelsey Bratton - Director of Central Clinical Operations -...
• Brian Burkhardt - Executive Director/ Co-Founder - Oliver
• Charles Buxton - Director, Global Site Agreements, Latin A...
• Quincy Byrdsong - Vice President, Research Operations - Ba...
• Jennifer Cano - Director, Contracting - Zentalis Pharmaceu...
• Jamie Chalfin - Executive Director, Compliance and Develop...
• Avudaiappan Chokkalingam - Manager, Research Administratio...
• Trevor Cole - Program Director - WCG
• Linda Coleman - Associate Vice Provost, Research Policy &
• Natasha Cotton - Clinical Research Manager - Sentara
• Sean Cunningham - Senior Director - Study Site Engagement
• Kaye Doiron - CEO | Founder - Research Works INC
• Edye Edens - Regulatory Lead - Customer Success Manager -
• Michael Ellis - President/CEO - Avanza Medical Research Ce...
• Raid Faddah - Research operation manager - HFH
• Alyson Falwell - Manger, Research Operations - Stanford Me...
• Istvan Fekete - Principal - Attain Partners
• Kelly FitzGerald - IRB Executive Chair - WCG
• Nicholas Focil - CEO - Fomat Medical Research
• Shanna Ford - Senior Consultant - Attain Partners
• Joe Fugitt - Sr Dir, Research Administration, Development,...
• Jennifer Germain - Director, Clinical Research Network - B...
• Cindy Gibson - Associate Director, Clinical Contracts Revi...
• Robert Goldman - Global Head of Clinical Operations - Cont...
• Ray Goodridge - Director, Clinical Trials Financial Manage...
• Gary Grabow - Attorney at Law - Law Office of Gary Grabow
• Collin Gruener - Operations Manager, WCG Site Network - WC...
• Laura Hanson - Director - Research Operations - Mayo Clini...
• Susan Hernandez - Vice President of Clinical Affairs - M3
• Mitchell Hilbe - Director Clinical Operations, Expanded Ac...
• LaToya Hinton-Howery - CEO/Research Director - Next Innova...
• Janet Holwell - Clinical Research Consultant/Trainer - Hol...
• Stephen Hong - Director of Commercial Strategy - ClinTrial...
• Ellie Houston - Associate Director of Monitoring Oversight...
• Nicole Huete - Pre-Award Supervisor for the Office of Rese...
• Derek Johnson - Associate Director, Operations Strategy -
• Jill Johnston - Chief Innovation Officer - WCG
• Jelger Kalmijn - Research Admin 3 - University of Californ...
• Melody Keel - Clinical Operations Consultant - The Researc...
• Kelly Ann Keenan - System Director, Research Administratio...
• Soun Khountham - Senior Director, New Development - UPMC E...
• Heather Kim - QA Manager - WCG
• Rebecca Kissane - Associate Director, Site Quality - Emven...
• Wendy Landow - Research Growth, Strategy & Ops - Empower G...
• Lisa Landsberg - Dir, Clinical Research Ops and Regulatory...
• Theresa Latham - Associate General Counsel - Life Sciences...
• Tanisha LaVeck - Clinical Research Financial Analyst - Hol...
• Erick Lee - Assistant General Counsel - Sutter Health
• Katherine Leibowitz - Co-Founder and Managing Member - Lei...
• Jeri (JJ) Lichtenwalner - Project Lead, Director Optimal S...
• Ashley Liggion - Founder - The Research Social
• Avril Liu - Associate Director of Sponsored Programs - Uni...
• Erik Martin - Shareholder - Polsinelli
• Danielle Mauck - VP of Sponsored Programs & Research - Bay...
• Michelle McDonnell - Business Manager, Clinical Trials Off...
• Kristen McKenna - Senior Manager, Investigator Contracts L...
• Patricia Mendoza - Senior Quality Assurance Auditor - Medp...
• Karen (Kaye) Mottola - Senior Program Manager - Boston Med...
• Juliann Murphy - Assistant Director, Finance - Yale Univer...
• Lyra Myers - Head, R&D Contracts - Genentech
• Sahar Naureen - Clinical Site Relationship Program, Senior...
• Lovie Negrin - CEO - Randomize Now Research Centers
• Ellen Neylon - Clinical Operations Manager - Palm Research...
• Michael Nichols - Sr. Assistant General Counsel - H. Lee M...
• Vani Nilakantan Nilakantan - Founder and Partner - Sikara
• Shelly O'Donovan - CEO - Authentic Influence Group, ITM ll...
• Caroline O'Hair - Partner - Lovell Law Group, PC
• Katherine Peacock - Director of Research Operations - Sout...
• Jennifer Peterson - Director, Quality - EmVenio
• Dawn Pittinger - Enterprise Director, Research Compliance
• Sara Player - Senior Director, Clinical, Regulatory and Pr...
• Chad Plumb - Director of Continuous Improvement - WCG
• Nishat Premani - Manager - Huron Consulting Group
• Jessica Propps - Manager of Research Operations - Texas On...
• Motahar Qaadri - Director of Clinical REsearch - Center fo...
• Denise Quint - Principal Consultant - Denise Quint, LLC
• Suzanne Rose - Executive Director of Research - Stamford H...
• Jessica Rowe - Yale Cancer Center, Clinical Trials Office,...
• Eve Sakran - Executive Director of Research - Holy Cross H...
• Whit Sanders - Manager Clinical Research - Mercy Research
• Kylie Sands - Clinical Research Associate - St. Lawrence H...
• Dan Schell - Chief Editor - Clinical Leader
• Geoffrey Schick - Director, Strategic Site Partnerships -
• Andrew Shepperd - Executive Director, Founder of Project O...
• Sandy Smith - SVP - WCG
• Preeti Srivastava - Manager Clinical Research - Mercy Rese...
• Erin Stanley - Senior Director - Huron Consulting Group
• Rosemary Stefiniw - Director, Research Operations - Atlant...
• Deborah Suarez - Director - Baptist Health South Florida
• Peter Sullivan - Principal - Sullivan Group
• Michael Swartz - Executive Director, Deputy Chief Privacy
• Frank Tarlecki - Senior Specialist - Merck Sharp & Dohme L...
• Jess Thompson - CEO/Founder - Clinical Research Pro
• Jessica Thurmond - Program Director, Clinical Solutions &
• Jim Wagner - Co-founder and CEO - The Contract Network
• Maggie Wallendal - Enterprise Director, NCCT Pre-Award Adm...
• Melissa Waver - Research Policy Manager - University of Ca...
• LaTisha Weaver - Consultant - LDM Clinical Research Source...
• Sarah Weissman - Hospital for Special Surgery,
• Mary Westrick
• Kelly Willenberg - Manager, CEO - Kelly Willenberg & Assoc...
• Tiffany Yancey - Sr. Program Contracts Manager - Global Bi...
• Erin Yates - Director, Clinical Trials Office - LSU Health...