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Public Workshop – Study Methodologies for Diagnostics in the Postmarket Setting, May 12, 2011

April 28, 2011 By U.S. Food & Drug Administration

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a public workshop of Study Methodologies for Diagnostics in the Postmarket Setting.

The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion among FDA, governmental agencies, academia, physicians and various stakeholders with expertise in epidemiology, statistics, diagnostics and biomedical research to advance the methodologies for diagnostics in the postmarket setting.

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Date, Time and Location

This meeting will be held May 12, 2011, beginning at 8.30 a.m. at the following location:

FDA White Oak Campus

10903 New Hampshire Ave

The Great Room (Room 1503), White Oak Conference Center, Bldg 31

Silver Spring, MD, 20903

This meeting will be webcast and registration will be required.

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Food and drinks will be available for purchase by participants during the meeting breaks.

Draft Agenda

8:30-8:40AM Study Methodology for Diagnostics in the Postmarket Setting
8:30-8:35AM Welcome and Announcements – Hui-Lee Wong, PhD, Epidemiologist, Division of Epidemiology, FDA/CDRH/OSB
8:35-8:40AM Opening Remarks – William Maisel, MD,MPH, Deputy Director for Science, FDA/CDRH
8:40-9:30AM Session 1: Evaluation of Diagnostic Devices through Total Product Life Cycle

Moderator: Hesha Duggirala, PhD, Epidemiologist, Division of Epidemiology, FDA/CDRH/OSB

8:40- 9:00AM Premarket Evaluation of Diagnostics

Robert L. Kramm, MD, Medical Officer, FDA/CDRH/ODE

Robert L. Becker Jr, MD, Chief Medical Officer, FDA/CDRH/OIVD

9:00-9:20AM   Postmarket Surveillance of Diagnostics

Jill Marion, Team Leader, Division of Patient Safety Partnerships, FDA/CDRH/OSB

Jean M. Cooper, DVM, Associate Director, Surveillance and Outreach Programs/FDA/CDRH/OIVD

9:20-9:30 AM

Unique Opportunities for Advancing the Methods and Infrastructure for Postmarket Studies of Medical Devices

Danica Marinac-Dabic , MD , PhD, Director, Division of Epidemiology, FDA/CDRH/OSB

9:30-9:40AM BREAK
9:40-11:45AM Session 2: Potential Gaps in the Postmarket Studies and Surveillance of Diagnostic Devices

Moderator: Ellen Pinnow, MS, Branch Chief, Division of Epidemiology, FDA/CDRH/OSB

9:40-9:55AM Current Methodological Challenges of In Vitro Diagnostics at the Postmarket Setting

Steve Gutman, MD, MBA, BlueCross Blue Shield Evidence Based Practice Center

9:55-10:10AM Point-of-care Diagnostics in Post-Approval Settings

Elliot Cowan, PhD, Chief, Product Review Branch, Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, FDA/CBER/OBRR

10:10-10:25AM Postmarket Surveillance of Medical X-ray Imaging

CAPT Sean M. Boyd, MPH, Deputy Director, Division of Mammography Quality and Radiation Programs, FDA/CDRH/OCER

10:25-10:40AM Gaps and Challenges of Diagnostics for Glaucoma

Gadi Wollstein, MD, Associate Professor and Director, Ophthalmic Imaging Research Laboratories University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

10:40-10.55AM Framework for Postmarket Study Design for Diagnostics in Primary Care

Matthew Thompson, MD, MPH, DPhil, Associate Professor, Oregon Health and Science University

10.55-11.10AM Cardiac Monitoring Devices: Clinical Alarm Fatigue

Barbara J. Drew, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAHA, Lillian and Dudley Aldous Professor of Nursing Science Clinical Professor of Medicine, Cardiology University of California, San Francisco

11:10-11:45PM PANEL: Potential Gaps and How We Can Address Them

Moderator: Kristen Meier, PhD, Mathematical Statistician, FDA/CDRH/OSB

Felipe Aguel, PhD, FDA/CDRH/ODE

Steve Gutman, MD, MBA

Elliot Cowan, PhD

CAPT Sean M. Boyd, MPH

Gadi Wollstein , MD

Matthew Thompson, MD, MPH, DPhil

Barbara J. Drew, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAHA

11:45-12:45PM LUNCH (on your own)
12:45-3:10PM Session 3: Methodologies for Postmarket Studies for Diagnostic Devices

Moderator: XueYing Sharon Liang, MD, PhD, Epidemiologist, Division of Epidemiology, FDA/CDRH/OSB

12:45-1:00PM Direct Measures of Diagnostic Utility Based on Diagnostic Risk Models

Frank E. Harrell Jr, PhD, Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

1:00-1:15PM Examining Cardiovascular Imaging with Instrumental Variable Techniques in Medicare Enrollment and Claims Databases

Jersey Chen, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

1:15-1:30PM Methodological Issues in Postmarketing Surveillance of Diagnostic Imaging Modalities

Ilana Gareen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Brown University

1:30-1:40PM BREAK
1:40-1:55PM Postmarket Surveillance of Rapid Human Immunodeficiency Virus Assays

Laura G. Wesolowski, PhD, Epidemiologist, National Center for HIV/AIDS , Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

1:55-2:10PM Epidemiological Resources in the US Armed Forces for Surveillance of Diagnostic Devices

Robert F. DeFraites, MD MPH, COL MC, Director, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center

2:10-2:25PM Evaluation of Semi-automated Liquid-based Cytology Tests Using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Databases

Marina Kondratovich, PhD,Associate Director for Clinical Studies, FDA/CDRH/OIVD

2:25-3:00PM PANEL: Next Steps for Study Methodologies

Moderator: Estelle Russek-Cohen, PhD, Deputy Director, FDA/CBER/OBE

Gene Pennello, PhD

Frank E. Harrell Jr. PhD

Jersey Chen, MD, MPH

Ilana Gareen, PhD

Laura G. Wesolowski, PhD, CDC

Robert F. DeFraites, MD MPH

Marina Kondratovich, PhD

3:00-3:10PM BREAK
3:10-5:10PM Session 4: Evidence Synthesis and Knowledge Management for Diagnostic Devices

Moderator: Michelle Tarver-Carr, MD, PhD, Epidemiologist, Division of Epidemiology, FDA/CDRH/OSB

3:10-3:25PM Meta-analyses for Evaluating Performance of Medical Tests

Thomas A. Trikalinos, MD, PhD, Co-Director Tufts Evidence-based Practice Center, Associate Director, Center for Clinical Evidence Synthesis

Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center

3:25-3:40PM Bringing Together Evidence Generation and Evidence Synthesis to Improve Colon Cancer Genetic Testing and Treatment Decisions

Katrina A.B. Goddard, PhD, Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Center for Health Research Northwest

3:40-3:55PM Comparative-Effectiveness of Imaging Tools

Gregory Klein, PhD, Senior Researcher, University of Washington

3:55-4:10AM Electronic Health Records for the Postmarket Assessment of Diagnostics: Patient Community

Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, Co-Director, Centers of Disease and Control Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics; Associate Professor, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

4:10-4:25PM Exploration and Visualization of Postmarket Data

Jian Ying Hu, PhD, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, International Business Machine (IBM) Corp.

4:25-5:00PM PANEL: Future Directions

Danica Marinac-Dabic, MD, PhD

Steve Gutman, MD, MBA

Wendy Nilsen, PhD, National Institutes of Health

Zivan Tezak, FDA/CDRH/OIVD

Thomas A. Trikalinos, MD

Katrina A.B. Goddard, PhD

Gregory Klein, PhD

Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH

Jian Ying Hu, PhD

5:00-5:15 PM WRAP-UP and SUMMARY

Biosketches

TIME SPEAKER NAME BIOSKETCH
8:40-9:00AM Robert L. Kramm, MD Dr. Lee Kramm is a board certified Ophthalmologist with a Masters’ degree in Biomedical Engineering. He earned his graduate degree from the Tulane University School of Engineering and his medical degree is from the University of Miami School of Medicine. Following medical school he received general and surgical training in Ophthalmology from the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute at the University of Colorado in Denver. He is currently a medical officer and scientific reviewer in the Division of Ophthalmic, Neurological and ENT Devices in the Office of Device Evaluation where he has served for four years.
8:40-9:00AM Robert L. Becker Jr, MD Robert Becker is Chief Medical Officer for the Office of In Vitro Diagnostic Devices Evaluation and Safety (OIVD), Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), FDA, with special attention to inter-office coordination on regulation of newly emerging genetic/genomic IVD’s. Dr. Becker previously served as Director, Division of Hematology and Immunology Devices, in OIVD. He is experienced in regulation of IVD’s aimed at cell- and tissue-based specimens (e.g. classical hematology, flow cytometry, cytology, histopathology), plus blood coagulation tests, and immunoserologic tests. Dr. Becker earned his MD and PhD in Immunology at Duke University, and he is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. He served in the United States Air Force as a pathologist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC from 1983 to 2004, specializing in urologic pathology and with research and clinical service applying image analysis and flow cytometry to diagnostic pathology.
9:00-9:20AM Jill Marion  
9:00-9:20AM Jean M. Cooper  
9:20-9:30AM Danica Marinac-Dabic, MD, PhD Danica Marinac-Dabic, MD, PhD is a Director of the Division of Epidemiology at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration. She is a physician and epidemiologist with the background in obstetrics, gynecology and perinatal epidemiology. Dr. Marinac-Dabic leads three postmarket programs at CDRH:

(1) Post-Approval Studies Program, that encompasses the design, review, monitoring and oversight of the post-approval studies mandated as a condition of approval;

(2) Postmarket Surveillance Studies Program, in charge of postmarket studies mandated under Section 522 of the Act; and

(3) Epidemiologic Research Program, designed to build medical device regulatory research infrastructure and conduct independent epidemiologic research studies to ensure CDRH science-based regulatory decision making. Dr. Marinac-Dabic serves as the Chair of the CDRH Human Subject Research Review Committee, the Chair of the CDRH Epidemiologic Research Council and the Member of the FDA Research Quality Assurance Board. Dr. Marinac-Dabic earned her M.D., Master of Science Degree in Human Reproduction and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Belgrade Medical School, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Dr. Marinac-Dabic is the author of several book chapters, manuscripts and presentations on various topics in the field of medical device epidemiology and surveillance.

9:40-9:55AM Steve Gutman, MD, MBA, Dr. Gutman is an Associate Director of Technical Evaluation Center at BlueCross BlueShield; he joined the program in January 2010.  He was previously professor of pathology and a founding member of the University of Central Florida’s new medical school.  Prior to that, he was with the FDA for 17 years as a regulatory scientist, where he was a founding member and director of the Office of In Vitro Diagnostic Evaluation and Safety (OIVD) within the Center for Devices and Radiological Health.  OIVD regulates in-home and laboratory diagnostic tests; as a result of his experience, Dr. Gutman has broad clinical knowledge as well as extensive expertise in evaluating evidence supporting diagnostic test utility.  Earlier, he served as chief of the Clinical Laboratory at the Buffalo Veteran’s Administration Center.  He has been a prolific speaker at many different types of meetings throughout his career, and has recently been invited to serve on panels convened by the Institute of Medicine and the College of American Pathologists.
9:55-10:10AM Elliot Cowan, PhD,  
10:10-10:25AM CAPT Sean M. Boyd, CAPT Sean M. Boyd serves as a Director Regulatory Operations Officer and Acting Deputy Director of the Division of Mammography Quality and Radiation Programs in the Office of Communication, Education and Radiation Programs at FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). In this capacity he is responsible for CDRH enforcement programs that ensure the safe manufacture of x-ray systems used for medical diagnostic imaging. These programs also ensure quality of mammographic procedures performed by facilities in the U.S., which aid in the early detection of breast cancer. CAPT Boyd joined CDRH in 1999, and since that time has managed several aspects of FDA’s electronic radiation control program impacting a variety of medical, consumer and commercial electronic products. Previously in CDRH, he worked in the areas of device electromagnetic compatibility and radiation therapy medical devices. CAPT Boyd began his career as a regulatory researcher and engineering analyst with FDA’s Winchester Engineering and Analytical Center in Winchester, MA. He received his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University and his Masters in Public Health from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
10:25-10:40AM Gadi Wollstein, MD,  
10:40-10:55AM Matthew Thompson, MD, MPH, DPhil.,   Dr Thompson is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, and Senior Clinical Scientist at the University of Oxford Department of Primary Health Care. He has extensive experience in primary care research, particularly in the areas of infectious disease, paediatrics, and diagnostics. He is Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Monitoring and Diagnosis (www.madox.org), a research center funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research which is dedicated to improving diagnostic and monitoring strategies used for acute and chronic conditions in primary care. This initiative also includes a horizon scanning system for new and emerging diagnostic technologies. Other ongoing research studies include primary research and systematic reviews of diagnostics in primary care, particularly the use of new diagnostic and point of care technologies. Dr Thompson has over 60 peer reviewed publications, and has been awarded major grant funding from the UK’s National Institute of Health Research, and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programmes. Dr Thompson’s clinical background is in Family Medicine. He is a member of the HTA Programme Diagnostics and Screening Panel in the UK, and is Editorial Advisor to several medical journals including the British Medical Journal.
10:55-11:10AM Barbara J. Drew, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAHA,  
12:45-1:00PM Frank E. Harrell Jr  
1:00-1:15PM Jersey Chen, MD, MPH  
1:15-1:30PM Ilana Gareen, PhD Dr. Ilana Gareen is an epidemiologist in the Department of Community Health at Brown University.  Dr. Gareen’s research focuses on evaluating new and existing medical technologies. Her work concentrates on the comparative effectiveness of diagnostic imaging tests, including the downstream consequences of medical interventions, in particular the impact that these new technologies have on the medical system, patient health, and patient quality of life. Dr. Gareen has been with the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) since its inception.  She has worked on multiple studies evaluating diagnostic imaging technologies and their impact on patient health, including the National Lung Screening Trial, The National CT Colonography Trial, and the National Oncologic PET Registry.  In addition, she is a co-investigator in the Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research in Cancer Imaging, where she is working with collaborators to merge data from the NLST and NOPR with data from the Centers for Medicare Services to evaluate post-imaging health outcomes and health care utilization.  Dr. Gareen has been interested in the issue of Postmarketing surveillance of medical technologies since early in her research career when she examined the association of intrauterine devices and pelvic inflammatory disease.
1:40-1:55PM Laura G. Wesolowski  
1:55-2:10PM Robert F. DeFraites  
2:10-2:25PM Marina Kondratovich  
3:10-3:25PM Thomas A. Trikalinos, MD, PhD Dr Thompson is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, and Senior Clinical Scientist at the University of Oxford Department of Primary Health Care. He has extensive experience in primary care research, particularly in the areas of infectious disease, paediatrics, and diagnostics. He is Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Monitoring and Diagnosis (www.madox.org), a research center funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research which is dedicated to improving diagnostic and monitoring strategies used for acute and chronic conditions in primary care. This initiative also includes a horizon scanning system for new and emerging diagnostic technologies. Other ongoing research studies include primary research and systematic reviews of diagnostics in primary care, particularly the use of new diagnostic and point of care technologies. Dr Thompson has over 60 peer reviewed publications, and has been awarded major grant funding from the UK’s National Institute of Health Research, and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programmes. Dr Thompson’s clinical background is in Family Medicine. He is a member of the HTA Programme Diagnostics and Screening Panel in the UK, and is Editorial Advisor to several medical journals including the British Medical Journal.
3:25-3:40PM Katrina A.B. Goddard, PhD Dr. Goddard is a genetic epidemiologist and biostatistician who focuses on identifying genetic risk factors for various diseases and population-level genetic surveillance. She has been active in genetic research for complex diseases, including prostate cancer, esophageal cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetic nephropathy, cystic fibrosis, severity of symptoms from dengue infection, and genetic risk factors for obstetrical conditions. She is a Co-PI for the ARRA-funded CERGEN study to conduct comparative effectiveness research on genomic applications for colon cancer. She is also a Co-PI for a Knowledge Synthesis Center to synthesize evidence on current and emerging genetic tests and support translation of evidence into clinical and policy recommendations. Dr. Goddard is the director of the NW Biobank, a resource developed to promote genomic research that includes biological samples linked to electronic medical record data from Kaiser Permanente members. She serves on the Board of Directors for the International Genetic Epidemiology Society, and she has been the chair of the Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues Committee for this organization.
3:40-3:55PM Gregory Klein, PhD Gregory Klein is a Senior Researcher in the Health Services Department at the University of Washington. He is currently serving as Director of the ADVancing  Innovative Comparative  Effectiveness Research in Cancer Diagnostics (ADVICE) project, an ARRA-funded CER joint effort with investigators from the University of Washington, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle. Dr. Klein has a multi-faceted background in medical imaging in the academic and commercial worlds, with an emphasis towards quantitative analysis of PET and MRI data. Prior to his appointment at the University of Washington, he was President and CEO of QuantifiCare, Inc., a core lab that developed imaging devices and managed image-based endpoints for drug and device clinical trials. In previous academic positions at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Klein developed imaging reconstruction and quantification methodologies for advanced imaging techniques with applications to oncology, cardiology and neurology. Dr. Klein’s current research focus is comparative effectiveness and cost analyses of imaging diagnostics.
3:55-4:10AM Kenneth Mandl, MD Dr. Mandl has innovated and published extensively in the areas of personally controlled health records, disease outbreak detection, public health surveillance, and national health information infrastructure. Recognized for his teaching and research, he has received the Barger Award for Excellence in Mentoring at Harvard Medical School and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government to outstanding scientists and engineers. Mandl co-directs a CDC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics. He is a leader of the SMArtPlatforms project—part of a major federal initiative seeking to create an “app store” for health. Mandl is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the CDC and of Lister Hill Center Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Library of Medicine. He is an attending physician in pediatric emergency medicine, a faculty member in the Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics and affiliated faculty at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
4:10-4:25PM Jian Ying Hu, PhD Jianying Hu is a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY. She received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from SUNY Stony Brook in 1993. Prior to joining IBM she was with Bell Labs from 1993 to 2000, and Avaya Labs Research from 2001 to 2003.  Her main research interests include statistical pattern recognition, machine learning and data mining, with applications to healthcare informatics, business analytics, document analysis, and multimedia content analysis and retrieval. She served as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 2001 to 2005, associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence from 2006 to 2010, and Chair of Technical Committee on Reading Systems of the International Association for Pattern Recognition from 2004 to 2008. She is currently on the editorial board of the journals Pattern Recognition, and International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition. Dr. Hu is a fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition and a senior member of IEEE.

 

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The deadline for online registration will be Thursday, May 5, 2011.

If you need special accommodations due to a disability, please contact Susan Monahan at 301-796-5661, at susan.monahan@fda.hhs.gov at least 7 days in advance of the meeting.

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