Washington State

Topic: Working with Non-English Speaking Patient Populations in Clinical Research

Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Speaker: Dacia Christin, MPH
Clinical Research Program Manager
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

Dacia Christin, Clinical Research Program Manager, has over nine years of experience managing and coordinating clinical, epidemiological, and qualitative studies at CRAB, an oncology clinical research organization. With a master’s in public health and fluency in four languages, Dacia specializes in international scientific collaborations. As part of her role at CRAB, she currently works with a National Cancer Institute cooperative group research base advocating for inclusion of Latin American institutions in the trial enrollment process. She also provides education for clinical research staff recruiting non-English speaking populations.

Topics will include:

• Use of short and long form consents in languages other than English
• Developing institutional consent policies for limited or non-English speaking populations
• Challenges and opportunities for recruitment and retention

There will also be an open exchange for attendees to share their experiences and learn from each other.

Whether you are new to working across language/cultural barriers or have extensive experience in this area, we welcome your attendance and encourage active discussion.

Please join this collaborative session focused on improving engagement with non-English speaking patients.

CEU: SOCRA members may claim up to 1.0 SoCRA CEU for SoCRA recertification.

Location: Virtual
Register through the following REDCap form and select RSVP for an upcoming meeting.
• REDCap Link: https://redcap.link/socraWA

Questions, please contact Evonne Lackey (Evonne.Lackey@swedish.org) or Roger Goosey (gooseyra@gmail.com).