Critical Path Institute’s Dr. Diane Stephenson joins host Alaina Webster to discuss the importance of data sharing to improve patient care, particularly in Neuroscience. Diane and her co-authors recently published a Review, “Can Innovative Trial Designs in Orphan Diseases Drive Advancement of Treatments for Common Neurological Diseases?”, in the April Neuroscience-themed issue of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and she ties this work into successful data sharing models and their impact on patient outcomes. Critical Path Institute has accumulated more than 300 clinical data studies across 15+ disease areas, and its repository of data currently includes information on the following neuroscience diseases: Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, ataxias, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis.
Tagged: Best Practices
Peer Review: What’s the Best Way to Organize My Review?
Host Alaina Webster sits down with Dr. Jonathan French to discuss the best organizational practices for a review – both from an associated editor’s standpoint and from an author’s. Jonthan, an Associate Editor for CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology, delves into why he appreciates reviews that are broken up into three sections as well as why ASCPT’s journals ask for comments to the editor as well as the reviewer.
You can access PSP’s Reviewer Instructions and contact the editorial office to volunteer as a reviewer here.
Peer Review: After the Review
In the fourth episode in the peer review series, Dr. Stefanie Hennig joins host Alaina Webster to walk you through what editors do with a review once it’s received. Stefanie, an Associate Editor for CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology details her first steps upon receiving a review, how much a reviewer’s opinion influences her decision on a manuscript, and how she decides is reviewers are needed for a revised manuscript.
You can access PSP’s Reviewer Instructions and contact the editorial office to volunteer as a reviewer here.
Peer Review: What’s Not Helpful in a Review?
ClinPharmPod’s peer review series continues as host Alaina Webster is chats with Dr. Richard Peck about what to avoid when completing a review. They cover what’s too little and what’s too much in a review, the appropriate tone to strike when providing feedback, and the tricky topic that is unconscious bias.
You can access CPT’s Reviewer Instructions and contact the editorial office to volunteer as a reviewer here.
Peer Review: What’s Most Important in a Review?
In the second installment of ClinPharmPod’s six-part peer review series, host Alaina Webster is joined by returning guest Dr. Deanna Kroetz, Professor at the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of Bioengineering Therapeutic Sciences and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Clinical and Translational Science (CTS). They break down the top three things Deanna looks for when undertaking a peer review as well as the importance of peer review to sound science.
You can access CTS’s Reviewer Instructions here.