The Deans’ Clinical Trials Advisory Group provides strategic leadership and fosters cross-school collaboration to enhance the quality and impact of clinical research. The group guides policy development, prioritization, and resource allocation, ensuring alignment with institutional goals while supporting investigators and promoting excellence in clinical trial conduct.

This Advisory Group is a vital forum for active clinical trialists and their support staff to provide direct, actionable feedback, identify operational challenges, and propose solutions aimed at enhancing the efficiency, quality, and effectiveness of clinical trial conduct. This governance structure, advises and provides strategic counsel to the leadership of the UAB Academic Research Organization—Clinical Trials (ARO-CT).

This group is charged with improving and streamlining existing clinical research workflows, including RedCap, CBR Tracker, OnCore, budgeting, pricing, and FBS/BA4 processes. It addresses outstanding issues with the Hospital Billing Office and Finance, such as LOAs for device trials, and works to simplify pricing and coordination with ancillary research units, including radiology, hospital labs, specimen processing, and the biorepository. Additionally, the group reviews and enhances departmental awareness and training initiatives to support more efficient and effective study management outcomes.