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Clinitude was established as Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) in 2006 by Sabrina Wijnen. Since then, Sabrina has been focusing on how to efficiently set-up, manage and monitor clinical studies. The focus on site centricity and patient centricity was already present at the start of Clinitude. Triggered by risk management and risk based monitoring and how the CRAs role in clinical studies was going to change in the future, Sabrina set up the CRA Liaison to support sites and CRAs to focus on what matters: Patients!
We know that clinical research is an integral part of improving patient care but over the years we have seen several trends such as clinical study protocols that have become more complex, more technology leading to decentralized clinical trials and more data points that need to be collected. This in conjunction with the respective regulations and guidelines and a change in site industry landscape, resulted in an increase of site responsibility and site activities in clinical studies.
To meet the clinical sites’ needs, Clinitude successfully piloted the Integrated Site Support Services (CIS2) in 2020. During the pandemic period this solution has proven to provide fast access to study data for Sponsors, an increased quality of all data. Another important outcome of this pilot is that the study team on site, including the investigators could focus on patients and increase recruitment and retention which created other opportunities within the clinical research site and their respective teams.
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“Sabrina Wijnen”
Founder and Managing Director
Sabrina Wijnen
Prior to CIS2, Sabrina co-founded Clinitude in 2006, together with Gert Monnissen. She is the Managing Director.
Prior to Clinitude, Sabrina worked in clinical research at well-respected international CROs such as PPD. She built 20 years of experience in managing clinical studies, in all different phases of clinical development.
With Clinitude, Sabrina started out to service the Belgian market first with high quality monitoring and project management services for clients such as I3 Research, GW Pharmaceuticals, Terumo and many more. Expansion to other European countries followed suit. In 2014 Sabrina set up operations in Asia, establishing a permanent offshore team in the Philippines.
3 years ago, Sabrina decided to focus quality and clinical research support from patients and site’s perspective. Together with the team several studies were piloted with CIS2 innovative solutions where the focus is on patient & site centricity. Clinical research sites were facing several challenges with workload, resources, timelines, quality and requested CIS2 to help them dealing with these challenges. CIS2 has shown to be a very cost efficient service, increasing quality and reducing delays with more than half. For all the clinical research sites that face several challenges, such as availability of resources, many administrative tasks that hinder the patient focus. CIS2 is a solution to face these challenges.
Sabrina’s mission is meeting and exceeding sites and patients expectations and keeping CIS2 on a fast growth path as CIS2 will revolutionize the clinical research for sites.
Senior Director
Siegfried Vanderbeke
Prior to CIS2, Siegfried joined Clinitude in 2020 as our Head of Clinical Operations. He currently holds the title of Senior Director.
Siegfried has more than 25 years in Clinical Research, both on a local and international level. He served as CRA, Project and Line Manager, Associate Director Clinical Operations, Managing Director and Consultant, in the pharmaceutical industry as well as in medium sized and large CRO environments.
Throughout his career, Siegfried was involved in more than 100 studies varying from phase 0 and first-in-human to pre- and post-marketing pharmaceutical and medical device trials. These studies, conducted among adults as well as children, covered all therapeutic areas.
Siegfried started his career as a nurse at the University Hospital of Brussels where he got in touch with and intrigued by clinical research.
Siegfried was the driving force or was involved in several initiatives focusing on solid collaboration with research sites and patient-networks, on early phase, on cross-functional collaboration, on continuous improvement, on operational effectiveness, and on innovation related to customer service and patient care.
Siegfried is passionate about finding the best solution for our sites and supporting the sites in their journey of challenges in clinical trials.
