LINK TO MEMBERS ONLY CENTRAL LAB WORK WEBPAGE
Welcome Message from the MCC Central Lab Steering Committee
Over 15 biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies and 6 central laboratories, including Covance's sponsorship and other central laboratories’ detailed critique and feedback have allowed the Metrics Champion Consortium (MCC) to produce a solid set of performance metrics that have already started some wonderful dialogue between Sponsor and Service Provider. Consistent with MCC’s mission, the utilization of these metrics will be the beginning of new relationships between companies as they seek to interpret, understand, and respond creatively to the opportunities that the metrics reveal.
MCC will be collecting these positive stories and sharing them at future MCC events. These metrics will serve as a tool to enable us to jointly encourage performance improvement, effectiveness, and efficiency in an industry under great pressures to improve. As more and more companies use these metrics, MCC anticipates great ideas to emerge. Shortly, MCC will be communicating a process and time line for revising these metrics in the future. In the mean time, please consider joining the MCC organization and participating in a Central Lab Performance Metrics Working Group. This will ensure that you have a future voice in the direction of the Central Lab Performance Metrics.
MCC Central Lab Metrics v1.1 Launched July 9, 2008
The MCC Central Lab Metrics Definition Refinement Work Group, comprised of sponsor and central lab representatives, completed its review of the Central Lab Performance Metrics version 1.0 and presented its recommendations to the MCC Central Lab Performance Metrics Steering Committee. The Steering Committee has accepted the recommendations and approved the release of the MCC Central Lab Performance Metrics version 1.1 which were discussed in a WebEx session on July 9, 2008. [link to archive recording]
Central Lab Performance Metrics 1.1 summary [pdf]
Invitation to Join a MCC Central Laboratory Performance Metrics Work Group
The MCC Central Laboratory Performance Metrics Steering Committee would like to extend an invitation to MCC members to participate in the MCC Central Laboratory Performance Metrics initiative in 2009. The Steering Committee will oversee two working groups, focusing on the following key areas:
- Data Collection Tool Development WG – This work group will discuss how sponsors are collecting /service providers are reporting MCC Central Laboratory Performance Metrics (version 1.1) and explore developing a set of data reporting templates.
- Implementation Shared Learning Case Study WG – This work group will discuss issues related to implementing and utilizing MCC metrics within individual organizations as well as Sponsor / Service Provider partnerships.
You and your colleagues are invited to participate in the work groups as work group participants. Typically, work groups meet once or twice a month via WebEx for 1 hour sessions. In addition, work group participants have access to a SharePoint collaborative workspace area of the MCC website where the group can share draft documents and hold online discussions related their work group tasks. Please note that any given individual may participate in one or more working groups. In addition, multiple individuals from the same company may participate in a single working group.
We look forward to working with all of you on this important initiative and hope you will decide to join a MCC Central Laboratory Performance Metrics work group. Please contact Linda Sullivan (lsullivan@metricschampion.org) if you are interested in joining a work group.
Thank you,
MCC Central Laboratory Performance Metrics Steering Committee
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Julie Debus-Levy |
Abbott Laboratories |
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Christina Workman |
AstraZeneca International |
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Ryan Hurd |
Covance Central Laboratory Services |
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Cynthia Lindemann |
Eli Lilly and Company |
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James Wardle |
Quest Diagnostics |
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Sindy Denyer |
Pfizer |
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