STUDY LAUNCH (VIRTUAL CALL), JANUARY 2018

Prior to study launch, the study teams across Canada and US met over a virtual toast to celebrate this milestone. At this call, the PIs of each site had the opportunity to virtually introduce their study teams to each other and get to know their counterparts across the border.

ENGAGEMENT TEAM MEETING, HOUSTON, FEBRUARY 2019

The Engagement Research Team held their first in-person meeting in Houston, TX on Feb 20-21, 2019. The team met to discuss the status of the trial, as well as plans for future stakeholder engagement activities. In addition, our Engagement leads, Dr. Fitch and Dr. Macdonald, led discussions on the review of the engagement process to-date, as well as plans for data analysis and knowledge dissemination.

INVESTIGATORS MEETING, TORONTO, OCTOBER 2019

The first annual PRO-ACTIVE Investigators’ Meeting was hosted in Toronto in October 2019. This was the first opportunity of its kind for site leadership and their teams to all come together and meet with the Co-PIs and the engagement leads, to share lessons learned and current challenges across all sites. As part of this meeting, each site also engaged in discussions brainstorming how best to address their site’s unique challenges in areas of recruitment, retention and data fidelity, and had the opportunity to review engagement stakeholder recommendations as a guide to address their challenges.