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The Scope of ThingsAuthor: Clinical Research News
The Scope of Things podcast explores clinical research and its possibilities, promise, and pitfalls. Clinical Research News Senior Writer welcomes guests who are visionaries closest to the topics, but who can still see past their piece of the puzzle. Focusing on game-changing trends and out-of-the-box operational approaches in the clinical research field, the Scope of Things podcast is your no-nonsense, insiders look at clinical research today. Language: en-us Genres: Life Sciences, Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode: 49 - Mike Sullivan on AI and Clinical Operations in the Year 2030
Episode 49
Tuesday, 7 April, 2026
What will AI and clinical trials look like in the year 2030? Mike Sullivan, head of IT globally for development operations at Bristol Myers Squibb, joins The Scope of Things to discuss how creating value with AI depends on redesigning how clinical operations teams work. He covers the four pillars of what AI and clinical operations can look like in the next few years, as well as how AI will affect the job market. Plus, host Deborah Borfitz gives you the latest rundown on building the capacity to collaborate with patients, a new playbook for pediatric clinical trial reporting, lithium treatment for verbal memory decline, sex-specific effects of dementia, open-source database for scaling cancer trials, and a proposed 10-year trial of anti-obesity drugs for preventing obesity-related cancers. Show Notes News Roundup Power dynamics in researcher-patient relationships Study published in Health Expectations Playbook forpediatricclinical trial reporting Statement on reporting protocols published in The BMJ Statement on reprintng completed trials published in The BMJ Low-dose lithium for slowing verbal memory decline Study in JAMA Neurology News on the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center website Parkinson's-related protein linked to faster Alzheimer's progression in women Study in JAMA Network Open Press release on the Mayo Clinic website AstroID database for studying cancer Study in Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer News release on the Johns Hopkins website Anti-obesity drugs for preventing cancer News release from the European Congress on Obesity Guest Mike Sullivan, head of IT globally for development operations at Bristol Myers Squibb The Scope of Things podcast explores clinical research and its possibilities, promise, and pitfalls. Clinical Research News senior writer, Deborah Borfitz, welcomes guests who are visionaries closest to the topics, but who can still see past their piece of the puzzle. Focusing on game-changing trends and out-of-the-box operational approaches in the clinical research field, the Scope of Things podcast is your no-nonsense, insider’s look at clinical research today.









