Join Health Research from Home for our next webinar where we will hear from Ed Ramos and Katie Baca Motes as they discuss their recently published remote trial in the metabolic health space, PROGRESS.
Ed Ramos, PhD, is a leader in digital clinical trials and real-world evidence generation with nearly 20 years of experience across academia, government, and industry. As Co-founder of the Scripps Research Digital Trials Center, he oversees digital clinical trial strategy and implementation for remote and hybrid studies. Ed also serves as COO and CSO of GSD Health Research, supporting technology-enabled clinical research. Previously at the NIH, he contributed to major precision medicine and genomics initiatives, including the All of Us Research Program. He is Principal Investigator of the PROGRESS metabolic study, with expertise in integrating multimodal data to advance large-scale, participant-driven trials.
Katie Baca-Motes is a leader in digital clinical trials and decentralized research, with over ten years’ experience in designing and running large-scale, technology-enabled studies. As Co-founder of the Scripps Research Digital Trials Center, she has led pioneering remote studies using real-world data and participant-driven models.
She is CEO of GSD Health Research, collaborating with industry and academic partners to make clinical research more accessible and scalable. Her work centers on real-world data collection and participant-centric study design.
Katie has contributed to national research programs, including All of Us, and works across academia, industry, and healthcare to foster more inclusive clinical research.
This webinar will highlight findings from the metabolic health study PROGRESS, a large-scale, fully remote, multimodal clinical study conducted at the Scripps Research Digital Trials Center, with a focus on study design, execution, and key learnings.
Ed and Katie will walk through how diverse data streams including continuous glucose monitoring, wearable data, nutrition, biospecimens, and EHR data were integrated within a longitudinal, participant-driven study design. Particular emphasis will be placed on how behavioural strategies, including incentives, nudges, and return of data, were incorporated to support engagement over time.
Beyond the study results, they will share a practical perspective on what it takes to operationalise complex digital trials at scale, including what worked well, where challenges emerged, and what they would approach differently in future studies. The goal is to provide a candid, experience-based perspective on what it takes to successfully design and execute these types of studies.
