Managing and Communicating Clinical Trial Finances with Blake Peters

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clinical trial finance is a key area of clinical trials and clinical research. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Human beings are innately not good with numbers and clinical trial finance is no exception. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creating study budgets, forecasting clinical trial costs, and managing trial finances are essential skills for any clinical research professional. </span></p> <p>This is true for sites, vendors, CROs, and Sponsor personnel, irrespective of whether they have direct responsibility for clinical trial finances. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, I had the opportunity to speak with my friend Blake Peters who is exceptional at what he does with clinical trial finances.  </span></p> <p>Blake is currently an Associate Director, Clinical Research at Abbot Labs.  </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m excited to bring Blake on the show given his extensive experience managing multi-million dollar clinical trial budgets. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We had an excellent conversation on a variety of topics such as careers, being resourceful, clinical trial finance, storytelling and presentation skills, and much more. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I hope you enjoy this interview with Blake. </span></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakepeters/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Blake Peters</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> on LinkedIn.</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How does one make a transition into clinical research?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Core skills</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Bringing value to your team</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Helping clinical project managers forecast and estimate clinical trial costs<