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February is Rare Disease Month—a time to shine a light on the 300 million people worldwide affected by rare diseases. Our team is committed to supporting #ClinicalTrials across all therapeutic areas and ensuring every patient has access to the care and research they deserve. 💡 Explore how we’re working to make a difference in this month’s newsletter. #RareDiseaseDay

We’ve spent three decades perfecting that ‘big idea’ glow. 🌟 Whether it’s navigating site reimbursement in Italy or arranging taxi rides for patients in Spain, everything we do is designed to keep the spotlight on the real people that make clinical research possible. Ready to Scout out your study? 🔗 in the comments!

New on the blog 🌟 Courtney Dodge shares her personal story and thoughts on prioritizing patient care to advance compassionate clinical trials.

We’re feelin’ A-OK in OKC! The Scout team’s pumped to be in town for #SaveOurSites2025 🥳 Erin Skipper & Caitlin Becker Scout has got some exciting things in the works to better support site staff—and we’d love to talk to you about them! Come and chat at booth 12.

Rally for Rare was a community-led event to show support for rare disease patients, families, caregivers, and our researchers at the NIH and FDA. A massive thank you to Worldwide Clinical Trials and the team that worked extremely long hours to get this event up and running in one week: Sara Davis, Peter Lammers, Mary Gelovich, Megan Guess, Heather Varela, Kayra L. Velez, BBA, Amy Raymond, PhD, PMP, Juliane Mills, and Nathan Chadwick. Thank you to Scout for lending us meeting support through the fantastic James Lyden. The meeting ran flawlessly because of him. We had a stacked agenda with our fantastic speakers. Although we had limited time to discuss topics, slides, and logistics, our speakers delivered. Thank you to Michele Herndon, DNP, RN, Ashley S. Thompson, MS, CGC, Kristen Wheeden, Gabrielle Conecker, JayEtta Hecker, Lindsey Wahlstrom, Cody Barnett, Lukas Lange, mary mcgowan, Susannah Fox, and Noah Siedman! If you missed the event, we are working on getting the recording out to everyone who is interested. More to come around #RallyforRare and #RareDiseaseDay!

We could go on and on about removing financial barriers to participation. Or, we could just get your patients paid. Patient payments done their way, on their schedule. Talk about smart stipends, right? #PatientSupport #PatientPayments

One #EmployeeAppreciationDay a year isn’t enough to show our gratitude for the compassion, collaboration, and service-minded approach our team displays every day. Clinical research is highly complex—so is being able to provide the level of service we hold ourselves to every day. Across our organization, everything we do is deeply interconnected, and every Scout team member is vital. So to our employees, thank you!

Is it too late to make a New Year's resolution? We’re more committed than ever to swearing off “synergistic strategies” and “streamlining our deliverables.” Less “moving the needle.” More moving people. (Because frankly, we don’t have the bandwidth to circle back again. 🤪)

The Equitable Access to Clinical Trials: Best Practices for Industry Webinar is THIS WEDNESDAY, March 5. Key Account Director Jill McNair, MBA will speak on Compensation Types & Alignment on Key Terminology as part of a panel of industry experts. Don’t miss it! 🔗 in the comments #EACT #EACTProject #EquitableAccessToClinicalTrials