DIA 48th Annual Meeting
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Social Media: The Promise and Pitfalls for Patient Recruitment
Track : Track 01: Clinical Operations
Program Code: 126
Date: Monday, June 25, 2012
Time: 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM  EST
CHAIR :
 Jane Myles, Genentech, A Member of the Roche Group, United States
PRESENTER (S):
Richard Mayewski, Merck & Co., Inc., United States
 Elizabeth Moench, MediciGlobal, United States
 Rodney Butt, Hamilton Medical Consultants Group, Canada
Description
Social media has huge potential as a new set of tools to drive patient recruitment. How do you use it and what happens when you do? In this symposium, we will offer both successes and lessons learned from trying social media as a recruitment strategy.

Learning Objectives:
Describe various different social media applications and their use in patient recruitment
Discuss how to create and monitor social media content including the internal review process
Share metrics used to assess the effectiveness of social media strategies to drive patient recruitment.