Videos

Led by the moderator, the panelists/expert pharmacists examined common specialty pharmacy and insurance barriers facing patients starting tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy, sharing proactive strategies such as pre-identifying patient assistance and quick-start programs, securing copay assistance and grant funding, and writing data-driven appeal letters to support payer approvals.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Claudia R. Morris, MD, lead investigator and author of the phase 3 STArT trial and a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, discussed the need for more meaningful end points in sickle cell pain trials, future research targeting acute chest syndrome, and how pharmacists can improve the collection of opioid-use data.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Claudia R. Morris, MD, lead investigator and author of the phase 3 STArT trial and a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, discussed how treatment timing and patient heterogeneity may inform the design of future sickle cell pain trials.