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DPHARM 2026

  • Start Date:

    15 Sep 2026

  • End Date:

    16 Sep 2026

  • Location:

    Boston, MA

  • Region:

    North America

  • Booth #:

    115

Reimagining recruitment for patients and sites through AI

PPD™ Patient First Digital Solutions (PFDS) is a patient-centered, digitally enabled ecosystem that helps clinical trial sponsors identify, engage, and retain the right patients for their studies—de-risking enrollment timelines and site performance across the full trial lifecycle.

Visit us at DPHARM booth 115 to meet our experts and learn how our AI innovations can optimize your solutions across trial activates.

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Presentation highlight

From friction to enrollment: Reimagining recruitment for patients and sites through AI

Tuesday, September 15 | 11:55 a.m.

Key takeaways

  • Discover how an end-to-end recruitment model brings together data, digital activation, AI, and operational expertise to modernize how patients are identified, engaged, and enrolled.
  • Understand how predictive insights and continuous optimization can help sponsors move from reactive recruitment tactics to a more intelligent, performance-driven strategy.
  • Learn how innovation across the recruitment journey can improve speed, precision, patient engagement, and trial execution.
Altair Silva

Speaker: Altair Silva 

Executive Director and Head of LOCATE

  • Altair Silva is an Executive Director and Head of LOCATE at ThermoFisher Scientific, where he is also part of the Patient First Digital Solutions leadership team. A strategic leader with close to 20 years of experience at the forefront of patient recruitment and retention, Altair has a proven track record of leading high-performing teams to develop and execute strategic initiatives that enhance efficiency and accelerate enrollment in phase I-IV clinical trials.