Transforming Compliance Culture: A “Wellness Visit” Approach to Advancing Research Quality

About this session

Compliance in clinical research is often perceived as reactive, audit-driven, and enforcement-focused—creating barriers between compliance programs and study teams. This session presents a transformative, practical model that redefines compliance as a proactive, relationship-centered, and educational function that drives measurable improvements in research quality and efficiency.

Using Tampa General Hospital’s Quality Review Program (QRP) as a case study, this session introduces a novel framework positioning compliance as *“a wellness visit for your research”—*a collegial, structured approach that emphasizes continuous improvement, stakeholder engagement, and early risk identification

Participants will gain actionable strategies to:

Build and sustain a compliance culture rooted in partnership and shared accountability

Connect compliance activities to stakeholder value and operational outcomes

Leverage education and advocacy to improve engagement and adoption

Implement scalable, risk-based quality review frameworks

Strengthen collaboration across clinical, operational, and compliance teams

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, participants should be able to:

Define Compliance Culture and describe how it differs from traditional oversight models

Explain what compliance does, why it matters, and how it delivers value to stakeholders

Identify key components required to successfully implement a proactive compliance framework

Apply strategies to build trust, engagement, and relationships with research teams

Develop an approach to scale compliance programs using education, data, and risk-based methodologies

Speakers

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  Kelsey Bratton

  Portfolio Director · Flourish Research

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  Angela Brinkley

  Research Compliance Manager · Tampa General Hospital

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