ExL Pharma's 3rd Clinical Budgeting and Contracting conference will provide attendees with the tools necessary to accurately draft budgets, ensure contracts are legally and ethically compliant, and learn strategic ways in which to effectively choose the right CRO. Our goal is to share with you lessons learned and case studies from top industry leaders who have "been there done that" and have come out on top. A few program highlights:

• CASE STUDY
  The complexities of negotiating a three-way government agreement and how it resulted in success
• BEST PRACTICES
  Successful strategies for site budget negotiations from the perspective of an academic
• PERSPECTIVES
  Pricing, payment, and termination schedules for CRO sourced studies

ExL Pharma's 7th Annual Clinical Performance Metrics & Benchmarking Summit is being held on December 8-9, 2011 in Philadelphia. This event provides you with best practices in making data and metrics more accessible to clinical trial stakeholders and decision makers. Some highlights include:

• LEVERAGING METRICS TO IMPROVE ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCEDiscussing the importance of placing metrics in a broader context and the role of strategic reviews in using metrics to drive process improvements
• USING METRICS TO ENHANCE RELATIONSHIPS WITH CROSUnderstanding how pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and CROs develop standardized metrics to drive process improvement