Meet Andrea Valks: Guiding the PIVO Trial Toward Safer Blood Sampling

Andrea Valks joined Claire Rickard’s research group in Infection Prevention and Vascular Access on 13th January as a Clinical Project Manager. Prior to joining the group, Andrea worked for 11 years in clinical research at the Australasian Kidney Trials Network at the University of Queensland.  She will bring her extensive experience managing international Investigator Initiated clinical trials to the PIVO Trial,  which aims to examine whether the use of the PIVO Pro at the initial PIVC start, compared to standard practice, decreases blood culture draw contamination rates.  The trial has received funding from BD under their CyberGrant scheme.

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