Sunday supper for twenty-four at a South Philadelphia social club, the night before the conference opens.
Six tables of four in a members-only rowhouse club that is opening on a Sunday, a night it is normally closed, for us alone. A menu from a Top Chef alum who trained at Le Bec-Fin and Del Posto, a bar that runs late, and twenty-four senior clinical leaders who are in town but not yet wearing a badge.
Name one trial from your portfolio when you RSVP and send the protocol and site list. We build its readiness diagnostic and financial impact model before the date. Both are at your place setting when you sit down, and yours to keep.
Ask for a seatMessina opened near 10th and Tasker around 1908, founded by Italian immigrants from Sicily as a place for newcomers to find work, practice English, and build community. Restored in 2019 under its original charter, it remains a members-only beneficial organization whose dues support local charities.
For one Sunday night, the club is opening only for us. Six tables of four, no lectern, no screen, and no badges. Four is the number where everybody talks and nobody has to perform.
Messina Social Club
1533 S 10th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
A Passyunk Square rowhouse club fifteen minutes from Center City. Dinner unfolds in the restaurant at the front, followed by a bar that stays open at the back. The room is ours for the night.
Eddie Konrad
Executive chef and partner, Messina Social Club
Konrad trained in classic French and Italian kitchens, at Le Bec-Fin in Philadelphia and Del Posto in New York, and spent years as chef de cuisine at Laurel before taking the kitchen at Messina as executive chef and partner. He cooks seasonal, ingredient-driven New American food, in small shared plates and multi-course tasting menus, which is the format the night is built around.
A conference dinner usually means a sponsor at the front of a function room, on the second night, when everyone is already tired of being sold to.
This one has two documents at each seat, and each set is about a trial the person sitting there actually runs. You name the trial when you RSVP. We build its Trial Readiness Diagnostic and Readiness Impact Model before the date.
Nobody presents. It is a dinner, and the documents are just the most interesting thing on the table.
Name one trial from your portfolio when you RSVP. We produce a full readiness diagnostic and a financial impact model on it, drawn from a health, SDOH and behavioral-determinants data universe of 350 million lives. Both are yours to keep, at no charge, with nothing owed afterwards.
A pair takes three days to build, which is why there are twenty-four seats and not two hundred. Trials are due 1 October. Your documents are yours alone. Nothing is projected, nothing is circulated, and nothing at the table is discussed unless you raise it.
Trial Readiness Diagnostic
Readiness Impact Model
62 readiness models drawn from a health, SDOH and behavioral-determinants data universe of 350 million lives. These are the same two documents sponsors commission, and a pair takes three days to build. Twenty-four of them is seventy-two days of work, sitting on six tables, and none of it is billed.
You RSVP and name a trial
Any trial in your portfolio. Running, planning, or the one that keeps you up.
You send the protocol and site list
By 1 October. That is everything we need and the last thing we ask of you.
We build both documents
Scored, sourced, and checked before printing. Nobody outside our team sees your protocol.
They are at your seat on 4 October
Printed, marked with your trial, and yours to take home whatever else the night does.
From a previous diagnostic
The proposed site list captured three percent of the national eligible pool, a quarter of that in a single state, on a trial that already had twice the obtainable patients it needed. The constraint was never volume.
Phase 2 psychiatry, United States, sponsor unnamed
Nobody stands up. No slides, no panel, and no moment where someone taps a glass and starts talking about a platform.
Cocktails at the front of the club, then supper. Your documents are at your place when you sit down. Read them, ignore them, or slide them into your bag for the flight home. Most people end up reading them, and most people end up sliding a page across to the other three, which is the whole idea.
Leave whenever you want, and take your documents with you either way.
Dietary requirements with your RSVP and the kitchen will take care of it.
Which component is binding on your trial, and did you already know?
Every diagnostic scores five components against a therapeutic-area benchmark and names the one that caps the rest. It is rarely the one the feasibility deck flagged, which is usually where the conversation starts.
On your impact model, which half of the money is sourced and which half is modeled?
The floor is protected value: dropout reduction and rescue avoidance, cash, in-trial, no approval assumption. Everything above it depends on one input your asset team owns.
Knowing this at feasibility, what would you have done differently?
The best answers of the night tend to come from people who already suspected the finding and never had anything to point at.
Heads of clinical development defending a recruitment plan and a budget in the same meeting.
Clinical operations leaders who inherit a site list chosen a year before they can do anything about it.
Feasibility and patient recruitment owners who need a defensible number, not a vendor claim.
Delegates attending Pharma Clinical Innovation USA 2026, director level and above, one seat per organization, and we seat the tables ourselves so no four ends up all from the same corner of the industry. Seats are confirmed by name and are not transferable.
John built the Trial Readiness Diagnostic, the Readiness Impact Model, and the 62-model library underneath both, so every input, benchmark and formula in the documents on the table is fair game over dinner. Brittany and Pete are there for the rest of it, and mostly for the company.
The note opens prefilled. Send it back with the trial you have in mind. Questions to johnseaner@jumohealth.com.
She opens Reuters Events Pharma Clinical Innovation USA on Monday 5 October, the morning after supper. From the stage she explains the method. The night before, you see what it finds in a trial of your own, which means you walk into her session already holding the evidence.
Eligibility Isn’t Enough
The Missing Variable in Clinical Trial Performance
Brittany Erana
Chief Executive Officer, Jumo Health
Monday 5 October · Pharma Clinical Innovation USA
Eligibility tells us who can participate. Readiness helps us understand what patients need to make participation possible.
Yet conventional recruitment still optimizes primarily for medical eligibility and speed through the funnel. This session explores how readiness can be measured early and continuously, and turned into an operating signal before preventable barriers become screen failure, dropout, enrollment volatility, or rescue.
Hosted and paid for by Jumo Health. An independent dinner for delegates attending Pharma Clinical Innovation USA 2026, not part of the conference program and not affiliated with or endorsed by Reuters Events. Attendance is not conditional on any commercial discussion. Where your organization requires disclosure or pre-approval of hospitality, we will provide a written value statement on request.