On January 19 - 21, 2015, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law Program of Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center convened an international panel of experts at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland for a closed workshop entitled "Clinical Trial Recruitment: Problems, Misconceptions, and Possible Solutions." This workshop brought together investigators, patients, ethicists, lawyers, physicians, regulators, representatives from industry, and heads of the international organizations behind leading statements of research ethics, including the World Medical Association (WMA) and the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS), for three days focused on understanding whether there are barriers to clinical trial recruitment that could and should be overcome.

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