Del Smith, PhD

Eligibility criteria alone rarely predict enrollment, which depends more on trust, hope, and fear, requiring relationship-based community engagement paired with behavioral readiness assessments rather than transactional outreach.

In this Q&A, Del Smith, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Acclinate, discusses how structural and relational barriers continue to limit participation from underrepresented communities in clinical trials—and what it takes to build the kind of trust that translates into lasting research impact.

In this video interview, Del Smith, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Acclinate, explains how deep community relationships generate insights that improve protocol design, endpoint selection, and site placement, while building an on-ramp that compounds in value across future studies.

In this video interview, Del Smith, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Acclinate, outlines what a practical, sustained community engagement framework looks like in practice and how sponsors can translate that investment into faster, more efficient, and more representative enrollment.

In this video interview, Del Smith, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Acclinate, examines the structural and relational barriers that keep underrepresented communities out of clinical trials and explains how authentic, sustained community engagement differs from traditional recruitment outreach.