Innovating Clinical Trials

Ep 2.29: "That's Not a Performance Problem, It's a Structural One" Scott Burgher on Why Sites Stop Recruiting (Part 2/3)

August 13, 2026·16 min
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In Part 2 of this three-part conversation, Liam and Ted continue with Scott Burgher, Director of Patient Operations at Quest Diagnostics, going deeper into why recruitment keeps falling short. Liam reframes the problem from the ground up: the industry treats recruitment as a marketing function obsessed with filling the top of the funnel, when the real work is moving patients all the way through it. Scott connects this to his experience running end-to-end mock trials years ago, testing the fu...

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