OCTA 2024-2025 Holiday Schedule

OCTA 2024-2025 HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

NEW CLINICAL TRIAL ACTIVATION DEADLINES & ONCORE SUPPORT

***Please distribute this information to all appropriate faculty and staff within your department***

Dear Colleagues,

Below are the holiday dates for the Office of Clinical Trial Activation. During this time, OCTA will provide limited support for incoming requests.

Holiday

Limited Support

Closed

Thanksgiving Holiday    

Nov 25th - 27th

Nov 28th - 29th  

Winter and New Year’s Holiday 

Dec 23rd - 30th

Dec 24th - 25th

Dec 31st - Jan 1st

 

New clinical trial activation receipt and calendar construction deadlines are outlined for the Winter, and New Year Holidays.  Please contact OCTA Operations team at [email protected] for more specific estimates.

We anticipate limited staffing during the holiday period and strongly recommend that study team submissions occur before Dec 11th or after Jan 1st to provide sufficient time for processing. Below are adjusted deadlines to accommodate holiday staffing:

 

OCTA Services

Submit By

Estimate

New trial activation submission & calendar creation

(Submit to IRB & OCTA at the same time to ensure parallel processing)

Dec. 11th

Jan. 2nd - 7th

For APeX study build

Dec. 18th

Jan. 2nd - 7th

 

OnCore Support

Request by

Estimate

New OnCore account creation and training must be done by Dec. 18

Dec. 18th

Jan. 2nd

Normal priority OnCore support tickets

Dec. 20th

Jan. 2nd

Tier 1 support (System outage)

 

Same day

 

For prompt clinical trial activation processing, please provide the following required documents in conjunction with ServiceNow: Clinical protocol, draft ICF, draft budget template, draft CTA.

OnCore support – [email protected]

If you have any questions please contact Riya Kishnani, Operations Supervisor - [email protected].