Clinical Research Technician

About the role

Family medicine is the medical specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for individuals and families. This specialty integrates the biological, clinical and behavioral sciences and encompasses all ages and sexes, each organ system, and every disease entity. It is this combination that qualifies family medicine physicians to provide continuing and comprehensive medical care and health maintenance and preventive services to each member of a family regardless of patient type or problem be it biological, behavioral or social. Family medicine physicians, because of their background and interactions with families, are best qualified to serve as a patients advocate in all health-related matters, including the appropriate use of consultants, health services and community resources. This is a fully grant funded position. This position will become trained as a certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist.

Responsibilities

• Assists in conducting a research project aimed at understanding and treating tobacco and nicotine dependence among African American/Black adults who smoke, to reduce the physical, emotional and financial consequences of tobacco use.
• Assists in the coordination of research activities including: screening and enrolling participants, conducting assessments, providing smoking cessation counseling, completing follow up calls and mailing study materials.
• Assists in the conduct of clinical research studies or trials following established protocols and standard operating procedures.
• Assists with identifying and recruiting subjects for clinical research studies or trials; calls/schedules subjects for appointments per protocol; performs screening, consenting and interviewing/data collection in adherence with the assigned study protocol and in accordance with good clinical principals; collects patient consent and authorization for treatment intervention documents and performs those interventions as needed.
• Conducts routine experiments and/or coordinates research study procedures in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs); receives, collects, and records study data in database; communicates and keeps researchers and/or Principal Investigators (PIs) up-to-date on any problems or concerns related to the research study or trial; may be responsible for collecting clinical samples (such as blood, sample tissue, etc.) for research including any storage measures.
• Assists with advertising and other information for participant recruitment; assists in developing and sharing educational and informational resources with subjects and families.
• Ensures proper documentation of Case Report Forms, regulatory documents, PI notes, and any other mandatory study-related documents and ensures quality and accuracy; archives documents for study per sponsor, government and institutional requirements; keeps accurate records and provides necessary documents for regulatory audits.
• Maintains and manages inventory and research study supplies; may be responsible for facilitating disbursement of study participant payments.
• Provides various additional research study support (such as protocol research in medical library/online databases, summarizing literature reviews for study hypothesis, grant preparation, manuscript review/editing, literature searches, and/or transcription).
• Stays up-to-date on regulatory affairs and/or clinical research best practices by attending continuing education classes, conferences, seminars, and project