Research Area Specialist Lead
Job Summary
The McCoy lab combines wet bench research, clinical trials, and a specialized clinic structure to support a comprehensive Sjogren's disease program. The successful applicant will be part of the McCoy lab led by Dr. Sara McCoy and focuses on bench to bedside translation of their findings to improve the lives of their Sjogren's patients. The candidate will lead and manage patient triage into their clinical program, coordinate complex care of their patients, and provide comprehensive after visit summaries collating all subspecialty findings and recommendations. This comprehensive clinical coordination is a linchpin to their program that weds clinical care to bench work and back to novel translational treatment to patients (to bench and back again).
Responsibilities
- Triage complex clinical patients to appropriate clinics and subspecialists
- Identifies trial candidates, screens, selects, determines eligibility
- Collects more complex information and answers questions under supervision of a medically licensed professional
- Manages research workflow components, collects, prepares, processes, and submits participant data to appropriate entities
- Serves as a main point of contact for Sjogren's care coordination as they relate to clinical programs, research, and recruitment
- Performs quality checks on data
- Identifies resource needs and develops clinical research documents, such as job aids, tools, processes, procedures and training
- Contributes to protocol development
- Affords assistance with training staff
Required Qualifications
- Masters degree in a recognized field of science or learning which is directly related to the duties of the position is required
- 6+ years of experience in related field
- 30 or more years of clinical care experience (nursing preferred)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with studying mesenchymal stromal cells
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office, redcap, epic
- Interest in autoimmune disease research, academic medicine, or health-related careers