Research Assistant - Full-Time - tiHUB

Responsibilities

• Contacts hospital-site staff to identify potential participants; reviews medical records to determine appropriateness of patients for study.
• Explains study to patients and family members, requests participation and obtains informed consent.
• Schedules and confirms participants for hospital and/or home interviews.
• Data Collection:
• Conducts on and off site interviews using a variety of structured and non-structured questionnaires.
• Retrieves and records data from medical records and records data from interviews on appropriate forms.
• Uses clinical judgment to alert supervisor in a timely manner that participant responses may indicate need for professional intervention.
• Maintains interim contact with study participants to maintain current address and telephone information.
• Dissemination:
• Aids in the development of data tables, graphs and charts and preparation of material for presentation.
• Data Management:
• Aids in the collection of new data;
• Codes, cleans, transcribes, records, enters and stores all data collected;
• Coordinates data collection with other research staff as appropriate;
• Generates reports detailing data collected;
• Performs various record-keeping tasks such as filing consent forms and other data collection forms on all eligible participants to ensure ease of data retrieval and tracking of participants.
• Supports Scholarly Activities:
• Attends meetings;
• Takes minutes as assigned.

Requirements

• Work requires communication and mathematics skills normally acquired in four years of college, plus three to six months of related work experience.
• Prefer graduate of or student in graduate program in neurosciences, nursing, psychology, engineering, social work, public health or related field.
• Knowledge of basic computer hardware in addition to software such as Microsoft Office, statistical programs such as Stata or SPSS, and/or relevant engineering or mathematical programs such as Matlab, as appropriate.
• Familiarity with medical, engineering or health services research terminology and basic research/statistical methodology is required, as appropriate to the position.
• Analytical ability is required to prepare reports, maintain data inventory, code, transcribe interviews, develop graphs, perform literature searches, negotiate systems in several hospitals and/or human service organizations, and identify concerns/responses of participants that require termination of interview or possible intervention.
• Strong interpersonal skills are needed to interact effectively with patients/family member dyads, physicians, other human service professionals and a variety of supervisors for various research projects.
• Flexibility to coordinate scheduling with other project staff is needed.
• Proficient typing and administrative skills to transcribe data, prepare correspondence, and maintain files.
• Exercises independent judgment in assigned area of responsibility.
• May be expected to take leadership on certain project tasks.

Qualifications

• Normal office/research laboratory environment with little or no exposure to dust or extreme temperature.
• May involve travel to other hospital/research sites and possibly to participants’ homes.
• Interviews/experiments may require flexible day, evening and/or weekend hours.