Sr. Clinical Research Coordinator- Cardiovascular MRI Research

Job Description

The Cardiovascular MRI Research Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Clinical Research Coordinator to support a diverse portfolio of investigator-initiated and NIH-funded cardiovascular magnetic resonance (MRI) research studies.

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead participant recruitment and enrollment for multiple prospective cardiovascular MRI research studies.
• Identify and screen potential participants using the EPIC electronic medical record (EMR), clinic schedules, physician referrals, and collaboration with clinical care teams.
• Conduct informed consent and coordinate participant enrollment in accordance with IRB, NIH, FDA, and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines.
• Care for baseline and longitudinal follow-up visits, including cardiac MRI examinations, exercise and pharmacologic stress imaging studies, biospecimen collection, questionnaires, and other research procedures.
• Develop and maintain participant tracking systems to ensure timely completion of study visits and maximize participant retention.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for study participants throughout the duration of each study.
• Care for study activities among investigators, MRI technologists, nurses, research staff, and collaborating clinical departments.
• Manage clinical research data throughout the study lifecycle, including source documentation, electronic case report forms (eCRFs), REDCap databases, data validation, quality assurance, and query resolution.
• Maintain accurate regulatory documentation, study records, and research databases in compliance with institutional and federal regulations.
• Monitor recruitment, enrollment, retention, imaging completion, and study milestone metrics, and prepare regular progress reports for investigators and sponsors.
• Aid with study monitoring visits, audits, and preparation of progress reports, manuscripts, and grant submissions as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
• 1-3 years of related work experience in a medical setting; clinical research setting preferred.
• Knowledge of Medical Terminology.
• Working knowledge of computerized applications, including web-based applications and Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing, biology, public health, biomedical sciences, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• Three years of clinical research coordination experience, preferably in cardiovascular, radiology, or medical imaging research.
• Demonstrated success recruiting and retaining participants for prospective longitudinal clinical research studies.
• Extensive experience using the EPIC electronic medical record (EMR) system is required, including identifying eligible participants through chart review, reviewing clinical documentation, and collaborating with clinical teams to facilitate patient recruitment.
• Experience coordinating complex clinical research studies involving imaging procedures, longitudinal follow-up, and multidisciplinary clinical teams.
• Experience with clinical research data management, including REDCap, source documentation, data quality assurance, database maintenance, and query resolution.
• Knowledge of Good Clinical Practice (GCP), informed consent, IRB regulations, HIPAA, and NIH-funded clinical research.
• Excellent organizational, communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to independently manage multiple studies while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
• Experience coordinating cardiovascular MRI, CT, nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, or other advanced imaging research studies.
• Experience recruiting participants from outpatient cardiology clinics and hospital-based services.
• Familiarity with cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, and coronary microvascular dysfunction.
• Experience working in an academic medical center and coordinating multi-investigator or multicenter clinical research studies.
• Experience preparing regulatory submissions and progress reports for federally funded research.