Staff Research Associate

Responsibilities

• Identify the functions or tasks that employees in the job perform.
  • Coordinate the exchange of and transport of specimens with collaborating Investigators and staff.
  • QC the incoming data interpreted from samples and ensure that it is utilized correctly for analysis and publications.
  • Ensure integrity and security of samples.
  • Prepare laboratory kits for enrolling sites.
  • Maintain periodic quality control procedures.
  • Monitor laboratory supply inventory.
  • Review patient electronic health records for eligibility in new trials.
  • Contact eligible patients to discuss studies.
  • Clock study visits with patients.
  • Participation in lab meetings.
  • Enroll site support.
    • Monitor and address incoming site queries via email, phone, or videoconference.
    • Reconcile incoming invoices from sites.
    • Support coordinating the tasks of single or multiple clinical research studies.
    • Interface with departments to obtain UCSF approval prior to study initiation.
    • Participate in the review and writing of protocols to ensure institutional review board approval within University compliance.
    • Help assure compliance with all relevant regulatory agencies.
    • Monitor study data integrity.
    • Participate in any internal and external audits or reviews of study protocols.
    • Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• HS graduation and sufficient experience and demonstrated skills to successfully perform the assigned duties and responsibilities.
• Attention to detail; strong interpersonal skills; excellent, effective verbal and written communication skills to coordinate with subjects, team members, other departments and outside institutions.
• The ability to work well independently, complete projects in a timely manner, and prioritize multiple projects to ensure the completion of essential tasks by deadlines.
• Preffered Qualifications: Experience with electronic medical records. Knowledge of UCSF and departmental policies for dealing with reimbursement, guidelines for research, confidentiality and HIPPA regulations, following the UCSF mission statement and purpose for research, and a clear understanding of policies and procedures on patient safety and confidentiality (electronic and hard copy medical records, patient charts, communication, etc.). Knowledge of medical terminology, research policies and guidelines, guidelines for packing/shipping infectious substances, database building/analysis, and data management within some of the following: Access, Stata, SAS/SPSS, and Teleform programming platforms. Experience in analyzing datasets from clinical trials for secondary analyses and hypotheses generation. Experience in clinical trials of cytomegalovirus in organ transplant recipients. Creation of study reports, abstracts, and study manuscripts. Experience applying the following regulations and guidelines: Good Clinical Practice Guidelines, Health Information and Accountability Act (HIPAA), The Protection of Human Research Subjects, IRB regulations for recruitment of research subjects.