Clinical Research Associate (Full-time)

UPMC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

UPMC Dermatology is seeking a full-time Clinical Research Associate to support its Clinical Research team at the Falk Medical Building in Pittsburgh. The role works Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

and focuses on coordinating and supporting clinical research studies. Responsibilities include creating study calendars, coordinating with investigators, ensuring data integrity, assisting with patient consent, and facilitating trial enrollment across community network sites while

Responsibilities

• Create individualized study calendars and review them with the patient
• Meet with the principal investigator and Clinical Research Coordinator/Supervisor to review patient status as needed
• Ensure prompt and accurate data collection for protocols
• Assist in preparing, sending and tracking documents for re-consenting patients
• Participate in multidisciplinary meetings to foster educational development
• Obtain follow-up or survival data information after study completion and document in CTMA
• Assist in providing informed consent documents and ensuring consent process
• Present subject trial status monthly to disease center research program leader and team
• Facilitate enrollment of subjects to clinical trials and complete research requisitions for billing
• Perform consenting process and study implementation of lab, registry, and non-therapeutic trials
• Handle trial-related tasks such as processing, storing and shipping specimens and administering questionnaires
• Enter subject trial registration and study status updates into CTMA
• Verify patient records, imaging, lab results prior to entry onto a study
• Verify eligibility by reviewing medical records, labs, and radiology/CT results
• Create study source documents, CRFs and visit checklists
• Coordinate initiation, site evaluation, monitoring visits and audits as required
• Monitor adherence to study medications
• Assist in obtaining tumor measurements for response information as per protocol

Job description

UPMC Department of Dermatology is seeking a full-time Clinical Research Associate to support its Clinical Research team at 3601 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, Falk Medical Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. This position works Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and plays a key role in coordinating and supporting clinical research studies.

Responsibilities:

• Create individualized study calendars and reviews them with the patient.
• Meet with the principal investigator and Clinical Research Coordinator/Supervisor to review patient status on as needed basis.
• Responsible for prompt and accurate data collection for protocols.
• Assist coordinator in preparing, sending and tracking documents for re-consenting patients.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings to foster educational development by attending relevant seminars, conferences and sponsored educational events as required.
• In addition, will contact patient/family members to obtain follow up or survival data information after study completion, and will review survival record data bases to provide follow up. All follow up information is to be documented onto study CRFs and entered into CTMA.
• Assist in providing consent forms to coordinators and investigators so that the informed consent process is implemented with study subjects.
• Meet monthly with disease center research program leader and research team to present subject trial status.
• Facilitate entry of patient on to clinical trials by performing the following tasks.
• Complete research requisitions to assist billing department to prevent billing of research procedures to third party payers.
• Perform consenting process and study implementation of lab, registry, and non-therapeutic clinical trials.
• Perform trial related responsibilities as required such as processing, storing and shipping trial specimens, administers study related questionnaires to study participants (i.e. quality of life, etc.).
• Assist in entering subject trial registration and study status updates into CTMA.
• Insure that patient's records, slides, radiology tests, lab work results, etc. are obtained and reviewed prior to patient entry onto a study.
• Assist in verifying subject eligibility according to protocols by reviewing medical records, laboratory, and radiology or CT scan results.
• Complete financial review forms of potential patients to determine insurance coverage for standard of care procedures and completion of requisition forms.
• Create study specific source documents, case report forms and study visit checklists.
• Facilitate the enrollment of subjects to trials open to the community network sites and will follow up on outstanding data collections.
• Facilitate follow-up of protocol patients by developing maintenance-therapy data collection sheets for all protocol patients who require follow-up.
• Assist in the coordination of initiation, site evaluation, monitoring visits, and audits required by the sponsor.
• Monitor subject compliance of oral study medications.
• Assist with obtaining tumor measurements from Radiologist or Investigators to determine response information as per protocol.