Research Assistant: Clinical Data & Participant Engagement

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab seeks a Research Assistant to coordinate subject recruitment, data collection, and dissemination tasks across multiple studies. You will identify eligible participants, obtain informed consent, and collect data via interviews and medical records review.

Responsibilities include data management, literature searches, and producing tables/graphs for presentations, with collaboration across research staff and clinical teams.

Qualifications

• 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.

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
• 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
• Assists in development of data tables, graphs and charts and preparation of material for presentation
• Assists 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
• Conducts literature searches, copying and distributing articles as appropriate
• Transcribes and codes taped interviews
• Maintains an inventory of data collection forms to ensure ease of data retrieval
• Assists in analysis of qualitative and quantitative data by coding verbatim interviews
• 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
• Attends meetings; takes minutes as assigned
• Perform all other duties that may be assigned in the best interest of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.

Skills

Communication skills

Mathematics skills

Attention to detail

Independent judgment

Education

Graduate studies in neurosciences, nursing, psychology, engineering, social work, public health or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Stata

SPSS

MATLAB

Job description

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab seeks a Research Assistant to coordinate subject recruitment, data collection, and dissemination tasks across multiple studies. You will identify eligible participants, obtain informed consent, and collect data via interviews and medical records review.

Responsibilities include data management, literature searches, and producing tables/graphs for presentations, with collaboration across research staff and clinical teams.