Clinical Research Assistant

Summary: As a detail oriented team member of the UB Neurosurgery Clinical Research Department, the Clinical Research Assistant will be a part of clinical research trials for patients with stroke, aneurysm, carotid artery disease and brain hemorrhage. This position involves professional interaction with patients, doctors and hospital staff, study sponsors and monitors. The primary duty of the Clinical Research Assistant is to assist and work as a team with the Research Coordinator and Clinical Research Nurses.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Maintain patient records including:
  • all the details of the patients being recruited for trials,
  • the progress of each patient during the trial, any adverse events that may occurred during the trial, and
  • other relevant information uploaded to sponsor/EDC
• Assist the clinical research nurse, physician or investigator who is responsible for conducting the trial
• Participate in meetings between sponsor/site webinar and conference calls
• Maintain records of clinical trial shipments and devices
• Fed-Ex images to sponsors and retrieve Kaleida charts and disks from medical records
• Fax screening logs weekly to sponsor
• Update study patient listings upon enrollment
• Create alert sheet in Medent for all new study patients
• Send monthly appointment reminder letters to study patients
• Work with the clinical research nurse and physician's secretary for follow up appointments
• Create new enrollment packets for study (CRF/Consent)
• Create quick reference guides for studies with clinical research nurse
• Collaborate with clinical research nurse for screening process
• Collaborate with clinical research nurse during procedure data collection
• Upload all CRFs to EDC/sponsor and resolve queries in a timely fashion
• Create follow up CRFs for clinical research nurse
• Work with clinical research nurse during monitor visits
• Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of this position.
• Other duties as assigned.