Trauma Research Associate (Part Time/Days)

LOCATION: Lancaster, PA - Lancaster General Hospital

HOURS: Part Time (20 hours per week). Days (Monday-Friday 8am-4:30 pm). Flexibility on days of the week. No evenings, weekends or holidays. 

Position Summary:

The Trauma Research Associate assists principal investigators in managing and conducting research studies and clinical trials per Federal, State and Institutional guidelines. The Trauma Research Associates responsible for all research related activities including development of IRB approved research and clinical studies trials site operational management, case coverage and enrollment activities during the pre-study implementation phase through completion. This position requires a comprehensive understanding of healthcare-based research specializing in trauma surgery, surgical critical care, acute care surgery, burn, emergency care, general surgery, injury prevention and health policy. The Trauma Research Associate supports, facilitates and coordinates the daily research studies trials activities and plays a critical role in the conduct of the study. By performing these duties, the Trauma Research Associate works with key stakeholders to provide guidance on the administration of the compliance, financial, personnel and other related aspects of the studies.

Qualified individuals must have the ability with or without reasonable accommodation to perform the following duties:

• Monitor and maintains the research as outlined for level 1 trauma designation in required by PTSF standards.
• Confirms data protection protocols are in place and in compliance with regulatory bodies.
• Responsible for the management of all human subject training and certification for all research staff including renewals and new training.
• Assist with regulatory compliance including preparation of IRB materials for approval and submission.
• Assist PI through delegation in conducting clinical studies trials per Federal and institutional guidelines.
• Responsible for the coordination of research subject informed consent as necessary and entry into appropriate research studies ensuring that all exclusion and inclusion criteria are met.
• Serve as an expert and resource to the trauma trauma liaisons, acute care surgery and general surgery team, patients, and families in human rights and research regulations.
• Assist in the development of new research studies help ensure that appropriate billing or charges for the research are in place.
• Assist with the development and submission of grant proposals.
• Assists with the documentation and follow-up of all trauma registry database utilization requests for research or performance improvement projects.
• Develop and maintain quality initiatives.
• Responsible for ensuring American College of Surgeons trauma research and scholarship criteria are met by coordination and implementation of clinical research projects grants.
• Mentors and supervises research interns and volunteers.
• Facilitates faculty and residents in their research endeavors to include study design, data management activities, regulatory compliance.
• Establish, utilize, and maintain effective communication systems.
• Assist in developing and writing research protocols.
• Conducts appropriate pilot studies.
• Development and maintenance of REDCap databases for studies.
• Ensures appropriate data abstraction for research.
• Extract and prepare data for analysis.
• The ability to perform statistical analysis using statistical software, including the generation of tables and figures for publication.
• Assist in manuscript development and publication.
• Long-term maintenance of study project plan.
• Ensures meeting deadlines related to research, quality and performance improvement projects.
• Opportunity to create independent research endeavors with clinical faculty mentor.
• Opportunity for the accumulation of scientific research publications.
• Other duties as assigned.