Following established policies, procedures, and study protocols, provides assistance on clinical research studies, including recruiting, evaluating, and consenting patients for studies; collecting and organizing patient data; scheduling patients for study visits; performing clinical tests such as phlebotomy, EKGs, etc. and maintaining and updating data generated by the study. This position involves substantial work in the clinical environment - including the perioperative area, intensive care unit, and general medical floors - and requires close interaction with patients/research participants, anesthesiologists, surgeons, critical care physicians, and nursing staff.