- Job Type: Officer of Administration
- Regular/Temporary: Regular
- Hours Per Week: 35
Position Summary The Division of Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics is seeking a Clinical Research Coordinator to join our team in a full time position. Columbia University Medical Center's Department of Pediatrics is a world leader in providing care for children. Our mission areas include Healthcare, Education and Research. We offer care for our patients in over 25 specialty areas as well as individualized care for complex cases. Our Residency, Fellowship and Graduate programs are among the best in the Nation. Our Clinical, Translational and Basic Science research features collaborations across specialties and stretches from the bench to bedside. We also have several active Clinical trials available to our patients. The CRC will work with investigators, study staff, Scientific Review Committee (SRC) and institutional review boards (IRB), clinical trial sponsors and federal regulatory agencies to assure compliance with study protocols, data documentation, and reporting requirements, ensure that regulatory requirements for clinical trials are met. The CRC will work under the supervision of the Medical Director, Director of Research and Divisional Administrator.
Responsibilities - Serves as a primary contact for research participants, sponsors, Principal/ co-investigators, and other study staff.
- Reviews and develops a familiarity with protocols, e.g., study proceedings and timelines, inclusion and exclusion criteria, confidentiality, privacy protections.
- Determine eligibility of and gather consent materials from study participants according to protocol guidelines.
- Assists in developing recruitment strategies.
- Registers new patients onto studies in a timely manner.
- Registers each participant in the billing matrix to ensure billing of study procedures to the appropriate funding source.
- Interact with the principal investigator regularly, ensuring patient safety and adherence to proper study conduct.
- Collaborates with all study sites and aids institutions in data collection, and submission of on-going documents and specimens.
- Collects, spins, separates and prepares specimens when needed; ships requested specimens in a timely manner.
- Collects and submits tumor tissue samples and pathology slides as required.
- Provides in-service education and on-going communication to CRC peers and collaborating institutions with study updates.
- Reviews medical records; transcribes relevant information from record onto the appropriate flow sheets or electronic data base.
- Enters and tracks all patient data into appropriate data collection systems.
- Completes study documentation and maintains study files in accordance with COG, other consortium, or industry requirements and University policies and procedures including, but not limited to, consent forms, source documentation, narrative notes if applicable, case report forms, and investigational material accountability forms.
- Monitors website for protocol updates and works with the Regulatory Coordinator to report all protocol modifications, amendments, and renewals to COG, NCI, the IRB, and Cancer Center
- Prepares all materials for both institutional and cooperative group audits.
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications Strong time management skills and attention to detail, ability to make decisions, and strong multitasking abilities are key attributes for this position. - experience in a health science discipline, such as public health, nursing, health services research, physiology, biochemistry or other applicable research investigation.
- Master's in healthcare or related field including nursing strongly preferred.
Clinical research or other applicable research experience in hematology, oncology or bone marrow transplantation a plus.
Other Requirements Must be detail-oriented, with excellent organizational, interpersonal, written and oral communication skills. - Strong knowledge of medical terminology and competency in working with databases and conducting data abstraction, data entry, and generating reports. Ability to communicate, interpret, share and present information to management, clinical and research staff.
- Light Level of Physical Activity
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