Clinical Research Coordinator II - Research Center for Health Equity
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Posted: 05-Jun-21
Location: West Hollywood, California
Type: Full-time
Salary: Open
Internal Number: HRC0472157A
At Cedars-Sinai, we're motivated by a collective spirit of innovation and the challenge to continuously improve. Above all, we share a real passion for helping others. Day after day, from department to department, our people give their all to create a community unlike any other. This is just one of the many reasons U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America's Best Hospitals--and now we invite you to join us and make a difference every single day in service of this outstanding work - excellence and innovation in patient care, research, and community service. From working with a team of dedicated professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you'll have great resources to do something incredible--for yourself, and for others.
Join our team and expand your skills and knowledge!
The CRC II will conduct pre-screening, in-person recruitment, participant follow-up, visit coordination, participant binder preparation, specimen kit preparation, kit inventory, data entry, data verification, letters/mailings, phone calls, ordering supplies, and other duties as assigned. We're seeking a highly motivated individual interested in cancer epidemiological research. The ideal candidate is team-oriented with a hardworking and positive demeanor, must possess excellent communication and organizational skills, strong interpersonal skills, and willingness to excel in a fast-paced, team environment.
Essential job duties and responsibilities:
Independent study coordination including screening of potential research participants for protocol eligibility, presenting non-medical trial concepts and details to the research participants, and participating in the informed consent process.
Scheduling of research participants for research visits and procedures.
Documents thoroughly on Case Report Forms (CRFs) the following; changes in research participant condition, adverse events, concomitant medication use, protocol compliance, response to study drug.
Responsible for accurate and timely data collection, documentation, entry, and reporting including timely response to sponsor queries.
Responsible for compiling and reporting on each study including information related to protocol activity, accrual data, workload, and other research information; present this information at regular research staff meetings.
Works closely with a regulatory coordinator or directly with the Institutional Review Board (IRB) to submit initial applications, amendments, continuing reviews, Adverse Events, Serious Adverse Events, protocol deviations, and Safety Letters in accordance with local and federal guidelines.
May involve other regulatory / Institutional Review Board duties, budgeting duties, and assisting with research participant billing and reconciliation.
Ensures compliance with all federal and local agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA and local Institutional Review Board.)
Maintains strict research participant confidentiality according to HIPAA regulations and applicable law.
Plans and coordinates strategies for increasing research participant enrollment, and/or improving clinical research efficiency.
Identifies quality and performance improvement opportunities and collaborates with staff in the development of action plans to improve quality.
Participates in required training and education programs.
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major t...eaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competitive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
