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The Clinical Research Coordinator handles or assists with the administrative activities generally associated with the conduct of clinical trials.

 

The Clinical Research Coordinator I will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary research team that is conducting maternal and child health research in the Emory Child Study Center to investigate the role of early life exposures and child growth and development (including metabolic and neurodevelopmental outcomes). The position will involves collecting blood and biological samples (and processing and storing these) from children between the ages of 2 and 11 years of age and their mothers in the Emory Child Study Center at Emory and occasionally in their homes, as well as working in the laboratory to process, store, track and manage samples, which might include assembling boxes of samples for shipment and making aliquots and relabeling sample tubes. The expectation is that most of the visits will occur in mid-late afternoons and on Saturdays, so availability during these time periods is essential for this position.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintains data pertaining to research projects, completes source documents/case report forms, and performs data entry.
• Assists with patient recruitment.
• Attends study meetings.
• Orders and maintains equipment and supplies.
• Reviews medical records and/or conducts screenings for recruitment of study participants, performs interviews and QOL questionnaires.
• Collects study specimen according to protocol which may include phlebotomy, processing, and preparation for shipping.
• Coordinates services, schedules procedures, creates and maintains case packages, and monitors charges.
• Assists with quality assurance and tracks regulatory submissions.
• Performs related approved responsibilities as required.

Specific duties of the position will include:

• Collecting biospecimens from participating mothers and children to include venous blood, capillary blood, buccal, saliva, tooth, stool, and urine specimens;
• Collecting clinical measures and data from participants to include: children’s height, weight, and skin fold thickness; obtaining body composition measures via the BodPod plethysmography chamber; administering questionnaires and instruments to participating mothers and children about child health, development, diet and physical activity;
• Processing, handling, and storage of biological specimens obtained from enrolled children and their mothers to include centrifuging/spinning of blood and other specimens, aliquoting of blood and other specimens, labeling and scanning of specimens into storage cabinets and freezers;
• Maintaining an inventory of biospecimens and preparing inventory reports for the research team;
• Taking part in selecting biospecimens from the inventory and boxing, transporting, and shipping samples to laboratories for assay;
• Reaching out to potential participants via telephone, text message, and e-mail to invite their and their child’s participation in our child cohort study; explaining the study to potential participants and seeking their enrollment; scheduling study-related home and lab visits with participants;
• Coordination of the data collection process for home visits; and performing home visits, which will involve travel to participants’ homes and transport of questionnaires and samples from participant homes to Emory campus;
• Follow-up with participants to obtain missing data or to clarify existing data; entry of data into a data base; quality checking of data entry;
• Requesting, receiving, and inventorying medical records of enrolled participants;
• Other clerical duties related to stocking, organizing, and maintaining the office environment for the conduct of research studies;
• Taking part in on-going trainings to assure job-based knowledge and skills for data collection;
• Interfacing with the study Principal Investigators and the research team on a regular basis to implement and monitor adherence to research protocols and standard operating procedures for the research study;
• Other duties as assigned that are part of the research study.

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School Diploma or GED and three years of administrative support experience.
• Or two years of college in a scientific, health related, or business administration program and one year of admin support or customer service experience.
• Or be a licensed as a practical nurse (LPN) and one year admin support or one year of licensed practical nursing experience.
• Or a Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, MD or PhD in a scientific, health related or business administration program.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Access to personal vehicle to assure reliable transportation to travel to participant homes to conduct study visits.
• Experience working with children, including obtaining venous blood samples from toddlers and preschool age children.
• Experience working in research.
• Availability to consistently work mid-late afternoons and Saturdays.

 

This position is intended to support clinical research and all clinical training requirements must be tracked and monitored through Emory Healthcare under the credentialing category of Clinical Researcher.

 

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