Research Associate I - (Community Oncology)

Location

Greensburg, PA | United States

Job description

Purpose:

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is currently hiring a regular full-time  Research Associate to help support the Community Oncology Clinical Research Services (CRS) team at the Palmer Medical Oncology office located in Greensburg, PA.

This position will work a regular Monday through Friday daylight schedule with the Palmer Medical Oncology network location but will go to other sites in the area as needed.

This is a unique role allowing for the clinical research professional to work in the community with research studies in many cancer disease centers with UPMC Hillman Cancer Center as a Clinical Research Coordinator.

The Clinical Research Services (CRS) team is made up of nearly 200 staff members who facilitate the development, implementation, coordination, internal data monitoring, and completion of oncology-focused trials at Hillman. These trials include institutional (investigator-initiated), multi-center cooperative group/National Clinical Trial Network (NCTN), consortium, and industry-sponsored trials. Using a disease-specific centers model for conducting clinical trials, CRS provides study development and implementation assistance, submissions to the FDA, IRB processing, patient recruitment, study coordination, study-specific training, data collection, and specimen collection and processing.

Under the direction of the Clinical Research Manager, the research associate will work with physicians, nurses and allied health professionals to facilitate clinical research trials provided through the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and UPMC Cancer Centers and to independently execute job functions related to protocol management.

Responsibilities:

• Assists in verifying subject eligibility according to protocols by reviewing medical records, laboratory, and radiology or CT scan results.
• Responsible for prompt and accurate data collection for protocols.
• Process required documents as needed for the research protocols.
• Shares responsibility of managing the day-to-day activities for the research protocols.
• Assists in the coordination of initiation, site evaluation, monitoring visits, and audits required by the sponsor.
• Assists in entering subject trial registration and study status updates into CTMA.
• Will serve as an assistant to support all main functions of the department.
• Ensure that patient’s records, slides, radiology tests, lab work results, etc. are obtained and reviewed prior to patient entry into a study.
• Create study-specific source documents, case report forms and study visit checklists.
• Performs consenting process and study implementation of lab, registry, and non-therapeutic clinical trials.

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Salary

$21.52 - $34.48 per hour