Clinical Research Coordinator

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Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

The Division of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School is recruiting a full-time Clinical Research Coordinator to join our Division and work on studies of emotion regulation in bipolar disorder under the mentorship of Dr. Kristen Ellard. Our Division is a multidisciplinary group conducting clinical, translational, and basic neuroscience research with healthy and neuropsychiatric populations.

We use a wide variety of techniques, including neuromodulation (TMS, tDCS, ECT), neuroimaging, neurophysiology (EEG), behavioral testing, and clinical assessments. Additionally, the Division includes the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) clinical service, which is tightly integrated with our research mission and where we treat patients with neuropsychiatric conditions.

• Assist with recruiting patients for clinical trials
• Assist with interviewing study subjects; provide basic explanation of study and in some cases obtain informed consent from subject
• Verify subject inclusion/exclusion criteria
• Conduct study visits including TMS and MRI experiments
• Conduct clinical and neuropsychological assessments; administer and score questionnaires
• Collect & organize patient data, maintain record and databases, verify accuracy of study forms, document patient visits and procedures
• Assist with regulatory binders and QA/QC procedures
• Assist with study regulatory submissions
• Perform administrative support duties as required
• Perform MRI and behavioral data analysis
• Participate in production of scholarly reports, research abstracts, posters, and manuscripts for publication
• Extensive training in brain stimulation, neuroimaging, clinical research, neuroscience, and writing skills will be provided
• Strong scientific and career development will be provided, as well as opportunities to publish and present at national conferences

• Background in neuroscience, psychology, engineering, or data science is preferred
• Careful attention to details
• Good organizational skills
• Ability to follow directions
• Good communication skills
• Computer literacy
• Working knowledge of clinical research protocols
• Ability to demonstrate respect and professionalism for subjects’ rights and individual needs
• Ability to work independently and as a team player
• Analytical skills and ability to resolve technical problems
• Ability to interpret acceptability of data results
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Professional and maturity are a must
• Working knowledge of data management programs
• Applicants with strong technical backgrounds in computer/data science or mathematics and an interest in applying these skills to neuroscience are given high priority
• Applicants with prior experience in neuroimaging analyses (e.g., SPM, FSL, Free Surfer), or psychological task design software (e.g., Presentation, E-Prime, Psychophysics Toolbox, Psycho Py) will be given high priority
• A strong background in programming (Unix, MATLAB, Python, R) and/or statistical analysis software (R, SPSS, Stata) will be given high priority
• Experience with clinical populations is preferred but not required.

• New graduates with some relevant course/project work or those without any prior research experience will be considered for the Clinical Research Coordinator I position outlined above.
• Those with a minimum of 1-2 years of directly related work experience will be considered for a Clinical Research Coordinator II position.

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