UNIV - Research Program Coordinator - Psychiatry: BMed

Job Description Summary This position is assigned to the Bio Behavioral Medicine Division for the purpose of assisting, coordinating, planning and implementing research protocols. This includes but is not limited to subject recruitment, testing, sample selections, data recording (etc.) in human research. Additional duties include initiating and maintaining documentation as required by FDA, Institutional Review board, study sponsors, and Good Clinical Practice Guidelines in connection with research trials, training course participants and new staff in tDCS and pain testing techniques, troubleshooting, maintaining, and rewiring tDCS units, and conforming to current best practices in COVID prevention including screening, cleanliness, and social distance.

Entity Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC
- Univ) Worker Type Employee Worker Sub-Type Research Grant Cost Center CC001042 COM PSYCH Bio-Behavioral Medicine CC Pay Rate Type Hourly Pay Grade University-GEN
08 Pay Range 45,300.

- 77,000.000 Scheduled Weekly Hours 40 Work Shift

Job Description FLSA:
Hourly

Work Schedule:

Monday
- Friday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Four overnight shifts required per month

• 10% - Assist with the recruitment and phone screening of research participants, including the development of new advertising materials, meeting with and calling potential participants, distribution of advertising materials and collaborating with relevant provides and researchers.
• 20% - Obtain informed consent, enroll study patients, conduct study visits as per protocol, coordinate patient visits, provide education to subjects. Implement study protocol with enrolled patients, schedule patient visits, coordinate and schedule visits with clinical staff, record pertinent data required per protocol. Administer experimental clinical treatment to enrolled patients as written in the protocol. Maintain communication with enrolled patients throughout duration of participation in clinical trial.
• 5% - Perform 4 overnight shifts per month, monitoring participants in our research sleep laboratory.
• 5% - Attend regular meetings with the study PI’s to present updates and progress of the study. Record and prepare up to date information on the progress of the study for the PI’s. Attend weekly staff meetings and other lab meetings as requested.
• 10% - Initiate and maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation as required by FDA, Institutional Review Board, study sponsors and Good Clinical Practice Guidelines in connection with research trials.
• 15% - Coordinate proper data management according to protocol requirements and compliance, i.e., collect and record all data pertaining to study patients on the specific study and submit on time to research bases. Provide database support (design, implement, update and review for integrity). Conduct data retrieval from large databases for data reporting and analyses. Enter data into a computerized database and manage ongoing organization of patient data files.
  
  Complete case report forms and maintain all study documents properly in compliance with both MUSC and VA standards.
• 5% - Manage the distribution, secure storage, maintenance and reacquisition of all study materials sent home with participants. Maintain adequate stock of non-reusable study materials and ensure the proper reordering of diminishing supplies.
• 10% - Conduct laboratory procedures, which can include (but not limited to) the following: quantitative sensory testing (QST) for pain, biomechanical assessments, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and MRI scanning, including following protocols, developing site specific standard operating procedures (SOPs), as needed. Once trained and competent in these procedures, provide education and training on these protocols and technologies as requested. Troubleshoot, maintain, and repair study equipment as appropriate.
  
  Coordinate repair or replacement of study equipment beyond expertise.
• 5% - Conduct study visits before and after regular work hours when necessary to accommodate the schedules of the subjects, MRI availability, surgery scheduling, or other scheduling necessities.
• 10% - Schedule and participate in all sponsor monitoring visits to review study protocols and collected data. Maintain Lab Schedule as needed. Coordinate subject and provider scheduling, including psychologist, physician, and physical therapist, as needed.
• 5% - Assist in the development and maintenance of proper and up to date COVID procedures including…