Research Assistant Cardiac Surgery Research

Research Assistant I Cardiac Surgery Research

Summary This role is to support innovations structural heart research. Studies look at methods for developing treatments to support patients undergoing cardiac structural interventions.

Responsibilities

• Performing general office duties e.g. filing, faxing, mailings, courier services, photocopying.
• Ordering supplies and maintaining inventory.
• Organizing office space; maintaining calendars and managing complex scheduling requests.
• Developing correspondence and other relevant documentation including letters, memos, reports, invoices, abstracts, forms, to support the activities of the research team and Principal Investigator.
• Reviewing slides for webinars, written study reports, scientific meetings, and conferences.
• Organizing video/teleconference meetings for research studies, including contacting attendees, and preparing meeting materials.
• Participating in database processing and management.
• Coordinating communication between team and external partners.
• Preparing REB/CTO submissions relative to the initiation and conduct of individual studies and registering study protocols.
• Collecting conflict of interest forms; helping maintain CVs of the PIs and external partners.
• Updating monitoring logs i.e. freezer logs, sample storage logs, etc.
• Conducting literature searches; retrieving articles from libraries.
• Interacting with hospital departments such as pharmacy, various laboratories, etc.
• Invoicing and other administrative research tasks.
• Collecting, transcribing, organizing, quality controlling, and entering study related data.
• Assisting with data abstraction and other routine research tasks.
• Compiling and providing basic statistical information and other data to generate and prepare reports and other documentation to support study related data.
• Interacting with various departments such as pharmacy, laboratories, medical records, etc.; and with internal and external stakeholders in order to provide administrative support.
• Performing literature searches/data mining on requested topics through databases and providing relevant articles to PI or research team.
• Understanding, interpreting, and processing data.
• Assisting with manuscript and report writing and literature reviews.
• Collecting feedback from multiple partners on projects re: proposals, manuscripts, and dissemination tools (sometimes >50 authors) including record keeping of feedback and changes to authorship order.
• Recruiting and coordinating study participants: screening participants and obtaining required documentation including obtaining consent; collecting data via phone calls, interviews; recruiting study participants in collaboration with study team or staff at participating community organizations; scheduling interviews and participants; following strict protocols for participant interactions; acting as the on‑site point of contact for the studies at participating community/healthcare organizations; administering quantitative surveys to study participants at participating community organizations using online survey tool;
  
  facilitating compensation of study participants; traveling to participant sites as required.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate Degree or 1 year of relevant experience or demonstrable equivalent combination of specialized education and experience.
• TCPS CORE 2 is preferred (Completed within first 2 weeks of hire).
• Good clinical practice certificate is an asset (Completed within first 2 weeks of hire).
• Basic computer skills, particularly database, spreadsheet and word processing.
• Experience with a reference manager (i.e. End Note, Mendeley, etc.) is an asset.
• Intermediate organizational and time management skills, including multi‑tasking and flexibility to adapt to changing workload.
• Problem solving.
• Communication (verbal/written) and interpersonal skills.
• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Proven ability to learn new skills.
• Progressively responsible experience in a clerical position.

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