Research Associate- Clinical Trials Office

Job Title

Research Associate
- Clinical Trials Office

Augusta University

Regular

Full-Time

294201

Augusta University is Georgia's innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. More than 12,000 students choose Augusta for educational opportunities at the center of Georgia's cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts and application, humanities, and the health sciences.

Augusta is home to Georgia's only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research is creating a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world-class clinicians are bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today.

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Augusta University's distinct characteristics in education and research include real-world experiences and community engagement, as well as a culture of building community, corporate and government partnerships that address health, security, economic and societal concerns locally and across the state.

The University System of Georgia https:// is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards.

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Augusta University is actively participating in ways to improve the health and lives of the people of our community, our state, and around the world. To do this, we conduct research, a great deal of which is done through clinical trials in humans (known as human subject research). There are many federal requirements that all research institutions must meet in order to conduct human subject research.

We have an outstanding, dynamic, and growing group of researchers, administrators, and office staff ready to assist. Our defined strengths lie in the areas of:
Conventional clinical trials;
Community, population health, social, behavioral, and educational research;
Community education;
Well-defined research initiation process;
Ongoing and continued support for conduct of research;
Integrated and technology advanced IT systems to support efficient research processes.

The Research Associate in this position will provide assistance to the overall functioning activities of the Clinical Trials Office (CTO). The CTO is an interdisciplinary research unit that provides support for physician-initiated, grant-funded, and industry sponsored clinical trials.

• Coordination of clinical research trials to include meeting with drug company representatives, screening, recruiting and consenting patients, scheduling follow up appointments, coordinating care with other departments, and performing all laboratory and other tests as required by the protocol.
• Receive and respond to all correspondence received in a timely manner.
• Keep investigator informed of patients' condition and provide assistance to investigators in the management of adverse events.
• Attend meetings, computer trainings, and workshops as requested.
• Complete all reports including the annual study continuation report in a timely manner - accurately communicate all necessary information to patients, families, investigators, sponsor, IRB and institutional entities.
• Responsible for collection, processing, storage, and inventory of specimens for specific studies, assessing for adverse events, maintaining investigational devices, staff development and completion of regulatory paperwork as required by the FDA, study sponsor, and Institutional policies and procedures for all assigned studies as well as the Annual IRB Continuation Reports and other IRB activities as requested.
• Maintain all FDA, sponsor, and institutional review board documentation. Obtain and maintain complete source documentation. Accurate and timely completion of all case report forms and other data entry as required by the sponsor and local institutional data management programs.
• Enter data into the OnCore research data management system as dictated…