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Job Specific Duties

• Attends and participates in investigator meetings, pre-study visits, and initiation meetings or coordinator meetings as appropriate.
• Collects and maintains accurate patient data for submission to Sponsor, maintaining proper patient records, coordinating the collection, and shipments of specimens as required by protocol. 
• Communicates study objectives/procedures to relevant hospital units involved with the study including the establishment of good rapport with the Principal Investigator & providing required assistance. 
• Communicates with the Sponsor or their representatives, schedules and facilitates study monitor visits, and facilitates communication between Principal Investigator and Sponsor or Sponsor’s Representatives.
• Complies with the Research Finance Compliance policies and procedures including reporting requirements to research finance staff. 
• Interacts with patients and families to recruit (screen, consent and enroll) study subjects and ensures compliance with the protocol. 
• Responsible for speedy and adequate patient enrollment as determined by Research Management and Principal Investigator in all assigned studies.
• Submits new protocols to Research Regulatory Affairs team (for IRB submission/approval) and verifies proper document were received with the proper format. 
• Submits amendments of protocols to Research Regulatory Affairs team and verifies the required corrections were inserted following the established procedures.
• Utilizes Good Clinical Practices in the conduct of clinical trials as per established protocol. 
• Follows NCHS RI’s Standard Operating Procedures, AAHRPP, HIPAA and FDA guidelines for clinical research, and keeps updated in those procedures and/or guidelines. 
• Enters Research Patient information into CTMS within 72hours of enrollment, patient visit or patient-related event. 
• Provides new Protocols, Amendments and study status updates to necessary research staff for digitization/entry into CTMS.