Description

Department:
Surgery - JM
Location:
Health Sciences Center
Time Type:
Part time
Worker Type:
Temporary (Fixed Term)
Job Req ID:
R109013
Minimum Requirements:
Four or more years experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Position Description:

A Temporary Clinical Research Coordinator is needed to coordinate clinical research studies conducted at the Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology. Clinical Research at the Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology includes early phase, novel treatment, multi-centered, cooperative and intergroup trials, multi-institutional device, pharmaceutical trials, hepatic arterial studies, and single- or multi-centered investigator-initiated trials. This is a part time temporary position scheduled to work 15 hours per week.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitates compliance with the research protocol and Good Clinical Practice guidelines.
• Uses multiple communication styles and methods to facilitate the effective coordination of clinical trials across disciplines and clinics, acting as a liaison between the principle investigator, sponsoring agent, study patients, referring physicians, pharmacist, statisticians and other members of the research team.
• Takes leadership in ensuring an effective informed-consent process and study subject safety for the duration of the trial.
• Ensures compliance with protocol procedures, assessments and reporting requirements.
• Assists physicians in ensuring adequate source documentation and data-collection that validate the integrity of the clinical trial.
• Assist in enhancing recruitment of study participants, helping with the design and implementation of recruitment strategies for identifying and assessing patients who may be eligible for a clinical trial.
• Demonstrates leadership in adhering to ethical principles in the conduct of clinical trials in order to protect study subjects and data integrity.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Clinical Research.
• Experience in device, hepatic arterial, and drug based clinical research.

Compensation will be commensurate to candidate experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Louisville is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. The University strives to provide equal employment opportunity on the basis of merit and without unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, or pregnancy. In accordance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veteran Readjustment Act of 1974, the University prohibits job discrimination of individuals with disabilities, Vietnam era veterans, qualified special disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans. The University acknowledges its obligations to ensure affirmative steps are taken to ensure equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. It is the policy of the University that no employee or applicant for employment be subject to unlawful discrimination in terms of recruitment, hiring, promotion, contract, contract renewal, tenure, compensation, benefits, and/or working conditions. No employee or applicant for employment is required to endorse or condemn a specific ideology, political viewpoint, or social viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, or promotion.

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