Clinical Research Assistant

Required Qualifications (as evidenced by an attached resume):
Bachelor's Degree (foreign equivalent or higher) and One (1) year of full-time experience working in a patient-related research environment. In lieu of a Bachelor's degree and One (1) year of full-time experience working in a patient-related research environment, an Associate's degree (foreign equivalent or higher) and Three (3) years of full-time experience working in a patient-related research environment may be considered. Experience in data collection and data tracking. Proficiency with MS word and/or excel.

Preferred Qualifications:
CITI training in human research (Biomedical human research course). Experience working with EMR (Electronic Medical Records).

Brief Description of Duties:
The Clinical Research Assistant participates in enrolling human subjects into research protocols by performing informed consent process with potential study subjects, explaining protocols, answering questions, and fulfilling regulatory requirements for informed consent form; maintains consent forms; schedules visits, coordinates subject follow-up; in both the Infectious Diseases Clinic at Stony Brook University or research sites. The Clinical Research Assistant will work on patient data into several databases on current ongoing grant-based projects (i.e. Dr. Sarath Nath's CDC STD Clinic). The incumbent will also work in the lab in collaboration with Dr. Charles Vorkas, and process in a timely fashion all blood samples collected on the same day. Excellent communication skills is key and able to move from Clinics to Health Sciences Center labs to transport samples.

Duties:

• Enroll research subjects in the hospital and outpatient clinics.
• Assist patients to understand the goals of the research and resources available.
• Complete questionnaire once the patients are included in the research.
• Call the patients for follow up according to the research protocols.
• Attend regular meetings with research coordinator and PI.
• Place information into the database for the sponsor.
• Transport samples from clinics to main research laboratory, to prepare these samples for biobanking.
• Responsible for outreach efforts to establish and maintain positive working relationships with physicians, office staff, diagnostic staff, nurses, laboratory staff and principal investigator.
• Screen medical records in EMR on a regular basis.
• Other duties as assigned.

Special Notes:
The Research Foundation of SUNY is a private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines and the availability of funding. FLSA Non-Exempt position, eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA.

For this position, we are unable to sponsor candidates for work visas.
Resume/CV and cover letter should be included with the online application.