Job Summary

The Clinical Research Coordinator will support participant-facing clinical research activities across the IADRC Clinical Core and Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core.

Department Specific Responsibilities

• Coordinates activities involving older adults, individuals with cognitive concerns, individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, study partners, caregivers, and community participants.
• Supports the transition from outreach and recruitment activities into Clinical Core screening, scheduling, enrollment, visit preparation, study visit completion, retention, and follow-up.
• Helps ensure a positive participant experience, timely visit coordination, accurate documentation, and continuity across outreach, recruitment, and clinical research workflows.
• Coordinates participant-facing clinical research activities across the IADRC Clinical Core and Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core.
• Supports recruitment, screening, scheduling, consenting, enrollment, visit preparation, follow-up, and retention.
• Serves as a key handoff point between outreach/recruitment efforts and Clinical Core research visits.
• Communicates with participants, study partners, caregivers, community members, clinicians, research staff, and faculty investigators.
• Assists with recruitment tracking, participant communication, scheduling workflows, and follow-up for interested participants.
• Prepares participant materials, study documents, source documents, visit packets, correspondence, and recruitment-related materials.
• Coordinates research visits that may include cognitive testing, clinical assessments, questionnaires, blood draw, biospecimen collection, MRI, PET, and other protocol-specific activities.
• Collects, enters, reviews, and maintains study data and documentation in accordance with study protocols and institutional requirements.
• Supports retention activities, reminder calls, participant follow-up, parking validation, participant reimbursement, study supplies, and cross-coverage needs.
• Helps monitor recruitment progress, visit completion, participant experience, and data quality across Clinical Core and OREC workflows.
• Conducts clinical research studies in accordance with approved protocols, institutional policies, Good Clinical Practice, and regulatory requirements.
• Screens, consents, enrolls, and follows participants according to protocol.
• Coordinates study visits, assessments, procedures, imaging visits, biospecimen-related activities, and follow-up.
• Conducts interviews, questionnaires, assessments, and other protocol-specific research activities.
• Communicates with participants, healthcare providers, laboratory personnel, imaging staff, community partners, and study team members.
• Monitors enrollment, retention, visit completion, study timelines, and protocol compliance.
• Documents and escalates adverse events, protocol deviations, participant concerns, and operational issues as appropriate.
• Performs related duties and cross-coverage assignments as needed.