Clinical Research Coordinator

This project in the Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine (OECM) will support initiatives to identify workers at high risk for occupational disease from exposure to emerging hazards in the workplace. The long-term goal of this project is to protect vulnerable workers from illness, injury, and death from preventable causes in their workplaces.

Silicosis Registry:
As part of these goals, we have established a program that can provide critical services to workers in the engineered stone fabrication industry who are exposed to crystalline silica dust. Many of the exposed workers are low-wage, immigrant, and vulnerable to workplace exploitation.

The Clinical Research Coordinator position will perform tasks under the direction of Dr. Gandhi. The role of the CRC will be:
* Facilitate access to diagnosis and treatment for uninsured and underinsured stone fabrication workers. Identify exposed workers, schedule clinical/study visits, administer questionnaires, and collect medical history and records.
* Coordinate, communicate and network with other studies and technicians; communicate with any affiliated groups.
* Coordinate collection and storage of biobanked samples of enrolled registry participants
* Following training, assist with project to collect pulmonary physiology data including pulmonary function testing, exercise testing, and other tests.
* The CRC will perform data entry of clinical data collected as part of a disease registry maintained at UCSF and administer exposure questionnaires.
* The CRC will also help develop educational materials and a website regarding the hazards of engineered stone dust and silica dust.

Occupational Lung Disease Program:
The Clinical Research Coordinator will assist in arranging meetings and meeting minutes for other research programs related to the epidemiology of occupational and environmental lung diseases in coordination with Dr. Gandhi and other study staff.