Research Technician

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

Position Summary

The Research Assistant will support a multi-center observational study that seeks to understand breast cancer incidence among high-risk women. The responsibilities of this position will be related to data collection from existing clinical records. This will include searching medical records and data exports for information, entering data into an electronic form (REDCap), and checking records for completeness and accuracy.

Familiarity with clinical research (including terminology related to breast cancer, cancer screening, pathology, and/or radiology).
MS Office tools.
Human subjects research.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

Management Preferences

Familiarity with REDCap and Epic
Familiarity with clinical research (including terminology related to breast cancer, cancer screening, pathology, or radiology)
Experience with MS Office Suite
Human subjects research experience

Special Physical/Mental Requirements

Attention to detail, self-directed, good communication and collaboration skills