Clinical Research Assistant
Position Summary
The candidate will work with the Department of Neurology, Taub Institute on clinical studies involving patients with Alzheimer’s disease, related disorders, and healthy volunteers. The Research Assistant will be working under the supervision of the Project Manager in conducting research participant visits, scheduling MRI and PET scans, organizing research visit data and ensuring the appropriate reporting to regulatory boards such as the Institutional Review Board and the Food and Drug Administration.
Responsibilities
- Schedule all aspects of participant visits following procedure protocols
- Conduct visits with research participants in a professional and kind manner
- Assisting in data collection and input into computerized databases
- Assisting with basic analysis and statistics
- Performing standardized tests on research participants
- Eliciting information from participants in accordance with a structured interview
- Providing quality control for data
- Assist in preparing IRB and FDA submissions
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and at least one and one-half years of related experience or equivalent in education, training, and experience.
- Verbal and written fluency in English
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience and/or interest in the field of neuroscience clinical research
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Excellent organizational skills
- Ability to perform meticulous record keeping
- Excellent communication and writing skills
- Ability to work as a member of a team and independently
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