Research Associate - (Oncology)

Purpose:

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is currently hiring a regular full-time Clinical Research Associate to help support the Clinical Research Services team located within the Hillman Cancer Center in Shadyside/Pittsburgh, PA & Hillman Women's Oncology Program at Magee Women's Hospital in Oakland/Pittsburgh, PA.  This role will float and support various Oncology Disease Center program studies working Monday through Friday daylight hours.

The Clinical Research Services (CRS) team is made up of nearly 200 staff members who facilitate development, implementation, coordination, internal data monitoring, and completion of oncology-focused trials at Hillman. These trials include institutional (investigator-initiated), multi-center cooperative group/National Clinical Trial Network (NCTN), consortium, and industry-sponsored trials. Using a disease-specific centers model for conducting clinical trials, CRS provides study development and implementation assistance, submissions to the FDA, IRB processing, patient recruitment, study coordination, study-specific training, data collection, and specimen collection and processing.

Under the direction of the Clinical Research Manager, the research associate will work with physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals to facilitate clinical research trials provided through the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and UPMC Hillman Cancer Centers and to independently execute job functions related to protocol management.

• This position is part of a UPMC Research Career ladder.  The incumbent will be hired into the appropriate level of research nursing professional based on their current education and experience level.

Responsibilities:

• Assists in entering subject trial registration and study status updates into CTMA.
• Assists in the coordination of initiation, site evaluation, monitoring visits, and audits required by the sponsor.
• Assists in verifying subject eligibility according to protocols by reviewing medical records, laboratory, and radiology or CT scan results.
• Create study-specific source documents, case report forms and study visit checklists.
• Ensures that patient's records, slides, radiology tests, lab work results, etc. are obtained and reviewed prior to patient entry into a study.
• Performs consenting process and study implementation of lab, registry, and non-therapeutic clinical trials.
• Process required documents as need for the research protocols.
• Responsible for prompt and accurate data collection for protocols.
• Shares responsibility of managing the day-to-day activities for the research protocols.
• Will serve as an assistant to support all main functions of the department.