Clinical Research Coordinator 3

Department

BSD MED - Hospital Medicine - CCP Administration

About the Department

Hospital medicine is a new and rapidly growing field within internal medicine whose physicians, hospitalists, focus their practice on the care of hospitalized patients. Although clinical needs have been the driving force behind the growth of hospital medicine nationally, our program has always had a major academic focus on research, quality improvement, and teaching. The Comprehensive Care Physician (CCP) Program is an innovative program within the Section of Hospital Medicine that provides patients with complex medical a physician who cares for them both in the hospital and the clinic. The CCP model has been studied in a randomized trial since 2012 with funding from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and has shown statistically significant improvements to patient experience and health outcomes and decreases in hospitalization and spending. In addition, this model and study have evolved to since to better engage patients and address social determinants of health. Since, 2016 and with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and now the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), we have created and are evaluating the Comprehensive Care Community & Culture Program (C4P), which adds to CCP 1) systematic screening of unmet social needs, 2) access to a community health worker and 3) access to community-based arts and culture programming. C4P is also being evaluated through a randomized trial and has produced promising preliminary findings, particularly in activating patients.

Job Summary

The Clinical Research Coordinator 3 (CRC 3) will provide leadership within the CCP research team including overseeing a professional staff and volunteers responsible for research projects and related programming. Supervises research operations and ensures compliance of research activities with institutional, state, and federal regulatory policies, procedures, directives, and mandates.

Responsibilities

• The Section of Hospital Medicine seeks a Clinical Research Coordinator 3 who will help the PI to oversee the CCP/C4P research infrastructure, including a team of Research Coordinators and Research Assistants. The position will also directly support the C4P study and program at Ingalls Memorial Hospital.

• Hire and train research coordinators on their assigned projects, managing schedules and timecards, addressing their questions and/or concerns, ensuring they have the resources and tools they need to conduct the research activities on a daily basis, and assigning projects.

• Partner with UChicago career services to hire undergraduate and masters level students looking for research exposure.

• Oversee all related study protocols, quality improvement initiatives, and data management.

• Maintain good working relationships across the research project, including working closely with Dr. Meltzer, CCP research and the analytics team.

• The CRC 3 will work with the PI to collaborate with the informatics team and data programmers to design and manage database to streamline research operations.

• Team with UCM faculty to build research partnerships and share research infrastructure.

• Lead research operations projects such as assessing budgets with the CCP leadership team to ensure funding of all research activities and personnel, acting as a liaison with Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions, updating research protocols and building databases through REDCap.

• Take part in research design and analysis, completing such tasks as: developing research participant screening tools, leading data cleaning initiatives and/or data quality improvement processes, which might include managing and designing operational work flows.

• Validate and document CCP research documents, research processes/methods and maintain csv files for programmers and informatics teams.

• Leverage technical skills to support data analysis and evaluation of federal and privately funded health services research projects including observational studies and randomized control trials as well as qualitative research.

• Produce reports and presentations as needed for funders and diverse audiences.

• Facilitates and participates in the daily activities of moderately complex clinical studies and performs various activities including patient data retrieval, documenting clinical research records, and participation in program audits.

• Accountable for all tasks in moderately complex clinical studies.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Min