Clinical/Translational Research Coordinator

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Organization:

Kidney & Pancreas Transplant

Job Summary:

The Department of Surgery is seeking an experienced research professional to support solid organ transplant research. In your pivotal role as Clinical Research Coordinator, you will perform a variety of research and operations-related activities for a federally funded small pilot clinical trial. This will include study participant recruitment, study visit completion, and data acquisition, management and reporting. This full-time position (40 hours/week) is available for up to two years.

Your responsibilities will include: Reviewing potential candidates in the electronic medical record (EPIC), contacting candidates via phone and/or the patient communication portal and setting up/conducting enrollment visits including patient consent and survey completion. At the enrollment visit, you will also be responsible for downloading an app to the participant’s phone and registering the participant for an account within the app. Subsequent study visits include weekly phone-calls with participants, and a study exit visit where you will administer surveys and conduct a brief semi-structured exit interview. You will be responsible for data collection and management in REDCap including data extraction from the electronic health record (EPIC). Other tasks include clinical trials regulatory and safety mechanisms including maintaining the IRB, organizing a data safety and monitoring board, reporting results in the national NIMH Data Archive (NDA) database, drafting annual update reports for NIH, and maintaining the clinicaltrials.gov record.

Depending on the time requirements for the primary pilot trial, additional tasks will revolve around assisting with other divisional research projects which could include, but not be limited to, conducting literature reviews, data analysis, and preparing results for publication. Potential for authorship depends on degree of study involvement and manuscript contribution. The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

At minimum, you must have completed a bachelor’s degree, ideally in health-related or social science fields. Ideally, you will have experience in clinical research in the past.

You will work Monday-Friday, standard daytime business hours at Vanderbilt Medical Center North on 21st Ave.

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DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:

The Vanderbilt Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation is one of the oldest and most experienced kidney transplant programs in the United States, having performed over 6,000 transplants since its inception in 1962. We are currently the third largest kidney transplant program in the Southeast. Surgeons perform cadaver and living donor kidney transplants, simultaneous kidney/pancreas transplants, and pancreas transplants alone. The Division was also the first transplant program in Tennessee to introduce the minimally invasive technique of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy for living donor kidney transplants, and now performs the largest number of living donor kidney transplants in the state. For more information, please visit https://www.vumc.org/kidneypancreasetransplantdivision/welcome.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinates research projects and performs tasks related to the execution and operations of research projects.
• Plans, organizes, and completes projects in an efficient manner.

• Fosters collaboration between team members, both internal and external to the department/institution. Works as a team to accomplish common goals.
• Build REDCap database and performs data entry. Coordinates data management, data cleaning, and data validation.
• Administers surveys and conducts brief semi-structured interviews.
• Downloads smartphone application to participant phone and troubleshoots the a