Senior Field Clinical Scientist - Remote

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title

Senior Field Clinical Scientist - Remote 

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Field Clinical Scientist role on the East Coast for the Neuromodulation Division. Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

What You’ll Work On

Study Site Management

• Perform discovery visits to access sites for research partnerships

• Complete nomination, qualification, and site activation submissions, visits, and reports

• Ensures site compliance with protocol

• Ensure high quality data collection by attending patient enrollments, key time point follow-up visits, and monitoring visits as appropriate

• Provide protocol and product/procedural training to clinical sites

• Initiate and manage documentable compliance actions

• Conduct regular data quality reviews with principal investigators and research staff, to include appropriate and timely enrollment, withdrawals, adverse events, follow-up compliance, and deviation management strategies

Clinical/Scientific Expert

• Assist sites with pre-screening patients to ensure appropriateness for clinical study, as applicable

• Provide procedural support to ensure safety of subjects in clinical studies

• Assist with registries, new technology assessments, and other special projects as needed

• Knowledge beyond features and benefits, to include design, development, clinical application, health economics, and competitive position of Abbott Neuromodulation devices

• Deep understanding of neurological disorders and chronic pain therapies disease etiologies, treatment algorithms, and clinician referral networks

• Participate in development of best practices to continuously ensure excellent study outcomes

• Partner with in house clinical science team on protocol and case report form development

• Facilitate communication between science group (in house and field) and physician partners

• Cross-Functional Liaison

• Train and educate other cross-functional groups on study protocols, therapy areas, and/or clinical research operations

• Provide field perspective to clinical study teams throughout study protocol development and execution

• Appropriately engages Applied Research, Medical Affairs, and Investigator Initiated Study team to support clinical strategy

• Partner with regional Sales team by conducting study education and regular site activities updates

• Complies with all applicable local, national, and international regulatory requirements

• Adheres to all company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments

• Maintains positive and cooperative c