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Posted Job Title
Clinical Research Coordinator A
Job Profile Title
Clinical Research Coordinator A
Job Description Summary
The CRCs primary position will be to recruit patients at the University of Pennsylvania for I-SPOT, ALLEVIATE-C, and other supported studies (PI/Serper). These are multi-year, multi-site investigations on various observational and non-pharmacological interventions for patients with advanced liver disease or recent liver transplant. The coordinator's responsibilities will include maintaining and updating IRB protocols, patient identification through an electronic health record, patient recruitment, ensuring completion of study activities by study subjects, biospecimen collection and processing, completion of case report forms, working with the study sponsors and coordinating site, maintaining a recruitment log and regulatory binder of study documents, and drafting of abstracts and/or manuscripts.
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Job Responsibilities
The CRCs primary position will be to recruit patients for a multi-site, prospective, observational cohort study at the University of Pennsylvania. The goal of the study is to learn when a skin cancer called keratinocyte carcinoma (KC) may develop in people who have had a liver or kidney transplant. The CRC will also work on an upcoming interventional study that will evaluate the impact of non-pharmacological pain management in patients with chronic pain related to cirrhosis. The study recruitment will take place at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (PCAM). The coordinator's responsibilities will include maintaining and updating IRB protocols, patient identification through an electronic health record, patient recruitment, ensuring completion of study activities by study subjects, biospecimen collection and processing, completion of case report forms, working with the study sponsors and coordinating site, maintaining a recruitment log and regulatory binder of study documents, and drafting of abstracts and/or manuscripts.
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