Clinical Research Coordinator

The Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Division of the DOM is hiring for a Clinical Research Coordinator. The division is led by division chief Alison Morris, MD and Executive Administrator Barbara Suchonic. The division is made of up approximately 70 clinical staff and over 100 research staff who work in a variety of locations including\: Bridgeside Point, Biomedical Science Tower (BST), UPMC Hospitals including Presbyterian, Shadyside, East, Jameson and Mercy. The division provides world class services across 10 inpatient services at five hospitals and over 70,000 outpatient office visits. We have a major research mission that focuses on basic, clinical, and translational research on the lung, microbiome, COVID-19, sleep medicine, and allergy and immunology.

The Emphysema Research Program ( Emphysema COPD Research Center @ University of Pittsburgh ) in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine ( Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine | Department of Medicine (pitt.edu) ) is looking for a clinical research coordinator to be responsible for all aspects of the study and will work closely with the regulatory coordinator to make sure all IRB requirements are met. The candidate will work closely with the PI to identify any abnormal study findings. While this position has a standard schedule of Monday - Friday, 8am - 4\:30pm, some flexibility may be needed due to participant scheduling. Some travel to coordinator meetings may be required.

Conducts research assessments on study participants. Assists with and adheres to Institutional Review Board (IRB) renewal, modification, and approved protocols. Assists with training staff. Ensures adherence to protocols and corrects issues with data collection.

Screens research participants for eligibility in the study – schedules and conducts visits for eligible participants according to protocol– completes data collection and data entry - educates participants on home spirometry -conducts all follow up visits – reviews abnormal study findings with the PI. The candidate must be willing to perform phlebotomy, nasal curettage/nasosorption, spirometry testing, aliquoting and other lab tests and procedures as required in the protocol.

Must be able to stand and/or sit for several hours at a time while conducting the visit and performing testing. May have to walk up to two miles within the buildings on the Oakland campus.

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