professional opportunities that span the campus and community. University employees can choose from a wide range of professional training opportunities for career growth, skill development and lifelong learning and enjoy exclusive perks that include numerous retail and restaurant discounts, savings on local child care centers and special rates for performing arts events.
Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.
Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We prepare tomorrow's healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.
Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.
Position Summary
The Research Assistant will be responsible for assisting with the startup and management of clinical trials. This will include reviewing and understanding research protocols, obtaining clinical trial data, interacting with clinical trial patients, answering trial queries, registering patients in EPIC/CRMS for accurate billing, submitting patient data, maintaining and organizing data for regulatory compliance, preparing ethics board applications, and maintaining study supply inventory. This will require following detailed instruction outlined by the research team, acting independently within the scope of the clinical trial and instruction from the principal investigators, and completing related training such as Human Research Participant Protection and GCP training.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements
Bachelor's degree; or equivalent combination of training and experience. All degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.
Management Preferences
Prior experience with research, Epic, and IRB.
Campus Security Authority Responsibilities
Not Applicable.
