Clinical Research Associate

UPMC is hiring a Casual Clinical Research Associate to join their Critical Care Medicine team as part of their Multidisciplinary Acute Care Research Organization (MACRO) in Pittsburgh, PA!

The Multidisciplinary Acute Care Research Organization (MACRO) provides support services to principal investigators seeking to maximize the productivity and efficiency of acute care research, from the pre-hospital setting to the ICU and inpatient wards.

MACRO offers a wide range of services, including 24/7 screening and enrollment into clinical trials and assistance in the conduct of prospective, observational, patient-oriented acute care research.

Our mission is to advance medicine and science, through excellence in execution of screening and enrollment day-and-night, local and national coordination, and stakeholder education of multidisciplinary clinical research.

Our vision is to be the national role model for academic multidisciplinary clinical research organizations.

The Clinical Research Associate will be working in the ICU setting, coordinating interventional clinical trials alongside the APP, bedside nurses, and physicians, and drawing/processing blood samples from patients, overseeing data management of large-scale trials.

This is a casual position with no set schedule.

This position will work daylight, evening, and overnight shifts depending on the type of patient enrolled into the clinical trial and protocol needs.

This position is a hybrid work from home role, but all applicants must be located within 60 minutes of the Pittsburgh area or willing to relocate to this area for onsite needs.

• Create individualized study calendars and reviews them with the patient.
• Meet with the principal investigator and Clinical Research Coordinator/Supervisor to review patient status on as needed basis.
• Responsible for prompt and accurate data collection for protocols.
• Assist coordinator in preparing, sending and tracking documents for re-consenting patients.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings to foster educational development by attending relevant seminars, conferences and sponsored educational events as required.
• In addition, will contact patient/family members to obtain follow up or survival data information after study completion, and will review survival record data bases to provide follow up. All follow up information is to be documented onto study CRFs and entered into CTMA.