Provides technical assistance to clinical study sites by serving as the technical resource between engineering and the medical community.
Typically present during initial implant to determine how the product interacts with a human body.
Accountable for identifying investigators, presenting protocols for a study, assisting investigators in product application, and submitting status reports on all programs.
Assist research and development in evaluating concepts of new products and modifying existing devices or therapies.
Provides all aspects of assistance for Clinical Research studies by identifying investigators, nominating sites, performing activation duties, providing training, encouraging enrollment, ensuring quality data acquisition and performing study closure activities.
Accountable for gaining and maintaining knowledge of clinical sites to best understand and assess physicians’ interests and capabilities.
Develops expertise in clinical and market released products and functions as a local technical/clinical resource for Medtronic and the customer.
May be present in the operating room during clinical procedures as well as physician office to facilitate patient testing and data collection.
Accountable for developing and leveraging relationships in the field to drive clinical activity and maintain focus on the customer.
Provides feedback from clinical sites on the performance of the product to be incorporated in engineering designs or enhancements.
Provides prospective and real-time feedback to clinical study management in study design and document development.
Plays a critical role in educating customers, sales partners and internal Clinical Research talent on the technology that they assist.
Requirements
Requires a Baccalaureate degree
Minimum of 4 years of experience in clinical research or as a clinical specialist/field clinical engineer/clinical sales rep
Or Masters degree and 2 years of experience in clinical research or as a clinical specialist/field clinical engineer/clinical sales rep.
Or Phd with 0 Years of experience
2 years experience at Medtronic or within the medical device industry (Nice to Have)