University of Chicago Professional Education

Clinical Research

• Ensure compliance with each study’s protocol by providing thorough review and documentation at each subject study visit.
• Participate in recruitment and selection of study participants by interviewing and documenting medical history to determine compliance with eligibility requirements.
• Perform medical tests, collect labs, and administer investigational medications and perform patient assessments during clinic visits to determine presence of side effects; notify Principal Investigator of findings/issues.
• Provide patient education and medical information to study patients to ensure understanding of proper medication dosage, administration, and disease treatment.
• Document medical data in patient chart to capture protocol requirements.
• Provide accurate and timely data collection, documentation, entry, and appropriate reporting to sponsors and institutions.
• Support regulatory components and site research compliance for study feasibility, study start-up, ongoing study monitoring, and site close out.
• Provide training and mentorship to clinical research team on clinical trial assessments, best practices for clinical research visits, and ALOCA+ data maintenance.
• Serve as liaison between PI, sponsoring agent, regulatory groups, patient, family members, referring MD's/community MD's, pharmacist, statistician, and other members of the research team.

Clinical Research Nurse – Pediatrics