Specialist - Wisseh Lab

The Cheryl Wisseh research group is seeking a Junior Specialist. Dr. Wisseh's research program broadly examines the relationships between the determinants of health, health of racially and ethnically minoritized populations and health outcomes and the pharmacist's role in reducing racial and ethnic health disparities among adult patients with chronic disease.

The incumbent is responsible for study recruitment, enrollment, select intervention activities and follow-up. They will conduct interviews with study patients at clinical sites, screen participants, and collect data in compliance with established study protocols. They will also make contributions to scholarly works (abstracts, manuscripts). Dr. Wisseh is an academic partner at To Help Everyone Health and Wellness Center (T.H.E Clinic) in Los Angeles. The incumbent will be required to work at three T.H.E Clinic locations for the duration of the appointment. This role is clinical/biomedical research-based, and does not involve direct patient care.

General Working Environment: community clinic, or campus/university setting; main worksite will be at 3 clinic locations in Los Angeles.

Duties

• Coordinate and conduct participant screening, recruitment, and scheduling.
  
  
  
  • Reviewing clinical research protocols to determine and prepare appropriate eligibility for patient enrollment.
  • Ensuring that all patients are evaluated, and eligibility requirements are met.
  
  
  
  
• Obtaining informed consent.
  
  
  
  • Consents and communicates with the patient to ensure they have a full understanding of the protocol, and all information is explained completely and accurately.
  
  
  
  
• Administration of study questionnaires/interviews.
  
  
  
  • Collection of psychological, behavioral, and clinical data at study visits.
  
  
  
  
• Abstraction of data from medical records.
  
  
  
  • Obtaining and recording medical data according to clinical research protocols
  • All data that is extracted will be secondary in nature; there will be no direct contact with study participants to collect health information for the purposes of the study intervention protocols
  
  
  
  
• Maintenance and management of clinical research database
  
  
  
  • Maintain individual study participant files/charts.
  
  
  
  
• Maintenance of records documenting patient accruals
• Retention of study participants
• Work with data manager and performing data management activities and ensuring all requirements are met as required for protocol adherence.
• Coordinate with various departments/ partners in screening and intervention planning, scheduling, protocol required visits, and data collection.
• Maintenance and management of filing system/ database for each clinical study containing Institutional review Board (IRB) approval, updated consent forms, and copies of original consent forms.
• Order and maintain supply records.
  
  
  
  • Correspondence with approved/familiar vendors.
  • Track study devices and supplies.
  • Maintenance of device accountability records as needed and ensures all study protocols are followed regarding dispensing of devices.
  
  
  
  
• Contributions to development and dissemination of scholarly works (abstracts, manuscripts, etc.) yielded from projects
  
  
  
  • Literature reviews
  • Scholarly writing
  
  
  
  
• Other miscellaneous administrative duties as required by the study and PI.

Required Skills

• Knowledge and experience with human subjects' research recruitment, informed consent procedures and documents and enrollment in clinical and/or behavioral settings ( 1 year of experience)
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of campus and clinic administration staff, medical staff, and faculty.
• Work as a supportive, cooperative member of an interdisciplinary team.
• Interact with community members, patients, and caregivers of various social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds.
• Strong attention to detail
• Task-committed
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat Pro
• Familiarity with statistical software: SPSS, R
  
  
  
  • Interpretation of SPSS, and R data analysis output.
  
  
  
  
• Scholarly Writing skills: synthesis through literature reviews, contribution to and development of abstracts and manuscripts for data and outcomes dissemination

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in clinical research administration, health sciences, public health, psychology, social sciences, or related field required
• Experience with working in a medical/clinical setting and familiarity with medical terminology preferred but not required

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in clinical research administration, health sciences, public health, psychology, or related field

• 3 required (contact information only)

The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC anti-discrimination policy.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.

• "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer.
• UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
• UC Anti-Discrimination Policy for Employees, Students and Third Parties
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  APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment.
  
  

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.