Research Support Specialist
University of South Florida
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Tampa, FL 33620
$32,000 - $42,000 a year
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Dept. Number/Name: 0-6125-000 / Dept. Of Neurology
College Division: USF Health-Morsani College of Medicine
Salary Plan: Staff (Time-Limited)
Job Code/Title: 4706 / Research Support Specialist
Hiring Salary/Salary Range: $32,000-42,000
Position Number: 00036848
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position will work in the Neuromuscular division of the department of Neurology. Duties include research data collection for the medical grant project, data analysis, conducting research, preparing statistical reports and spreadsheets, preparing correspondence, reports and presentations, handling information requests, planning conferences and meetings, providing purchasing, making travel arrangements, and maintaining calendars and schedules. Coordinating multidisciplinary ALS clinics by preparing patient charts, scheduling, filing, scanning patient documents, answering phone calls, faxing orders, and directing providers in clinic. Duties also include drafting research proposals for future studies, drafting manuscripts for past research studies, and preparing literature searches on a variety of neuromuscular subjects for Dr. Vu.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Preparing for bimonthly, multidisciplinary ALS clinics. This includes preparing patient charts by gathering previous provider notes and pages for new documentation and organizing them into individual binders. Scheduling patients for clinic appointments and keeping excel scheduling spreadsheets up to date. Drafting summaries of new patient notes based off the provider’s first encounter with patients, calling patients for appointment confirmation, mailing out clinic packets, and ordering lunch for the provider meeting the day of clinic.
• Preparation and submission of documents to the IRB, both USF and WIRB, granting agencies and study sponsors. Data entry for clinical trials, proofing for data entry errors, and preparing patient/participant documents for study visits, which includes development of source documents as needed. Assist with monitoring visits and attend Investigator Meetings as requested by Research Administrators. Develop materials to communicate projects/trials to potential clients and their families and assist with the promotional materials supplied by the sponsors. Conducts patient visits and testing, including preparation of laboratory shipments and obtaining required information from study subjects during patient visits.
• Monitors and schedules all study patient appointments for USF clinic and works closely with scheduling department for approval of study patient subjects. Assists with retrieving study subjects medical history prior to visit.
• Answering phone calls, voicemails/ calling back patients and providers, answering questions, completing tasks in the online medical charting software EPIC, scheduling patients for new patient neurology consults, scanning in medical records, and drafting medical necessity letters of approval.
• Drafting research proposals for future investigator studies, drafting manuscripts for past clinical research studies completed in our clinic, keeping track of and submitting adverse events from current/ on-going research studies, performing literature searches on new research advances and annotating academic journal articles to provide efficiency for Dr. Vu.
• Other tasks, duties as assigned.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:
MINIMUM:
• This position requires a high school diploma or equivalent and four years of experience in office or administrative support or in research support.
• College education may be substituted for the required experience on a year for year basis.
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