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The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa is seeking Research Coordinator To coordinate research activities and projects related to the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN) within the Biospecimen Procurement and Molecular Epidemiology Resource (BioMER) at the University of Iowa’s Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (HCCC). This includes coordinating patient specimen and data workflows related to ORIEN and to the Patients Enhancing Research Collaborations at Holden (PERCH), HCCC’s comprehensive biorepository enrollment program which recruits patients for ORIEN participation. This position is responsible for working with the other members of the ORIEN team including the ORIEN Program Managers, ORIEN biostatistician, ORIEN data abstraction team, and ORIEN specimen procurement team to coordinate consent of patients, collection and processing of biospecimens and corresponding clinical data, development and maintenance of project regulatory needs, and attendance at various ORIEN-related team meetings. This position will work closely with the Clinical Research Services and Biospecimen Procurement teams, and will collaborate with physicians and researchers in the development of workflows relevant to ORIEN and in the conduct of ORIEN intermember projects.

Duties to include:

•       Helps to coordinate ORIEN initiatives including the recruitment, coordination, scheduling and sample collection of participating subjects.
•       Assists and consults with patients regarding concerns related to participation in the protocol study.  May obtain consent for participation in the ORIEN unified consent (PERCH) and other related studies.
•       Verify project goals and participant study eligibility with Principal Investigator, Sub-Investigator and or external site collaborators.
•       Coordinates activities and workflows associated with collections/procurement, pathology review, documentation and distribution of tissue, blood, buccal, and other approved samples from patients through close interaction with tissue procurement services, pathologists, physicians, and other related clinical care and research staff.
•       Populates and enhances databases containing research information obtained through review of patient charts and samples, lab reports and other related information and in a manner that complies with Institutional Review Board requirements and in response to ORIEN study needs and requirements.  May create new databases for new sub-projects as needed.
•       Validates data, performs query resolutions, and makes recommendations for resolution.  Works with biostatisticians to complete statistical analysis of data and prepares data for computer analysis.
•       Assists with ongoing research collaborations involving other ORIEN institutions ensuring that data and samples are collected and processed in a manner consistent between the institutions.
•       Gathers and maintains data for ORIEN sub-studies and laboratory investigations within the HCCC.  Creates worksheets, flow sheets and assorted tools to provide source documentation of protocol procedures.
•       Maintains skills/competency related to specimen processing equipment, and procedures common to the patient population of the HCCC.
•       May prepare reports to University Institutional Review Board (IRB-01) for ORIEN-related projects.  Compiles accrual data for these studies, reviews and summarizes information for principal investigators, IRB-01 and federal/sponsor required reporting.
•       Initiates and composes correspondence and related materials to principal investigators outlining review of the protocol sub-studies, maintains documentation of protocols and relevant data, follow-up correspondence, and summaries.
•       Coordinate preparation of Data and Material Sharing Agreements for sub-study projects associated with ORIEN for external and internal investigators.  May initiate routing of agreements through Sponsored Programs and Office for Research.
•       Assists in the development and preparation of materials for reports to be written by faculty and staff on various observational oncology protocols related to ORIEN and in compiling summary data for analysis, submission to study sponsors and for staff preparing reports, publications, manuscripts, research papers, grant funding proposals, and presentations.
•         Contribute to development of ORIEN yearly budget projections.
•       May perform other administrative support tasks in support of the research (e.g., organize and facilitate meetings/ events, respond to inquiries, recruit research participants, monitor research protocols, data collection, analysis, and management; local site coordinator; maintain website content, etc.).
•       Assists with the preparation of educational materials for patients and other staff as needed to carry out protocol.
•       Prepares comprehensive notes and reports detailing results of clinical research and the methods used.
•       Provides and presents information to faculty, staff, patients and others on clinical research and methods employed in research studies.
•       Selects, applies, and tests standard methodologies, techniques, and tools such as manuals, forms, and questionnaires; and assists in the development and revision of routine operating procedures, including means of organizing raw data.
•         Attends coordinated protocol and laboratory meetings as required.
•       Contribute to training of new members of the research team including research assistants and medical students.
•         Perform other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Administrative supervision is received from the Research Operations Technical Director. Functional supervision shared with ORIEN Program Managers and Principal Investigator.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

Functional supervision may be exercised over assigned support staff.

University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics—recognized as one of the best hospitals in the United States—is Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical center and a regional referral center. Each day more than 12,000 employees, students, and volunteers work together to provide safe, quality health care and excellent service for our patients. Simply stated, our mission is: Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.^®

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center is Iowa’s only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. The NCI designation recognized our cancer center, and its research scientist, physicians, and other health care professionals, for their roles in advancing cancer research that impacts on our ability to prevent, detect and treat our patients with cancer. Not just a floor, or a building, or even confined to a single college. Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center coordinates all cancer-related research, education, and patient care by faculty from 41 departments and six colleges, as well as UI Hospitals and Clinics and UI Children’s Hospital.

Percent of Time: 100%

Pay Grade: 4A

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Benefits Highlights:

•          Regular salaried position located in Iowa City, Iowa
•          Fringe benefit package including paid vacation; sick leave; health, dental, life and disability insurance options; and generous employer contributions into retirement plans
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