Director, Pharmacy Research & Investigational Drug Services - IDS - Hybrid

Join the transformative team at City of Hope , where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The director will provide programmatic, compliance and strategic oversight and coordination of all aspects of the Pharmacy Research Program across the pharmacy enterprise to include City of Hope National Medical Center (COH), Orange County and Clinical Network on license facilities. 

The Pharmacy Director in the area of Investigational Drugs will oversee clinical, operational, financial, regulatory and human resources management of all research and investigational drug services. The individual serves as a member of the Pharmacy Leadership Team. The Director works directly with research and medical staff leadership, nursing and pharmacy to promote practice that achieves quality outcomes and medication safety that contribute to the overall success of COH.

As a successful candidate, you will:

Ensure Program Compliance: 

• Ensure facilities, security, and accountability according to COH, FDA, JC and GCP guidelines, and other regulatory requirements.  Ensures that all equipment and facility requirements are compliant with all investigational drug services requirements.
• Acts as the liaison with internal affiliated departments and external stakeholders to ensure program integrity.

Manage Clinical Research Pharmacy Staff:

• Attract, retain, and develop a quality Clinical Pharmacy Staff across the enterprise.  Ensures clinical research pharmacy staff training and competency

Manage Investigational Drug Services Program:

• Serves as the primary leader responsible for program oversight and all pharmacy research related matters. 
• Serves as the primary compliance expert on investigational drug program details, policies, and procedures, and ensures compliance with all regulatory standards and proper Investigational Drug Product Accountability and Documentation
• Work with IDS, COH Leadership, Nursing Leadership, physicians, pharmacists, and other department managers and key committees to promote safe and effective use of investigational drugs.
• Provides oversight over Investigational Drug Product Dose Preparation and Dispensing.  Provides oversight over monitoring visits and /or audits of the clinical research pharmacy and support such activities at the enterprise level.
• Actively engages with senior leadership and participates in decision-making processes related to the expansion of the research program and /or changes of program.
• Represent the pharmacy enterprise in all research related committees.
• Provides oversight and leadership of clinical and investigational initiatives in all disease site programs through affiliations with organizations such as NCCN, HOPA, ASH, ASCO, SWOG, COG to advance the clinical program and ensure that these initiatives meet the safety, quality and financial goals of the organization.