Senior Research Coordinator

The overall focus of the Senior Research Coordinator will be to identify and consent subjects, administer interviews, and evaluation of the project. This position will be responsible for coordinating, directing, and implementing the more advanced and complex clinical research protocols as well as ensuring accurate data collection, documentation, data entry, organization and safety of study volunteers.

• This position plays an integral role in health care transition at TCH. Coordinates meetings with other services, attends TCH Transition Team meetings with various TCH sub-specialty services to help each develop transition planning structure and processes, provides transition planning tool reports for 12 services and orients and teaches pediatric residents how to conduct healthcare transition planning with adolescent medicine patients as well as maintains personal profile for TCH Transition website.
• Assists in the preparation of NIH grants and reviews literature to help develop healthcare transition related manuscripts for submission to peer review journals.
• Involved in discussions regarding manuscript writing, grant writing, abstract development, and ongoing healthcare transition research and quality improvement projects.
• Develops Caregiver interventions for the IPACT grant designed to teach self management skills to 14 to 16 year old TCH patients and develops training sessions with providers, administers provider surveys, recruitment of historical controls, coordinates meetings with service liaison for the purpose of recruitment, develops and monitors data safety and management protocols and submits amends, and renews IRB protocols.

• Bachelor's degree in a Basic Science or related field. Four years of related experience may substitute for degree requirement.
• Five years of relevant experience.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

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