Clinical Research Assistant – Dementia and Aging

Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research (PAVIR) supports the nation's second largest research program conducted among the VA Hospitals and is looking for a full-time Clinical Research Assistant. The Clinical Research Assistant will perform duties related to the Veteran community and community outreach and coordination of clinical studies on dementia and aging patients from diverse backgrounds in the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System VA and the greater Bay Area. The goal of the project is to do community outreach, recruitment, and education of Veterans, health professionals, patients, and their families in English and Spanish about dementia with a special focus on Veterans and VA employees. The Outreach and Education Coordinator will be working closely with the community outreach team in addition to daily contact with a large number of patients and families in the community.

Benefits

PAVIR is delighted to offer a robust and comprehensive employee benefits package with exceptional offerings such as health, dental and vision insurance, 14 paid holidays, generous vacation and sick pay policies, a 401(k) with a fully vested 6% company match and 3% profit share, a wellness program, commuter benefits, and professional development training. Plus, we pay for life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: Serve as contact with research participants, sponsors, and regulatory agencies; Assist in developing recruitment strategies, screening and enrolling participants into studies; Collect and manage participant and patient data for clinical research projects; Interact with the principal investigator regularly, ensuring patient safety and adherence to proper study conduct. Monitor recruitment of study subjects, data completion, and protocol deviations; Prepare regular progress reports on these matters and propose and implement strategies to keep team on target, with input from the principal investigator as needed; Schedule sessions, help with obtaining written informed consent, and run participants through their respective protocols; Ensure essential documentation and recording of patient and research data in appropriate files per institutional and regulatory requirements; Manage research project databases, develop flow sheets and other study related documents, and complete study documents/case report forms; Conduct quality assessment of data in project redcap database. Coordinate community educational outreach events about dementia and aging in English and/or Spanish; Foster community relationships; Assist in creating outreach materials and utilize materials created by Principal Investigator (PI) and the team to conduct small educational events to increase dementia awareness in the community; Interview community participants to identify their educational needs; Assist the PI and the team to create educational materials based on community needs analyses. Participate in site monitoring visits and regulatory audits; Prepare regulatory submissions and ensure Institutional Review Board (IRB) renewals are completed; Assist RDIS submissions and annual reports; Ensure compliance with research protocols; Review and audit case report forms for completion and accuracy with source documents; Other tasks as assigned.