Physician - Nuclear Medicine jobs in Cedar Rapids, IA

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics department of Radiology is seeking a Clinical Research Associate to coordinate clinical study activities in Nuclear Medicine; participate in the design, execution and control of clinical research trials; coordinate the processing and analysis of research data; coordinate clinical trial protocols and procedures.

Characteristic Duties and Responsibilities:

• Functions as a member of the Nuclear Medicine, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Theranostics Team to plan, deliver, and evaluate the health care provided to research protocol patients.
• Assists in the design, development, execution and administration of research protocols and clinical studies.
• Oversees operations of clinical research studies including the recruitment, coordination and scheduling of subject participation and procedures as required by protocol.
• Follows study participants; manages collection of data including maintaining records of patient visits/interviews.
•  Assists physicians in determining eligibility of patients for research protocols; assists in or directs others in obtaining patient consent to enter protocols and counsels patients and families regarding investigational therapy.
• Coordinates services/referrals as appropriate with the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, Departments of Radiation Oncology, Pathology, Pharmacy, Nursing, Clinical Research Unit and/or other departments participating in the clinical research.
• Enters patients on protocol, ensuring that all prerequisites have been completed and are within the required parameters.
• Coordinates patient care needs and obtains follow-up information from local physicians, hospice, home care agencies, and local laboratories.
• Monitors compliance gathers and maintains data for pharmaceutical sponsored research trials, in-house trials and cooperative group studies; creates worksheets, treatment flow sheets and assorted tools to provide source documentation of protocol treatment procedures; triages telephone calls from patients and families to facilitate clinic visits for medical care/emergent care needs; assists in obtaining prescription medications; provides follow-up for treatment related complications.
• Serves as liaison to local physicians/hospitals to facilitate care of protocol patients when hospitalized at outside institutions; obtains documentation of the hospitalizations; provides notification to the Principal Investigator, Study Sponsor, and FDA as required per protocol.
• Serves as liaison to Study Sponsors for review of potential studies; initiates, monitors, audits and terminates studies; participates in teleconferences and investigator meetings.
• Assists patients with problems related to their protocol therapy such as the need to return for emergency evaluation in the case of side effects.
• Maintains records of services provided; assists in developing and monitoring study budgets, adheres to individual protocol budgets; serves as liaison to the Clinical Trials Office and the Division of Sponsored programs to facilitate contract approval.
• Serves as a liaison to the University Business Office to identify patient tests and procedures paid for by study sponsors; assists patients with questions related to billing for protocol treatment procedures.
• Assists in judging validity of data; makes recommendations; performs and interprets complex statistical analysis of data; prepares data for computer analysis; uses evaluation data to revise and implement change.
• Assists in the preparation of reports to IRB-01, Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee and other review committees for multiple clinical research studies; compiles accrual data; reviews and summarizes information for principal investigators and University Institutional Review Board (IRB-01); Assists in maintaining documentation of protocols and relevant data, follow-up correspondence, and summaries.
• Assists in the preparation of research papers and manuscripts for publication and presentation at conferences and workshops; compiles summary data for inclusion in various reports for analysis and for submission to study sponsors; prepares project reports, writes articles and obtains other documents for submission to study sponsors.
• Performs critical analysis of literature relevant to the clinical trials.
• Educates faculty, staff and others about clinical research and methods employed in research studies; prepares educational materials for patients and other staff as needed to carry out protocol therapy.
• Selects, applies and tests standard methodologies, techniques and tools such as manuals, forms and questionnaires.
• Attends protocol meetings and other UIHC and Study Sponsor meetings; participates on committees as appropriate.

Supervision received:
Administrative and function supervision is received from Director/Co-Director of Theranostics Service and Division Director of Nuclear Medicine.
 

Supervision exercised:
Functional direction and supervision may be provided 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.^®

Pay Grade: 5A

Pay Structure A: https://hr.uiowa.edu/pay/pay-plans/professional-and-scientific-pay-structure

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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