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Clinical Research Coordinator I Seeking Breakthrough Makers
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) offers countless ways to change lives. Our diverse community of more than 20,000 Breakthrough Makers will inspire you to pursue passions, develop expertise, and drive innovation.
At CHOP, your experience is valued; your voice is heard; and your contributions make a difference for patients and families. Join us as we build on our promise to advance pediatric care-and your career.
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We strongly encourage all candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.
A Brief Overview
The Position: We are seeking an enthusiastic individual to join the team as a
Clinical Research Coordinator. This is a full-time position (100% FTE), with a
projected start date between May and June 2025. The candidate for this position will play a critical role in implementing study protocols, recruiting participants, scheduling in-person study visits, and assisting with data management. The candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to the dissemination of study findings, including being an author on abstracts and manuscripts. The candidate is required to have good communication and management skills, with experience doing clinical research. It is desired that the candidate has experience in digital/mobile health research, has an interest in health behavior, and a graduate degree (e.g., MPH, MS). Interested candidates should upload a cover letter and a resume. The Mitchell Lab: The overarching goal of the Mitchell Lab is to help children
achieve optimal growth to prevent chronic diseases in later life by focusing on
energetic behaviors (sleep, diet, and physical activity) and their impact on body
composition in childhood. The Mitchell lab includes the Unit for Energetic
Behavior Research that conducts multidisciplinary epidemiological studies, using sensors to measure locomotor activity, advanced imaging to measure body
composition, detailed nutritional assessment to measure energy intake and
dietary behavior, geospatial methods to measure the neighborhood environment, and DNA collection for gene-behavior interaction analyses. In addition, the lab's Unit for Optimizing Behavioral Interventions uses the Multiphase Optimization Strategy framework to design digital interventions to improve energetic behavior profiles in childhood. https://www.research.chop.edu/mitchell-laboratory The Project: There are two primary projects with which the candidate will be
hired to assist. The first project is called the Actigraphy Validation Project. Insufficient sleep is a major problem in children. Sleep trackers offer researchers the ability to study sleep patterns in the home setting over multiple nights in observational and interventional studies. However, algorithms to estimate sleep from sleep trackers are constantly evolving and need to be validated against gold standard measures of sleep in the laboratory setting (i.e., polysomnography). The purpose of this project is to determine the sensitivity and specificity of a sleep scoring algorithm for raw acceleration data to estimate sleep against polysomnography (PSG). Participating children will wear a sleep tracker on their wrist overnight, while completing an overnight PSG at the CHOP Sleep Lab.This will provide essential validity data to ensure the sleep tracker and data processing approaches are suitable for use in the home setting, where multiple nights of PSG are not feasible. This project is funded by CHOP and the National Institutes of Health. The second project focuses on sleep promotion and obesity prevention. The
American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that pediatricians promote sleep to help prevent obesity. The pediatric primary care setting has enormous potential to promote sleep, but a lack of time at the point of care is a key barrier, and
insufficient sleep and childhood obesity are not equally distributed across
sociodemographic groups. To overcome these barriers, mobile health platforms
need to be developed to deliver behavioral sleep promotion remotely in the home setting, with tailoring to individual and contextual factors to help ensure
equitable effectiveness across sociodemographic groups. This project aims to
engineer a mobile health platform for the pediatric care setting to promote longer sleep duration for childhood obesity prevention, with equitable effectiveness across sociodemographic backgrounds. The project is also funded by the National Institutes of Health.
https://www.research.chop.edu/mitchell-laboratory/research-overview The candidate may also assist with other projects ongoing in the lab or with new
projects that are initiated in the lab after their start date. What you will do
- Core responsibilities
- Adhere to an IRB approved protocol
- Participate in the informed consent process of study subjects
- Support the safety of clinical research patients/research participants
- Coordinate protocol related research procedures, study visits, and follow-up care
- Screen, recruit and enroll patients/research participants
- Maintain study source documents
- Under the supervision of PI Report adverse events
- Understand good clinical practice (GCP) and regulatory compliance
- Educate subjects and family on protocol, study intervention, etc.
- Comply with Institutional policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and guidelines, and with HIPAA and management of confidential materials
- Must comply with federal, state, and sponsor policies
- For multi-site studies or collaborations, support communication and meeting scheduling across teams
- Related responsibilities
- Manage essential regulatory documents
- Register study on ClinicalTrials.gov as appropriate
- Complete case report forms (paper & electronic data capture) and address queries
- Submit documents to regulatory authorities (e.g. IRB, FDA, etc.) and/or review/monitoring boards (ie,DSMB, independent safety officer)
- Facilitate pre-study, site qualification, study initiation, and monitoring visit as appropriate
- Facilitate study close out activities as appropriate
- Coordinate research/project team meetings
- Collect, process and ship samples as applicable to the protocol
- Schedule subject visits and procedures
- Retain records/archive documents after study close out
Education Qualifications
- High School Diploma / GED Required
- Bachelor's Degree Preferred
Experience Qualifications
- At least two (2) years of clinical or clinical related or research related experience Required
- At least three (3) years of clinical or clinical related or research related experience Preferred
Skills and Abilities
- Basic knowledge of IRB and human subject protection
- Strong verbal and written communications skills
- Strong time management skills
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders at all levels
To carry out its mission, CHOP is committed to supporting the health of our patients, families, workforce, and global community. As a condition of employment, CHOP employees who work in patient care buildings or who have patient facing responsibilities must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive an annual influenza vaccine. Learn more.
Employees may request exemptions for valid religious and medical reasons. Start dates may be delayed until candidates are immunized or exemption requests are reviewed.
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