Research Assistant I - Dermatology

JOB SUMMARY:
Provide, under direct supervision, support for specified research projects; collect, assess, and communicate data/results. Assist in general research operations. May have direct patient/project participant contact.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Consenting patients in studies
• Keeping research data (including IRB documents, consents, and clinical data) organized
• Refining and enforcing team data management guidelines
• Developing and performing optimal clinical and smartphone photography protocols,
• Teaching subjects to send high quality smartphone photos
• Creating REDCAP databases
• Self-initiated investigations of medical center resources to support research
• Working out imaging informatics privacy and information security details with respective offices in the medical center
• Organizing calls with internal and external collaborating teams
• Recording correspondences with biostatisticians and other collaborators
• Analyzing research data (depending on comfort with quantitative science)
• Preparing scientific publications (depending on written communication aptitude)

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