Patient Research Coordinator Jobs

Title: Patient Research Coordinator

Location: Upper East Side; Brooklyn; Lower East Side; Midtown; Queens; West Side

Org Unit: All of Us (PMI/HPO)

Work Days: Monday-Friday

Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

Salary Range: $26.79 - $32.39

• As required under NYC Human Rights Law Int 1208-2018 - Salary range for this role when Hired for NYC Offices

Position Summary

This role engages, recruits, and enrolls study participants into clinical research programs at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Responsibilities include various outreach/recruitment (email, phone-calls, in-clinic, table events) and enrollment activities (which include patient education, informed consent, survey completion, biospecimen collections (blood draws, Saliva collection, urine collection), physical measurements, and vital signs). This role serves as a point of contact for the team and leads the training and mentoring of junior staff in study activities such as program pitching, and review of clinic standard operating procedures.

This position requires phlebotomy tasks- e.g., drawing blood from patients. Incumbents will be trained, must be comfortable with biospecimen collection.

This position requires travel to offsite enrollment locations. Incumbents may be assigned to conduct program activities at healthcare locations across the Upper East Side, Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and elsewhere. Commitment to accuracy, high attention-to-detail, and ability to work independently are critical competencies for the role. Outreach and engagement activities may take place in the evening and weekend hours.

This position requires friendly and bubbly professionals who are willing to raise program awareness in any scenario, waiting rooms, street fairs, conferences, etc.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for participant recruitment efforts that include outreach phone calls, canvassing, and tabling events.
• Assists with brand awareness: flyer distribution, recruitment table presence at community events, health fairs.
• Provides guidance and training to new and junior patient research assistants.
• Responsible for patient engagement activities, such as program education, potential participant recruitment, scheduling participants appointments or retention activities when needed, assist with community tabling events.
• Responsible for accurate data capture and entry: documentation study activities into REDCap and other program documentation platforms
• Perform other duties as required and/or directed
• Approach potential participants in clinic waiting rooms, hospital lobbies, community tabling events, and inpatient settings.
• Assist with inventory of supplies onsite.
• Responsible for various study activities, such as explain the All of Us Research Program to participants and assist with enrollment, take participants physical measurements, and biospecimen collection.
• Assists with biospecimen processing onsite as needed.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Experience

Bachelor’s degree in the Sciences, Public Affairs, Public Administration, Marketing, Communications is preferred.

• Familiarity with IRB interaction, regulatory policies, database input and report generation preferred.
• Bi-lingual (Spanish/Mandarin/Cantonese) preferred.
• Phlebotomy training can be provided, but prior certification preferred.
• Research experience in an academic health center with exposure to a team research environment at all levels (nurses, research coordinators, lab technicians) preferred.
• Experience with conducting and carrying out protocols and research coordination preferred, including experience obtaining informed consent.
• Approximately 2 years of experience in a clinical setting. A graduate degree in a related field may be considered in lieu of experience.
• Training on REDCap and EPIC is provided, but prior experience preferred.
• Database management experience.
• Sales, marketing, or recruitment experience required (either in a formal or informal capacity).

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Strong computer and technology skills required (e.x. Microsoft suite)
• Excellent interpersonal skills required (i.e. prior “people facing” experience).
• Strong communication skills required

Licenses and Certifications

Working Conditions/Physical Demands

• Position requires periodic evening and weekend hours.
• Light lifting of boxes, supplies and equipment.

Weill Cornell Medicine is a comprehensive academic medical center that's committed to excellence in patient care, scientific discovery, and the education of future physicians in New York City and around the world. Our doctors and scientists-faculty from Weill Cornell Medical College, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and the Weill Cornell Physician Organization-are engaged in world-class clinical care and cutting-edge research that connect patients to the latest treatment innovations and prevention strategies. Located in the heart of the Upper East Side's scientific corridor, Weill Cornell Medicine's powerful network of collaborators extends to its parent university Cornell University; to Qatar, where an international campus offers a U.S. medical degree; and to programs in Tanzania, Haiti, Brazil, Austria and Turkey. Our medical practices serve communities throughout New York City, and our faculty provide comprehensive care at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, and NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens. At Weill Cornell Medicine, we work together to treat each individual, not just their conditions or illnesses, as we strive to deliver the finest possible care for our patients - the center of everything we do. Weill Cornell Medicine is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Weill Cornell Medicine provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information.