Oversees investigator-initiated and sponsored clinical research projects. Manages graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and Clinical Lab staff in providing complex administrative duties to support the study and ensure compliance with regulations.

• Resolve data queries with study sponsors.
• Maintain supply inventory (general office and lab) and coordinate maintenance and calibration of equipment.
• Establish effective, collaborative working relationships with clinicians, patients, and sponsors.
• Provide additional support and guidance for graduate students involved in research.
• Performs other job-related duties as required.

This research coordinator will work with a large team of faculty and students in a 5 year NIH grant. This clinical researcher (RN/BSN and research experience preferred) coordinates and executes clinical research in a large and fast paced project that is repeatedly testing patients with diabetes and prediabetes. This person needs research management skills to coordinate some of the clinical testing that takes place between multiple labs, to keep track of compliance with regulations required for human clinical research, to participate in data analysis and scientific writing, and to be responsible for a number of hands on clinical and analytical procedures.

Clinical and scientific knowledge of prediabetes, diabetes, and related cardiovascular and metabolic conditions is needed for the above activities. The study is examining the association between factors determining vision and a variety of risk factors impacted by impaired blood glucose regulation (especially cardiometabolic risk factors, inflammatory proteins, and physical inactivity).

The work involves expertise in a specific skill set such as obtaining arterialized blood during an oral glucose tolerance test and various other research methods (see below). Although the work is part time, the hours and days of the week are inflexible because the workflow must follow the pace of recruiting and testing volunteers according to their schedules.

Job Duties

There are 2 general categories of duties: A) coordinating the testing, regulatory functions and good clinical practice in a clinical human research setting (#1-4 below); B) hands on execution of multiple scientific procedures, especially as it pertains to procedures required for oral glucose tolerance testing (#5-10).

EEO/AA

Bachelors and 5 years experience

Requires a thorough understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of an analytical, technical or professional discipline; or the basic knowledge of more than one professional discipline. Knowledge of the discipline is normally obtained through a formal, directly job-related 4 year degree from a college or university or an equivalent in-depth specialized training program that is directly Requires a minimum of five (5) year of directly job-related experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BSN/RN in State of Texas and preferably masters degree in a field related to metabolic health.
• Ability to help write scientific manuscripts with at least a Masters degree in a field related to metabolism.
• A minimum of 5 years of job-related experience in human clinical research.
• Phlebotomy including placement of intravenous catheters.
• Performance of oral glucose tolerance testing including arterialized blood sampling from the hand.
• Performance of indirect calorimetry for measurement of carbohydrate and fat oxidation.
• Metabolic and exercise testing preferably with clinical rehabilitation experience.
• Strong analytical skills for data analysis as it pertains to tracking physical activity and sedentary time with wearable devices.