at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 50087
Department: MED-Cancer Center
Salary/Grade: EXS/5
Job Summary:
Serves as a resource to staff regarding data entry, maintenance, and results. Coordinates incoming data for accuracy and integrity, assists with complex data preparation, analyzes data, and creates reports. Ensures associated administrative tasks such as documentation, editing of codebooks and manuals, etc. are completed.
The Data Assistant Sr. is responsible for the compilation of all data for clinical trials managed by the CTO. Partners with internal/external project and IT staff to create, review, analyze, interpret, summarize and prepare progress and final reports. Provides consultation to internal/external project staff on appropriate data management, methodological issues and analysis of data.
Specific Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning
- Identifies and assesses customer data needs.
- Assists in identifying organization area’s data integration and related records solutions.
- Collaborates on a variety of data management projects including variable definitions, storage, etc.
- Obtain required training for all electronic data capture systems.
- Obtains applicable protocol specific training.
- Abstract all required patient data from medical record sources for entry into case report forms (paper and/or electronic).
- Follow timelines stated in SOP (CO-SM-312) and individual sponsor contracts, for data entry and query resolution.
- Seek out data by contacting other hospitals and physician offices to obtain medical records as needed.
- Main contact for monitors/CRO’s for data query resolution.
- Responsible for