Clinical Research Coordinator I
Core
Operational center for a 5-year NIH-funded study on sleep-circadian disruption in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), managing participant recruitment, data collection, and device logistics.
Role type
Clinical Research Coordinator (IC)
Builds
A clinical research study enrolling patients with bvFTD and healthy controls for sleep and cognitive assessments.
Domain
Academic Medicine / Neurology / Sleep Research (via careerplan.io/jobs/R-68108-1-clinical-research-coordinator-i-at-vumc)
Required skills
Participant recruitment and screening, informed consent administration, neuropsychological test administration and scoring, home actigraphy device setup and troubleshooting, ambulatory PSG evening set-ups, data entry and quality control in REDCap, IRB submission coordination, device inventory management
Preferred skills
Dementia or neurodegenerative disease research experience, sleep research experience, familiarity with polysomnography or MRI workflows, statistical software proficiency (R, SPSS), neuropsychological measure administration
Technologies
REDCap, actigraphy devices, ambulatory PSG systems, MRI scanners
Responsibilities
Schedule and coordinate multi-day participant visits including hotel PSG nights and MRI sessions; administer and score neuropsychological measures; set up and troubleshoot home actigraphy and hotel PSG devices; support recruitment and screening; obtain informed consent; enter and quality-check study data; coordinate IRB submissions; manage device inventory and supply reordering
Seniority
Junior, hands-on IC