Location: Nutley, NJ
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
Overview: The **Clinical Research Associate** facilitates direct patient care to all assigned patients and maintains a safe patient area. This role also supplies clerical support for the research team and their patient population with direct responsibility and accountability for patient recruitment, retention, scheduling and registration activities to achieve established outcomes. The **Center for Discovery and Innovation- CDI** was established by **Hackensack Meridian** ***Health*** **(HMH)** as an academic basic and translational research enterprise to rapidly translate science innovation to the clinic and to improve outcomes for patients with cancer, infectious diseases, autoimmune disease and other acute and chronic diseases. The CDI has grown rapidly since its origins in 2019, and now has 39 labs, 200+ scientists and allied personnel supported by 78 NIH and DoD grants and more than 87 other grants and contracts. Areas of expertise include genomics, epigenetics, drug resistance, stem cell biology, drug discovery, diagnostics and biomarker development, rheumatology and pharmacology. Responsibilities: A day in the life of a **Clinical Research Associate** at **Hackensack Meridian Health** includes: - Manages patient recruitment activities and research team training for assigned studies, serves as a liaison with sponsors, other funded sites and coordinates activities across sites nationally and locally. - May develop detailed recruitment materials, procedure manuals, source documents and ensures in protocol adherence and quality. - Schedules and registers patients for study visits, testing and interviews. - May obtain consent, administers testing and conducts interviews. Notifies site staff or primary care providers of patients/participants who appear to be impaired or distressed. - Enters data from multiple sites in the study database, assists with data management and data analysis, performs routine data quality assurance procedures and resolves discrepancies. - A