TEAM

  • Collaborate on a team with 2 other clinical research coordinators
  • Work directly with Greg Gaski MD, 6 additional surgeon investigators and service line research director PhD
  • 5 physician assistants/nurse practitioners
  • 6 orthopaedic surgery residents (Georgetown and Walter Reed)
  • Undergraduate and medical student volunteers

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Assist clinical research coordinators with prospective funded studies
    • Data collection and entry
    • Conduct patient interviews, physical exams, follow-up visits, enrollment, and consenting
  • Daily participation in team clinical rounds for patient screening
  • Assistance with statistical analyses (optional)
  • Travel to Orthopaedic Trauma Association annual meeting
  • Coordinate financial aspects of clinical trial implementation through study closure
  • Provide regulatory, IRB, and budgetary guidance and support to coordinators and investigators 
  • Assist with grant writing
  • Work directly with the Office of Research at Inova
    • Grants management office, IRB, contracts, billing compliance
  • Scientific collaboration with numerous nationally renowned trauma centers and study sponsors 
  • Assistance with surgeon-investigator initiated retrospective studies including design and analysis

OPPORTUNITIES

  • Contribute to abstracts and manuscripts
    • Typically, we submit 10-12 abstracts annually to the Orthopaedic Trauma Association annual meeting and the Virginia Orthopaedic Society annual meeting
    • Our research infrastructure can support high research output (publications, presentations) depending on student goals and interests
  • Research mentorship experience from PhD-level research analysts
  • Operating Room observation and clinic shadowing opportunities available
    • 3-5 operating rooms daily
  • Attend attending lectures, monthly journal clubs, morbidity conference and other academic offerings (all optional)