Neuroscience Research Assistant

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Summary:

The Research Assistant assists with all aspects of research including, but not limited to recruitment, consent process, registering participants, setting up experiments, collecting clinical and research data from patients and healthy participants, retrieving and organizing data from medical records, and performing basic to mid-level data analysis.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in appropriate field (e.g., healthcare, social or health science, etc.)

• 1-3 years of relevant experience.

• A Master's degree with relevant experience is preferred.

Position requires an individual with:

• Computer proficiency in word processing and Excel; * Excellent writing and editing skills; * Strong organizational skills and be detail oriented; * Excellent interpersonal and oral, written, and electronic interpersonal communication skills.

• Experience with project management methodologies preferred; * Knowledge of research and medical terminology, grant writing and governmental rules and regulations preferred; * Knowledge and understanding of operational, logistical and administrative requirements of research studies preferred.

About Us:

Cook Children's Health Care System

Cook Children's Health Care System offers a unique approach to caring for children because we are one of the country's leading integrated pediatric health care delivery organizations. Patients benefit from the integrated system because it allows Cook Children's to use all of its resources to treat a patient and allows for easy communication between the various companies by physicians with a focus on caring for children and adolescents.

Cook Children's is an EOE/AA, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.