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The landscape of clinical research is continuously evolving, focusing now on the scientific assessment of efficacy balanced with patient safety, along with advancements in technology and informatics. These considerations necessitate the acquisition and retention of experienced staff that will be able to meet the demands associated with these new focus areas and can provide support for administrative duties, regulatory duties, study participant management, and data collection at individual research sites. Furthermore, the identification of Clinical Trials Administrators that can function independently and collaboratively within a large, integrated healthcare system clinical research consortium can be a challenging task. Currently, there is a limited amount of publicly available information on strategies that have been employed to identify these types of candidates in this type of setting. The primary aim of this project was to determine if the development of a virtual interview panel, or Manager Interview Panel (MIP), would be effective in screening, interviewing, and ranking applicants for a vacant Associate Director - Operations (ADO) position at one of the Node sites in our clinical research consortium. The findings may inform individuals or groups in research administration and leadership roles seeking to improve the candidate selection component of their respective hiring processes, particularly for those groups that are a part of clinical research consortiums and have study sites that are geographically dispersed and not in close proximity to one another. Keywords: Management; Hiring; Clinical Research; VA; CSP, Abbreviations CSP Cooperative Studies Program ORD Office of Research and Development VA Department of Veterans Affairs VAMCs VA Medical Centers NODES Network of Dedicated Enrollment Sites PD Position Description HR [...]

In 2002, a colleague and I hired a researcher for a project funded by the Government of Canada. We had 25 years of combined experience with various non-profit agencies that […]

Controversy over California's new stem cell initiative didn't end when the state's voters approved Proposition 71 in November by 59% to 41%. But now that the new California Institute for [...]