Job Description
Job Summary:
- The Medical Monitor Contractor will serve as a critical member of the clinical team, responsible for ensuring the integrity and quality of clinical data and supporting clinical oversight activities.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Serving as a clinical team member assigned to data review for clinicians, including:
- Verification of subject eligibility based on medical history.
- Critical application of protocol-defined study requirements to assess data relevant to study endpoints (e.g., safety, tolerability, immunogenicity, efficacy).
Reviewing serious and non-serious adverse events (AEs), including:
- Drafting and responding to site queries.
- Ensuring accurate and timely reconciliation of safety data.
- Reviewing reactogenicity data in e-Diaries or EDC systems to ensure compliance with protocol-specified safety surveillance and monitoring.
Assisting the lead clinician with:
- Aggregate data review and interpretation.
- Preparation and management of safety narratives.
- Slide development for internal and external presentations.
- Oversight or participant in safety narrative authoring workflows.
Supporting additional study-related tasks as required, such as:
- Literature reviews.
- Data cleaning.
- Review of training materials.
- Participating in safety surveillance meetings and contributing to PowerPoint creation as needed.
Additional responsibilities:
- Being available during normal business hours for the assigned region and working the specified number of hours per week.
- Additional responsibilities may be added based on prior experience, including study startup or conduct activities such as e-Diary design, feasibility, informed consent document reviews, draft protocol reviews, safety presentations, and site interactions for safety follow up or protocol compliance and/or training.
Education and Experience:
- Medical degree (MD, DO, MBBS, or equivalent) required.
- Preferred: At least 2 years of direct patient care experience post-residency.
- Comfortable with complex medical reviews involving pediatric, adult, and obstetrical populations.
- Required: Prior experience as a medical monitor, including:
- Safety data review (non-serious and serious AEs).
- Experience on an interventional clinical trial within the past 3 years (Vaccine trials preferred but not required).
- Familiarity with EDC platforms (InForm or RedCap preferred).
- Experience with J Review or a similar data review system is preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong ability to critically evaluate medical/scientific information.
- Understanding of clinical study design, development, and execution.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Fluency in English (written and spoken).
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Training and experience in infectious diseases and/or infection control in a hospital setting is preferred. Other relevant specialty experiences include: Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, or Pediatrics.