Medicus Research, LLC is looking for a Licensed Principal Investigator with the following skills and requirements:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for protecting the rights, safety and welfare of clinical trial participants
- Responsible for ensuring that the clinical trial is conducted according to the investigational plan and all applicable regulations
- Provide medical and scientific feasibility of all new sponsor inquiries
- Review and evaluate protocols and provide clinical and scientific support
- Liaise with Sponsor regarding study design and site capabilities
- Interact with regulatory bodies as relevant to clinical operations
- Attend study initiation meetings
- Present protocols at IRB meetings, as required
- Assist Clinical Operations and sales/marketing efforts with Sponsor visits
- Perform pre-study physical examinations, review lab data, ECGs and other medical information to ensure volunteers are medically and mentally fit upon entering the study
- Perform on-study and post-study physical examinations to ensure that the physical and mental well being of volunteers is undiminished at the end of the study
- Inform IRB and Sponsor as appropriate of relevant events
- Delegate the above when appropriate
Skills/Qualifications
- Internal Medicine Physician
- Active license to practice medicine in the state of California
- Ability to read, write and interpret the English language
- Five years of directly related work experience
- 3-5 years M.D. experience
- Experience in conducting clinical research
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Self-motivation, and high personal integrity and ethics required