Research Assistant Ii Critical Care Research

5 months ago

Toronto, Canada Unity Health Toronto Full time

In-hospital Cardiac Arrest Research Program / Cardiology Research

The In-hospital Cardiac Arrest Research Program, along with the Electrophysiology Department of the Division of Cardiology, is currently looking for a **Research Assistant II**.

These combined research programs involve multiple studies in patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The primary role will be to support the review and collection of data from all in-hospital cardiac arrests at St. Michael¿s Hospital. Within the Electrophysiology Department, the Research Assistant II may be involved with a variety of studies, including randomized trials of anti-coagulant drugs in patients at risk for stroke with atrial fibrillation, trials of ECG monitoring and respiratory variable monitoring, using wearable devices on exercise capacity, rhythm, patterns, and breathing patterns. There are trials of different antiarrhythmic strategies for patients with cardiac arrest including antiarrhythmic drugs. There are multiple clinical trials on the optimal use of implanted devices, including pacemakers, biventricular pacemakers. There are other studies on the effect of cardiac arrhythmias and their treatment and patient related quality of life using questionnaires. Research methods include blinded, randomized, clinical trials with active or placebo control, cohort studies, retrospective chart review studies, small cohort studies with physiologic endpoints, and investigations of quality improvement strategies.

Research may take place in a clinical, community, or laboratory settings and thus tasks may vary depending on the nature of the research.

The primary role of the Research Assistant II includes providing essential assistance, organizational and administrative support to research projects. The Level II Research Assistant has more autonomy in participant interactions, provides day to day guidance to students and junior researchers, and is introduced to data analysis and reporting tasks. This also includes the Research Assistant I tasks as listed below.Research Assistants also contribute to the funding and grant processes by providing information, helping quality check documentation, and liaising with internal and external partners.

This position builds on the Research Level I position and progresses to Research Coordination.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
Due to the variable nature of this position, this list is to be used as a guide only.

**Research Duties (55% of work time)**

The Research Assistant II supports and assists the research activities needed for each project, following all research procedures.

Non-Laboratory Research Tasks
- Collect, compile, update and provide basic statistical information and other data to generate and prepare reports and other documentation to support study related data and create data abstracts.
- Collect and assist in the processing and compilation, verification, maintenance, and archiving of research data.
- Collect, transcribe, organize, quality control, and data enter study related data.
- May be the point of contact for external and internal partners for data collection purposes.
- May engage in data processing activities as needed for the project (i.e., Cleaning/coding data in specific programs).
- Conduct general coding/analysis of qualitative data.
- May assist research team with manuscript and report writing, including writing abstracts for papers, conferences, and 1-page summaries, and the creation of endnote files.
- Support manuscript preparation (providing overviews of methodology, and data collection metrics), and submission [IF APPLICABLE]
- Perform literature searches/data mining on requested topics through databases and provide relevant articles to PI or research team.
- Interact with various departments such as pharmacy, laboratories, medical records, printing, etc. and with internal and external stakeholders in order to provide administrative support.
- Collect feedback from multiple partners on projects re: proposals, manuscripts, and dissemination tools (sometimes >50 authors) including record keeping of feedback and changes to authorship order.
- Interpretation and analysis of data
- Participate in/join committees (LKSI, UHT, REDI, CARESA, external).
- Interact with sponsoring/granting firms/agencies regarding requests for clarifications of data and assisting monitors during site visits.
- Performing well-defined, routine or repetitive tests, experiments, or other procedures
- Obtain informed consent for questionnaire-based research
- Conduct telephone interviews
- Conduct health chart reviews

Recruitment and Coordination of Study Participants
- Act as the on-site point of contact for the studies at participating community/healthcare organizations.
- Administer quantitative surveys to study participants at participating community organizations using online survey tool (data collection).
- Provide feedback to participants and research staff and arrange follow-ups, as required.
- Develop / maintain t

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