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Evaluation ViewAttendees 51
Workshop

Academic and Research Skills

Clinical Research

Health Services Research
Session Type: Workshop

Start, Build, and Grow a Successful and Sustainable Research Staff Infrastructure

Saturday, May 4, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 717 A
CE: Live CME: 1.5

Disclosure(s):
Hadley Sauers-Ford, MPH, CCRP: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Kerry Tepe, BS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Chris Bonafide, MD, MSCE: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Canita Brent: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Katherine A. Auger, MD, MSc: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Allison Wiedeman, BS, CCRP: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Kimberly G. Albanowski, MA: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Workshop

Description: A strong study team is essential for the success of research and quality improvement (QI) projects; key member(s) of this team should include research assistants (RAs) and/or clinical research coordinators (CRCs) who provide on-the-ground support for patient recruitment, retention, data collection, and chart review. Identifying capable and efficient research professionals who will make meaningful short- and long-term contributions to your projects can be challenging, and turnover can have detrimental impacts on projects and teams. Whether you are just getting started as a researcher and thinking about hiring your first part-time staff member or looking to scale up your team for a big grant, this workshop will provide the knowledge and skill set needed to confidently approach building your team to include incredible research professionals who are productive, engaged, and grow with you and your team long-term.

In this workshop, our group of physician research leaders, research project/program managers, CRCs, and RAs bring decades of experience within various research team infrastructures and can describe these processes from the perspective of their different programs. We will review how to evaluate the needs and values of your current research team before posting a job, fundamentals of research professional roles and corresponding skill sets and salaries, extracting meaningful information from the interview process, making smart hiring decisions, and providing ongoing career development opportunities to support long-term retention. Participants will leave with a research team toolkit that they can take back to their institution to start, build, and grow their research team infrastructure.

Learning Objectives:

  • Upon completion, participants will be able to compose and formulate key values for their team as a metric for determining culture while interviewing and hiring
  • Upon completion, participants will be able to describe and explain what research assistants (RAs), clinical research coordinators (CRCs), and other professional research staff are qualified to handle and how to best identify ideal candidates for their role(s)
  • Upon completion, participants will be able to apply knowledge learned regarding how to include professional research staff in more than just obtaining data and how to engage them in research, grow their skill set, and retain them