PSI Medical Monitors provide medical input to global clinical studies and advise the teams and business partners, while always focusing on patients' safety and well-being.
Home-Based in Canada
Responsibilities:
- Acts as the primary point of contact for all parties on all trial-specific medical and safety-related questions
- Provides input for responses to regulatory authorities and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)/Independent Ethics Committees (IECs) on trial-specific medical and safety-related questions
- Monitors trial participant safety
- Participates in trial participant recruitment boost and retention activities
- Presents on medical matters at kick-off and investigator meetings
- Trains trial team in the therapeutic area and medical aspects of the protocol
- Develops and reviews trial-specific documents within the scope of medical monitoring
- Manages ongoing trial risks related to medical monitoring
- Performs ongoing medical review of the operational clinical trial database; provides support to Medical Reviewer(s) assigned to the trial
- Reviews protocol deviations
- Reviews RAE reports, writes and/or reviews SAE narratives, supports Pharmacovigilance team with outstanding safety queries, interacts with sponsor on site safety issues
- Reviews IND/SUSAR Safety Reports, updates/amendments to essential trial records, and annual IND reports with sponsor data (per sponsor request)
- Participates in management of trial-related committees (e.g., independent data monitoring committee (IDMC)/adjudication committees) as described in the corresponding trial-specific charter(s)
- Supports Pharmacovigilance, Medical Data Review and Data Management with reconciliation of safety and operational clinical trial databases
- Reviews clinical study reports (CSRs), including safety narratives and tables, figures, and listings (TFLs)
- Provides medical expertise on an as-needed basis in trials where medical monitoring is not a contract deliverable
- Prepares for and participates in trial audits, follows up on audit findings
- Participates in feasibility assessment of potential and ongoing trials in the country/region
- Participates in bid defense meetings and other interactions with clients
- Acts as a medical expert and provides therapeutic expertise to other PSI departments