The Medicine Clinical Trials Office consists of four core teams:
Regulatory Compliance
The Regulatory Compliance team of the MCTO provides regulatory services that include:
- Site Qualification Visits
- All IRB Submissions which includes:
- Completing the internal and external appropriate paperwork
- Preparation of the Informed Consent Forms
- Submitting new PPHS (IRB) applications
- Continuation Reports
- Revisions and Amendments
- Final reports
- Protocol deviations
- Serious adverse events
- Advertising/ recruitment materials
- Submitting the initial regulatory packet to the sponsor, this includes, but is not limited to the following:
- 1572 form
- CV's and licenses for the Principal Investigator and all team members assigned to study
- Preparation and Maintenance for electronic Regulatory Binder
- Other sponsor specific regulatory requests
Once a study has begun the team is responsible for ongoing maintenance and compliance with the federal, state, and institutional regulatory requirements. They work closely with study sponsors to maintain the regulatory e-binder and handle all regulatory requests throughout the course of the study.
Business Operations
The Business Operations team provides financial services that include:
- Completing the appropriate paperwork
- Coordination of Confidentiality Agreements
- Budget Analysis
- Study budget preparation and negotiations
- Facilitate Contract Negotiations with institutional policies
- Grant start-up (opening a grant)
- Ongoing management of the study grant with Sponsored Projects, Division Administrators & DOM
- Monthly Invoicing to the sponsor
- Facilitate and Contract Amendments as they arise during the course of a study
- Monitoring of grant expenses
- Patient care costs
- Payments for ancillary services performed during the study
- Check requests for patient stipends, etc.
Clinical Coordination
The Clinical Coordination team assists the investigators by providing accuracy and compliance for current clinical studies. The Clinical Research Coordinators and Clinical Research/Trial Managers work closely with the investigators in confirming eligibility requirements for patients, educating patients about protocol requirements, following patients on study protocols, and completing precise data collection and entry. Additional responsibilities include:
- Preparation of any Pre-Site Selection Surveys with Investigators
- Facilitate Site Qualification Visits
- Working with regulatory for Site Readiness
- Attending investigator meeting(s)
- Preparing for study initiation
- Assisting investigators with recruitment of subjects
- Screening and scheduling subjects
- If delegated, ensure proper Informed Consent Documentation and Process
- Ensuring subjects understand protocol expectations
- Performing study/protocol procedures in a detailed, accurate manner
- Entering subject data and responding to data queries
- Maintaining study and regulatory files
- Tracking subjects and maintaining communication to reduce loss-to-follow-up
- Documenting adverse and serious adverse event(s)
- Direct support from MCTO-dedicated Research Nurses
Research Operations
The Research Operations team handles the various behind-the-scenes steps to properly activate and manage ongoing research studies. General responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Collection of legal, financial, and regulatory documentation to create complete “Protocol Package”
- Dissemination of pertinent documentation to all required reviewing entities (i.e. FACTS Office, IT Security Review, etc.)
- Building of study source documentation into Mount Sinai databases
- Entry and management of study and subject information into the Mount Sinai Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS)
- Discussion, development, and management of Investigator-Initiated-Trials