Clinical Research

Meher Masood

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San Antonio, TX 78240 210-***-****

Summary

Motivated and result- oriented health care professional with medical degree and hospital

experience, combined with Master of Arts degree in Health Services Management.

Possesses excellent leadership skills, ability to train and empower employees and

communicate and energize cross-departmental teams on organization wide initiatives.

Proven ability to handle increasingly more difficult and complex assignments.

Outstanding skills in assessing what is needed, prioritizing the work, recommending

sensible solutions and effectively motivating the staff to implement them in a spirit of

collaboration.

Education

Master of Arts. Health Services Management, Webster University, St Louis, MO May 2004

MBBS. (Equivalent to Medical Doctorate), Sind Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan,

October, 1996.

Professional Experience

Clinical Research Coordinator Discovery Clinical Trials 11 2008- March 2009

• Responsible for continuous quality assessment and improvement of conducting pharmaceutical protocols as defined by Code of Federal Regulations and International Council of Harmonization. Carrying out clinical research coordinator duties in accordance with organization's policies and applicable laws.

• Coordinates the development of and helps maintain a system for controlling paper flow for protocols and dissemination of data resulting from the protocols, for the completion of data forms, treatment records and review of records before submission to pharmaceutical companies, federal agencies, internal groups and other institutions.

• Coordinates communication between sponsors and department physicians in regard to research studies. Reports to the department chair and Vice president.

• Conduct the clinical research according to study protocols. Experience with regulatory documents, source documents, CRFs, eCRFs, subject completion books.

• Maintain visit schedules according to study criteria, patient screening and recruitment, medication wash out, pain intensity evaluations, open label titration and double blind maintenance phases.

• Experience with inform consent forms. Medical, surgical history taking, inclusion/exclusion criteria. Experience with Medidata, IVRS, ediaries and trial manager, drug accountability logs. Vital signs, phlebotomy, EKGs, adverse events reporting. Experience with patient stipends, WCBP forms, processing and shipment of ambient and frozen specimens.

QA QC/ Clinical Research Coordinator Clinical Trials of Texas, Inc. 11 2007- 08 2008

• Responsible for preparing the QC Chart Audit reports for managerial committee and

staff meetings. Audit reports include monitoring and evaluation of ICF, source documents, medical history forms, deviation frequency tracking reports, adverse events and serious adverse event reports.

• Conducted the source documents vs. electronic source documents verification audits for clinical research studies. Worked with director to develop follow up corrective action plans for source documents, eCRFs, regulatory files etc.

• Maintained the deviation report forms, notes to file (IRB deviations) and assist with follow up corrective plans for the clinical staff.

• Conducted the clinical research studies according to study protocols.

• Duties also included safety training of staff. Blood borne pathogen, general safety training. Performing regular safety inspections.

Clinical Research Associate University of Texas 10 2003- 10 2007

Health Science Center San Antonio Department of Pathology

• Actively involved in managing clinical, research, quality controlling and

administrative tasks of Flow Cytometry laboratory.

• Conduct a variety of research tests according to protocol using flow

technique. Tissue processing and staining on HIV, leukemias, lymphomas,

hemoglobinF, CD34, leukocytes.

• Work with supervisor in analytic method development and validation.

• Conducts validation of new products and experimental studies.

• Daily calibration of Flow Cytometer using Facs Compensation procedure,

standardization of other lab equipment, medical billing and coding,

interpreting data and development of new research techniques.

• Participate in all regulatory lab inspections: CAP, UTHSCSA department of

safety, OSHA and lead internal audits.

Medical Instructor National Institute of Technology 11 2000- 09 2003

(Corinthian Schools Inc.)

• Taught medical assistant curriculum. Theory and lab courses included but

not limited to Vital signs, EKGs, Phlebotomy, urinalysis, capillary puncture, blood pressure measurements, intra muscular, intra dermal, sub cutaneus

shots etc.

• Supervised lab practical classes. Assessed students' performance

throughout each term and evaluated students at the end of the year.

Resident (Physician) Liaquat National Hospital 01 1997- 10 2000

• Resident Physician in the anesthesia and surgical ICU department

• Monitored numerous staff: Nurse supervisors, nurse anesthetists, house interns,

operation theaters, surgical technicians, lab services, inventory records, visiting consultant’s visits.

• Attended meetings, planned long term and short-term goals, conducted ward rounds to obtain first hand information.

• Participated in evaluating patients, administered general and regional anesthesia during different surgeries. Attended pain management clinics, managed patients in emergency and assisted in various invasive procedures.

Computer Skills

Extensive experience with File Maker Pro, MS Office, Hospital Cerner systems, Medical transcription, Medidata, IVRS, etrials, CPRS, MS Outlook express, Impala system.

Multilingual in English, Urdu and Hindi.

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