Job Summary

The McCoy lab combines wet bench research, clinical trials, and a specialized clinic structure to support a comprehensive Sjogren's disease program. The successful applicant will be part of the McCoy lab led by Dr. Sara McCoy and focuses on bench to bedside translation of our findings to improve the lives of our Sjogren's patients. The candidate will lead and manage patient triage into our clinical program, coordinate complex care of our patients, and provide comprehensive after visit summaries collating all subspecialty findings and recommendations. This comprehensive clinical coordination is a linchpin to our program that weds clinical care to bench work and back to novel translational treatment to patients (to bench and back again). They will manage clinical research studies, performing a variety of tasks and activities: recruit, screen, select, determine eligibility, and aid enrolling study participants and ensuring subjects follow the research protocol. Develop study-related documents. Applies expertise, knowledge, and skills to a broad range of different types of clinical studies, navigates resources, and identifies issues needing escalation. The successful applicant will also coordinate and oversee clinical annotation of our biobank samples.

Responsibilities*

• Triage complex clinical patients to appropriate clinics and subspecialists
• Identifies trial candidates, screens, selects, determines eligibility
• Collects more complex information and answers questions under supervision of a medially licensed professional
• Manages research workflow components, collects, prepares, processes, and submits participant data to appropriate entities
• Serves as a main point of contact for Sjogren's care coordination as they relate to clinical programs, research, and recruitment.
• Performs quality checks on data
• Identifies resource needs and develops clinical research documents, such as job aids, tools, processes, procedures and training
• Contributes to protocol development
• Assists with training staff

Required Qualifications*

• Masters degree in a recognized field of science or learning which is directly related to the duties of the position is required
• 6+ years of experience in related field
• 30 or more years of clinical care experience (nursing preferred)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Qualifications*

• Experience with studying mesenchymal stromal cells
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, redcap, epic
• Interest in autoimmune disease research, academic medicine, or health-related careers.

What Benefits can you Look Forward to?

• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
• 2:1 Match on retirement savings

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes .

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

Job Detail

Job Opening ID

280199

Working Title

Research Area Specialist Lead

Job Title

Research Area Specialist Lead

Work Location

Ann Arbor Campus

Ann Arbor, MI

Modes of Work

Onsite

Full/Part Time

Full-Time

Regular/Temporary

Regular

FLSA Status

Exempt

Organizational Group

Medical School

Department

MM Int Med-Rheumatology

Posting Begin/End Date

7/24/2026 - 7/31/2026

Career Interest

Research