Angela M. Garcia, CCRC is a certified clinical research coordinator at Skin Care Research, where she has been directly involved throughout all phases of past and current clinical trials since she joined the team in October 2012. Though she is not currently practicing, Angela is a residency-trained family physician who completed her training at St. Mary’s Hospital in Hoboken, NJ.
Prior to residency, Angela completed her undergraduate studies at Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She then went on to obtain her Doctor of Medicine degree at Universidad Central del Este in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic.
At Skin Care Research, Angela oversees a wide range of tasks and has responsibilities including:
- Ensuring adherence of GCP’s, SOP’s, and study protocols for multiple clinical trials
- Assisting in study development, reviewing protocols, designing CRF’s, preparing Informed Consent Forms, and developing other study-related documents
- Preparing new protocol submissions, site applications, amendments, and renewals for IRB
- Acting as the point of contact for IRB and sponsors
- Maintaining regulatory binders, CRF’s, subject charting, and source documents
- Performing data collection, database entry and basic analysis of study data
- Performing subject eligibility screenings
- Coordinating office visits for trial participants, subject confirmations, and maintaining patient scheduling logs
- Coordinating monitoring visits and ensuring all data queries are resolved
- Collecting and shipping clinical specimens
- Coordinating Phase III clinical trials
- Conducting patient care visits and procedures according to protocol
- Dispensing study medication and maintaining drug accountability logs
- Performing assessment of patients including lab procedures and ECG’s
- Reporting Adverse Events and Serious Adverse Events
- Participating in Investigator meetings
