Cancer Research Malaysia is a private non-profit organization dedicated to Malaysian cancer research. As part of our research, Cancer Research Malaysia has developed MeMoSA® (Mobile Mouth Screening Anywhere), a mobile phone App for AI-supported early detection of oral cancer. To improve the performance of our AI model, we are collecting images from patients who seek treatment from dentists or oral specialists in oral medicine and oral pathology clinics or oral and maxillofacial surgery clinics. We are currently looking to add a Study Coordinator (SC) to our team for the MeMoSA® AI project. You will be primarily based at our clinical sites. Under the supervision of the Senior Project Manager, you will work closely with the digital health team to ensure that the research project meets its defined objectives, including the recruitment of patients to contribute images and management of patient images and data.
The ideal candidate for this position will be meticulous, organized, and proactive in carrying out the data collection protocol and be able to maintain a high level of accuracy with minimal supervision. An interest in digital health and knowledge of dentistry/oral cancer would be an advantage.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
· Recruitment and follow-up of patients for image collection into MeMoSA® AI project.
· Capturing images of patients’ oral cavities via the MeMoSA® mobile application.
· Data collection from clinical case notes, data entry and data analysis into the MeMoSA® database.
· Ensure all documentation relating to the study is duly completed.
· Assist in ethics applications to initiate any MeMoSA® AI related studies in clinical sites.
· Systematic and routine reporting on progress of patient recruitment, data collection and analysis.
· Assist MeMoSA® team members with data extraction, review and cleaning for the MeMoSA® AI project.
· Able to work collaboratively with clinical counterparts and patients at clinical sites.
· Undertake any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.
Qualification and competencies:
· Bachelor’s degree in any science-based discipline with relevant transferrable skills.
· Good team player, ability to communicate and work with all levels of stakeholders, able to multitask and work in fast-paced environment.
· Excellent organizational and time management skills and ability to work under pressure
· Proven capability in hands-on problem solving, with the ability to generate ideas and solutions; self-motivated and results driven.
· Pro-active, meticulous, and maintain a high-level accuracy with minimal supervision.
· Willing to travel to clinical sites with own transport.
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Cancer Research Malaysia
We are an independent and non-profit cancer research organisation based in Malaysia. Funded by donations and research grants, we conduct research in niche cancers often found in our Asian population.
Cancer — the big ‘C’ — continues to be a stigma, only spoken about in hushed whispers; how it’s bad karma, how much it costs, and that nothing could be done.
Confronting this stigma head on, CRM has been reversing this language of cancer, transforming the big ‘C’ to a little ‘c’, and we plan to develop tools backed by good research to ensure that we can truly fight cancer on all fronts.
We believe that we will reverse the grip of cancer in our lives. We want researchers to win the war against cancer by turning it around with new ways of prevention and cure. We want to empower the public through impactful outreach programmes, with the hopes that Malaysians will respond differently to cancer by coming forward for screenings and going through with treatments.
Our driving force is held together by these goals:
- Improving the survival rates of Asian cancer patients, focusing on neglected areas of research.
- Empowering Asians to have the proper screening and treatment.
- Improving survival rates by being more accessible, focusing on providing existing cures to patients rather than sit on inaction and potentially losing lives.
- Making affordable and timely treatments by repurposing drugs, acknowledging the reality that developing new cures are costly and risky.
- Putting Malaysia in the global spotlight for cancer research by collaborating with top scientists around the world,and working to nurture the next generation of Malaysian cancer researchers.