Clinical Research Management (CRM)
Do you want to help fill the growing need for sophisticated and highly skilled clinical research professionals? Are you a registered nurse interested in responding to the clinical, organizational, fiscal and regulatory challenges facing today’s expanding clinical research industry? This interactive, e-Learning program is for you.
What Will You Do as a Clinical Research Manager?
You will be a registered nurse prepared at the master's level responsible for the management and administration of clinical trial and clinical research processes. As a clinical research manager, you will function in a complex, ever-evolving and interdisciplinary clinical research environment – relying on clinical reasoning skills, but also on extensive knowledge about all phases of the clinical research process and knowledge of financial and personnel management, business acumen, knowledge of organizational and management theory, informatics and project management skills, and negotiation and interpersonal relations.
Where Will You Practice?
During your Vanderbilt learning experience through a practicum in your home area and upon graduation, a variety of practice settings will be available to you:
- Academic Research Centers
- Pharmaceutical Corporations
- Site Management Organizations
- Clinical Research Organizations
- Private Research Organizations
- Regulatory Agencies
- Data Management Firms
How Will Vanderbilt Prepare You?
Through this e-Learning program, Vanderbilt will prepare you for a leadership role in clinical research management with a strong foundation in regulatory and ethical aspects of clinical research, management of clinical drug, device and biologic trials, informatics, organizational dynamics, human resource management, and business and financial practices. You will learn to:
- Apply principles involved in initiation, execution and closure of clinical trials.
- Implement continuous quality improvement in clinical research management.
- Synthesize the knowledge base that supports the field of clinical trial management from trial design through study closure.
- Comprehend the ethical and regulatory principles that underlie the conduct of sound and ethical clinical research.
- Execute the clinical research process as it relates to drug, device and biologic trials.
- Understand political and economic issues related to the business of clinical research.
Meet the Program Director
Lois Wagner, PhD, APRN, BC
Dr. Wagner, Program Director and Assistant Professor in the Clinical Research Management Program, has more than 21 years of experience in coordinating, managing and conducting clinical research trials. Her clinical trials experience includes managing vaccine and drug trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and major pharmaceutical companies. She has designed, coordinated and conducted clinical research educational programs in United States, the Caribbean and in South America, and has coordinated online training programs on research ethics. Her own research involves cognitive-behavioral interventions to improve psychobiological outcomes and quality of life in chronic illness. She also serves as the Associate Director for Research for the Tennessee Center for Nursing which conducts and supports research focused on nursing workforce development. Her previous research has focused on cognitive-behavioral interventions to improve psychobiological outcomes in persons with HIV infection and other chronic conditions.
Learn from Where You Live – Convenient
for Working Nurses and Others
The Clinical Research Management program is one of several specialties at Vanderbilt School of Nursing offered in a modified learning format that allows students to attend graduate school without having to relocate or give up employment. Distance and distributed learning methods, online conferencing, and clinical practicum placement in your home area where possible let you earn your MSN degree without being away from home for extended periods. Clinical Research Management students are only required to come to campus only once for orientation at the start of the program.
