Physician Role and Responsibilities

Your Responsibilities to ECR and the Clinical Research Sponsor

• Understand the clinical research protocol.
• Identify potentially eligible study patients in your practice that have the study condition and meet the inclusion/exclusion criteria.
• Inform your partners, referring physicians, and office staff that you conduct research studies.
• Oversee clinical research trial process.

Clinical Responsibilities include:

• Perform physical exams as dictated by the clinical research protocol.
• Review and interpret lab results, ECGs, adverse events, etc.
• Attend Investigator meetings (sometimes a 1 day trip out of town) and periodically meet with the CRA monitoring the trial.