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  • Principal Investigator (PI):
    • The PI has the ultimate responsibility of ensuring that all aspects of the trial are adhered to.  This includes the scientific integrity of the trial, resource availability, and budget management   The PI is also responsible for informing study subjects of the nature of the trial and risk factors. Communication is either by direct contact with the study subjects or by an assigned designee with appropriate expertise.
       
  • Research Nurse/Coordinator or Practice Manager
    • The PI may delegate billing plan, budgeting, IRB and regulatory responsibility to a Research Nurse/Coordinator or Practice Manager

Note: The Practice Manager and/or the Departmental Administrator are ultimately responsible for approving the budget.  They also have the responsibility to understand the physician's time/effort and making sure they fulfill their clinical commitments.

  • Department Administrator/Department Grant Manager:
    • Assists PI/Research Coordinator in assessing financial viability of trial
    • Confirms available funding
    • Reviews project for administrative and financial accuracy prior to Chair’s signature
    • Serves as a resource to PIs, Research Coordinators, and Administrators
    • Invoices, monitors, and reconciles study account

  • Department Chair:
    • Approves research and requested budget
    • Certifies time commitment/effort of PI

  • Office of Sponsored Projects:
    • A source for identifying funding opportunities
    • Negotiates and signs agreements
    • Creates award account number and enters budget when checks are received
    • Coordinates all award-closing procedures with PI and department

  • Hitchcock Foundation:
    • Assists department to complete the billing plan/schedule of events
    • Assists with budget preparation
    • Gives appropriate institutional contact information
    • Negotiates and signs agreements
    • Coordinates accounting procedures with Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital/Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic

   

posted: 02/10/2006

Last Updated: 2/13/06