Most Important Skills for a Clinical Trial Pharmacist at UCLA Health
For a Clinical Trial Pharmacist, strong communication skills are crucial for interacting with "the pharmaceutical industry" and various stakeholders, maintaining HIPAA compliance. In addition to "clinical experience as a pharmacist," project management skills and understanding "the drug industry and overall hospital operations" are essential for ensuring smooth trial execution.
Communication, Project Management, Leadership, Clinical Experience, Organization
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Chai Lam
Clinical Trial Pharmacist
UCLA Health
UCLA 2004
UCSF PharmD
Biology & Related Sciences
Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical
Research and Development (R&D)
Honors Student, Scholarship Recipient, Pell Grant Recipient, Took Out Loans, Immigrant, Worked 20+ Hours in School, First Generation College Student
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1. Excellent communication skills are essential for interacting with pharmaceutical sponsors, regulatory bodies, and principal investigators, while maintaining patient confidentiality according to HIPAA guidelines.
2. Strong organizational skills are crucial for managing the various aspects of clinical trials, ensuring smooth operations from drug arrival to patient administration.
3. Clinical experience as a pharmacist is vital to understanding the diseases under investigation and the overall drug development process within the hospital setting. Project management skills are also highly beneficial in overseeing multiple aspects of a clinical trial.
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What sort of skills are most important for a job like yours?
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Those two types of skills are soft skills and hard skills. For soft skills, we communicate a lot with the pharmaceutical industry, who are called sponsors. This requires really good communication skills.
We communicate a lot via confidential email. We don't release any patient information for HIPAA privacy. Anything that is not confidential between the sponsor and the hospital is communicated.
We communicate through email and with other stakeholders involved, like regulatory or the principal investigator. Good organizational skills are some of the soft skills.
For hard skills, you need clinical experience as a pharmacist so you understand the disease the drug is being investigated in. Leadership and project management also come into play. It's important to know the drug industry and overall hospital operations.
We do a lot of setups to ensure everything runs smoothly, from the drug arriving at our site to when it's given to the patient, involving the whole hospital.
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