Catherine Lafferty Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Organize, manage and coordinate the entire cycle of studies in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery for the arthroplasty team• Provide organizational management of all aspects of studies (including recruitment, schedule study visits, enter and update patient data, administer questionnaires, etc.)• Apply for Institute of Review Board (IRB) approval for human subject research• Train and supervise research support staff (including research assistants and medical students)• Provide support to departmental quality improvement projects

Boston, Ma

• Responsible for day-to-day oversight and management aspects of a pancreatic cancer research study (as well as other clinical/non-clinical/multi-center studies related to cancer prevention, early identification of individuals at high risk of cancer and biorepository collections) according to protocol specifications• Facilitated research study start-up and conduct of pancreatic cancer research study• Scheduled research team meetings and conference calls, facilitated mailings, maintained project timelines, and other project-related administrative tasks• Determined patient eligibility and responsible for recruitment, consent and enrollment of study participants• Responsible for data management and extraction from electronic medical records, including database design and the creation of data dictionaries as well as maintained study-related database and prepared protocol-related reports• Responsible for IRB submissions (amendments, continuing reviews, etc.), correspondence, and regulatory binders• Responsible for specimen collection

West Roxbury, Ma

• Screened, recruited, scheduled and consented research participants for two early lung cancer detection studies and one pulmonary hypertension study• Met ethical and regulatory requirements for different studies• Collaborated with a range of clinicians to identify appropriate patients for recruitment • Communicated with the various study sites to disseminate study-related information• Maintained study files, recruitment databases and data entry

Boston, Ma

• Coordinated the neuroendocrine program by collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of Dana Farber employees to schedule highly sensitive patient appointments • Provided administrative support for 40 providers which included scheduling appointments of a busy physician practice resulting in efficient coordination of patient visits• Provided direct administrative support for 13 providers for the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) program• Prepared confidential new patient documents• Tracked all type 2 diabetes patients’ progress• Edited and updated the endocrine external website to make sure it was current with our providers’ information, the programs we provided, etc.

Cambridge, Ma

• Adhered to standards and inspections that satisfied the 2011 JCAHO criterion• Revised and updated documents in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word to be compliant with 2011 JCAHO standards• Traveled to the other Spaulding sites to audit patient charts as part of the quality improvement initiatives to measure quality

Master'S Degree, Public Health

Bachelor'S Degree, Public Health