22 Feb Opening Eyes and Doors to New Career and Learning Opportunities in Clinical Research
When the ACRP Certified Professional (ACRP-CP®) certification launched in 2017, it made available to the clinical research field a rigorously developed and validated test leading to a credential highlighting the skills of professionals whose job roles do not easily stay within the boundaries of traditional clinical research coordinators (CRCs), clinical research associates (CRAs), or principal investigators.
Since then, more than 1,800 persons from all levels of experience in the profession have added the ACRP-CP designation to their signatures—alone or in tandem with other ACRP certifications. This blog begins a year-long series of visitations with some of the personalities behind all that “alphabet soup” of degrees and credentials one sees so often in the clinical research enterprise, in order to celebrate hard-earned achievements and highlight the benefits of certification to all stakeholders in the often-overlooked world of clinical trials.
One person who had her eyes opened to clinical research not so long ago is Javanese Ling, SLPD, CCC, ACRP-CP, now a CRA with a contract research organization. Still relatively new to the industry, she had earlier worked as a medical speech-language pathologist and as a teacher of neuroscience courses. Having already become involved with the Black Women in Clinical Research organization, her attention was turned even more toward the profession when she attended the ACRP 2023 conference in Dallas, Texas. Read more…