As clinical trial team members seek to balance the eternal yin and yang of research projects’ often cold and technological-, regulatory-, and protocol-driven side vs. their very warm and human outreach-, recruitment-, and retention-focused elements, contributors to the next issue of ACRP’s Clinical Researcher journal remind readers that patient centricity must never be an afterthought in the pursuit of medical breakthroughs.

What makes being a project manager so unique in the context of the clinical research enterprise, where you’ll most likely find them working directly for sponsors, or based within contract research organizations, or operating as independent consultants? We scouted around for insights amongst holders of the ACRP Project Manager (ACRP-PM®) specialty certification, and here’s the feedback we received from a few of them about the paths they followed into project management and what they really do in their day-to-day jobs.