Assistant/Associate Laboratory Director at UPMC

About the role

The Department of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is recruiting Clinical Laboratory Geneticists as the Assistant/Associate Laboratory Director at the UPMC Cytogenetics Laboratories, at the rank of Assistant/Associate/Professor in the Appointment Stream.

The primary responsibility will include analysis and interpretation of results, preparation and reviewing of final test reports, and reporting of karyotyping, FISH, microarray, and OGM analysis in oncological, prenatal, and postnatal specimens.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Medical Director in the overall direction, supervision, and administration of the operations related to specimen handling, testing, and reporting in an accurate, proficient, and expedient manner while ensuring client and patient confidentiality.
• Develop and validate in-house assays for applications in oncology and other areas of clinical relevance.
• Maintain standard operating procedure manuals and quality control practices.
• Direct cytogenetics technical staff in the performance of proficiency testing programs as required by the regulatory and licensing agencies (CLIA, CAP).
• Closely interact within the Division of Molecular & Genomics Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and participate in the education of Pathology and OB/GYN residents/fellows, as well as training of LGG fellows through the ACGME-accredited program.
• Participate in publishing, collaborating, and developing new tests.

Requirements

• Board Certification

Qualifications

• 2 - 4 years of relevant experience
• Internal Number: 26001309