Faculty Position - Department of Pathology, Clinical Pathologist/Transfusion Medicine

Job Responsibilities

Provides clinical pathology services as assigned, in a patient centric fashion according to established standards, general and service-specific scopes of care, policies and procedures, and patient-specific protocols.

Annually demonstrates clinical competencies for credentialed service and the following responsibilities:

• Participates in analyzer validation, verification processes and test method development as required.
• Ensures timely completion of work within established turnaround times.
• Interacts collaboratively with clinicians regarding patient care issues.
• Provides reports as necessary to third party providers and sub-specialists.
• Acts as a participatory member of the clinical care teams.
• Complies with all clinical staff bylaws, rules and regulations.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with laboratory staff, medical staff and other departments/services by participating in conferences, performance improvement projects, peer review, utilization review and committee work.
• Consults with clinicians to ensure the appropriate utilization of pathology services.
• Provides outside second opinion consultations as required.
• Participates in department quality activities as required.
• Performs any delegated duties of the CLIA medical director effectively.
• Supports and participates in teaching programs in Pathology.
• Conducts educational programs for technologists, medical students, residents, fellows and physicians as required.
• Teach at clinical conferences and quality reviews.
• Attends continuing education seminars to maintain and advance knowledge; share knowledge with colleagues.
• Provides formal teaching to Pathology residents and fellows.
• Participates in research programs related to diagnosis, pathogenesis and/or therapy of pediatric disease within the clinical scope of responsibility.
• Supports clinical research activities.
• Participates in the detection, reporting, and improvement of systems to prevent patient care incidents and improve patient safety and quality.

Qualifications

Experience in clinical pathology and transfusion medicine required.

Board certification by the American Board of Pathology in Clinical Pathology required.

Board certification or board eligibility in Transfusion Medicine is preferred.

Requirements

MD or DO degree required.

Benefits

To be determined.

Pay

To be determined.

Schedule

To be determined.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is one of the premier pediatric cancer hospitals in the USA and has a large faculty of clinical and basic investigators organized into traditional academic departments. Strong interdepartmental programs are present in Infectious Diseases, Bone Marrow Transplant, Hematologic Malignancies, Solid Tumor Biology, Neuro-oncology, and Molecular Oncogenesis. Clinical and basic research activities are carried out in adjoining state-of-the-art buildings that provide an environment that fosters close collaboration between clinical and basic investigators.