Open Rank – Associate to Assistant Professor - Clinical Pathology

Open Rank Associate to Assistant Professor - Clinical Pathology-33778Faculty

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University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department : Pathology

Job Title : Open Rank Associate to Assistant Professor Clinical Pathology

Position #00815971 Requisition #33778

Job Summary :

The University of Colorado Denver / Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC) is a public research University serving more than 18,000 students.

We award nearly 4,000 degrees each year, including more graduate and professional degrees than any other Colorado institution.

With our solid academic reputation, award-winning faculty, and renowned researchers, we offer more than 140 highly rated degree programs through 13 schools and colleges.

The University received over $760 million in research awards last year.

A national leader in health care and life sciences, CU Anschutz is the only comprehensive academic health sciences center in Colorado and the largest in the Rocky Mountain region.

Located in Aurora, Colo., it is one of the newest education, research, and patient care facilities in the world. With six schools and colleges, CU Anschutz trains the health sciences workforce of the future by blending education, research, and clinical care all in one place.

This strategic collaboration among diverse health care fields allows knowledge to travel directly from the research bench to the patient’s bedside.

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus ranks among the top institutions nationally in clinical care, education, and research.

Its 230-acre campus, designed to enhance collaboration and interprofessional education, hosts the College of Nursing; the Schools of Dental Medicine, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Public Health;

the Graduate School; a Health Sciences Library; and three hospitals. Strategically located contiguous to the campus are a biosciences research park, housing, entertainment / restaurants, and open space.

UC Denver / Anschutz offers two undergraduate degrees, 35 graduate degrees, and has five first-professional programs. The School of Medicine is well recognized for outstanding undergraduate and graduate programs, outstanding faculty, and cutting-edge research.

The Department of Pathology employs 125 faculty with diverse expertise from basic science to the practice of human and veterinary medicine, broadly focused on the study, diagnosis and treatment of disease and training the next generation of healthcare and scientific professionals.

Nature of work :

This permanent full-time position in the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, based at the UCH Clinical Laboratory, is a clinical pathology practice opportunity for an academic clinical pathologist with expertise in clinical chemistry.

The primary function of this position is directing the special chemistry section of the main clinical laboratory as well as the hospital’s extensive point of care testing program.

The special chemistry section performs diagnostic testing using immunoassays, protein electrophoresis, hemoglobin electrophoresis, gas chromatography (GC), liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MSMS), and other technologies.

The point of care testing program currently offers 31 tests at 95 testing locations performed by approximately 5,600 operators using 521 individual devices.

Over 50,000 point of care tests are performed each month. The director will support the functioning of multiple laboratories, including providing expert guidance for validating both FDA cleared or approved tests and lab developed tests (LDTs), advising clinicians on test selection and the medical significance of laboratory data, training medical laboratory scientists, and participate in pathology resident and fellow training.

Employment Expectations :

• Participate in the clinical care, administrative management, teaching and research missions of the UCH Clinical Laboratory and the Department of Pathology.
• Identify opportunities for medically necessary, financially feasible tests to be performed in house.
• Provide clinical consultation for tests performed within the laboratory.
• Routinely interpret serum protein electrophoresis tests, assays for hemoglobin variants, and other clinical laboratory tests.

As part of this clinical effort, the candidate should expect to work closely with UCH physicians, Clinical Pathology faculty, laboratory staff, and trainees.

Clinical laboratory director responsibilities within the scope of the candidates’ skills are required at UCHealth sites (e.

g., free-standing emergency departments and non-teaching community hospitals).

Participate in the development of lab stewardship tools, data analysis and utilization management strategies in the UCH Clinical laboratory.

This role will include the performance of directed projects to assess and optimize test use across multiple clinical specialties and locations.

Use the clinical and laboratory information systems to analyze and automate pathologist / scientist workflow processes to make professional time more effective.

This includes pre-analytic, analytic and post-analytic variables that reduce efficiency, quality, cost, compliance, and workplace satisfaction.

Participate in clinical pathology on-call coverage.

Work Location :

Onsite this role is expected to work onsite and is in Aurora, CO

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