Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The Associate Director works in conjunction with the Director who has the ultimate authority and responsibility for the specific genetics division.  Helps provide direction and leadership for the administrative, fiscal, technical and scientific responsibilities of the division.  Helps ensure the safe and efficient operation of the division’s clinical diagnostic service.  Helps provide consultative services at an institutional level to departments, divisions, committees, and cancer center (scientific staff within Medical Center and BRI) scientists, as well as to outside researchers and institutions upon request.  Helps provide analysis, testing recommendations to aid in diagnoses (patient management).  Helps provide project management details relating to work flow, facilities, publishing, regulatory and grant information needs. 

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Prepares test results - reviews, writes, and interprets genetic laboratory results for clinical director review.
  Selects, implements, and/or develops divisional procedures following all regulatory requirements.
  Maintains and fosters fiscal strength of the division by improving efficiency, developing new clinical assays and increasing revenue-producing tests. 
  Assists in a productive translational research program focused on bringing molecular technology to the clinical cancer arena.
  Promotes professional collaboration and research-related activities by publishing a minimum of two papers as co-author or one paper as first author per year.
  Acquires required licensure and assists in maintaining a constant state of readiness for all unannounced State, CAP, Joint Commission, and other regulatory inspections.
  Analyzes, reviews and interprets genetic laboratory results.  Once fully boarded, licensed, and credentialed by COH Medical Staff Office, communicates preliminary and final report results to medical staff.
• Provides patients with best practice genetic testing by designing efficient workflow.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable governmental and accrediting agencies’ standards.
• Ensures annual review of College of American Pathology (CAP) regulations and Policy and Procedure manuals; monthly review of QA, QC and PI records to recognize factors that affect measurements and results and take appropriate corrective action, if needed.
• Works with appropriate divisions/departments to establish and monitor all budgetary, financial and workload reporting.
• Develops, monitors and adheres to financial plans focusing on cost benefits.

Your qualifications should include:

• MD (state licensed) or PhD
• 2 years of full-time post-doctoral laboratory training or experience in immunology, histocompatibility, immunogenetics, or a related field or a residency in clinical and/or anatomic pathology or other related medical specialty and have at least 2 years of full-time post-doctoral training in directing or supervising high complexity testing in human histocompatibility and immunogenetics in an ASHI-accredited or approved laboratory.
• Eligible for ABHI diplomate and ASHI-DTRC; must be obtained within 4 years.
• Histocompatibility Laboratory Director (HLD); must be obtained within 4 years.
  Prefer candidate to be in year 2 or 3 of AMBGG fellowship preferred.
  CHS (ABHI) and Diplomate (ABHI) preferred.
  Histocompatibility Lab Director preferred.

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