Associate Medical Director jobs in Des Plaines, IL

Overview

The Associate Medical Director acting under the leadership of the Medical Director and in collaboration with Scientific and Laboratory leadership is responsible for providing clinical consultation to the clinical laboratory within her/his area(s) of expertise which will maximize quality patient care and ensure continuous business growth. Assume Clinical Consultant or Technical Supervisor responsibilities as assigned/delegated by Laboratory Director.

Responsibilities

Scientific 

• Under the direction of the Medical Director, provide scientific and clinical oversight for laboratories. Leading scientific staff, develop and oversee all R&D projects from inception to launch.
• Utilize laboratory procedures, diagnoses from body tissue, fluids, secretions, and other specimens, identifying the presence and stage of diseases. Reviews, interprets and documents clinical test results within established turnaround times.
• Member of appropriate Subspecialty Team(s). Attendance at regular Subspecialty Team meeting and other senior laboratory management staff meetings. Participates in all significant scientific, business and policy decisions impacting the clinical utility and quality of testing services.
• Advises Quest senior management staff of trends and actions that must be incorporated into business and strategic planning.
• Provides leadership to staff, participate in identifying potential test/platform candidates, process design and development, and transference to operations.
• Provide educational programs for the medical and laboratory staff and participates in educational programs of the Company.

Clinical Responsibilities: 

• Honors requests for consultations from clinicians regarding the appropriateness and interpretation of laboratory tests. Due to the importance of quality patient care, servicing consultation requests of all types is considered imperative.
• Collaborates in reviewing test method selection and validation. 
• Collaborates in ensuring that the proficiency testing program is conducted in a timely manner, reviewed by appropriate staff, and approve of corrective action when a proficiency testing result is found to be unsatisfactory.
• Collaborates in monitoring quality control to ensure that acceptable levels of analytical performance are maintained for each test system. Ensure that patient test results are reported only when the system is functioning properly.
• Collaborates in corrective action and preventative action plans and procedures. 
• Collaborates, as appropriate, in Job Assignments and Authorization Matrix (JAAM) and annual Performance and Development Review (PDR) to ensure that all personnel have the appropriate training and demonstrated performance for the type of testing offered.
• Collaborates in the annual review of Standard Operating Procedures for test systems.
• Collaborates in reviews of report format for appropriateness of clinical information communicated in areas of assigned expertise. Collaborates in review of interpretative reporting comments as needed.

Lab Management: 

• Member of appropriate Subspecialty Team(s). Attendance at regular Subspecialty Team meeting and other senior laboratory management staff meetings. Participates in all significant scientific, business and policy decisions impacting the clinical utility and quality of testing services.
• Interacts with Academic Associates in areas of assigned expertise to develop new strategies and testing methods.
• Interacts with Clinical Correlations staff. Reviews potential reference ranges for all new analytes in areas of assigned expertise. Collaborates in review of reference range memoranda for appropriate tests.
• Interacts with both internal (Client Services, Lab Services, Sales and Marketing) and external clients to facilitate and foster increased transfer of information related to medicine and science at Quest Diagnostics. Works closely with Sales staff throughout Quest Diagnostics to provide appropriate medical scientific support as required.
• Attendance at National meetings in areas of assigned expertise to maintain/build knowledge and to provide representation for Quest Diagnostics.

Qualifications

Required Work Experience:  

Minimum three years.

Extensive experience in clinical laboratory, especially hematology

Preferred Work Experience:  

N/A

Physical and Mental Requirements:  

Ability to sit or stand for long periods of time 

Knowledge:  

N/A

Skills:  

N/A

EEO

Quest Diagnostics is an equal employment opportunity employer. Our policy is to recruit, hire and promote qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other status protected by state or local law. Quest Diagnostics observes minimum age requirements established by federal, state and/or local laws, and will ask an applicant for verification when deemed necessary.