Associate Medical Director (Chantilly)

Associate Medical Director - Chantilly, VA

The Associate Medical Director is responsible, as assigned / delegated by the Laboratory Director / Regional Medical Director, for ensuring that the medical and operational quality of the clinical laboratory meets or exceeds customer / patient requirements. Additionally, serve as a liaison between Esoteric Operations and related lines of business, including the Clinical Franchises, Research & Development and Pharma Services.

Responsibilities

Scientific

• 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.
• Provides inputs for new research developments in the appropriate fields of expertise. Makes recommendations on tests to develop consistent with the clinical franchises and the R&D departments.
• Educational responsibilities- Provides educational programs for the medical and laboratory staff and participates in educational programs of the Company.
• Assumes Clinical Consultant or Technical Supervisor responsibilities in Specialty as delegated by the Laboratory Director Responsibilities Policy :
• 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 non-conformance management including 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 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

Qualifications

Organization Description

Equal Opportunity Employer : Race / Color / Sex / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity / Religion / National Origin / Disability / Vets or any other legally protected status.

Recruiter : Kristyn.L.Stuiso@questdiagnostics.com