Description
Maintains primary responsibility and oversight to plan, develop initiatives, implement into clinical practice, and evaluate results of efforts in designated section. Collaborates in assuming responsibility for the clinical, research, scientific, and educational functions of the clinical laboratory.
Essential Functions:
- Provides scientific assessment for evaluation and implementation of relevant, state of the art clinical cytogenetic, molecular genetic, and genomic services, including the interpretative analysis of laboratory results and recommendation of other available consultative services to best facilitate patient management and treatment.
- Reviews results of cytogenetics and molecular genetic/genomic testing as appropriate by board certification. Issues and signs written interpretative test reports and oversees clinical/scientific consultation. Is responsible for supervision of conduct, evaluation, reporting and interpretation, monitoring, and quality assurance of testing in these areas.
- Coordinates facets of the internal laboratory quality control program, including proficiency and competency testing, validation studies, and instrument maintenance programs to ensure overall quality of test results and compliance with regulatory agencies.
- Collaborates in assuming responsibility for establishment, implementation, and evaluation of effectiveness of teaching, educational, and research programs in the laboratory. Participates in the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (AMBGG) Laboratory Fellowship including provision of feedback and oversight to fellows.
- Shares responsibility for development and implementation of new cytogenetic, molecular genetic, and genomic assay development, and for clinical, research, and teaching activities of this facility.
Education Requirement:
Knowledge of laboratory medicine practices, research theory, and technical personnel management generally gained by completing a Ph.D. in biomedical science with a minimum of a two-year post-doctoral training program.
Certifications:
Board-certified by appropriate certifying agency (i.e. American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics) in Clinical Cytogenetics and/or Clinical Molecular Genetics, or Laboratory Genetics and Genomics.
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Why Nationwide Children's Hospital?
The moment you walk through our doors, you feel it. When you meet our patient families, you believe it. And when you talk with anyone who works here, you want to be part of it. Welcome to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Where Passion Meets Purpose.
Here, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are integrated into our core values and practices. We are passionate about building, sustaining and evolving an inclusive and equitable environment. We are seeking individuals who live these values and want to share their experiences and efforts in support of our collective mission.
We’re 15,000 strong. And it takes every one of us to improve the lives of the kids we care for, and the kids around the world we’ll never meet. Kids who live healthier, fuller lives because of the knowledge we share. We know it takes a Collaborative Culture to deliver on our promise to provide the very best, innovative care and to foster new discoveries, made possible by the most groundbreaking research. Anywhere.
Ask anyone with a Nationwide Children’s badge what they do for a living. They’ll tell you it’s More Than a Job. It’s a calling. It’s a chance to use and grow your talent to make an impact that truly matters. Because here, we exist simply to help children everywhere.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital. A Place to Be Proud.
Responsibilities
We emphasize collaborative interactions between clinicians, physician-scientists and basic science investigators to quickly transition cutting-edge research results into cutting-edge diagnostics using state-of-the-art technology platforms. With world-renowned experts at the helm, we are moving genome-based testing into the mainstream of pediatric diagnosis and treatment by offering comprehensive next-generation sequencing for constitutional disorders and cancer diagnoses, making results accessible and meaningful for physicians and families.
- Interpretation and review of data, including report writing and sign out of molecular and cytogenetic cases
- Implementation and development of robust constitutional and somatic assays encompassing varying methodologies (array, NGS, cytogenetics, molecular)
- Contribution to laboratory quality management including assay validation, proficiency testing, assistance with regulatory inspections, development of standardized procedures
- Liaison to clinicians and translational researchers in support of genomic testing across clinical care and translational studies
- Education of fellows, residents, graduate students, faculty and staff
Requirements
Experience:
Must meet educational and either board-certified or board-eligible (with the expectation that boards are passed within 2 cycles).
Physical Requirements:
OCCASIONALLY: Bend/twist, Blood and/or Bodily Fluids, Chemicals/Medications, Communicable Diseases and/or Pathogens, Flexing/extending of neck, Fume /Gases /Vapors, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Lifting / Carrying: 11-20 lbs, Lifting / Carrying: 21-40 lbs, Loud Noises, Patient Equipment, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Reaching above shoulder, Squat/kneel
FREQUENTLY: Computer skills, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Repetitive hand/arm use, Sitting, Standing, Walking
CONTINUOUSLY: Audible speech, Color vision, Decision Making, Depth perception, Hearing acuity, Interpreting Data, Peripheral vision, Problem solving, Seeing – Far/near
"The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individuals so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under their supervision. EOE M/F/Disability/Vet"
