Professor, Clinical Faculty Appointment; CFA), Laboratory Medicine

Position: Professor, Clinical Faculty Appointment (CFA), Laboratory Medicine
BLOOD BANK PATHOLOGIST, DEPARTMENT OF LABORATORY MEDICINE

ACADEMIC RANK:
Assistant Professor,Associate Professor, Professor, CFA (Commensurate with Experience)

SECTION MISSION:
The Transfusion Medicine Section provides all CLIA and FDA-compliant services related to blood and blood product donation, testing, and processing, transfusion of blood and blood products, and the testing and evaluation of patients selected for transfusion. In addition to delivering high quality patient-care services, the Section contributes to the educational mission of the institution by providing training in a high-volume transfusion medicine service to clinical and post-doctoral fellows, as well as a wide range of other professional personnel.

Research activities related to patient care and transfusion medicine services are also essential activities in the Transfusion Medicine Section.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

The candidate's major responsibilities will be to assist in oversight of operations with particular emphasis on the scientific, technical, regulatory, and interpretative activities. The candidate will assist transfusion medicine and donor services with operational clinical activities and the daily operation of a very busy transfusion medicine service. Specific activities include compliance with CMS/CLIA, FDA, OSHA, AABB, CAP, JC and relevant state statutes and regulations.

The successful candidate will be involved in an intensive and active clinical consultation service providing for transfusion oversight of over 220,000 units of blood and blood products per year and the donation of over 27,000 blood and blood products per year through the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Donor Services. The services also assist with oversight of Quality Control/Quality Assurance programs related to transfusion medicine.

The successful candidate must have adequate clinical skills to be able to interact and consult with a variety of oncology patients, consulting physicians, and transfusion medicine donors and the ability to assess and manage the clinical care transfusion requirements for acute oncological clinical presentations.

CLINICAL

* Participates in all Transfusion Medicine activities for patient care and donor services.

* Must be able to visually review, evaluate and correctly interpret medical records, patient data, patient specimens, blood and blood products, and test results based on previous training, experience and knowledge.

* Must be able to visually identify specimen constituents, contents and/or components directly or viewed through a microscope and integrate observations into diagnostic and biologically relevant information.

* Must assist in the continuing enhancement of new technologies for transfusion medicine services.

* Must be able to comprehend the relevance of printed results and correlate patient data with research and clinical findings.

* Must be able to ensure that quality control/quality assurance standards are implemented and that the laboratories which the candidate directs are in compliance with the numerous regulatory and accreditation requirements of transfusion medicine services.

* Must be able to relate quality control result data to specimen and product analysis data, assuring that appropriate action is taken based on results obtained.

* Must be able to identify and solve problems related to job responsibilities utilizing knowledge and experience.

* Must be able to work using standard precautions for bio-hazardous materials and exercise appropriate control and precautions in the management of other chemical and organic compounds as required for the regulatory compliance of a clinical laboratory.

* Must be acquainted with the manual and technical procedures and equipment used in donor services and transfusion medicine.

* Must have basic computer skills including word processing, spreadsheet, email, internet and databases.

* Must have manual dexterity for various functions with the instruments used in product collection and processing, laboratory diagnosis and research.

* Must be able to move from one laboratory to another.

ADMINISTRATVE

* Assures compliances with the standards of CMS/CLIA, CAP,…