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Associate Director of Pathology
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Associate Director of Pathology
Brooklyn, NY
Job Description
Brooklyn, NY
Job Description
- Participates in internal/external quality assurance, performance improvement activities and programs, departmental and team/committee meetings, and facility-wide activity as needed.
- Assumes responsibility for lab director's duties during his/her absence, or as needed.
- Supervise and instruct residents/fellows on service of general surgical and clinical pathology, intraoperative consultation, and cytology, and complete cases in required TAT.
- Share the autopsy service. Supervise and instruct residents/fellows performing autopsy and sampling proper and adequate tissue for histology examination, and complete the autopsy report in 60 working days.
- In charge of organizing daily surgical case review conference (consensus conference).
- Review clinical cases in multidisciplinary conference, when needed.
- Participate in pathology resident and student teaching.
- Involved in pathology service management and quality improvement activities.
- Maintains good communications with regulatory, administrative, and government officials, with all hospital services, and within all divisions of Pathology Department; provides expertise and assistance to other laboratory sections in Pathology Department.
- Addresses issues or situations that require immediate or additional attention and informs appropriate leadership of such situation.
- Demonstrates effective communication and conflict/complaint resolution skills.
- Practices and enforces the elements of the National Patient Safety Goals, CAP Patient Safety Goals, and HIPAA.
- Serves as faculty member of SUNY at Downstate medical school and engage in medical student teaching, and Interview residency/fellowship candidates.
- Takes anatomic and clinical pathology on-call duty.
- Participates in other clinical activities as requested by laboratory director.
- Completion of accredited residency/fellowship in the specialty and subspecialty, and AP/CP board certified.