University / Medical school is seeking a full-time clinical pathologist at the Assistant, Associate, or Professor level to participate in the blood bank/transfusion medicine service at three tertiary care hospitals. Some travel to Mt. Vernon, IL required.
- Active programs in pediatric and adult solid organ and stem cell transplantation, trauma, critical care, cardiothoracic surgery, hematology, oncology, high-risk obstetrics and hemophilia require transfusion medicine support.
- Hospital Blood Bank is registered with the Food and Drug Administration. It is staffed around the clock by specially trained medical technologists and technicians.
- Patient care services, active participation in hospital committees, and teaching and supervising pathology residents and medical students are required responsibilities of the position.
- Our staff is committed to teaching Allied Health students, medical students, residents and fellows. Based on the individual's interests and needs, time learning with our team will be spent acquiring basic blood bank technical knowledge, as well as gaining experience on a busy transfusion service. Physicians-in-training are an integral part of the team, serving as the primary liaison between the blood bank and patient services.
- We provide a full range of reference laboratory services, including adult, pediatric, and perinatal autopsy; placental pathology; dementia-related brain pathology; cytopathology; flow cytometry; toxicology; renal, muscle, and peripheral nerve technical and professional services; histology technical work to include immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, and histochemistry; and electron microscopy.
- Our ACGME-accredited Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency training program benefits from the broad range of expertise shared by our faculty. Fellowship programs available in our department include Forensic Pathology, GI/Liver Pathology, Hematopathology, Pediatric Pathology, and Transfusion Medicine. Graduate students in the Ph.D. program receive the training required to become successful scientists
- Our faculty participate actively in innovative research. Projects span from natural killer cell function, to tumor suppression by bitter melon, to participation in national liver pathology study groups.
