Summary

CHENEGA RELIABLE SERVICES, LLC

Silver Spring, MD

THIS IS AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR 1099 POSITION

The Pathologist will provide expert subspecialty diagnostic pathology services and translational clinical investigation. Perform diagnostic services, teaching, and clinical investigation related to consultations within their subspecialty, submitted to the JPC from the DOD, Veterans Administration, and other Federal agencies.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose consultations accurately and within the timeframe set forth by guidelines within the JPC
• Works with patients tissue specimens and pathology reports.
• Perform specialized or non-routine tests on tissue samples, or confirm patients test results, correlate patient reports and test information.
• Provide accurate information about the pathogenesis, histogenesis, biology, and differential diagnosis.
• Deliver expert lectures to medical students, residents, fellows, and practitioners about pathology.
• Lecture authoritatively to peers within and outside the JPC and speak at scientific meetings of national and international scope.
• Initiate and pursue clinical investigative ideas and projects to a meaningful conclusion and publish the final results.
• Provide timely diagnostic reports within organization s established turnaround time metric for subspecialty.
• Work with patients tissue specimens and pathology reports; prepare patients specimens for examination, perform specialized or non-routine tests on tissue samples, or confirm patients test results, correlate patient reports and test information.
• Study consultations by evaluation of gross features of the disease, case history correlation, microscopic examination of tissue sections mounted on stained and unstained slides, and literature review.
• Determine the need for and request of additional procedures, including histochemistry, immunoperoxidase studies, molecular studies, electron microscopy, and consultative opinions.
• Collaborate with other JPC staff members as pertinent on difficult.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Degree in Medicine or Osteopathy.
• Board certification in Pathology or Board certification in subspecialty area.
• Subspecialty fellowship training OR
• Minimum of 25 years of experience in sub-specialty and consultative pathology.
• Minimum of 200 publications in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
• Current valid state license to practice medicine in the U.S.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of subspecialty to provide authoritative consultation and diagnostic pathology service.
• Knowledge of instructional methods to provide professional training, lectures, and workshops.
• Knowledge of clinical investigation techniques to expand and report through professional publications advances in subspecialty.
• Knowledge in pathology and sub-specialty area(s) of pathology.
• Ability to provide timely diagnostic reports within organization s established turnaround time metric for subspecialty.
• Ability to provide accurate information about the pathogenesis, histogenesis, biology, and differential diagnosis.
• Ability to deliver expert lectures to medical students, residents, fellows, and practitioners about pathology.
• Ability to lecture authoritatively to peers within and outside the JPC and speak at scientific meetings of national and international scope.
• Ability to initiate and pursue clinical investigative ideas and projects to a meaningful conclusion and publish the final results.

Physical Demands (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Estimated Salary/Wage

USD $150.00/Hr. Up to USD $160.00/Hr.