Laboratory and Medical Director, Anatomic Pathologist (Part-Time
Company Description
Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant® is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook.
The Part-Time Laboratory and Medical Director is responsible for ensuring the delivery of quality clinical laboratory services and products within Guardant’s Oncology Division. Specific responsibilities will include histology slide assessment, tissue selection, and sign-out, participation in laboratory operations, and improving digital pathology capabilities. Additional responsibilities include supporting clinical trial operations and assuring that such operations are conducted in compliance with the applicable regulations. This position is central to the operation of Guardant’s multiple products in multiple different regulatory environments and will become even more so as Guardant moves into further in vitro diagnostic (IVD) development and into cancer screening.
Part-Time Schedule: 40 hours every two weeks. The preferred schedule is five 8-hour workdays every two weeks.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for slide review for tumor content estimation, diagnosis correlation and communication with referring pathologists and oncologists if discrepancies arise, and interpretation of immunohistochemical stains, e.g. for PD-L1.
- Participation in the quality management system, management of adverse outcomes and non-conformities, participation in onsite surveys, appropriate management of the results of the on-site survey and performance in proficiency testing.
- Provide oversight of all aspects of the laboratory’s quality management system to ensure conformance to requirements described in the Quality Management System chapter of the Clinical Laboratory Practice Standards.
- Provide continuing education to laboratory technical staff that is relevant to laboratory medicine.
- Ensure that policies and procedures are established for monitoring staff to assess competency, and whenever necessary, provide remedial training or continuing education to improve skills.
- Promote a safe laboratory environment for personnel and the public.
- Ensure that an approved procedure manual is available to all personnel.
- Monitor all work performed in the laboratory to ensure that medically reliable data are generated.
- Assure that the laboratory participates in monitoring and evaluating the quality and appropriateness of services rendered, within the context of the Quality Management System, regardless of where the testing is performed.
- Provide advice to referring physicians regarding the significance of laboratory findings and ensure that reports of test results include pertinent information required for specific patient interpretation.
- Effectively implement a plan of correction to deficiencies identified.
- Report all concerns of test quality and/or safety to Supervisor or Safety Officer.
- Review and approve laboratory documentation such as policies and procedures, validation plans and reports, training and competency assessments, and reagent/control/instrument qualifications, quality audits, deviation approval requests, and nonconforming event reports.
Qualifications:
- Must be a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State of California (or is eligible for licensure) and in the state of residence.
- Must be a physician (M.D. or D.O.) that possess training and demonstrated expertise in histopathology, obtained within the previous six years, in generally accepted and currently used methods and techniques in one or more categories listed below and must meet one of the following requirements:
- Be a physician who is currently certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology. Certification by the American Board of Pathology in Clinical Pathology and an area of special competence relevant to molecular genetics is preferable but not required.
- Experience signing out IHC cases, particularly PD-L1.
- Preferable if qualified for New York State in the categories of Oncology and Histopathology, or able to obtain said qualification.
Work Environment:
- Hours and days may vary depending on operational needs.
- Standing or sitting for long periods of time may be necessary.
- May be exposed to hazardous materials, blood specimens and instruments with moving parts, heating or freezing elements, and high-speed centrifugation.
Salary Range: The posted salary range reflects 100% FTE (40 hours per week). This position is 50% FTE and requires 40 hours of work every two weeks. The actual salary will be prorated based on the 50% FTE schedule
AI & Digital Fluency
- Demonstrate curiosity, sound judgment, and the ability to critically evaluate and responsibly leverage AI-enabled tools in accordance with company policies, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of work.
Hybrid Work Model: This section is applicable to onsite employees who are eligible for hybrid work location as specified by management and related policies. Guardant has defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.
Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need support, please reach out to Peopleteam@guardanthealth.com
A background screening including criminal history is required for this role. GH will consider qualified applicants with criminal arrest or conviction histories in a manner consistent with applicable law including but not limited to the LA County Fair Chance Policies and the Fair Chance Act (Gov. Code Section 12952).
Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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