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- Medical Consultant in Transfusion Service, Patient Services, Patient Blood Management.
- Provide medical consultation in transfusion medicine, blood banking, and patient services to hospital customers.
- Organize and participate in regional Medical and Technical Advisory Committees or equivalent programs for hospital customers.
- Provide continuing medical education to external customers and internal audiences.
- Promote the safe and effective use of blood components through interactions with hospital customers, and participation on transfusion committees and professional organization committees (i.e., AABB, CAP).
- Direct patient service programs including but not limited to therapeutic apheresis, stem cell collection and processing, perioperative autologous cell salvage, and patient blood management.
- Medical Oversight of Blood Center Operations and Regulated Activities
- Direct the medical aspects of regulated blood center operations including collections, donor management, recipient adverse reactions, suspect product investigations, and other operational systems.
- Direct investigations of donor complications and recipient transfusion reactions by interacting with the Donor and Client Support Center to ensure timely completion, documentation, and reporting to BHQ hemovigilance program.
- Participate in the development of national procedures, policies, or position statements on medical criteria for donor eligibility and safety, component quality, and transfusion practice.
- Serve as CLIA Laboratory Director for regulated collection activities in assigned regions, immunohematology laboratories, HLA laboratories, stem cell collection and processing, and/or national testing laboratories.
- Investigate concerns and complaints related to donor complications, customer service, or hospital relationships including notification of Executive Leadership, as necessary; plan and implement appropriate corrective actions.
- M.D. or D.O. degree with post-graduate training/specialization in blood banking/transfusion medicine is required.
- Board-certified or eligible in internal medicine, pediatrics, or clinical pathology.
- Board-certified or eligible in blood banking/transfusion medicine is highly desirable.
- Extensive knowledge of current/projected trends in transfusion medicine/blood banking and hospital health care highly desirable.
- Knowledge of medical/technical principles of blood center operations.
- Must be licensed in the state of the primary site of the region and all states served by the region and/or Division, as needed.
- Minimum five years experience in blood banking/transfusion medicine, or related fields.
- Completion of a blood banking/transfusion medicine fellowship and board certification in blood banking/transfusion medicine, hematology, and/or internal medicine is desirable.
- Experience in relevant medical/scientific research and scholarly activities sufficient to warrant academic appointment is highly desirable.
Vacancy expired!