Assistant Director, Tissue Typing/HLA Laboratory; Open Rank Faculty

Position Summary

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago seeks outstanding candidates for a faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (rank/tenure commensurate with experience) in Tissue Typing/HLA Laboratory Testing. The Department of Pathology in the College of Medicine provides testing in all major disciplines including microbiology, chemistry, hematology, transfusion medicine, tissue typing/transplant and molecular pathology along with surgical pathology and cytopathology services.

UI Health has very active solid organ and hematopoietic clinical transplantation programs including liver, renal, small bowel, pancreas and hematopoietic progenitor cell transplant. The HLA Laboratory is a state of the art newly remodeled laboratory that performs all transplant related testing in-house.

Duties

Responsibilities

• This faculty position will be responsible for (1) oversight and performance of a combination of HLA/Tissue Typing diagnostic services (2) participating in teaching medical students, residents, fellows, and house staff and (3) developing or continuing a basic or translational research program.
• Professional duties include technical oversight for immunogenetics and histocompatibility testing in a CAP accredited, CLIA regulated clinical laboratory, review and sign out of test results, clinical consultation, virtual crossmatches, monitoring compliance with the Quality Control Plan, test development, validation and implementation.
• Participation in teaching, administrative work, research and attendance at professional development and scientific meetings is expected.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.