Pathologists Assistant Supervisor

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Montefiore Medical Center's Division of Clinical Pathology is responsible for the laboratory testing of blood, urine, and body fluids for disease diagnosis and health maintenance. Utilizing the latest advances in computer technology, the Division maintains millions of dollars of state-of-the-art automated equipment at its laboratory sites.
The Pathology Assistant Supervisor will manage the surgical pathology grossing room and autopsy personnel, and oversee the surgical pathology and autopsy laboratory technical operations across multiple sites while functioning as a pathologist's assistant.

Essential Functions:
•    Oversee daily cutting room and autopsy service functions with participation in workflow. Manage staffing needs by site, interface with clinical staff, troubleshoot workflow problems including specimen labeling, accessioning, grossing procedures, frozen sections, packing and transport of cassettes to the histology lab and other courier issues
•    Train and evaluate staff, including residents, Pathologist's Assistants, Lab Technologists and Technicians and Accessioners in tissue procurement for special clinical studies (e.g. immunofluorescence and electron microscopy, flow cytometry, cytogenetics) or IRB-approved research and clinical trials
•    Schedule staff, including multi-site coverage, vacations, CME time, emergency or other changes on short notice, per diem scheduling
•    Maintain regulatory compliance, coordinate with other Pathology Managers and Administrators, Surgical Pathology cutting room and Autopsy Policy and Procedure manuals
•    Maintain Consumables Inventory, including purchasing replacement supplies and reagents
•    Decide on new equipment purchase or lease and maintain equipment
•    Oversee specimen inventory storage, retrieval and disposal
•    Quality management of lab improvement and workflow optimization measures, documentation and correction of quality issues

Qualifications:
•    Master’s degree required
•    5 years work experience as a Pathologists Assistant
•    State of New York Pathologist Assistant License and ASCP Pathologist Assistant certification required
•    Must have experience with Gross anatomy, basic pathophysiology and clinical findings of diseases encountered in surgical and autopsy pathology, gross features of abnormalities encountered in surgical and autopsy pathology, dissection techniques for tissue and organ  specimens with disease submitted to pathology, methods for selection of tissue to be processed into slides in  the histology lab or for frozen sections (intraoperative consultations), digital photography techniques, performance of frozen  sections including freezing, cryomicrotomy and staining, principles of tissue-based technology, including histology, immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, cyto-and molecular genetics, handling of small  and delicate tissue specimens, snap freezing techniques, basic  chemistry techniques including weighing solids and measuring liquids, making simple solutions, chemical,  biological, and mechanical safety training
•    Experience with Surgical dissection and cutting instruments including those for very small specimens, bone and autopsy saws (e.g. Stryker, band or table saws), chemistry equipment such as graduated cylinders, pipettes, macro- and micro- weighing scales, dissecting microscope, cryomicrotome and associated frozen section equipment, manual staining setup, snap freezing equipment  (liquid nitrogen and/or isopentane based), desktop computer laboratory information software (Epic  Beaker as  of  2019), clinical system software (clinical  Epic), voice  recognition software for dictation, computer-interfaced label, cassette, and slide printers, digital  camera for specimen  photography, label maker for photograph labels
•    Experience with tissue dissection in surgical pathology, recognition of pathologic lesions, selection of tissue for histology, performance of a complete autopsy, including tissue selection  for histology and summarizing clinically relevant findings, correct operation of all equipment used in surgical pathology cutting rooms and autopsy suites required

The standard hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 am – 4:30 pm.