Schedule: Full-Time | Days (Rotating Weekends)
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical and administrative leadership for anatomic and clinical pathology services within a community-based hospital laboratory.
- Oversee daily pathology operations, ensuring high-quality diagnostic services, operational efficiency, and compliance with applicable regulatory standards.
- Perform general surgical pathology examinations, interpretations, and diagnoses across a broad range of medical and surgical specialties.
- Perform intraoperative consultations and frozen section evaluations to support timely clinical decision-making.
- Provide comprehensive clinical pathology interpretations and consultations to support accurate diagnosis and patient care.
- Manage the full scope of anatomic and clinical pathology services, maintaining high standards of diagnostic accuracy and laboratory performance.
- Serve as the primary pathologist for a single-pathologist practice while collaborating with a larger regional pathology group consisting of 4 additional full-time pathologists and PRN physicians.
- Coordinate with regional pathology colleagues to ensure appropriate clinical coverage during scheduled time off, continuing medical education, and other absences.
- Work collaboratively with a Pathologists’ Assistant (PA) to support specimen processing, surgical pathology workflow, and laboratory efficiency.
- Collaborate with hospital administration, medical staff, and laboratory leadership to improve workflow, quality, and patient outcomes.
- Support quality assurance initiatives, laboratory accreditation requirements, and continuous process improvements.
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and professional guidance to laboratory personnel while fostering a collaborative and patient-centered environment.
- Participate in strategic planning and operational initiatives to enhance pathology services and laboratory performance.
- Maintain compliance with established laboratory protocols, patient safety standards, and applicable healthcare regulations.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Board certification in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (AP/CP) is required.
- Minimum of 2 years of hospital-based Pathology Medical Director experience is preferred.
- Comprehensive knowledge and proficiency across the full scope of anatomic and clinical pathology.
- Recent hands-on experience performing frozen sections is required.
- Recent experience in general surgical pathology and clinical pathology interpretations is required.
- Active Florida medical license or ability to obtain Florida medical licensure.
- Strong clinical and diagnostic expertise in general surgical pathology and clinical laboratory medicine.
- Demonstrated leadership and management abilities, including experience supervising or managing a group.
- Ability to independently manage pathology services within a community-based hospital while collaborating with a larger regional pathology team.
- Knowledge of laboratory regulatory requirements, quality assurance practices, and accreditation standards.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with physicians, Pathologists’ Assistants, laboratory personnel, and hospital administration.
- Strong commitment to diagnostic accuracy, operational excellence, effective leadership, and high-quality patient care.
