Pediatric Hematopathologist Opportunity, Fort Worth, Texas at Cook Children's

Location

Medical Center - Fort Worth Department: Pathology Shift: First Shift (United States of America) Standard Weekly Hours: 40

Summary

Cook Children’s, in Fort Worth, Texas, is seeking a full-time hematopathologist/general anatomic pathologist to join their growing team to support the hematology, hematology-oncology, and flow cytometry sections of the laboratory. Duties include directing the hematology/hematopathology program and sign-out of a mix of hematopathology (including flow cytometry) and general surgical pathology cases. Additional opportunities in transfusion medicine and coagulation are available if interested.

The candidate will have an MD or DO degree (or equivalent), be board certified/board eligible in hematopathology and anatomic or anatomic/clinical pathology. Board certification in pediatric pathology or experience in pediatric hematopathology is preferred but not required. The candidate must be eligible for licensing in Texas.

The primary focus of the institution is on extraordinary patient care with a very close consultative relationship between the department and the clinical services. The candidate would join a department which includes 3 pediatric pathologists, a dual-boarded pediatric pathologist/ hematopathologist, a dual-boarded cytopathologist/hematopathologist, a dual-boarded pediatric pathologist/molecular pathologist, a PhD clinical microbiologist, and a PhD clinical chemist. Approximately 350 bone marrow biopsies, 250 flow cytometries (including minimal residual disease analysis), 500 peripheral smear reviews, 50 lymph node biopsies, and over 1200 hematology-oncology cerebrospinal fluid cytologies are performed annually, in addition to about 7000 surgical specimens, 200+ cytologies, and 20-30 autopsies.