Senior Medical Director - Women's & Reproductive Health

Pay Range:$350,000 - $400,000 / year

Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications are obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. Successful candidates may be eligible to receive annual performance bonus compensation. 

Benefits Information: 

We are proud to offer best-in-class benefits and programs to support employees and their families in living healthy, happy lives. Our pay and benefit plans have been designed to promote employee health in all respects – physical, financial, and developmental. Depending on whether it is a part-time or full-time position, some of the benefits offered may include: 

• Day 1 medical, supplemental health, dental, and vision benefits for FT employees who work 30+ hours  

• Best-in-class well-being programs 

• Annual, no-cost health assessment program Blueprint for Wellness® 

• healthyMINDS Mental Health Program 

• Vacation and Health/Flex Time 

• 6 paid holidays, plus 1 "MyDay" off 

• FinFit financial coaching and services 

• 401(k) pre-tax and/or Roth IRA with company match up to 5% after 12 months of service 

• Employee stock purchase plan 

• Life and disability insurance, plus buy-up option 

• Flexible spending accounts 

• Annual incentive plans 

• Matching gifts program 

• Education assistance through MyQuest for Education 

• Career advancement opportunities 

• And so much more! 

Sr. Medical Director – Women’s & Reproductive Health

(Remote with travel)

The Senior Medical Director for Women’s & Reproductive Health is a senior position for a physician with both laboratory and clinical experience who will serve as an expert on the clinical use of testing in women’s health and aspects of the testing space. The ideal candidate should have experience with clinical management of women’s health patients and understand the OBGYN needs, experience and expectations concerning the use of women’s health-related diagnostics.

The Sr. Medical Director will have responsibility for leading clinical research efforts directed towards developing projects that assess the clinical utility of our women’s health testing platforms and establishing the scientific credibility of our test offerings to outside stakeholders in support of our commercial efforts. To achieve this mission, the role requires an appreciation of current and future clinical trends, standards of care, critical trials being carried out by others and third-party reimbursement issues. The Director will pursue impactful collaborations and publications in close coordination with Medical Scientific Affairs, the Women’s Health Product team and Market Access departments. The director will share his/her clinical knowledge and experience with the Development team in order to advise the team on current product revisions and future product development.

The Sr. Medical Director will serve as the primary consultant in women’s health internally to the commercial and marketing teams and externally to physicians, professional societies, health insurers, and patients. Activities will include scientific educational presentations at conferences and other venues and communication with clients on Quest Diagnostic's women’s health test offerings. The individual must be able to have productive peer-to-peer relationships as an honest, credible partner in healthcare, nurturing positive relationships with women’s health KOLs and practicing clinicians.

• M.D. or D.O. with board certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN)
• Certification in one of the following sub-specialties, Reproductive Endocrinology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, or Gynecologic Oncology, is preferred
• A minimum of 10 years' experience providing women’s health patient care.
• Comprehensive knowledge of women’s health clinical trials.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Capable of networking both nationally and internationally with women’s health colleagues.
• Previous experience, typically obtained through PhD or postdoctoral work, in laboratory research preferred

• Identify, develop and/or maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with premier

• Women’s health KOL champions, to promote understanding and adoption of our diagnostic technologies.

• Collaborate with commercial, market access, and medical affairs to set the agenda for and design clinical research initiatives including collaborating with external KOLs to define publication strategies.

• Identify and help draft study protocols and publication plans, including drafting/first authoring of multiple abstracts and publications with external KOL coauthors.

• Help in leading Medical Science Liaison and Clinical Specialist teams to develop KOL champions at large women’s health group strategic partners.

• Lead in major investigator-initiated, multicenter studies that expand our indications through validation and outcomes assessment.

• Stay updated on developments in the clinical women’s health space including new applications, clinical trial data, presentations and publications, emerging biomarkers that affect the use of current testing and the development of new test modalities.

• Provide leadership of education and client support for the sales team and the managed care team.

• Represent Quest at national and international women’s health conferences and at focused meetings by collaboratively preparing abstracts and presenting data.

• Support other Quest medical affairs directors who are responsible for building and managing scientific and clinical community relationships and, upon request, helping mediate resolution of client queries

• Direct supervision of one Medical Science Liaison

• 25-30% Travel

Salary Minimum: 350,000.00

Salary Maximum: 400,000.00