Medical Director

Job Description:

The Medical Director, Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), provides physician leadership and medical oversight for clinical laboratory testing performed under the organization’s CLIA certificates. The Medical Director is accountable for the quality, accuracy, reliability, and clinical appropriateness of laboratory services within the assigned scope and ensures compliance with applicable federal and state requirements, accreditation standards, and organizational policies. This role partners with laboratory, quality, compliance, and operational leaders to establish standards, evaluate performance, address risk, and advance safe, effective patient care.

Essential Functions

• Ensure lab is in compliance with CAP accreditation requirements
• Serve as the laboratory director or medical director for assigned CLIA-certified laboratories, as designated, and fulfill all responsibilities applicable to the laboratory’s testing complexity, specialties, and subspecialties.
• Provide medical, scientific, and clinical oversight to ensure laboratory testing is accurate, reliable, timely, and appropriate for patient care.
• Ensure adequate qualified personnel, supervision, policies, procedures, equipment, facilities, safety practices, and quality systems are in place for the scope and volume of testing performed.
• Approve and periodically review the laboratory’s test menu, methodologies, reference ranges, validation or verification studies, procedures, and significant changes before implementation.
• Ensure quality control, quality assessment, proficiency testing, calibration, maintenance, competency assessment, and corrective action processes meet applicable requirements.
• Review laboratory performance data, proficiency testing results, quality indicators, complaints, incidents, patient safety events, and audit findings; direct timely investigation and corrective action when needed.
• Ensure testing personnel meet applicable education, training, experience, licensure, and competency requirements and that delegated duties are assigned to qualified individuals.
• Provide consultation to clinicians regarding test selection, specimen requirements, result interpretation, limitations, critical values, and appropriate use of laboratory services.
• Establish or approve processes for reporting critical, abnormal, corrected, and potentially erroneous results and for communicating information that may affect patient care.
• Partner with laboratory operations, compliance, quality, infection prevention, information technology, and clinical leaders to maintain regulatory and accreditation readiness.
• Participate in inspections and surveys, review cited deficiencies, approve corrective action plans, and verify sustained remediation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, testing platforms, and clinical practices and provide medical guidance on implementation, utilization, and patient impact.
• Chair or participate in laboratory governance and quality committees and communicate material risks, trends, and recommendations to executive and clinical leadership.
• Remain accessible to the laboratory as required and arrange qualified coverage when unavailable.
• Reference lab oversight. Select and continuously monitor reference laboratories for service quality, analytical performance, and licensure.

Skills

• Leadership
• Interpersonal Communication
• Relationship Building
• Strategic Planning
• People Management
• Continual Improvement Process
• Workforce Planning
• Health Administration
• Medical Staff Training
• Health Care

Minimum Qualifications

• MD or DO with ABMS or equivalent AOA Board Certification in a relevant specialty.
• Active Medical Licensure
• Minimum three years of clinical experience in relevant specialty and experience in leading successful quality improvement projects within the clinical setting.
• Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills.

Preferred Qualifications

•  3 plus years of experience as a Medical Director of a CAP accredited laboratory.

Physical Requirements

• Interact with others requiring employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
• Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
• See and read computer monitors and documents.

Location:

Central Laboratory

Work City:

Murray

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$7.25 - $999.99

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