Physician – Pathology Medical Director – Marietta, GA

Facility: Kennestone Hospital

The Pathology Department of Wellstar Medical Group is looking for a full-time board-certified Anatomic Pathology (AP) and Clinical Pathology (CP) Pathologist to serve as Medical Director for the Kennestone Hospital laboratory in Marietta, Georgia. Expertise and/or fellowship training in Surgical Pathology, Cytopathology, Hematopathology and previous experience directing an anatomic pathology service is preferred.

The Pathologist is expected perform 40% Administrative and 60% Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology service.

Duties will include but are not limited to.

•             Serving as the pathology medical and CLIA Director

•             Close collaboration with the laboratory director to maintain CAP and CLIA Accreditation Standards

•             Close collaboration with the Lab Director and Anatomic Pathology Supervisor for the development and compliance with Anatomic Pathology workflows and procedures.

•             Participation and supervision of Quality Assurance measures for all anatomic pathology cases and inter-laboratory comparison programs.

•             Performing surgical pathology gross, microscopic, and final diagnosis rendering along with coding of surgical reports with pathology in rotation with other pathologists.

•             Provide intraoperative consultation to surgical services

•             Participate on hospital/departmental committees and hospital/departmental conferences as needed.

•             Provide consultation to Medical Center and laboratory staff in matters of test utilizations, technical and result interpretation.

•             Ordering/interpretation of appropriate immunohistochemical stains and special stains.

•             Provide on-call services as designated in the monthly schedule.

•             Participate in required continuing medical education (CME) to maintain licensure/privileges.

•             Responsible for timely completion of LMS educational modules.

•             Ensure compliance with federal statutes, College of American Pathologists and Joint commission requirements.

•             Participation in System Pathology and Laboratory Medicine projects.

The successful candidate will join a group of 17 experienced pathologists for Wellstar Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service’s nine not-for-profit hospitals located primarily in suburban Atlanta. The applicant must be Board-Certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and be licensed or capable of obtaining a Georgia Medical License.