Job Posting: Supervisory Physician (Department of Laboratory Medicine Chief)

Summary

This position serves as Chief of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and exercises a wide latitude of leadership, management responsibility, judgment, initiative, creativity and substantive professional medical knowledge and expertise. He/She supports clinical research at the NIH, serves the patients, collaborates with health care providers, ensures compliance with applicable federal/state laws and standards of accrediting organizations, and innovates best practices in the medical specialty.

Duties

As Chief, the incumbent will provide strategic, scientific, operational, and people-centered leadership for DLM. The Chief will foster excellence in clinical laboratory medicine while strengthening research, training, quality, and collaborative initiatives across the NIH Clinical Center and NIH intramural research community. Oversee DLM service areas, including Chemistry, Hematology, Immunology, Microbiology, Phlebotomy, and Sterility services. Lead high-quality, efficient, and patient-centered clinical laboratory operations in a complex clinical research hospital. Ensure rigorous regulatory compliance, quality management, patient safety, and readiness for accreditation standards. Partner with investigators and clinical teams to support protocol development, study implementation, specialized testing workflows, and interpretation of laboratory data. Guide innovation in laboratory methods, informatics, instrumentation, workflow design, and consultative services that support both patient care and discovery. While the primary role of this position is to run department operations, the Chief may have the opportunity to lead their own investigator-initiated research within the Intramural Research Program depending on their level of experience. Build and mentor multidisciplinary teams, support professional growth, and promote a collaborative workplace grounded in mutual respect and open communication. Oversee and be accountable for the hospital's phlebotomy and sterile-processing sterility-testing services. The Clinical Center anatomic pathology, blood bank and cell processing laboratories are organized separately from DLM.

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