Clinical Chemist

Job Description:

Clinical Chemist, Clinical Chemistry Laboratory  

Department of Pathology 

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 

Harvard Medical School, Boston 

The Department of Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is recruiting a full-time academic clinical chemist/clinical chemistry laboratory director. The position is open rank, and both recent fellowship graduates and mid-career clinical chemists (PhD or MD/PhD) are strongly encouraged to apply. BIDMC is a tertiary care facility with 743 licensed beds and an internationally renowned principal teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School with NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center-affiliated Cancer Center. 

The department will be engaged in the newly announced and exciting clinical collaboration between Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, BIDMC, and Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians (HMFP) to establish New England’s only free-standing adult inpatient cancer hospital. The collaboration will bring together world-class clinicians to deliver transformational, precision medicine in an environment solely dedicated to defying cancer. 

We are seeking a full-time clinical chemist (title will be commensurate with rank) to join two other clinical chemistry faculty. Eligible candidates for this position must have an MD (with AP/CP or CP board certification, Clinical Chemistry fellowship training preferred as well as eligibility for a Massachusetts State Medical License) or PhD (with board certification in Clinical Chemistry). 

Experience in automated chemistry and clinical chemistry immunoassays is necessary. Expertise in laboratory informatics is desirable. The successful candidate will oversee management of a comprehensive and rapidly growing state-of-the-art laboratory that supports active clinical programs in solid organ and bone marrow transplantation, oncology, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, immunology, endocrinology, obstetrics and neonatology, and therapeutic drug monitoring and toxicology. 

In addition to sharing clinical and administrative service responsibilities, the successful candidate will be expected to play an active role in our pathology training programs and to develop a strong program in translational and/or clinical research.  

Research 

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center consistently ranks as a national leader among independent hospitals in National Institutes of Health funding. With research funding totaling over $250 million, annually, BIDMC’s 2000+ researchers and staff run more than 2500 active clinical research studies in 52 areas of research. 

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a 743-bed hospital and Level 1 Trauma Center, is a founding member of Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH).  BILH, a health care system with 14 hospitals, brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community, and specialty hospitals, and more than 4,000 physicians and <