Pathologist and Lab Medicine Informaticist (Open Rank - Assistant to Associate Professor)

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department of Pathology

Informatics Specialist (Pathologist and Laboratory Medicine Informaticist)

Open Rank - Assistant to Associate Professor

Job Number: 32320

Nature of Work

The Department of Pathology seeks a full-time faculty member at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor whose primary role will be to serve as the department's Pathologist Informatician. Applicants should be board certified or board eligible in anatomic and/or clinical pathology. Applicant should be boart certified or board eligible in clinical informatics. Applicants that have completed a pathology informatics fellowship or have substantial academic informatics experience will also be considred. 

The Pathologist Informatics Specialist (Informatician) will collaborate with Pathologists and staff at professional, technical and administrative levels to provide informatics support for the anatomic pathology, molecular diagnostics, and cytogenetics laboratories that are owned and operated by the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Pathology. Additionally, the pathologist informatician will support informatics efforts for the clinical pathology laboratory services at the University of Colorado Hospital. Candidates with additional fellowship training or sub specialization will have an opportunity to pratice in other areas of interest. This position is a full-time, academic, and requires on site work based at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. 

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Providing leadership in all phases of the information system lifecycle, including managementm change control, evaluation and improvement of existing systems and selection and implementation of new systems. 
• Ensure that the Department laboratory information systems and information technology meets regulatory requirements of accrediting agencies, affliated hospital systems, and the University of Colorado including security of software and hardware systems. 
• Apply data standards for storing laboratory and pathology information required by the College of American Pathologists and other regulatory and accrediting bodies
• Guide or perform evaluation, implementation, and validation of digital imaging systems such as whole slide imaging, telepathology, and digital image analysis software
• Collaborate closely with LIS, IT, laboratory, integrated practice and departmental staff as well as departmental leadership and administration to ensure fidelity and security of data, mining and analysis of data, compliance and quality of data and departmental medical practice

Minimum Qualifications

Assistant Professor

• Medical Degree (MD or DO)
• The successful candidate must be board certified in Anatomic Pathology and/or Clinical Pathology in addition to being clinical informatics board certified/eligble or have completed a Pathology Informatics fellowship or have attained the equivalent experience to a fellowship in an academic setting

Associate Professor

• Medical Degree (MD or DO)
• The successful candidate must be board certified in Anatomic Pathology and/or Clinical Pathology in addition to being clinical informatics board certified/eligible or have completed a Pathology Informatics fellowship
• At least 6 years of experience in academic pathology informatics service