Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Chair - Lahey Hospital and Medical Center Job Listing at Beth Israel Lahey Health in Burlington, MA (Job ID 3745317-2024-07-18)

Description

Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (LHMC), part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, is seeking an experienced leader for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Lahey is one of a few multispecialty clinic model institutions in the country

• Physician-led
• Institutional commitment to a “Patient-first” priority
• High quality care coordinated under one roof for the benefit of our patients
• One of only six independent Lahey Departments, with chairs reporting directly to the hospital president
• Department staffed by 20 physicians, over 200 technical and nontechnical staff encompassing patients at four hospitals, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Lahey Medical Center Peabody, Beverly Hospital and Mount Auburn Hospital.
• Diagnoses are provided for over 35,000 surgical pathology specimens and almost 17,000 cytopathology specimens for Burlington and Peabody. Mount Auburn and Beverly add approximately 16,000 to 17,000 surgical specimens at each site.
• Active initiatives in molecular diagnostics, microbiology, clinical informatics and blood bank.

Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to model and encourage exceptional diagnostic work with a focus on quality and safety, develop systems to optimize and adapt pathology to the changing healthcare environment and build upon the department's academic/research portfolio.

The vision when LHMC was founded in 1923, was revolutionary at the time – multidisciplinary, coordinated care. LHMC continues to hone its reputation for leading edge health care delivered compassionately and recognized nationally for quality by publications and rating agencies for meeting the highest standards. LHMC is proud to add the new campus for the UMASS Chan Medical School, which provides an innovative learning track that follows the core curriculum of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine at UMass Chan with an added focus on leadership, health systems science and interprofessional education. LHMC is part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, with over 39,000 health care providers and staff delivering care to 1.7 million patients in Massachusetts and New Southern New Hampshire.