Nevada State PHL
Job Title: Director (Associate/Full Professor)
Posted on: August 15, 2024
Application Deadline: September 6, 2024
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Nevada State Public Health Laboratory (NSPHL) at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) seeks to fill a full-time Director of the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory. The Director of the NSPHL shall be responsible for the oversight, management, testing quality and scientific/academic output of the Laboratory. A substantial responsibility of the position includes maintaining a professional public image at the community, state and national level working in concert with team members, infectious disease experts and the Dean to set goals and promote the NSPHL. The Director maintains responsibility for managing the State Health Lab response to ongoing and emerging health concerns in Nevada, as well as response to public health emergencies.
Required Qualifications
1. PhD, MD/DO, or combination in a scientific field
2. Minimum of five years of related laboratory experience working in a CLIA/CAP multidisciplinary, high-complexity laboratory.
Preferred Qualifications
1. Prior teaching or academic experience
2. Public Health Leadership or Directorship
3. Legislative experience
4. Public Health programmatic and/or policy experience as related to public health testing
Directorship Requirements for Lab Licensure
1) Physician licensure to practice medicine in this State and be certified in anatomical and clinical pathology, or in clinical pathology, by:
(a) The American Board of Pathology; OR
(b) The American Osteopathic Board of Pathology;
OR
2) Hold an earned doctoral degree from an accredited institution, with a chemical, physical, biological or clinical laboratory science as the major, AND:
(a) Be certified by at least one (preferably more) of the following:
The American Board of Medical Microbiology; and/or
The American Board of Clinical Chemistry; and/or
The American Board of Bioanalysis; and/or
The American Board of Medical Laboratory Immunology; and/or
The American Board of Forensic Toxicology; and/or
The American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics; and/or
The National Registry of Certified Chemists; and/or
The American Board of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics; and/or
Any other institution approved by the United States Department of Health and Human Services in accordance with 42 C.F.R. § 493.1443(b)(3); OR
(b) Possess qualifications which are equivalent to those required for certification by any of the institutions listed in paragraph (a).
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