Breast Pathologist

Pathology Lab Med - Clinical - 413802

11/29/2023

Yes

Permanent Faculty

Breast Pathologist

Open Rank

FAC0004875

Full-Time Permanent

40

1

North Carolina, US

07/01/2024

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.

OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.

OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.

Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is seeking to recruit an academic Surgical Pathologist for a tenure-track/tenured, fixed-term, or variable track position at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. The position will involve diagnostic surgical pathology, with an opportunity to focus primarily, if not exclusively, on Breast Pathology. The successful candidate will be eligible for membership in the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Regular opportunities are available for teaching in the School of Medicine and the Graduate School.

Applicants must have an MD or DO degree, be board-certified or board eligible in Anatomic Pathology, and be eligible to obtain a medical license in North Carolina.

This position requires expertise in all aspects of Breast Pathology, including: image guided core biopsies and radiological-pathological correlation, evaluation of surgical specimens after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, interpretation of breast biomarkers with current ASCO/CAP guidelines, and evaluation of outside cases for patients referred to UNC. This also includes participation in multidisciplinary tumor board and effective communication with a very active clinical care team.

Sign-out experience and/or fellowship training in Breast Pathology is strongly preferred.

Not Applicable.

The online application requires an application letter, curriculum vitae, summary of career goals, and names and addresses of four (4) references. Inquiries about the position can be directed to Dr. Ben Calhoun, Chair of the Search Committee, at Ben.Calhoun@unchealth.unc.edu.