Laboratory Medicine

Laboratory Consultants are medical laboratory experts who function independently in providing laboratory-related guidance to healthcare facilities. They possess expertise as a generalist or may provide services as a specialist in one or more disciplines. The services provided include supervision of clinical areas, chemistry, hematology, blood bank, microbiology, surgical pathology, cytology, and autopsies. They are also responsible for the timely production of medically useful and accurate information. General Responsibilities: 1. Direction of clinical laboratories 2. Provision of appropriate test repertoire 3. Clinical liaison and interpretation of results 4. Quality assurance 5. Assay development and validation 6. Defining the utility of existing and emerging biomarkers for disease diagnosis/monitoring/prognosis/screening, risk profiling, treatment monitoring, and pharmacogenomics 7. Clinical audit 8. Hands-on laboratory work (some disciplines) 9. Coordinating direct patient care (in some disciplines) with test requesting, interpretation, and reporting 10. Providing expertise and professional services as a full or subspecialty consultant and as an adviser 11. Does not have the wide range of functions of a laboratory director and is not legally accountable for the entire laboratory operation