Pathology Service Chief - Jackson Hospital

Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus.

Henry Ford Pathology and Laboratory Medicine seeks an experienced board-certified pathologist to be Pathology Service Chief and Laboratory Medical Director at its prominent community hospital in Jackson, Michigan.  This is a senior staff position in the Henry Ford Medical Group, reporting to the System Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Jackson is a 475-bed acute-care hospital serving central Michigan offering comprehensive services with 24-hour Level II trauma care. The hospital has 400 employed physicians and 3700 staff. The anatomic volume at Jackson is 17,000 cases. The dominant case types are gastrointestinal, gyn and breast pathology. Jackson is staffed by 4 pathologists, and supported by 62 pathology subspecialists at the Core Laboratories in Detroit who hold a daily consensus conference for quality, accuracy, and standardization.  Hematopathology, pulmonary pathology, neuropathology, molecular genetic pathology, and autopsy are centralized to Detroit.

Henry Ford Pathology is an integrated system clinical department; both subspecialized, and community based. It is recognized as the world's leading Lean managed hospital laboratory system and the only ISO 15189 accredited laboratory in Michigan, overseeing services at 6 hospitals, 38 clinic delivery sites, and an outreach program. The system laboratories employ 850 technical staff, with annual case volumes of 40 million clinical laboratory tests, over 200,000 surgical pathology specimens, 80,000 cytopathology cases and 50,000 molecular and cytogenetic tests.

Faculty may qualify for academic appointment in the Pathology Department of Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Pathology at Henry Ford Hospital supports an AP/CP residency and fellowships in Molecular Genetic Pathology, Medical Genetics and Genomics and Pathology Informatics.

Applicants for this leadership position must have expertise in general surgical pathology and a subspecialty of surgical pathology, and should submit CV, and statement of interest with 3 references to:

Richard J. Zarbo, M.D., DMD

Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital

Chair, Department of Pathology, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

2799 West Grand Blvd.

Detroit MI 48202

Rzarbo1@hfhs.org

ABP Board certification in anatomic and/or clinical pathology

10 years of experience as a practicing pathologist.