Staff Clinician - National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute (NHLBI)

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute (NHLBI)
Hematology Branch

Staff Clinician

Based in the NIH Clinical Center; the largest research-dedicated hospital in the world, the Hematopoiesis and Bone Marrow Failure group is world renowned, with a record of important medical advances, creative research, patient care, and physician training. Aplastic anemia, myelodysplasia, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, constitutional syndromes such as the telomeropathies, and related diseases have been studied in clinical trials, applied and basic laboratory research, and epidemiology. The marrow failure clinic of the Branch is one of the largest in the world and offers unparalleled direct experience with patients suffering from these diseases. Clinical and laboratory work are closely connected, and there are multiple opportunities for team research. Innovative ongoing protocols test new approaches to marrow failure; new protocols are under development and mature protocols ready for analysis and publication. Work from the Branch research has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and other general medical journals and in Blood, Haematologica, and the British Journal of Haematology.

The Hematopoiesis and Bone Marrow Failure group is within the Hematology Branch; both under the leadership of Neal S. Young. The Branch conducts interdisciplinary research in a variety of blood diseases and has an active hematopoietic stem cell transplant section as well as a nonhuman primate program. There is an accredited hematology/oncology fellowship program. Senior investigators work together collaboratively and collectively.

Staff Clinician appointments are as Assistant, Associate, and Senior Research Physicians, depending on experience. Staff Clinicians are frequently Principal Investigators on clinical protocols; their travel to appropriate conferences worldwide is supported by the Institute.

The successful candidate must hold a medical degree and have completed clinical fellowship training in hematology and/or oncology. Focused post-doctoral training in normal and aberrant hematopoiesis, molecular biology and immunology, and genomics is desirable but not required. Board certification and publication record will be considered in the final decision.

Salary and benefits are commensurate with qualifications and experience. Full federal benefits including leave, health and life insurance, long-term care insurance, retirement, and savings plan (401k equivalent) will be provided. Equal opportunity employment is held as one of the most important values here at NIH. Selection for this and any other position will be based solely on merit. 

Interested individuals should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae and bibliography, brief summary of research interests and accomplishments, and the names and addresses of three references.

Dr Neal Young
Branch Chief, Senior Investigator
Hematology Branch
National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute
Building 10, Center Drive, Room 3-5142
Bethesda, MD 20892
E-mail: youngns@nhlbi.nih.gov

DHHS and NIH are Equal Opportunity Employers