Dermatopathologist

Altru is seeking a BC/BE Dermatopathologist to join its team in Grand Forks, ND.

Altru Health Systemis a community-owned, integrated healthcare system with a Trauma II hospital, a specialty hospital, more than a dozen clinics in Grand Forks and the surrounding region, and a large home care network. More than 200 physicians are employed with Altru crossing 44 specialties and serving a referral population of over 225,000 residents in in northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. As the first member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, Altru’s providers have access to clinically integrated tools extending Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and expertise to patients.

Practice Overview

  • Team of 5 pathologists with variable fellowship training:
    • Hematopathology, Surgical pathology, Hematopathology/Molecular pathology, Surgical pathology/cytopathology and a general pathology trained pathologist
  • 15,000 Surgicals, 8,350 Pap smears, 1,470 non-GYN, 180 Bone marrows, No autopsies
  • Sub specialization in Dermatopathology to support busy Dermatology practice
  • Support regional laboratories as medical directors
  • Support primary laboratory in Grand Forks through medical director and clinical consultant roles for all service areas
  • Support busy EBUS, EUS and Interventional Radiology Biopsy services
  • Provide frozen section service for surgery
  • Equipment includes typical instruments to process and prepare tissue for diagnostic observation, automated immunohistochemistry stainers (Ventana) and Thin Prep Processor for cytology, multi-headed scope for intradepartmental daily QA conference
  • New hospitalto be completed in 2022
  • Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package including:
    • Medical, dental and vision insurance and retirement plans
    • Paid malpractice insurance including tail coverage
    • Relocation and immigration allowance
    • Generous vacation and CME time off

    Altru Family Medicine Residency offers teaching opportunities for residents and fellows in family practice, obstetrics, and sports medicine.  Also located in Grand Forks, the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences offers research and teaching opportunities for medical students and general surgery residents.

    Requirements: BC/BE Dermatopathology (AP/CP Required)

    The Altru Way

    How does an organization achieve world-class care? At Altru, we adopted a model that encompasses three core elements to help us achieve this vision: evidenced-based leadership, lean management and high reliability.  We call this The Altru Way. 

    1. Evidenced-based leadership includes implementing best practices for leading a complex health system and focuses specifically on alignment, action and accountability for everyone on the team.
    2. Lean management involves applying the scientific method to improve processes in everyday work. We involve those closest to the work to trial improvement ideas. The goal of lean is to reduce waste and increase value for patients and their family members.
    3. High reliability means we implement the most reliable processes to achieve the highest standards, gather feedback on how we doing, and continually learning from results so that we prevent errors in the future.

    These three elements work together: leaders align and support continuous improvement to realize greater reliability and better outcomes. Our physicians are critical to leading, applying the improvement methods, and learning with the teams.

    About Grand Forks

    Grand Forks is a community of more than 55,000 residents located on the border of North Dakota and Minnesota. Low housing prices and income taxes, low crime rates and modest healthcare costs make it one of the safest and most affordable places to live. The north-flowing Red River and the 2,200-acre Greater Grand Forks Greenway provide year-round outdoor recreation in the heart of our community.

    Grand Forks is home to the University of North Dakota (UND), a flagship liberal arts university and research college. UND houses a medical school, a law school, aerospace school, entrepreneurial program and many other experiential learning programs for a diverse and challenging educational experience.

    Here are the top 5 reasons Grand Forks is a cooler place to call home:

    1. Our tight-knit community is the #1 reason U.S. News ranks North Dakota as the state offering the best quality of life.
    2. With one of the best commute times in the U.S., our “rush hour” is measured in minutes – not hours.
    3. Our public and private educational systems are some of the best in the country. Whether you’re 5 or 55, we provide outstanding educational opportunities for students of all ages and needs.
    4. With a consistently low unemployment rate (<3%), Grand Forks is a hub for engineering, aerospace, energy, agriculture and healthcare.
    5. Whether you call it a big small town or small big town, Grand Forks has at least one of everything – including all four seasons.

    [Resource: Grand Forks is Cooler]

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    To learn more about this practice opportunity or to forward your CV for consideration, contact:

    Jennifer Semling, FASPR
    Manager, Talent Acquisition
    Altru Health System | 1200 S Columbia Road | Grand Forks, ND 58201
    701.780.6607 office | 701.741.0330 mobile | jsemling@altru.org