Newborn Screening Medical Laboratory Chemist
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Job Description
Save lives and create futures with your skills in Mass Spectrometry!
The primary purpose of the Newborn Screening (NBS) Unit of the State Laboratory of Public Health (SLPH) is to provide timely and accurate testing to detect potentially fatal or disabling conditions in newborns. Identifying infants with these conditions early in life provides a window of opportunity for treatment, often before the infant displays any signs or symptoms of the disease or condition.
MS/MS chemists provide and perform accurate and timely screening analyses on clinical specimens collected from newborns using analytical and biochemical procedures and electrospray tandem mass spectrometry quadrupole technology.
Analysis and intricate interpretation of clinical specimens by qualitative and quantitative methods identifies infants with metabolic disorders that if delayed, undetected or untreated, cause irreversible mental and physical incapacities or even death.
Additionally, identified children and adults are monitored for their responses to dietary and medical treatment.
The service is provided to physicians, birthing hospitals, local health departments and other health care providers.
This Unit also collaborates with universities and other institutions on various data mining and method development projects and pilot studies to enhance the NBS program and the NCSLPH testing menu to accommodate for new disorders and/or methodologies as they become available.
Degree Requirements (please read!):
To verify that you meet Federal CLIA ’88 personnel requirements for testing personnel in a laboratory performing high complexity testing, you must meet one of the following categories (all education and experience must also be clearly listed in your application):
• I have an MD or DO and am licensed to practice medicine in NC.
• I have a doctoral degree in a chemical, physical, biological, or clinical laboratory science from an accredited institution.
• I have master’s degree in a chemical, physical, biological, or clinical laboratory science from an accredited institution.
• I have a bachelor’s degree in a chemical, physical, biological, medical technology, or clinical laboratory science from an accredited institution.
• I have an associate’s degree in laboratory science or medical laboratory technology from an accredited institution.
• I have education and training equivalent to an associate’s degree that includes 60 semester hours from an accredited institution that includes at least 24 hours of medical laboratory technology courses OR at least 24 hours of science courses that include 6 hours of chemistry, 6 hours of biology, and 12 hours of chemistry, biology, and medical technology in any combination.