Consultancy in Clinical Immunology combined with a clinical professorship i clinical immunology with special focus on personal transfusion medicine

A position as consultant at the Department of Clinical Immunology, Diagnostic Center, Rigshospitalet, is open for appointment.  

 

The position is combined with a 5-year position as clinical professor of Clinical Immunology with special focus on Transfusion Medicine at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. 

 

With this new position the Department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet wishes to strengthen the leadership in transfusion medicine research, and teaching in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen. 

 

 

About the Department 

The Department of Clinical Immunology comprises the region's blood bank together with all services within transfusion medicine. It also covers the cell and tissue banks and various activities within transplantation medicine together with many aspects of bio-banking, cohort administration, virology testing as well as foetal immune medicine (including genetic blood typing of the foetus and foeto-maternal bleeding). The Tissue Typing Laboratory covers HLA  typing and diagnostic immunology within disorders of the haematopoietic system and the immune system (including malignant diseases, immune deficiencies, autoimmune diseases etc) which are being diagnosed and monitored. 

 

The Department of Clinical Immunology is part of Denmark’s leading university hospital for specialized medicine. The blood bank is responsible for all aspects of blood and stem cell donations from unpaid volunteers and the various aspects of component production, blood testing (including single donation NAT for infectious markers) and QA, compatibility testing, recipient and donor safety, blood management as well as haemovigilance. 

 

With the new position as professor of Clinical Immunology with special focus on transfusion medicine, the Department of Clinical Immunology wishes to strengthen leadership in transfusion medicine. 

 

This professorship must consolidate personalized transfusion medicine to address patients in treatment with drugs that inhibit the coagulation ability and / or platelet function as the modified patient demography with more elderly patients causes many more in the prophylactic treatment to avoid blood clots in heart, brain, lungs and extremities. In addition, new oral anticoagulant medications (NOAC) have recently been introduced, which are highly potent, and currently no suitable point-of-care analyzes are available to assess their effect. Today it is recommended that you pause for 3, 5 or 7 days depending on the type of surgery to take place and do not take into account that the individual patient's response to a standard dosage of these drugs varies significantly. Thus, some patients will be at significant risk of severe bleeding when undergoing surgery while others are at high risk of developing a new blood clot in the waiting time for surgery. One of the main purposes of this professorship is to develop and validate point of care haemostatic analyzes that can identify patients at increased risk of both bleeding and thrombosis in conjunction with surgical interventions secondary to antithrombotic medication and implementing a personalized treatment of these patients. Up to 30% of patients may suffer from anemia before elective or subacute surgery. These patients have increased transfusion needs, increased morbidity and increased hospitalization time. It is a primary purpose of this professorship to develop algorithms for and to implement anemia screening and individualized iron treatment of anemic patients prior to surgery at all hospitals in the Capital Region. 

 

Applicants should have a medical specialist approval in Clinical Immunology. 

 

In order to be considered, the applicant must send an application to both the Faculty (the professorship) and to the hospital (the position as consultant) cf. the simultaneously advertised position of the professorship. Appointment is conditioned by the fact that the applicant obtains both positions. This also applies to the applicants who are already employed at Rigshospitalet. 

 

Salary and conditions of employment will be agreed between the Danish Regions and the relevant associations and between the Capital Region and University of Copenhagen. 

 

As clinical professor at least 50 % of the working time will be allocated to academic tasks (e.g. research, teaching, evaluation tasks and communication with the public) in agreement with the head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Copenhagen. The remaining time will be allocated for diagnostic laboratory work in agreement with the head of the Department of Clinical Immunology. The clinical professor will receive secretarial or technical support equivalent to 50 % of a full time secretary position from the department of Clinical Immunology. Additional support and details on the working conditions must be negotiated with the head of the department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet.  

 

The application must include the following: 

 

For further information please contact the head of department Morten Bagge Hansen at tel. + 45 3545 2032 or by email: morten.bagge.hansen@regionh.dk 

 

The advertisement for the professorship is available from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen: https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=148825  

 

The Centre of Diagnostic Investigation comprises a collection of highly specialized departments: Clinical biochemistry, clinical immunology, clinical microbiology, clinical genetics, pathology, center of genomic medicine, diagnostic radiology, clinical physiology/nuclearmedicine and PET, clinical genetics.  

The center has a staff of 1.600 and an annual turnover of 1 billion kroner. The center produces annually 10 mill. laboratory analyses and performs 650.000 image diagnostics based on 1 mill. contacts with patients and donors. 

The core task is high-level research, strong educational environments, customized diagnostics and patient treatment. 33 professors and other researchers provides annually more than 500 scientific articles in international reputable journals.