Medical Director, Transplant

Summary

Join Natera as the Medical Director, Renal Genetics, a remote leadership role driving the integration of renal genetics into kidney disease care. You will educate nephrologists on renal genetics and Natera's products, develop key opinion leader relationships, create educational materials, and speak at symposia. Responsibilities include driving the scientific roadmap for renal genetics, publishing manuscripts, facilitating clinical trials, and advising on product development. This role requires an MD or equivalent, at least 4 years of practice experience, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Natera offers competitive benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans, as well as free testing for employees and their families.

Requirements

• MD or foreign equivalent required
• Minimum of 4 years practice experience required
• Employee must complete training relating to HIPAA/PHI privacy, General Policies and Procedure Compliance training and security training as soon as possible but not later than the first 30 days of hire
• Must maintain a current status on Natera training requirements
• Employee must pass post-offer criminal background check

Responsibilities

• Educate general nephrologists and transplant nephrologists regarding renal genetics, renasight and the Natera’s transplant and kidney health products
• Develop and nurture guideline and other top tier key opinion leader relationships
• Foster relationship with KOLS at meetings and in office settings regarding the utility of renasight/ renal genetics
• Develop materials/ slides for (inter)national symposia, webinars etc. regarding renal genetics
• Speak at (inter)national symposia regarding renal genetics
• Organize/ drive content for renal genetics scientific advisory board
• Drive the scientific road map for renal genetics at Natera for product adoption and inclusion into guidelines
• Drive publication of key manuscripts/ abstracts
• Draft manuscript/ abstracts with the cross functional team (Sci Comm, Translational research, Clin ops)
• Facilitate quality Investigator initiated trials
• Recruit industry-leading PIs and clinical sites to participate in clinical studies, meeting budget and timeline requirements in collaboration with Clinical Trial Operations dept and Senior Director of Kidney Health
• Provide clinical expertise in clinical study design and other areas of innovation for R&D
• Partner with commercial / marketing to drive the commercialization strategy for renal genetics in the nephrology and transplant community
• Work with cross functional team to determineClinical operations for renasight: clinical interpretation of test results, customer support for physicians, advise on pre-and post-test counseling for patients
• Drive medical education efforts to support growth of our kidney health product portfolio by teaching the community how to use the tests
• Advise on product development for our testing portfolio: identify clinical unmet needs, new product opportunities, critical product features, product intended use, design and content of test reports, minimum validation studies
• Partner with BD regarding pharma partnerships

Preferred Qualifications

• Transplant physician, surgeon, or director experience preferred
• Fellowship trained in Nephrology or Transplant surgery, board certification preferred

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
• Pregnancy and baby bonding leave
• 401k benefits
• Commuter benefits
• Generous employee referral program