Physician Assistant - Hematology

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix.

our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission:
To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

We are seeking a Physician Assistant for Hematology at City of Hope in Duarte. The Physician Assistant functions as part of a care team who, working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary health team, is responsible for providing comprehensive patient care. The Physician Assistant provides independent and collaborative medical management to a defined patient population, according to standardized procedures and in collaboration with a physician supervisor.

• Provide primary, secondary, and in some cases, tertiary care within scope of practice, licensure, and organizational policies.
• Services provided include, but are not limited to taking histories, conducting physical examinations, ordering, performing, and interpreting appropriate diagnostic and laboratory tests and therapies and furnishing drugs and devices in a cost-efficient manner for specific conditions.
• Perform history and physical assessments of patients that are accurate, concise, relevant, and appropriate.
• Document the consultation and new patient note.
• Order and appropriate analyzes diagnostic tests including but not limited to laboratory and imaging evaluations.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate the plan of care with modifications as needed and in coordination with the attending physician when appropriate.
• Perform routine procedures pertinent to the practice and as granted through the privilege process.
• During simple follow-up cases, the you may independently manage patients in follow-up including ordering follow-up imaging, providing medical care, and support to the patient including ordering pharmacological agents.
• Interpret imaging and communicates with attending physician regarding interval patient change.
• Prescribe and council patients on narcotic use safety.
• Demonstrate pharmacologic knowledge including indications, contraindications, side effects, interactions, and adverse effects of pharmacologic agents.
• Review treatment and therapy plans with patients and appropriate family members.

• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program with a master’s degree as a Physician Assistant.
• New graduates are welcome to apply.
• Current California Physician Assistant License
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification, required.
• Current American Heart Association ACLS certification, required.
• Must have a current DEA.
• City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, please .