The VA Boston Healthcare System (VABHS) is currently seeking a board-certified full-time Diagnostic Radiologist for its Jamaica Plain location. Required skills include, but are not limited to, interpretation of general nuclear medicine studies, nuclear medicine cardiac studies, and PET/CT studies, in addition to limited non-imaging uses of unsealed sources such as thyroid probe uptake measurements. The applicant should be skilled in the administration of therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals, including, but not limited to, I-131 sodium iodide, Ra-223 dichloride, and Y-90 microspheres. As an authorized user, the applicant must be able to take responsibility for and oversee all aspects of the division’s compliance with NRC regulations with the assistance of the radiation safety officer and the chief nuclear medicine technologist.
For Diagnostic Radiology, it is required that the candidates have experience/skill pertaining to body imaging. A full complement of diagnostic radiology is offered, including CT, MR, and US.
VABHS is a 467-bed facility located on three campuses in the Boston metropolitan area. Nuclear medicine is a division of the Department of Radiology. Nuclear medicine equipment includes 3 SPECT-CT cameras and a PET-CT scanner. The division of nuclear medicine provides tele-radiology PET-CT, and intermittent cardiac nuclear studies interpretation services for several other VA New England Healthcare System facilities. The division also accepts referrals for therapeutic radiopharmaceutical treatments from these facilities as well.
Candidates must possess a full, active, and unrestricted license in any state. U.S. Citizenship is required.
The United States government does not discriminate in employment and follows federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. VA Boston Healthcare System is an equal opportunity employer.
Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest and a curriculum vitae to:
VA Boston Healthcare System (VABHS) is the major tertiary referral center for veterans from throughout New England and is strongly affiliated with HMS and BUSM. VABHS provides the full spectrum of inpatient, residential, and outpatient medical-surgical and mental health services across three major campuses (Brockton, West Roxbury, & Jamaica Plain) and five community-based outpatient clinics. VABHS is the nation’s largest recipient of VA research funds and ranks among the top three VA facilities in total research funding. VABHS provides education to more than 3400 trainees annually, the largest number in VA. Major resources include leadership of the Million Veterans Program, the world’s largest genomic biorepository, National VA brain banks for traumatic brain injury and PTSD, the world’s largest biorepositories for both disorders, brain banks for Alzheimer disease and ALS, and access to 20 years of fully electronic records on 22 million veterans, presenting the opportunity to mine tera
