Associate Medical Officer - ION

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare’s hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere—we strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

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Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let’s advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Primary Function of Position:
We are looking for an interventional pulmonologist, interested in impacting millions of patients’ lives as well as the future of Intuitive’s endoluminal technology. The position ideally combines your position as a practicing interventionalist with a part time role as Associate Medical Officer at Intuitive. In this role, you will share the responsibility of the Endoluminal Medical Office for a wide variety of medical affairs. The key role will impact our global expansion strategy and influence the lung cancer patient care pathway. You will support our medical research to broaden adoption, provide clinical input to product and procedure development teams, advise on reimbursement, market access and clinical evidence and publication strategies. The position interfaces with various departments within Intuitive primarily including Clinical and Product Development Engineering, New Market Development, Clinical Marketing, Global Access Value and Economics, Health Economics and Outcome Research, and Clinical Affairs.
Roles & Responsibilities:

This position has responsibility and authority to:

• Support our Global Expansion Strategy
  • Collaborate with new market access teams on market assessment and
    technology implementation strategies tailored to each individual geography
  • Collaborate with local key opinion leaders on clinical strategy in support of implementation and advancement of novel IP technologies.
• Support holistic, value-based care pathway of lung cancer patients with the objective to increase patient survival and Quality of Life
  • Influence and optimize preventative strategies, early detection, and early treatment.
• Provide clinical input and expertise to product and procedure development teams
  • Work closely with clinical engineering, user experience and product marketing groups, develop clinical test protocols and perform clinical evaluation of new products and risks.
• Support clinical strategy to expand the use of the Ion Endoluminal System by working with the cross-functional leadership teams and guide early medical research.
  • Work with key physician opinion leaders to evaluate and develop new procedures.
  • Provide guidance in establishing clinical pathways for teachable, repeatable, and sustainable procedures.
  • Co-Chair investigator meetings.
• Contribute to our clinical evidence strategy
  • Employ knowledge of literature to broaden the benefit of our clinical studies.
  • Apply quantitative skills to challenge and validate procedures for clinical value; study design, critical analysis, and editing.
  • Assist in identifying investigators, protocol development, and study design for scientific and regulatory publications and studies.
• Support the ongoing development of physician training programs designed to deliver high quality training, effectively reducing the post-training learning curve
  • Provide critical review of physician training, proctoring and credentialing programs.
  • Collaborate with the training organization in the revision of programs as necessary.
  • Develop training programs in collaboration with surgical societies
• Keep the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action

Skills, Experience, Education, & Training:
In order to adequately perform the responsibilities of this position the individual must have:

• MD with a minimum 10 years’ experience with a focus on interventional pulmonology, preferable in academic medicine
• Current or probable future user of the Ion Endoluminal System
• 50% part time Intuitive employee with benefits
• Established reputation within the international IP community to help facilitate interactions between Intuitive and external key opinion leaders
• Expertise in peer reviewed clinical publications
• Proven ability to lead, influence and work well in a cross functional team environment with ability to be a hands-on as needed
• Background in Engineering preferred
• Business background or experience preferred
• Outstanding interpersonal skills
• Strong project management, planning, decision making, negotiating and change management skills
• Seeks, recognizes, and executes creative and simple solutions to resolve complex department challenges; routinely steadies the team when stressed; leads by example
• Excellent communication (written, verbal), presentation and documentation skills
• Self-managed, needing minimal supervision to complete assignments
• Self-confident and able to react quickly under pressure
• Flexibility to travel up to 20% of time, including international and domestic
• Strong Administrative Acumen: budgets, project/program cost tracking and other technical management administrative experience

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Shift : Shift 1 - Day

Travel : Yes, 25 % of the Time