Specialist, Clinical Field (Los Angeles, CA)
Job Title: Specialist, Clinical Field
Supervisor/Manager Title: Director, Field Clinical and Training
Job Description Summary: Forms a vital bridge between JenaValve’s clinical and scientific research programs and physicians in the field, through supporting clinical cases, performing field research, developing training materials, conducting on-site training, leading workshops, and presentations, and participating in collaborative research projects with key hospitals and professional societies.
Job Responsibilities:
- Represents JenaValve to medical professionals in product advocacy and education, clinical case support, in-service training, and other related services.
- Delivers technical/clinical training with physicians on-site in hospitals to encourage best practice use of JenaValve devices in the treatment of aortic valve disease.
- Supports JenaValve products currently in development in clinical and marketing contexts.
- Provides workshops and presentations to disseminate TAVR research fundamentals and describing the design and function of JenaValve devices.
- Provides physicians and medical staff with continuous education and technical support related to all aspects of patient outcome, while anticipating and foreseeing obstacles and planning accordingly for smooth execution.
- Advocates with clinicians to uncover other opportunities to expand the use of JenaValve products.
- Interfaces with R&D Engineers to incorporate research developments into training materials.
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of aortic valve disease and treatment.
- Identifies potential product enhancements and new product ideas by applying an analytical approach to understanding the clinical needs of interventional cardiologists.
- Gathers feedback and clinical information from the field and provides input to R&D product development group.
- Develops and maintains professional, high-quality, physician relationships.
- Plans, prepares, and executes/supports TAVR-related research activities with key collaborative centers in aortic valve disease treatment.
- Co-authors publications and generates data to support publications.
- Participates in and builds a product specialist team, to support cases in North America and other regions.
- Reviews and uses 3D reconstruction programs such as 3mensio or Osiris to transform imaging for screening of potential JenaValve TAVI patients.
- Travel 60-70%.