Department: Clinical Development

Job Title: Clinical Specialist

Location: Andover, MA

TransMedics, Inc., is currently looking for highly enthusiastic and talented Perfusionists, Nurses and Physician Assistants to join our team and help revolutionize transplantation medicine. The successful candidates will receive focused training on our state-of-the-art Organ Care System (OCS) and then travel to clinical trial sites and commercial locations to assist and train transplant teams in OCS utilization. This is an excellent opportunity to gain significant transplantation experience with multiple organs as the OCS expands from heart transplantation to other organs such as lungs, livers, and kidneys. The successful candidates will join a growing team of talented individuals from a variety of medical, scientific, and technical backgrounds within a fast-paced and dynamic pre-IPO medical device company. This is a hands-on role that will expose you to a wide variety of techniques across TransMedics’ proprietary products and platforms. You will also have the opportunity to selectively publish the results of your research.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in pre-clinical research and development activities for the OCS, summarize and interpret data, and present results at team and cross-functional meetings
• Perform initiation and provide continued operational support at one or more clinical trial sites
• Participate in training and supervising other researchers, clinical staff, and others as needed including the design, development and execution of both didactic and clinical training programs
• Participate in data management for the pre-clinical development activities for the OCS
• Participate in medical and scientific conferences and scientific meetings
• Work with a cross-functional team of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers to further develop the OCS

Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in nursing, biology, life sciences or related field required
• 2 years experience as a perfusionist, cardiovascular surgery nurse desired or Physician Assistant
• Experience in cardiothoracic intensive care and/or managing patients on ventilator support and telemetry a plus
• Perfusionist certification a plus
• Foreign language skills, particularly German, Italian, French, and Spanish, a plus
• Working knowledge of extracorporeal circulation/cardiopulmonary support, biocompatible materials, circulatory support/ventricular assistance, blood conservation techniques/autotransfusion, myocardial preservation, anticoagulation and hematologic monitoring/analysis, physiological monitoring/analysis, blood gas and blood chemistry monitoring/analysis, and/or hemodilution principles required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
• Knowledge of statistics and the ability to interpret experimental data to summarize the key findings required
• Ability to travel up to 75% of the time

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