Laboratory Technical Assistant - Digital Pathology

City of Hope; Duarte (CA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Hope, located in Duarte, CA, seeks a Digital Pathology Assistant to support digitization of surgical slides and image management within the Anatomic Pathology team. The role focuses on archiving, scanning, and data validation to assist pathologists.

Reporting to the Supervisor of Digital Pathology, you will coordinate scanning workflows, ensure LIS data integrity, and uphold CAP/CALOSHA/CMS/TJC standards while contributing to quality improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Up to one-year experience in a hospital laboratory setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Retrieve, archive, scan, and create high-quality digital pathology images from glass slides for pathologist review.
• Verify slide identifiers, labeling, barcoding, and patient information accuracy, ensuring consistency with the Laboratory Information System (LIS).
• Coordinate and manage slide scanning workflows from multiple sources, assessing slide quality and meeting internal and external turnaround deadlines.
• Upload scanned images to digital pathology databases and troubleshoot scanner or software issues in collaboration with IT, vendors, and laboratory staff.
• Process, package, ship, and track specimens accurately, ensuring compliance with laboratory, referral laboratory, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain quality, safety, and regulatory compliance standards (CAP, CALOSHA, CMS, TJC), while supporting inventory control, documentation, and continuous quality improvement activities.

Skills

Digital pathology

LIS software

Slide scanning

Barcode labeling

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Slide Scanner

Laboratory Information System (LIS)

Barcode system

Job description

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.

Working under the general direction of the Division of Anatomic Pathology Department. This position reports to the Supervisor of Digital Pathology (DP) and will possess the theoretical and practical knowledge to support the operations of Digital Pathology services. The LTA will be responsible for the digitization of the surgical pathology diagnostic microscope slides from patient cases. This includes archival, retrieval, scanning, and creating digital images for pathology review. The aim of the DP laboratory is to develop and apply digital methods for tissue imaging and analysis. Also provides support and assistance with a variety of related laboratory tasks within the specimen processing area. Works as part of the Anatomic Pathology team in fulfilling departmental objectives.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Retrieve, archive, scan, and create high-quality digital pathology images from glass slides for pathologist review.
• Verify slide identifiers, labeling, barcoding, and patient information accuracy, ensuring consistency with the Laboratory Information System (LIS).
• Coordinate and manage slide scanning workflows from multiple sources, assessing slide quality and meeting internal and external turnaround deadlines.
• Upload scanned images to digital pathology databases and troubleshoot scanner or software issues in collaboration with IT, vendors, and laboratory staff.
• Process, package, ship, and track specimens accurately, ensuring compliance with laboratory, referral laboratory, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain quality, safety, and regulatory compliance standards (CAP, CALOSHA, CMS, TJC), while supporting inventory control, documentation, and continuous quality improvement activities.

Your qualifications should include:

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
• Up to one-year experience in a hospital laboratory settingpreferred

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.