Research Technical Specialist

Position Summary: The laboratory technologist will be part of a group participating in a number of studies, both observational and randomized trials, industry and peer-reviewed, involving both asthma and COPD subject populations. The technologist will be responsible, with another part time technologist (MLT) to provide a clinical service of quantitative cell counts in sputum, and to participate in research projects in the Hargreave Nair laboratory, and will report to Professor Parameswaran Nair, the medical director of the laboratory.

Domains of practice

1. Practice and perform processing of sputum for inflammatory indices for clinical respirology clinics and report on counts and morphology
2. Practice and perform processing of sputum for inflammatory indices for research studies
3. Cytochemical staining of sputum cytospins for special stains such as for hemosiderin, lipids etc
4. Operate coulter cell count...