Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards, we put patients first. We invest a significant proportion of our revenue towards research and development to drive and develop groundbreaking medical innovations for structural heart disease and critical care.

Patients with mitral and tricuspid heart valve disease often have complex conditions with limited treatment options. Our Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies (TMTT) business unit is boldly pursuing an innovative portfolio of technologies to address a patient’s unmet clinical needs. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.

Assess new product and procedure development, patient selection criteria development, patient screening, and early clinical imaging training/case support for both novel and iterative devices.

Preferred candidate locations: Italy OR Portugal OR United Kingdom (home office based job, very limited travel - travel to US for onboarding and afterward for meeting with team 4-6 planned business trips per year).

How you will make an impact:

• Analyze imaging and/or oversee third party image analysis for patient screening and contribute an opinion to the assessment of potential cases.

• Analyze, summarize, and present clinical baseline, procedural, and follow-up imaging (e.g., CT, echo, MRI, angiography) to provide inputs that support new product and procedure development and to support event investigations

• Collaborate and provide recommendations to commercial, NPD team and HCPs to develop imaging patient selection criteria and screening protocol

• Provide input to training content relevant to image analysis for HCPs

• Train field support team and/or HCPs on patient screening procedures

• Manage the full screening process by updating the information in the patient shared databases (Salesforce and Sharepoint), assign the tasks to the appropriate internal and external contributor, monitor the advancement and request updates

• Lead one or two imaging modalities for one or two therapies screening review calls with Field Clinical Specialist and circulate appropriate screening evaluation documentation.

• Lead training delivery to HCP and Field Clinical Specialist about Patient Screening on one imaging modality

• Develop and improve training curriculum and training materials, based on clinical experience, EW guidelines and SOP

• Other incidental duties

What you'll need (Required):

• Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences, Cardiac sciences, Cardiac Physiology, Cardiovascular perfusion or other related scientific or technical field.

• Minimum 3 years experience in cardiac imaging within a clinical, hospital and/or industry environment (CT, cardiac sonographer, echocardiographer)

• Other: Professional accreditation in echocardiography with EACVI (European society of Cardiology), BSE (British Society of Echocardiography) or equivalent is strongly preferred

What else we look for:

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills in English

• Must be able to work in a team environment, fostering collaboration between inter-departmental teams, HCPs and KOLs

• Full knowledge and understanding of principles, theories, and concepts relevant to cardiovascular imaging

• Strict attention to detail

• Substantial knowledge of one or more relevant imaging equipment operation (e.g. 2D or 3D TTE/TEE/ICE, CT, MRI, etc.) and screening methodology of one or more therapy

• Substantial knowledge and understanding of principles, theories, and concepts relevant to cardiovascular imaging

• Ability to work in a team environment, including inter-departmental teams and key contact representing the organization on contracts or projects

• Ability to interact with senior internal and external personnel on significant matters often requiring coordination between organizations

#LI-REMOTE

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world's leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 15,000 individuals worldwide.

For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it's our life's work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.