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Hassan Nayer, MD

Fairfax,VA

Summary

Passionate, motivated, experienced and fiscally responsible healthcare executive with 14 years of experience as Pathology Department Chairman and System Laboratory Medical Director at Inova Healthcare System. Demonstrated Knowledge of strategic planning and expansion with a proven record of providing effective leadership to improve patient outcome. Extensive experience in laboratory regulatory compliance, billing, physician recruitment, revenue cycle, operational streamlining and performance optimization.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

System Chairman of Pathology and System Lab Medical Director

Inova Health Care System
01.2013 - Current
  • Lead, set strategic goals and provide oversight for Pathology Departments in 5 Inova hospitals ( team of 38 pathologists, 50 histotechnologists, 35 office team members, 10 pathology assistants, 3 grossing techs, and 5 cytotechnologists)
  • Provide System Medical Director oversight for 12 laboratories including 5 hospital labs, central reference laboratory and 6 outpatient laboratories with annual test volume of over 7 million
  • Facilitated consolidation of 3 independent pathology groups with IFMC pathology Departments
  • Recruited, developed and retain more than 20 excellent subspecialty-trained pathologists and transformed general pathology sign out to subspecialty pathology sign out
  • Implemented Telepathology across system for remote subspecialty consultation
  • Provide continuous professional development opportunities and training to maintain and strengthen competencies
  • Verified effective, consistent communication between department heads, medical staff and governing boards through board meeting attendance and synchronization of interdepartmental functions

Chairman of Pathology and Lab Medical Director

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
07.2010 - Current
  • Lead Pathology Department and provide Laboratory Medical Director oversight; Inova Fairfax Medical campus ; 923-bed Level 1 trauma center and #1 best hospital in both Virginia and Washington DC metropolitan area. Responsible for overall operation and administration of laboratory, including employment of competent personnel, equipment, safety, laboratory policies, quality assurance, all testing (including proficiency testing) and test reports.

Inova Central Laboratory, CLIA Laboratory Medical Director

Inova
12.2010 - 05.2016
  • Medical Director oversight of large reference lab providing comprehensive range of routine and specialized laboratory tests for both in- and out-patient populations (totaling 3.5 million billable tests/ year including core lab, centralized microbiology, histology and cytology tests.
  • Established clinical pathology professional component billing practice with annual revenue of about 3 million dollars since 2013
  • Maintained compliance with local, national and federal requirements for staff education and certifications
  • Developed yearly objectives, goals and budgets in addition to devising suggestions to decrease spending

Medical Director of Flow Cytometry Lab

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
03.2007 - 07.2010

Established flow cytometry lab and was responsible for overall operation and administration of flow cytometry laboratory with annual test volume of 1200 hematologic malignancies

Attending pathologist

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
01.2005 - 07.2010
  • Signed out general pathology, hematopathology, kidney pathology and cardiac pathology cases; Performed frozen section and CT guided core biopsy adequacy evaluation.

Associate Medical Director of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Pars Hospital
01.1996 - 01.1999

Staff Pathologist

Baghiatollah Hospital
01.1994 - 01.1996

Education

Resident And Fellow - Clinical Pathology -Hematopathology

Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
01.2005

Resident - Anatomic Pathology

Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT
06.2002

Fellow - Nephropathology

Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT
06.2000

Resident - Anatomic and Clinical Pathology

Shahid Beheshti University
Tehran, Iran
09.1994

Medical School -

Shahid Beheshti University
Tehran, Iran
09.1990

Skills

  • Strategic Planning and Implementation
  • Laboratory Oversight
  • Laboratory Compliance
  • Billing and Revenue Cycle
  • Laboratory Quality and Safety
  • Physician Recruitment
  • Physician Practice Management
  • Physician Development and Leadership
  • Performance Optimization
  • Operational Streamlining

Certification

  • Diplomat, American Board of Pathology (Anatomic and Clinical pathology)
  • Diplomat, American Board of Pathology (Hematopathology)
  • Virginia

Affiliations

  • College of American Pathologists, Fellow and Inspector
  • American Society of Clinical Pathology, Fellow
  • United State and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Fellow
  • American College of Physician Executives, Member

Committees

  • Member of Medical Executive Committee
  • Member of Patient Safety Committee
  • Member of Medical Quality Insurance Committee
  • Member of Inova Medical Group Executive Committee

Prior Work Experience

  • 1996-1999, Associate Medical Director of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pars Hospital, Tehran, Iran
  • 1994-1996, Staff Pathologist, Baghiatollah Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Personal Information

Title: MD, FCAP

Publications

Nayer Hassan; Murphy Kathleen M; Hawkins Anita L; Long Patricia P; Gillison Maura; Borowitz Michael; Griffin Constance: A Clonal cytogenetic abnormalities and BCL2 rearrangement in interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma. Leukemia and Lymphoma 2006; 47(12): 2651-4. Kasamon Yvette L; Jones Richard; Diehl Loui F; Nayer Hassan; Borowitz Michael J et al, Outcome of autologous and allogeneic blood or marrow transplantation for mantle cell lymphoma. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation: journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2005; 11(1);39-46 Primary Pancreatic Lymphoma; A cytopathologic analysis of a rare malignancy. Nayer Hassan, Weir EG, Sheth S, Ali SZ. Cancer 2004 Oct 25; 102(5):315-21 Unusually high concentrations of cTnI and cTnT in a patient with catastrophic antiphopholipid antibody Laterza OF, Nayer H, Jo Bill M, Sokoll L. Clini Chim Acta 2003 Nov; 337 (1-2): 173-

Timeline

System Chairman of Pathology and System Lab Medical Director

Inova Health Care System
01.2013 - Current

Inova Central Laboratory, CLIA Laboratory Medical Director

Inova
12.2010 - 05.2016

Chairman of Pathology and Lab Medical Director

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
07.2010 - Current

Medical Director of Flow Cytometry Lab

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
03.2007 - 07.2010

Attending pathologist

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
01.2005 - 07.2010

Associate Medical Director of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Pars Hospital
01.1996 - 01.1999

Staff Pathologist

Baghiatollah Hospital
01.1994 - 01.1996

Resident And Fellow - Clinical Pathology -Hematopathology

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Resident - Anatomic Pathology

Yale-New Haven Hospital

Fellow - Nephropathology

Yale-New Haven Hospital

Resident - Anatomic and Clinical Pathology

Shahid Beheshti University

Medical School -

Shahid Beheshti University
Hassan Nayer, MD