Medical Science Liaison – Infectious Disease, Clinical Microbiology, Pharma D Degree
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Medical Science Liaison translating Waters’ automated ID/AST diagnostics into clinical, antimicrobial-stewardship, and resistance-management insights. Supporting US healthcare stakeholders through scientific exchange, education, KOL engagement, and field medical strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Lead scientific and clinical support for Waters Advanced Diagnostics’ automated identification, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and resistance-related solutions.
- Execute strategic scientific, educational, and external engagement activities aligned with Medical Affairs objectives and business priorities.
- Conduct scientific exchange with clinical microbiologists, laboratory directors, infectious disease clinicians, pharmacists, antimicrobial stewardship leaders, infection prevention stakeholders, and hospital decision-makers.
- Support KOL identification, engagement, and relationship development through advisory boards, scientific meetings, educational initiatives, investigator interactions, and compliant Medical Affairs activities.
- Develop and deliver scientific education for external stakeholders and internal cross-functional teams.
- Translate IDAST performance characteristics and workflow advantages into clinical and operational relevance for antimicrobial optimization, resistance reporting, stewardship strategy, and hospital decision-making.
- Monitor and communicate scientific literature, competitive developments, resistance trends, susceptibility-testing practices, and changes in the infectious disease and stewardship landscape.
- Collaborate with Medical Affairs, Clinical Affairs, Commercial, Market Access, and other internal partners on field medical strategy, scientific communication, and evidence generation.
- Capture field insights on unmet needs, evidence gaps, implementation barriers, customer perceptions, and resistance/stewardship priorities.
Requirements:
- PharmD degree.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in infectious diseases, antimicrobial stewardship, clinical microbiology, microbiology diagnostics, susceptibility/resistance testing, hospital laboratory, or related healthcare/scientific environments.
- Ability to communicate complex scientific and clinical information effectively to diverse stakeholders.
- Experience educating healthcare professionals and interacting with multidisciplinary clinical and laboratory teams.
- Strong knowledge of infectious diseases, antimicrobial use, resistance mechanisms, susceptibility testing, stewardship principles, and/or clinical microbiology laboratory workflows.
- Ability to travel approximately 50%–60%.
- Must reside within a 30–60-minute or 50-mile commute of a medium-to-large hub airport.
- Must be a US citizen, green-card holder, green-card EAD holder, OPT holder, EAD holder, or CPT holder.
- Prior MSL, clinical scientist, infectious disease pharmacist, stewardship pharmacist, microbiology specialist, or other field-based medical/scientific experience preferred.
- Familiarity with automated organism identification, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, resistance detection, laboratory informatics, Phoenix panels, MALDI-based identification, and Synapsys informatics connectivity preferred.








