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Medical Doctor Specialist in Occupational Medicine (H/F) Ref°406

The « Laboratoire national de santé » (LNS) is recruiting a Medical Doctor Specialist in Occupational Medicine within the Department Health Protection in a full-time position (40 h/week) with a permanent contract starting at the earliest convenience.

ABOUT THE LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE SANTE

The LNS is a major player in Luxembourg’s healthcare sector, serving the country’s patients, doctors and hospitals. Under the supervision of the Ministry of Health and Social Security, the LNS is a multidisciplinary public institution organized around six diagnostic departments, two of which are designated as national diagnostic centers for human genetics and pathology respectively.

The LNS employs around 400 highly qualified staff with diverse backgrounds. The main purpose of the LNS is to develop analytical activities and scientific expertise relating to the prevention, diagnosis and monitoring of human diseases; to act as a national control or reference laboratory; and to carry out forensic missions. The LNS also collaborates with the University of Luxembourg and other biomedical research institutions, both nationally and internationally, on research and teaching activities.

In particular, in the field of diagnostics, the LNS covers the following fields of application: medical biology, microbiology, forensic medicine, environmental medicine, morphological and molecular pathology, and clinical genetics, as well as sequencing for rare diseases, oncology and pathogens.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROTECTION

The Department Health Protection supports public health and health care for problems caused or aggravated by the environment, including indoor pollution, the working context, consumer products, food and food contact materials. We fulfill this mission through servicing, expert advice and applied research. Our main stakeholders are the ministries, the hospitals and the services for occupational medicine in Luxembourg.

The Department consists of three services:

• A Service for Food Monitoring that is carrying out laboratory analyses (chemical and microbiological) in human food and food contact materials;
• A Service for Environmental Hygiene and Human Biological Monitoring that is carrying out laboratory analyses (chemical and microbiological) in environmental and occupational health;
• A new Service for Medical Expertise and Data Intelligence that hosts the medical, epidemiological and toxicological expertise in environmental and occupational health/medicine. In this Service, the following activities have been set-up over the last 2 years :
  • A team of 5 nurses goes on the field to sample air, dust and surfaces in the houses or at the workplace of patients in case medical doctors suspect that the pathology of their patients may be caused by or aggravated by the environmental or working context;
  • The same team of 5 nurses together with the head of the Department Health Protection carry out the consultations at the National Service for Environmental Medicine Luxembourg, which is situated in the Hospital Center Emile Mayrisch (CHEM). Luxembourg has launched the new discipline of Environmental Medicine in November 2022;
  • One scientist is in charge of the European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC), a 7-year science-policy Research & Innovation program co-funded by the European Union;
  • One epidemiologist is in charge of setting-up the surveys in the general and in the working population in environmental and occupational health/medicine, including human biological monitoring and/or exposure assessment.