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Physician - Medical Director of Pediatric Advanced Heart Therapies- Charlotte, N

Atrium Health, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28245


Overview

If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health, the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

The Congenital Heart Center at Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH)

seeks to recruit a Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist to join our growing faculty as the

Medical Director of Pediatric Advanced Heart Therapies Program.

The director candidate

will have completed an ACGME-accredited fellowship in pediatric cardiology and be BC/BE by the American Board of Pediatrics. A fourth year of additional training in pediatric heart failure and transplant, or a minimum of 5 years transplant experience is required. The candidate must meet the qualifications as the primary pediatric heart transplant physician as delineated by the OTPN and will oversee patient care, strategic vision, program development, administration, safety, and quality of the program. The director will work closely with the Chief of Pediatric Cardiology and the Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery Chief. Clinically, the director will rotate equally on Heart Transplant/Heart Failure Inpatient and Outpatient Services, as well as general cardiology inpatient and outpatient care with shared night/weekend call. Clinical expertise with mechanical circulatory support devices is required. The Pediatric Advanced Therapies Program currently has 2 MDs, 2 dedicated APPs, 3 VAD/Transplant RN coordinators, a dietitian, and a social worker.

The right candidate will have an opportunity to advance the strategic vision of the program, in addition to participating in clinical research and national committees. The Congenital Heart Center is an active participant in PHTS and ACTION.

Levine Children’s Hospital

(LCH) is a state-of-the-art facility in beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina, and the largest and most comprehensive children’s hospital between Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA. LCH has 11 floors and 234 inpatient beds, including a PICU and CVICU covered 24/7 by in-house intensivists, Progressive Care Unit, Inpatient Observation Unit, Pediatric Rehab Unit, and Pediatric Emergency Department. We are committed to being the region’s leading provider of pediatric health care services.

To learn more or to submit a CV for confidential consideration, please contact:

Amber Chau, Administrative Assistant for Levine Children’s Congenital Heart Center at

amber.chau@atriumhealth.org

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