Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist

Loma Linda University Faculty Medical Group, Department of Anesthesiology, is seeking a fellowship-trained, board-eligible or board-certified cardiothoracic anesthesiologist to join our section of Cardiac Anesthesia, where faculty practice both cardiac and general anesthesia. We are looking for a team player who enjoys teaching residents and fellows, who is drawn to mission-oriented medicine, and who wants to practice in a collegial environment where the people beside you are the best part of the job.

Our cardiac anesthesiologists support a full-service adult cardiac surgery program, including coronary revascularization, valve repair and replacement, aortic surgery, and an advanced heart failure program with heart transplantation and LVAD implantation. The division covers an established structural heart program (TAVR, mitral and tricuspid interventions) and a busy electrophysiology and cardiac catheterization service. Loma Linda is home to a pediatric and congenital heart program, and cardiac faculty with interest and training may participate in congenital cases.

Most cardiac anesthesiologists also provide anesthesia for patients undergoing liver transplantation. Thoracic surgery and major vascular round out the practice. Perioperative TEE is central to the work, and faculty are supported in maintaining and advancing echocardiography skills and certification.

Unlike many academic cardiac divisions, ours does not confine faculty to the cardiac operating rooms and cath lab. Our cardiac anesthesiologists continue to practice general anesthesia alongside their cardiac work, with access to the same clinical assignments and sites available to the rest of the faculty, so you keep the full breadth of the specialty rather than trading it for a subspecialty.

That practice spans a Level I trauma center, two surgical specialty hospitals within Loma Linda University Health, and a busy ambulatory surgery center. The overall case mix includes major abdominal, orthopedic, vascular, neurosurgical, ENT, and urologic cases, trauma, obstetrics, and non-operating-room anesthesia. Supervision of residents is typically 1:2 with CRNA supervision at 1:2, up to 1:4.

Our cardiac anesthesiologists, cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, perfusionists, intensivists, and nurses are a close-knit team that plans cases together, reviews outcomes together, and enjoys one another’s company. It is the kind of group where people look forward to the day because of their colleagues. New faculty are mentored by experienced colleagues, and department leadership is accessible and values faculty input. We are looking for physicians who will do the same: relieve a colleague at the end of a long day, offer a second set of hands when a case does not proceed as anticipated, and take on the unassigned case without being asked.

Our residents are the reason many of us chose academic practice. Cardiac faculty supervise residents on their cardiac and general rotations, as well as our ACGME-accredited adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellow, teaching perioperative echocardiography, hemodynamic management, and the care of patients with advanced heart failure and mechanical support. The strength of that clinical training shows in our graduates, who are sought after by private practices and academic departments alike.

We are looking for faculty who find that work rewarding and who bring patience and high standards.

Loma Linda University Health is an academic health system with an anesthesiology residency; fellowship programs in cardiothoracic anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology, acute pain and regional anesthesiology, liver transplant, and critical care; and an active…