Cardiothoracic Surgery - Assistant Professor

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is seeking a highly skilled and collaborative Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon to join our nationally recognized Heart Institute. The successful candidate will provide comprehensive surgical care for pediatric patients with congenital and acquired cardiac and thoracic conditions.

This position offers the opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary, high-acuity pediatric cardiovascular program committed to clinical excellence, innovation, research, and education.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is nationally recognized as a leader in pediatric healthcare, with a reputation for excellence in patient care, research, and medical education. U.S. News & World Report ranked Cincinnati Children’s as one of the nation’s top ten pediatric hospitals in the  edition of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals.

Among pediatric institutions, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is the third-highest ranking recipient of research grants from the National Institutes of Health. We support discovery with 1.4 million square feet of lab space and core services such as high-throughput DNA analysis, biomedical informatics, a pluripotent stem cell facility, and more. Our scientists and physicians work collaboratively to conduct innovative laboratory and clinical research to improve care for children, investigate treatment outcomes, study health care systems, and train the next generation of investigators.

We offer an attractive compensation and benefits package, as well as assistance in moving to one of America’s most livable cities. Cincinnati is a friendly, affordable city with excellent quality of life, many musical and theatrical programs, professional sports, and nearby recreational opportunities.

• Patient Care - Provide safe, effective and compassionate patient care commensurate with the level of advancement and clinical specialty. Provides contributions to clinical service as evidenced by expertise in clinical care. Develop a local and regional recognition by peers and patients as an authority in the field. Develop a local or regional referral base for subspecialist. Develop clinical skills or programs that are locally or regionally distinctive.
  
  Document patient care on appropriate records. May implement innovative approaches to patient care. Provide disease specific expert consultation relative area of specialty. Examine patients and coordinate services for their care. Perform procedures, collect data, analyze data and make decisions regarding patient care, including initial screening, assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, care, reassessment and discontinuation of care. Formulate, maintain, support, monitor and modify a patient-specific plan for care, treatment and rehabilitation based on the patient's assessment.
  
  Plan and coordinate care, treatment and rehabilitation for discharged patients. Monitor appropriateness of therapeutic management and care to assure that it occurs in a timely fashion. Promote patient care outcomes on ongoing basis.
• Teaching and Training - Teaches and supervises the patient care of assigned medical students, residents and fellows, monitoring the medical care of medical to assure care provided is safe and effective. Contributions may include: recognition as an excellent teacher, role model and mentor; assume a role in a major teaching or clinical training program; invited to participate in local and regional educational opportunities;
  
  participate in the development or direction of educational program, curricular offerings and teaching materials; participates in curriculum committee or other education related committees. May serve as consult to other faculty and community physicians. May prepare, organize and provide lectures for residents. Prepare and regularly teach at bedside in the Division. Participate in all divisional/departmental educational activities. Maintain currency in field through continuing education, literature and seminars.
• Service and/or Administration - Participates in service and/or administration as evidenced by one of the following: contribute to the development of programs for patient…