Recovery Surgeon

Join Our Mission to Save and Enhance Lives

Are you looking for a meaningful career where your skills and experience can make a life-saving difference? Do you want to contribute to a mission that leaves an incredible legacy? If so, Indiana Donor Network invites you to explore joining our team.

Indiana Donor Network is a nationally recognized healthcare organization, serving as the crucial link between donors and patients awaiting life-saving organ transplants, healing tissue, and corneas that restore sight. As the state’s federally designated organ recovery organization and an accredited tissue bank, we are dedicated to making a profound impact on countless lives. We are currently seeking a Recovery Surgeon to complete our team.

The Recovery Surgeon is a licensed physician with expertise in organ donation, surgical organ recovery, normothermic regional perfusion cannulation and transplantation. This individual holds primary responsibility for the surgical dissection, removal, and preparation of abdominal (and/or thoracic) organs from deceased donors for transplantation and research. The Recovery Surgeon also conducts intraoperative assessments to determine the medical suitability of the donor. All surgical procedures must align with Indiana Donor Network (INDN) recovery standards.

Additionally, the Recovery Surgeon is expected to support INDN’s mission by promoting operational efficiency and delivering high-quality surgical recovery services to increase the availability of transplantable organs.

Responsibilities include:

• Provides day-to-dayguidanceregarding theorganizationalmissionandcorevaluesof
  
  Indiana Donor Network .
• Responsible for organ recovery procedures, both Donation after Brain Death (DBD) donors and Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) donors, ensuring they meet national standards and INDN policies and procedures for organ recovery and transplantation.
• Assists in managing the donor hospital recovery process by collaborating with hospital staff in a respectful and professional manner.
• Responsible for performing organ biopsies and facilitating the interpretation of organ biopsies by donor hospital or other pathologists to determine suitability when biopsy requested.
• Responsible for inspecting the abdominal cavity for abnormalities that necessitate pathological evaluation.
• Responsible for recovering liver, pancreas, and kidneys from deceased donors for transplantation.
• Responsible for recovering lungs for transplantation (added to ACIN once performed under proctorship while at Indiana Donor Network).
• Provides and documents an accurate and verifiable description of organ anatomy to include assessment of quality, anatomical abnormalities, and surgical damage.
• Recovers or assists in the recovery of heart valves and organs for research when requested.
• Assists Indiana Donor Network clinical organ staff in perfusion, preservation, cannulation and train appropriate staff for transplant organ recovery.
• Actively supports Indiana Donor Network's Code of Corporate Conduct, mission, vision, and core values of being professional, accurate, and dedicated.

This role will be responsible for 20 call shifts per month.

The incumbent must be a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy, currently licensed by the State of Indiana, have at least three years’ experience as a surgeon performing transplant operations. A valid state driver’s license is also required. Required knowledge, skills, and abilities include:

• Clinical
  
  Skills:
  
  Knowledge of relevant medical terminology and pathology, ability to translate complex medical information into easily understandable language for families and staff to understand.
• Interpersonal and Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills. Ability to critically think, problem solve and work productively both independently and as a team participant. Skilled in active listening and proven ability to manage sensitive and confidential information.
• Emotional Intelligence:
  Demonstrates the ability to understand, use and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively,…