Advanced Heart Failure Cardiology

Overview

Advanced Heart Failure Transplant Cardiologist

Baylor Scott & White Health is seeking a fellowship trained, board certified/board eligible Advanced Heart Failure Transplant Cardiologist for our Advanced Heart Failure Transplant team for the Greater Austin Region. Our heart failure services include remote monitoring, disease-specific approaches such as amyloidosis and sarcoidosis, as well as heart transplant/ventricular assist devices, temporary MCS and our involvement in interdisciplinary programs.

You will join a team of 9 advanced heart failure specialists that serve the advanced heart disease, replacement and recovery program at BSWH for Central Texas and Greater Austin. The regional team currently supports approximately 200 temporary mechanical circulatory support devices and 50 heart replacements annually with a focus on quality and longitudinal well-being for our patients and caregivers. The advanced heart failure team supports interdisciplinary programs as part of an integrated-based approach including robust structural, surgical, and multimodality imaging team members.

The position is dedicated to expanding our advanced heart failure services for BSWH in the Greater Austin Region, focused on inpatient and outpatient services in Lakeway and Round Rock hospitals.

The candidate will have additional predominant inpatient service responsibilities related to the LVAD/HTx program with an expected inpatient rounding, VAD/HTx clinic, including ECHO for VAD/HTx and invasive procedures (RHC, Implantable PA monitor and endomyocardial biopsies) available to be performed in Lakeway.

Duties include inpatient and outpatient heart failure and transplant consultation service. Additional responsibilities may include ACGME education of Cardiology Fellows and rotating service on the inpatient cardiac transplant service at BSWH Round Rock and BSWH Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas.

• Inpatient and outpatient heart failure and transplant consultation services.
• Predominant time in Lakeway with inpatient rounding and involvement in the LVAD/HTx program.
• Provide coverage for transplant, inpatient and outpatient services as assigned.
• Participate in VAD/HTx clinic, imaging and invasive procedures as applicable (RHC, right heart catheterization, implantable pulmonary artery monitors, endomyocardial biopsies).
• ACGME education of Cardiology Fellows and rotation on inpatient cardiac transplant service as available.

• Must be UNOS qualified for the care of patients with cardiac transplants.
• Board certified or board eligible in cardiology; fellowship trained in Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant.
• An interest in education and research is encouraged, but not essential.
• Provide coverage for transplant, inpatient and outpatient services.
• Predominant amount of time in Lakeway.
• Expected call 1:4 in Round Rock location (Recovery program).
• Expected call 6 weeks per year in Temple location (VAD/HTx program).
• Dedicated HF nurses and APP support; plans for expansion.
• Opportunity to perform Cath lab procedures (e.g., right heart catheterization, implantable pulmonary artery monitors) and read ECHO for VAD and Heart Transplant.

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Lakeway is a 106-bed medical and surgical hospital with a team of caregivers that provides comprehensive, personalized, quality healthcare. The medical center offers a wide network of medical and surgical expertise and resources and is well-positioned to meet the primary care and emergency needs of the community while establishing a center of excellence in complex brain, joint and spine conditions.

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