Advanced Heart Failure​/Transplant Cardiology Celebration Florida

Overview

The Advent Health Transplant Institute is seeking a dynamic, fellowship‑trained advanced heart failure transplant cardiologist to join the heart program in Celebration, Florida. The cardiologist would work in an exciting and thriving transplant program with the full Advent Health healthcare system support (50 hospitals in nine states including 30 in Florida). The physician would have the benefit of cross‑coverage for advanced heart failure/transplant call and work with a comprehensive team including surgeons, cardiologists, coordinators, dietitians, pharmacists, therapists, and social workers.

The Transplant Institute also offers a vibrant and growing Mechanical Circulatory Support Device program as well as a fully developed ECMO program. Our team performs 40‑45 hearts and 30‑50 mechanical circulatory support devices per year with multi‑organ transplant capability. We also have a robust cardiogenic shock program with over 250 temporary mechanical circulatory devices implanted per year and a state‑of‑the‑art 9900 shock unit.

The Advent Health Transplant Institute is located just outside downtown Orlando, close to the charming Winter Park community. In September 2020, Advent Health Orlando opened a state‑of‑the‑art 32‑bed critical care unit dedicated to the cardio‑thoracic transplant service. Advent Health has a hospital‑based organ procurement organization (Our Legacy, a top‑performing OPO in the United States).

• Fellowship training in Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant
• Board certification required in Cardiovascular Disease and in Advanced Heart Failure
• Ability to perform right and left heart catheterizations and biopsies
• Interest in inpatient and outpatient care
• Interventional training not required but accepted

Advent Health Transplant Institute and Advent Health Cardiovascular Institute rank among the top in the United States. We are the #1 program in Florida for heart transplant volume and are one of the busiest centers of its kind in the nation.

We are a leading provider of cardiovascular and thoracic services among Medicare patients with national rankings that include #1 in Cardiology Volume, #1 in Vascular Surgery volume, #1 in Women’s Cardiology Volume, #5 in Heart Transplant volume nationally, and #5 in Thoracic Surgery Volume.

Advent Health Orlando’s Ginsburg Tower is a 15‑story patient tower with 440 patient beds and our Cardiovascular Institute includes 12 multi‑functional procedure suites equipped to perform:

• Cardiac Surgeries (over 1,200 annually)
• Vascular Surgeries (over 2,200 annually)
• Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization Procedures (≈5,000 annually)
• Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Procedures (over 2,500 annually)

In addition, the tower also houses our Emergency Department, OR suites, and ICU beds. A new 32‑bed critical care unit recently opened dedicated to advanced heart and lung failure and transplant. At Advent Health Cardiovascular Institute, our medical team fields more than 70,000 cardiac‑related visits annually with more than 25,000 individuals being treated for chest pain across seven emergency rooms.

The Advent Health Transplant Institute is at Advent Health Orlando, just north of downtown Orlando. Liver, kidney, and pancreas transplants are already performed, and the heart and lung program started in 2012. The office site is steps away from the hospital in an adjacent medical office building.

Advent Health Orlando is an internationally renowned hospital that specializes in life‑saving medical treatments, preventative care, and pioneering research. Our healing network includes 30 hospitals and more than 100 extended service locations across the state of Florida. Everything we do is designed to fulfill our ultimate goal — to help people live a healthier, fuller life in mind, body, and spirit.

Advent Health is a network of ten hospitals around the greater Orlando area, which total approximately 3,000 beds. Advent Health operates many hospitals across nine different states; 30 of which are in Florida. Our mission has remained the same and is to Extend the Healing Ministry of Christ.

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