Pediatric Rheumatologist
Company: Ochsner Health
Location: New Orleans
Posted on: October 19, 2024
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Job Description:
Ochsner Hospital for Children in New Orleans is seeking a
full-time Board Certified/Board Eligible Pediatric Rheumatologist
to join their interdisciplinary team. The candidate for this
position must have completed a Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship
from an ACGME accredited program.Clinical Care--- Provide primarily
outpatient consultative care to infants, children, and adolescents
with known or suspected rheumatologic conditions.--- Opportunities
to partner with medical and surgical colleagues to serve children
with complex conditions in multidisciplinary programs.Teaching and
Research--- Teach medical students, residents, and allied health
students.--- Clinical and translational research opportunities
abound for qualified candidates.--- Academic appointment
commensurate with experience.Our comprehensive Pediatrics Program
including primary care pediatricians and pediatric medical and
surgical subspecialists (Ochsner Children's ) represents over 230
physicians. The group is the region's leading integrated provider
of multispecialty care for newborns, infants, children,
adolescents, and young adults. We offer a full range of pediatric
complex specialty services including congenital heart surgery and
cardiac transplantation, liver and bone marrow transplantation, a
comprehensive surgical sub-specialty group, and the region's only
comprehensive multidisciplinary developmental center. We recently
announced the building of a new separate, comprehensive, dedicated
Children's Hospital on our main campus, with expected opening in
2027. We currently care for patients in an expanding 67-bed Level
IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 14-bed PICU, a 12-bed pediatric
CV-ICU, and a 44-bed pediatric acute unit, with a dedicated
pediatric emergency room, and full-time, region-wide in-house
pediatric and neonatal transport teams. In addition to patient
care, Ochsner Children's Hospital has an ACGME-accredited pediatric
residency program and is responsible for teaching pediatric
residents from the Tulane-Ochsner Pediatric Residency program as
well as medical students from both Tulane and the University of
Queensland. Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana
recently announced an agreement to establish a joint College of
Medicine.About Ochsner Children'sRanked Children's Hospital in
Louisiana for the third year in a row and as a top children's
hospital nationally for the seventh year in a row by U.S. News &
World Report in 2023-24. Ochsner Children's Hospital was also
recognized as a national leader in the most recent rankings in two
specialties: Pediatric Cardiology and Heart Surgery, and Pediatric
Orthopedics. Ochsner Children's Hospital continues to be a top
destination for pediatric care in the Gulf South region through an
unwavering commitment to always putting patients first.Ochsner
Children's offers a full range of pediatric care from primary to
quaternary care, with services offered in all subspecialties,
including Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Advanced GI and Hepatology,
Advanced Orthopedic Surgery, Hematology-Oncology, Cleft
Palate/Cranio-Facial Surgery, as well as heart, liver, and bone
marrow transplant. Ochsner Children's is a multi-disciplinary team
dedicated to complex conditions. Ochsner Children's Hospital is the
top congenital heart program in the state (both in volume and
outcomes) and has the largest and most comprehensive pediatric
liver transplant program in the Gulf South.Ochsner also maintains
28 primary care locations across southern Louisiana and 30
subspecialty locations (Including the Shaquille O'Neal Pediatric
Super Clinic in Baton Rouge); and the Boh Center for Child
Development, a dedicated multidisciplinary developmental pediatrics
center.If you would like more information about our program or
would like to discuss this position with Dr. William "Billy"
Lennarz, System Chair of Pediatrics , and Dr. Ryan Himes, System
Associate Chair of Pediatrics , please contact Courtney Lawhun,
Physician Recruiter, at .
Keywords: Ochsner Health, Biloxi , Pediatric Rheumatologist, Healthcare , New Orleans, Mississippi
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