Assistant or Associate Professor / Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist

Oregon Health & Science University•Portland, OR

About The Position

Elevate Your Career as a Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital! Cardiac Intensive Care Faculty for Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Located in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is offering an opportunity for a full-time Cardiac Intensive Care Faculty with our dynamic team. As Oregon’s only academic health center, we strive to offer the best medical care to every child across Oregon, Southwest Washington and beyond. The Cardiac Intensive Care Faculty is a position focused on facilitating and supporting the provision of standardized, streamlined, high-quality cardiac intensive care. This position will actively participate in initiatives empowering physician and nursing care through education and sub specialization. The CVICU faculty will collaborate with a CVICU Medical Director, intensivists, cardiologists, and surgeons in caring for cardiac patients.

Requirements

Active clinical practice and maintenance of skills through continuing medical education
Strong interpersonal and critical thinking skills
Ability to motivate, teach, and facilitate individuals and groups
Readiness to collaborate in an inter-professional environment
Positive professional relations with peers
Ability to deal objectively and fairly with controversial issues with a professional, diplomatic, tactful communication style
Proficiency to work both independently and in a team environment
Ability to respectfully supervise, advise, and train clinical professionals and students in pediatrics
Board certified in Pediatric Critical Care with an additional year of Cardiac Critical Care training or equivalent experience, or additional Pediatric Cardiology board certification

Responsibilities

CVICU service 12-14 weeks per year with night call commensurate with clinical FTE
Clinical consultation 4-8 hours per week
Provide daytime consultation for complex post-operative patients
Provide night time and weekend (phone or in-person) consultation for critically ill patients as needed
Monitor care and trajectory of all neonates and complex older children, providing consultation as needed
Meet regularly with PICU team members
Participate in weekly PICU Case Conference
Attend weekly Cardiac Case Conference
Attend weekly Cardiac sign-in conference
Attend monthly Cardiac Morbidity and Mortality conference
Attend monthly PICU Morbidity and Mortality conference
Attend quarterly and ad hoc ECMO Morbidity and Mortality conference
Maintaining and improving Quality and Operations of Cardiac Intensive Care
Ensuring consistency of care
Enhancing patient satisfaction
Drive efficiencies including reduction of length of stay, FTR, and cardiac arrest
Involvement in all aspects of peri-operative care, including surgical decisions that are impacted by postoperative considerations and vice versa
Surveying best practices and updating care maps for specific lesions
Acting as the patient’s advocate in post-operative care issues
Consultation for critically ill and/or complex cardiac patients when needed
This position will join an established and highly regarded practice with clinical, research and educational responsibilities, and will hold an academic appointment.
The Department of Pediatrics has a strong network of senior faculty who actively mentor and support the promotion and tenure tracks of more junior members.
Educate tomorrow’s health professionals, scientists, engineers and managers in top-tier programs that prepare them for a lifetime of learning, leadership and contribution.
Explore new basic, clinical and applied research frontiers in health and biomedical sciences, environmental and biomedical engineering and information services, and translate these discoveries, wherever possible, into applications in the health and commercial sectors.
Lead and advocate for programs that improve health for all Oregonians, and extend OHSU’s education, research and healthcare missions through community service, outreach and partnerships.
Performance improvement is inherent to this position with the primary outcome being successful completion of the Doernbecher Quality goals.
Process metrics are those that demonstrate activities leading to appropriate outcome metrics.