Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist / Heart Failure Program Director

Legacy Health; Oregon; On-site; USD 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Guaranteed base salary

Relocation package

CME allowance

Malpractice tail coverage

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Legacy Health is seeking an Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist to lead and expand our community-based heart failure program across multiple hospitals in the Portland area.

You will oversee 24/7 cardiogenic shock care, MCS/ECMO management, device therapies, and collaboration with regional transplant centers to optimize patient outcomes and program growth.

Qualifications

• MD or DO from an accredited medical school.
• Completed ACGME-accredited Internal Medicine Residency, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship, and an Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology Fellowship.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical and operational heart failure care across the system, establishing standardized GDMT protocols and transition-of-care pathways.
• Provide leadership for a multidisciplinary 24/7 Shock Team and invasive hemodynamic assessment.
• Direct clinical management of temporary and durable MCS/ECMO, including Impella devices and VA-ECMO.
• Oversee CardioMEMS remote monitoring, Barostim, and CCM device therapies.
• Foster collaboration with transplant programs, bridging to transplant or durable LVAD when appropriate.
• Coordinate inpatient consults, ICU rounds, and outpatient heart failure clinics with APPs and care coordinators.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Advanced heart failure expertise

Program development

Collaborative care

Education

MD/DO

Cardiology Fellowship

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Fellowship

Job description

LEGACY MEDICAL GROUP | CARDIOLOGY

Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist — Program Leadership

Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist / Heart Failure Program Director

Lead and shape a comprehensive community heart failure program with a high-volume shock team, mechanical circulatory support (MCS/ECMO), and collaborative pathways with regional academic transplant centers.

Legacy Medical Group (LMG), a physician-led health system in the greater Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, is seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking BC/BE Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist to lead and expand our community-based Advanced Heart Failure Program. This physician will spearhead programmatic development, clinical operations, and cardiogenic shock care across our multi-hospital network, working collaboratively with interventional cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, critical care, and regional academic partners.

Role Overview & Program Leadership

Programmatic Leadership: Serve as the clinical and operational leader for heart failure care across the system, establishing standardized GDMT protocols, transition-of-care pathways, and outpatient GDMT optimization clinics.

Cardiogenic Shock & Critical Care: Provide leadership for an active, multidisciplinary 24/7 Shock Team, utilizing standardized invasive hemodynamic assessment and rapid escalation protocols.

Mechanical Circulatory Support & ECMO: Direct clinical management of temporary and durable MCS, including percutaneous ventricular assist devices (Impella CP/5.5, ProtekDuo, intra-aortic balloon pumps), veno-arterial (VA) ECMO, and acute-on-chronic decompensated heart failure.

Device Therapy & Remote Monitoring: Oversee ambulatory hemodynamic monitoring (CardioMEMS), Barostim and Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM).

Academic Transplant Center Collaboration: Foster direct clinical relationships and bridge-to-transplant/bridge-to-durable LVAD referral algorithms with local transplant programs, with potential opportunities for shared clinical conferences, joint committees, and cross-institutional collaboration.

Clinical Model & Resources

Dedicated Inpatient & Outpatient Structure: Protected time divided between advanced heart failure inpatient consults/ICU rounds and dedicated outpatient heart failure clinic, supported by advanced practice providers (APPs), dedicated nurse navigators, and clinical pharmacy specialists.

Multidisciplinary Shock Platform: Seamless co-management alongside critical care intensivists, experienced interventionalists (1,350+ PCIs system-wide), and cardiothoracic surgeons.

Advanced Imaging & Diagnostics: Full access to high-volume echocardiography, cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, and comprehensive invasive hemodynamic catheterization.

Compensation & Benefits

Guaranteed Salary & Medical Directorship: Highly competitive two-year guaranteed base salary benchmarked to national medians, supplemented with protected administrative compensation for program directorship/leadership duties.

Incentives: Generous hire-on bonus, substantial relocation package, and comprehensive annual CME allowance.

Comprehensive Benefits: Employer-matched retirement plans (403b and 457b), paid medical malpractice with full tail coverage, comprehensive medical/dental/vision insurance, and generous paid time off.

Candidate Requirements

Education: MD or DO from an accredited medical school.

Training: Completed ACGME-accredited Internal Medicine Residency, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship, and an accredited Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology Fellowship.

Board Certification: Board Certified/Eligible in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology.

Clinical Expertise: Documented procedural competence in right heart catheterization, endomyocardial biopsy (preferred), and temporary MCS/ECMO management.

Licensure: Unrestricted Oregon medical license (or eligible to obtain) and valid ACLS certification.

Visa Status: Unable to sponsor H-1B or J-1 visa waivers at this time.

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