Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is seeking an assistant professor to lead pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery services with an 80% clinical commitment. The role includes heavy call coverage and care for neonates to adult congenital patients, including transplantation, in collaboration with the Chief Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon.

Additionally, you will devote 5% to teaching medical students and residents, and 15% to research, supporting ongoing grants and the division's scholarly

Qualifications

• Experience in pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery.
• Ability to participate in clinical teaching and scholarly activities.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care in pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery.
• Support pediatric cardiac service calls and multidisciplinary rounds.
• Engage in teaching and education of students, residents, and fellows.
• Contribute to clinical and translational research programs.

Skills

Pediatric cardiac surgery

Clinical care

Job description

General Description

Position Description

I. Specific Responsibilities and Duties

In addition to mutually agreed upon goals to be developed in partnership with the department director, and the division chief, the assistant professor shall assume the following responsibilities and duties:

Clinical: Service commensurate with your skills in pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery at a clinical commitment of 80% effort. You are expected to support the pediatric cardiac surgery service call (approximately 50% of total call coverage). We expect you to be clinical 4 days/week. Your practice will focus on complex pediatric cardiac surgical patients ranging from neonates to adult congenital cases, including pediatric cardiac transplantation. In partnership with the Chief Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon, you will support all other divisional clinical needs including, but not limited to: consult services, pre- and post-op ambulatory care, bedside procedural needs, and multidisciplinary rounding.

General Academic and Teaching: We anticipate that you will devote 5% of your time to the formal and informal instruction of medical students, residents, and fellows. We would expect that you would participate in operative resident teaching and education, attend division conferences, participate in national organizations, continue to produce scholarly output, participate fully in the BTT HC Mortality and Morbidity Conference, the Surgery Staff Conferences, and the Department of Surgery and Division Faculty meetings. Academic effort should also continue to focus on clinical and translational research programs, as applicable.

Research: We expect you to devote 15% of your time to research activities, reflective of existing grant funding as well as future grant submissions. As you know we have a strong BTT HC research arm led by our pediatric cardiac research director, Dr. Hee Cheol Cho. This team of multiple faculty, a research operations manager, and some additional resources inclusive of strong institutional support will be available for you to support your clinical research activities

Salary Range

The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may vary and will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.

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Vaccine Requirements

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