Physician - Pediatric Infectious Disease

Ochsner Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Ochsner Children’s Hospital seeks a Board Certified or Eligible Pediatric Infectious Disease physician to join its expanding practice in New Orleans, Louisiana. The role involves managing infectious diseases in children and teaching residents. Join a top-ranked children's hospital committed to innovation and care.

Qualifications

• Interest in Antimicrobial Stewardship is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide inpatient and outpatient evaluation and management of children with infectious diseases.
• Teach pediatric residents and medical students.

Skills

Antimicrobial Stewardship

Education

Board Certified in Pediatric Infectious Disease

Job description

We've made a lot of progress since opening the doors in 1942, but one thing has never changed - our commitment to serve, heal, lead, educate, and innovate. We believe that every award earned, every record broken, and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways.

At Ochsner, whether you work with patients every day or support those who do, you are making a difference and that matters. Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today!

Ochsner Children’s Hospital is seeking a physician who is Board Certified or Board Eligible in Pediatric Infectious Disease to join the expanding practice in New Orleans, Louisiana. An interest in Antimicrobial Stewardship is desirable. The Infectious Disease Practice at Ochsner Children’s Hospital provides inpatient and outpatient evaluation and management of children with suspected or proven infectious diseases.

Our comprehensive Ochsner Children’s program includes 88 primary care pediatricians in 27 locations in Louisiana and Mississippi - and pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists (Ochsner Children’s) totaling over 270 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, advanced GI and Hepatology, advanced spine surgery, Hematology-Oncology and AYA Oncology, Cleft Palate/Cranio-Facial Surgery, and the region’s only comprehensive multidisciplinary developmental pediatrics center.

Ochsner Children’s currently cares for patients in a 67-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 14-bed PICU, a 12-bed pediatric CV-ICU, a NAEC-accredited level IV 4-bed Pediatric EMU, and a 44-bed pediatric acute unit, with a dedicated pediatric emergency room, supported by a 24-7 dedicated pediatric and neonatal transport team utilizing rotary and fixed-wing as well as ground transport. We are also constructing a new, comprehensive, dedicated 5-story Children’s Hospital on our main campus in New Orleans, expected to open in early 2028.

In addition to direct patient care, Ochsner Children’s Hospital has an ACGME-accredited pediatric residency program and teaches pediatric residents from the Tulane-Ochsner Pediatric Residency program as well as medical students from Tulane and the University of Queensland, Australia. Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana recently announced the establishment of a joint allopathic College of Medicine, the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine, currently in the LCME accreditation process. Our faculty publishes hundreds of research papers annually, and Ochsner participates in numerous multi-center studies and trials.

Ochsner Children’s is proud to have ranked in multiple subspecialties in US News and World Report’s top 50 Children’s Hospitals in the US for 8 consecutive years. We are the #1 Ranked Children’s Hospital in Louisiana!

Are you ready to make a difference? Apply today!

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