Retina Surgical Specialist - $600-700K depending on experience

As one of the nation's most respected health networks with exceptional care providers, comprehensive care, and strong financial growth, Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is a place where you can grow a career you love-from hire to retire!

Join the inspired, passionate team within the Institute for Surgical Excellence in and around the Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania. We are a nonprofit community hospital system with over 1,700 beds across 15 full-service hospital campuses and over 2,000 medical staff. Our well-established Ophthalmology practice in Fogelsville is hiring a BE/BC Retina Surgical Specialist to deliver personalized state-of-the-art care for our patients.

In a Retina Surgical Specialist career with LVHN, you’ll experience:

•              Work with a team of Ophthalmologists, Optometrists, Opticians, and Certified Ophthalmic Assistants all contributing to dedicated team-based care

•              Well established high -volume practice with strong referral networks

•              Includes clinical and surgical care of patients with retina diseases (Intravitreal injections, Vitreoretinal surgeries, ROP - Retinopathy of Prematurity Service)

•              The office is equipped with full-scale equipment required to see patients of all ages. For a candidate interested in retina, the office is equipped with Cirrus OCT with Angio, Wide field Zeiss fundus camera, and Argon laser. There is a full-service optical shop that includes contact lens services. The office has a dedicated Medspa room offering limited aesthetic services. Surgeries are performed at ASC (no ownership stake) and in the hospital when general anesthesia is needed.

•              Educational Stipends are offered to graduating fellows

LVHN is the region’s largest employer and health care provider of choice. Our 23,000+ health care professionals take pride in what they do and love where they live. We are located in the beautiful Lehigh Valley, a fast-growing region in eastern Pennsylvania comprised of three mid-sized cites surrounded by suburban neighborhoods with over 700,000 residents. The area has a moderate cost of living, outstanding public and private school systems, ten colleges and universities, and an abundance of cultural and recreational offerings including two symphonies, summer music festivals, an art museum, championship golf courses and minor league sport teams. Just a 60-minute drive north of Philadelphia and 90-minute drive west of New York City.

Our location is not designated by the federal government as an underserved region and therefore, we are not eligible to sponsor a J1 visa

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About Lehigh Valley Health Network

Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is a large non-profit and multi-specialty health network in Eastern Pennsylvania! LVHN offers comprehensive care in 95 clinical specialties across dozens of facilities including eight hospitals, the Lehigh Valley’s only children’s hospital, 2,005 primary care & specialty physicians, 23 outpatient health centers, 18 ExpressCARE locations, and community clinics. Additional services we provide include a Level 1 trauma center, a regional referral center for burns, the regions’ only Level 4 NICU, pharmacy, laboratory, imaging, home health, and hospice.

At LVHN, we have a Passion for Better Medicine and to provide first-rate clinical care for the people of our community in Eastern Pennsylvania! Consistently ranked among America’s 100 Great Hospitals, we PRIDE ourselves on being the superior Health Network in the region! The highest quality of patient care & patient safety is reflected in our “A” rating by Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade and the U.S. News & World Report!