Leading Pediatric Emergency Care—Building Brighter Futures, One Life at a Time

St. Luke’s University Health Network, the region’s largest, most established health system, a major teaching hospital, and one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals is seeking a Network Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine to help develop the Network’s first pediatric emergency department. The Network Director will be responsible for developing, leading, administrating, and supervising all aspects of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine program.

The Network Director will have dedicated time for administrative, educational, strategic, and research initiatives and provide oversight and development of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine program.  This will include oversight of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Department based at  St. Luke’s Bethlehem Campus as well as development of pediatric care initiatives at the remaining campuses’ emergency departments.   In addition, the Network Director will be expected to maintain a clinical practice with allocated time to develop and lead the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Program. 

About the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics:

•              Robust 14 hospital Network spread over a diverse geographic area providing emergency care for over 320,000 patients annually.

•              Lehigh Valley’s first and only 4-year medical school

•              Identified as a 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital from IBM Watson Health 9 times total and 7 years in a row, including in 2021 when it was identified as the #1 Teaching Hospital in the country.

•              St. Luke’s emergency medicine includes comprehensive stoke centers, 4 PCI centers, a level 1 trauma center, a level 2 trauma center and four level 4 trauma centers with a fifth level 4 trauma center with our partnership at our Geisinger-St. Luke’s Hospital in Orwigsburg, PA.

•              In addition to patient care, the emergency department also supports and trains emergency medicine residents at two separate emergency medicine residencies. We currently have an emergency medicine residency with 12 residents per year at St. Luke’s University Hospital - Bethlehem. Our second residency at our Anderson Campus will welcome its second class this year with 10 residents per year of a three-year residency.

•              The Department of Pediatrics consists of inpatient, specialty care, and primary care providers across a verity of practice locations. A pediatric residency was recently approved and will welcome the first class in July 2023.

•              Growing pediatric specialty department currently spanning 14 pediatric subspecialties and continuing to expand in both depth and breadth of services. A new freestanding Pediatric Specialty Center opened in May, fully dedicated to pediatric services.

•              The most robust and highest volume OB program in the region with a strong maternal and fetal medicine program which delivers nearly 5,000 babies per year.

Qualifications

Must be Board Certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Must have a minimum of 3 years of experience.

Must be clinically active in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Have previous leadership/administrative experience and strong team building skills

Willing to combine Administrative and Clinical Responsibilities, including education of residents and rotating medical students

About St. Lukes University Health Network

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 20,000 employees providing services at 15 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue of $3.4 billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the biggest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania.