Join Phoenix Children's Growing Pediatric Heart Failure & Transplant Team | Sign-On Bonus, Exclusive Benefits + More

Phoenix Children’s - Division of Cardiology is actively seeking up to 3 full-time faculty to join the Advanced Heart Failure – Cardiac Transplant Team at the level of Instructor, Assistant, or Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Child Health. There is an opportunity for the right candidate to join as or develop into the role of Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support depending on experience.

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The program performs an average of 12-15 heart transplants annually, follows heart failure patients in both the inpatient and outpatient setting, and supports a mechanical circulatory support program offering the full range of pediatric and adult devices.

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Job Qualifications

1. Applicants must have an M.D. or equivalent degree,
2. Board-certified or board-eligible in Pediatric Cardiology by the American Board of Pediatrics and eligible for medical licensure in the State of Arizona.
3. Candidates will have already completed an ACGME-accredited 3-year fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology, with additional 1-2 years of advanced subspecialty training in pediatric advanced heart failure including management of cardiac transplant patients and mechanical circulatory support.
4. This position is not currently accepting J1 visa candidates.

Candidates should demonstrate a rigorous academic focus, preferably in clinical and/or translational research. However, basic science opportunities are also available. Academic clinical faculty appointments will be facilitated at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix and Tucson, Creighton University School of

Medicine, and Mayo Clinic School of Medicine – Scottsdale. Additional research collaborations exist with the Translational Genomics Research Institute (tGen) and the Arizona State University, Department of Bioengineering.

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About Us

The Division of Cardiology currently hosts a fellowship training program in general pediatric cardiology with 9 fellows distributed over 3 years. The Phoenix Children’s Center for Heart Care also hosts subspecialty fellowships in pediatric cardiac critical care, advanced cardiac imaging, and interventional cardiac catheterization. The inpatient service includes a 48-bed CV intensive care unit and transition care unit. Patient care is interdisciplinary involving transplant cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, and dedicated cardiac NP and PA providers.

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The provision of both workplace-based and didactic teaching to fellows, residents, medical students, and nurses is an expectation of this role. The successful candidate(s) will join our program with 24 cardiologists, 13 cardiac intensivists, 3 cardiovascular surgeons, and 25 advanced practice providers. Inpatient pediatric cardiac care is centered at the Phoenix Children’s Hospital while adult congenital inpatient care and procedures are also provided at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. Ambulatory cardiac services are centered at the Center for Heart Care – Thomas Campus, and satellite offices are located throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area. Additional general cardiology outreach offices are in Tucson, Prescott, and Yuma AZ.