Medical Director of Liver Transplant Program

Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is seeking an experienced Board-Certified Transplant Hepatologist to serve as the Medical Director of their Liver Transplant Program.  The ideal candidate would possess exceptional clinical and interpersonal skills to join our team at the LVHN-Cedar Crest Campus in Allentown, PA.

 

The Liver Transplant Program at Lehigh Valley Health Network is a new extension of our existing Multiorgan Transplant Program.  This program will include a dedicated liver cancer program and clinic, an NIH supported liver research center and a biorepository.  Live donor liver transplantation will also be part of the program in short order. It has clinical research support and strong hospital support for marketing and outreach. Given these resources, this is a high-profile position within the medical center and nationally.  The candidate would work in tandem with other transplant hepatologists in the network. The new medical director will also work very closely with Chief of Transplant Surgery and a group of exceptionally qualified surgeons and APCs to support the transplant program.

Some features of our LVHN Transplant Program are:

· The Multiorgan Program has over 30 years of experience

· It houses a high-volume kidney and pancreas program, with liver program in development.

· It will be the only Liver Transplant program in the greater Lehigh Valley Region

· It sports a robust living donor kidney program.

· It has a highly functioning minimally invasive/robotic donor and recipient programs.

· It has considerable Advanced Practitioner resources.

Join a team of unmatched surgical expertise.  Many of our physicians have trained at the nation’s best academic institutions and published promising research in prestigious medical journals. Our LVHN surgeons perform over 85,000 surgeries every year – 25 percent more than other centers in the region.

 

Qualifications:

• An Ambassador for Liver Transplant with a passion for innovation

· Strong communication and leadership skills, internal motivation and independence, and ability to devise and execute a plan to build the program.

· Current PA state Medical License or ability to obtain a PA state Medical License

· Post Fellowship experience in clinical transplant Hepatology is desired.

· Candidate must meet UNOS criteria as a primary physician of a Liver Transplant Program preferred.

 

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!