Addiction Medicine Physician Fellowship Program Director

Position Overview

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Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is growing to serve our community. If you are looking for more than a job, then the Department of Family Medicine at LVHN is a great place to start or continue your career. Career growth opportunities are numerous and our focus is on working as a collaborative team. Join a department that is patient-centered, progressive and committed to finding joy in the practice of family medicine.

The Department of Family Medicine at the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) seeks an outstanding family medicine physician to serve as fellowship director for their newly approved Addiction Medicine Fellowship. This role will be responsible for the continued development and oversight of the addiction medicine fellowship within a community-based academic setting. The individual will work closely with the program faculty and staff to ensure the program delivers high-quality training and education in addiction medicine.

The LVHN Addiction Medicine Fellowship seeks to recruit of a diverse group of fellows committed to training in an innovative training program with an interconnected learning environment. Situated within LVHN, the fellowship provides training that bridges both academia as well as community. Community partnerships and programming enhances the broad training of fellows to create the future leaders in community health.

Our fellowship offers strong experiences across inpatient, outpatient, and community-based settings, preparing graduates to manage advanced disease with confidence. Through partnerships with LVHN’s strong specialty departments, fellows will gain the experience to manage substance use disorders and its comorbidities across the lifespan.

• The fellowship director will collaborate with leaders within, and external to, the Department of Family Medicine to advance the education of fellows in the field of addiction medicine.
• The fellowship director will work clinically in a family medicine practice.
• The fellowship director will provide clinical care to family medicine patients and patients with substance abuse disorders within their own patient panel.
• Substance abuse disorder patients may also be referred internally from other family medicine physicians.
• There is an opportunity to partner with the Opioid Use Disorder Center of Excellence for virtual consults and patient care.

In a family medicine career with LVHN, you’ll experience:

• Free scribe services
• Flexible Monday – Friday schedules
• Full time clinicians are scheduled for 36 patient care hours/week
• Call is shared with other practices in the region.
• Onsite and remote care team to support clinicians
• Career development opportunities in teaching, research and physician leadership

Benefits & Perks

As a nationally certified Great Place to Work™, we acknowledge the dedication of our colleagues and offer a generous Total Rewards package that makes LVHN an even better place to work and grow your career. Explore our benefits.

• Starting and Retention Bonus Package
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Malpractice Insurance with Tail Coverage
• CME Time and Allowance
• Relocation (if applicable)

Qualifications

• Must be Board Certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine
• A current PA Medical License or ability to obtain one is required

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!