Section Chief for Heart Transplant, VAD & Advanced Heart Failure

Section Chief for Heart Transplant, VAD & Advanced Heart Failure

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About the Role:

• Lead the Section on Heart Transplant, VAD, and Advanced Heart Failure
• Department: Cardiovascular Medicine, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist & Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• Reports to: Chair, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
• Responsibility: Grow the Heart Transplant and VAD program
• Opportunity: Further develop a well-established program
• Lead: Clinical care, education, and academics

Team:

• 5 Faculty Members, 7 Advanced Practice Providers
• Ongoing recruitment

Responsibilities:

• Transplant, VAD, and Advanced Heart Failure services
• Clinical aspects, educational efforts, program development, quality improvement

Clinical Duties:

• Shared inpatient service and call
• Outpatient clinic
• Procedures

Benefits

• Full Benefits including health insurance, dental, vision, life, disability provided.
• Unlimited PTO for sick and vacation time.
• Excellent Retirement Plan with employer contribution & cash matching.

Opportunities for Advancement including potential for a National Service Line Leader position in the Advocate Health structure.

System Advantages:

• Atrium Health Footprint:
  • 42 inpatient facilities
  • 1100 outpatient facilities
• Advocate Health Integration:
  • Third largest not-for-profit health system in the US
• Research:
  • Coordinated by Wake Forest University School of Medicine
  • Single IRB and contracts office

Requirements

• Licensed or Eligible for NC Medical License
• Board Certified in Relevant Fields
• Demonstrated Leadership Skills, Present or Emerging National Stature, Demonstrable Clinical Program Operational Skills and Outstanding Clinical Training and Experience
• Clinical Experience in Heart Transplantation to Include Post Graduate Experience
• Meets the qualifications and requirements for United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) accreditation for a Heart Transplant Program

About The Institution and Enterprise

Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSOM) is recognized as one of America’s best medical schools for its innovative, experiential learning curriculum, primary care training, and research programs and is among the top U.S. academic medical centers in extramural funding.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (AHWFB) is a $5.7 billion pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Wake Forest University School of Medicine & Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist are now the academic core of Advocate Health which is the nation’s third-largest nonprofit health system and the largest academic learning health system in the nation.

Transplant Programs

Currently, the institution is 1 of 5 transplant centers in North Carolina with one of the largest Abdominal Organ transplant centers in the Southeast and a rapidly growing Cardiac transplant center. CY 2024 volumes included over 200 Abdominal Organ transplants and 21 Heart transplants.

About Winston-Salem

Winston-Salem, North Carolina is ranked among US News & World Report’s Top 50 Best Places to Live and Top 40 Best Places to Retire. This includes:

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Interested Candidates may Contact:

Scott Dudley, Program Manager for Recruitment Strategy

sdudley@wakehealth.edu

336-341-2631

About Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) is a U.S. News and World Report top 50 ranked medical school, integrated with a world-class health system, Atrium Health. WFUSM, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise, is a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery. WFUSM, has over $300M in annual, extramural funding that drives a cutting-edge Academic Learning Health System by integrating innovative research with excellent patient care across our enterprise.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. AHWFB is an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians. Our highly integrated academic and clinical environment is deeply committed to improving health, elevating hope, and advancing healing – for all.