Description

ECU Health Physicians and East Carolina University’s Department of Surgery, located in Greenville, NC, are seeking a Transplant Surgeon to serve as Division Chief of Transplant Surgery and Immunology. Applicants should be board certified in general surgery and must have completed an ASTS certified abdominal organ fellowship. Leadership experience and a strong background in clinical research is preferred.

The ECU Health Transplant Program delivers state-of-the-art care to patients with end-stage organ failure across eastern North Carolina. The program plans to launch a liver transplant service in the near future, with the Transplant Surgery Chief playing a key role in its development. Our 29-county service area serves 1.4 million patients and has the fifth highest incidence of renal failure in the country. The program has experienced rapid growth over the past few years with an annual volume of 120+ renal transplants, both cadaveric and living donor. The program is expanding into robotic donor nephrectomy for transplantation, having performed the first of these procedures in North Carolina. Candidates should have an interest in providing vascular access surgery and general surgery coverage for transplant patients. Experience in patient care as part of a multi-disciplinary team is required. 

Highlights:

•        Employment by ECU Health Physicians-Academic Employment Model
•        Hospital privileges at ECU Health Medical Center, a 974-bed academic medical center and eastern North Carolina’s only level 1 trauma center
•        Opportunity to operate at the ECU Health Surgicenter
•        Established division inclusive of 4 surgeons
•        Division is clinically productive, highly respected and actively involved in training of medical students, residents and fellows
•        Active, collaborative clinical, teaching and research program
•        High volume surgical program
•        Access to DaVinci Xi and DaVinci DV5 Robots with teaching console
•        Academic employment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor
•        Tenure track or fixed term appointments are available
•        Comprehensive benefits including relocation assistance, vacation & sick PTO, CME days & reimbursement, malpractice (with tail), retirement benefits, state health plan health insurance, employer paid dependent health insurance, medical and dental reimbursements, employer paid AD&D, disability, and life insurance

ECU Health

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. www.ecuhealth.org

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

Greenville, NC

Widely recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is the 10th largest city in the state with a metropolitan population of nearly 100,000.  The Dickinson Avenue Arts District offers a lively art, music, culinary and festival scene in the Uptown Greenville district.  Greenville is also home to East Carolina University, the Brody School of Medicine, and Pitt Community College.  Excellent affordability, convenient location and natural resources combined with all the amenities of a metropolitan university town, Greenville is the perfect place to live, work and play!

•        Located inland off the North Carolina coast, Greenville is 45 miles east of interstate 95, just over an hour to Raleigh, a little over an hour to the pristine beaches of the Crystal Coast of NC
•        Home to East Carolina University (ECU), a vibrant university with an annual enrollment of more than 24,000 students
•        Numerous waterways and the Greenville Greenway System are perfect for boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping
•        Mild climate perfect for year-round outdoor activities
•        Cost of living below the national average, diverse and affordable housing and excellent educational opportunities, both public and private
•        Investment of more than $500 million in downtown Greenville’s revitalization bringing new restaurants, shops, businesses, and residents to the area

For more information, please forward your CV to Amanda.Mercer@ecuhealth.org or call 252-847-9029.