Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

The Queen's Health System is a non-profit healthcare organization with four hospitals, over 70 specialty health care locations, and labs throughout the Pacific region, including Hawai'i. With a rich history of serving the people of Hawai'i, Queen's is the state's largest employer, with over 9,000 caregivers, medical staff and leadership. Queen's is accredited by The Joint Commission and is the only hospital in Hawai'i to achieve Magnet status from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Our state-of-the-art facilities serve as the major referral center for cancer, cardiovascular disease, neuroscience, orthopedics, surgery, emergency medicine, behavioral health medicine, and is a major teaching hospital. Queen's Heart at The Queen's Medical Center offers patient-centered cardiovascular medicine, surgical care and diagnostic testing in one convenient setting. For both routine and more complex heart and vascular conditions, our team provides comprehensive services utilizing the most advanced technology, treatment and care options to ensure the highest quality of cardiac care for our patients. Our multidisciplinary team of board-certified, professionally trained physicians and advanced practice nurse practitioners are committed to providing expert diagnosis, treatments and care for a range of cardiac and vascular conditions to improve the quality of our patients' lives. From your general cardiology needs to the most complex surgical or non-invasive procedures, Queen's Heart provides compassionate cardiac care to you and your family.

Provides perioperative cardiovascular surgical services for patients requiring cardiothoracic procedures.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Clinical:
• Surgically evaluates and treats patients who require the services provided by a cardiac surgeon.
• Maintains appropriate knowledge and clinical skills in order to keep abreast of new techniques and procedures in the field of Cardiovascular (CV) surgery.
• Makes rounds on CV patients in accordance with expectations of the Executive Vice President, Clinical Integration or designee.
• Provides clear instructions and explanations regarding diagnosis, treatment, medications, and follow-up to patients and their respective family members.
• Provides communication regarding patient care issues to referring physicians in a timely manner.
• Actively participates in the Department of Cardiovascular Disease department's on-call schedule and assists with on-call coverage for Vascular surgery.
• Attends departmental physician staff meetings, monthly morbidity and mortality, quality assurance, and other departmental meetings deemed appropriate by the Department Chief.
• Meets or exceeds The Society of Thoracic Surgery Database/report card mean as a benchmark.
• Participates in Accountable Clinical Management (ACM) activities as appropriate.
• Under guidance of the Medical Director, progressively learns surgical techniques and adopting best practices in the field of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
• Administrative:
• Works collaboratively with the Medical Director of Queen's Heart Physician Practice to ensure the quality of CV surgical services provided by the CV surgical subsection is achieved.
• Assists in the administration and care provision in endovascular interventions, structural heart procedures and possibly lead extraction.
• Safety:
• Maintains and promotes a work environment that provides maximum safety and health and encourages safety awareness.
• Reports unsafe conditions and injuries/illnesses and incidents in a timely and proper manner.
• Performs duties in accordance with safety and health rules and standards and uses safe work techniques.

Charge tags and documentation all done timely, accurately, legibly and in compliance with QMC guidelines, CMS regulations, and PATH rules. Submits charge tags within 72 hours of services performed. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Demonstrates The Queen's Health Systems' core values of Compassion, Aloha, Respect and Excellence. Complies with all organization policies and procedures, applicable laws and regulatory requirements.

Essential: standing, sitting, walking, stooping/bending, climbing stairs, finger dexterity, seeing, hearing, speaking, pushing/pulling usual weight of 50 pounds of force, reaching above, at and below shoulder level, repetitive arm/hand motions, static gripping of an object of prolonged periods, frequent gripping of an object.

Occasional: squatting, twisting body, lifting usual weight of 50 pounds up to 150 pounds with assistance, carrying usual weight of 5 pounds. Operates a variety of medical equipment, computer, telephone, pager.

Not substantially subjected to adverse environmental conditions. Subjected to noise/vibration from monitors and alarms and respirators. Exposure to hazardous chemicals and infectious agents is an occupational risk; therefore, standard safety regulations must be maintained to avoid contamination.

Graduate of an accredited School of Medicine or EC FMG certification. Current unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Hawaii. Board certified or board eligible in Cardiothoracic surgery. Fellowship trained in Cardiothoracic surgery. During the period of employment, shall be and remain a member of the QMC Medical Staff in good standing with appropriate privileges without restriction. Qualified for an appointment on the faculty of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. Salary clinical base: $803,318.00/yr Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Vet