Director of Transplant Behavioral Health

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Job Description

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science is aggressively expanding our clinical and academic footprint in the metro-Atlanta area as part of our strategic plan. We are looking for engaged and enthusiastic faculty to partner with us and contribute to the field through the tripartite missions of education, research, and quality clinical care. We are seeking Clinical Academic Leaders in Psychology and Psychiatry who are interested in becoming a leader in the growing, dynamic field of Transplant Behavioral Health. The successful candidate will join our faculty as the Director of Transplant Behavioral Health (TBH). As Director of TBH, the candidate leads and directs the TBH team to ensure that they provide timely, comprehensive, collaborative care of organ transplant patients. Specifically, such care includes providing direct clinical evaluations of patients seeking organ transplantation; providing pre and post psychiatric care for organ transplant patients; coordinating clinical assessments and treatment recommendations with Emory's Inpatient Psychiatric Consult Services on transplant patients; and coordinating with Emory's Transplant Leadership and Emory's Addiction Alliance of Georgia to develop an Alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) clinic that can provide comprehensive integrated care for complex high risk patients that require liver transplantation.

Emory's Transplant Center is among the top 15 solid organ transplant centers in the United States, among the top 10 adult kidney transplant programs and is the first in the nation to earn the highest level of Patient Centered Specialty Practice recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. As faculty you are part of Emory Healthcare, the largest health care system in the state of Georgia working the state of Georgia's premier hospitals of Emory University Hospital, Emory St. Joseph's Hospital, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Emory Decatur Hospital, Emory Hillandale Hospital and Emory's John Creek Hospital. Academic Rank at Emory University School of Medicine will be commensurate with experience, training, and achievements.

Minimum Qualifications

• The candidate must have either an MD degree with a completion of a four-year residency program (psychiatry) or have a doctorate in clinical psychology from an APA accredited graduate program, an APA accredited internship and at least one year supervised postdoctoral training.
• For MD candidates they must be either board certified or board eligible in psychiatry.
• Ideally would like MD candidates that have added qualifications in either Addiction Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine or Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.
• Would also like candidates that already have experience working in the field of Transplant.
• For doctorate candidates would like applicants with administrative competencies in addition to clinical, research and teaching expertise.
• Would also like doctorate candidates that already have experience and expertise in the field of transplant.
• All candidates must hold or be eligible for State of Georgia licensure.

NOTE: Position tasks are generally required to be performed in-person at an Emory University location. Remote work from home day options may be granted at department discretion. Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee.

Additional Details

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