Physician Director of Pediatric Heart Failure/Heart Transplant Cardiology

Director Of Pediatric Heart Failure/Heart Transplant

Ochsner Children's Hospital is seeking a director of pediatric heart failure/heart transplant physician along with a second pediatric heart failure/heart transplant physician in the only pediatric heart transplant center in Louisiana.

This position includes care of patients with cardiomyopathies, heart failure, transplant, congenital heart disease, and ventricular assist devices. The transplant team is supported by a dedicated physician assistant, two transplant coordinators, transplant psychologist, transplant social worker, and a transplant pharmacist. Ochsner is an active participant in PHTS and ACTION. Interested applicants should be board certified/board eligible in pediatric cardiology and have completed an advanced fellowship in pediatric heart failure/heart transplant or minimum of five years of experience in the field.

Ochsner Children's provides services for all pediatric cardiac sub-specialties including heart failure/transplant, EP, ACHD, interventional cardiology, imaging including echocardiography and cardiac MRI and CT, and fetal cardiology, comprehensive single ventricle program, and neurodevelopmental clinic. The heart center includes 21 cardiologists, three congenital heart surgeons, six cardiac intensivists practicing in a dedicated pediatric 12 bed cardiac intensive care unit and three pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists. The program performs approximately 250 cardiac surgeries, 400 cardiac catheterizations (75% interventional) and 19,000 ambulatory visits at 15 locations across Louisiana and Mississippi per year. Our heart center has been ranked by US News and World Report for the last seven years and is the only ranked program in Louisiana; survival after cardiac surgery for our most complex patients (STS STAT 4 and 5 categories) is in the top 10% of programs reporting to STS.

Our comprehensive Ochsner Children's program is the region's leading integrated provider of multispecialty care for newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. We offer a full range of pediatric complex specialty services including, liver and bone marrow transplantation, a comprehensive surgical sub-specialty group, advanced GI and Hepatology, advanced spine surgery, Hematology-Oncology and AYA Oncology, Cleft Palate/Cranio-Facial Surgery and the region's only comprehensive multidisciplinary developmental pediatrics center.

Ochsner Children's currently cares for patients in a 67-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 14-bed PICU, a 12-bed pediatric CV-ICU, a NAEC-accredited level IV 4 bed Pediatric EMU and a 44-bed pediatric acute unit, with a dedicated pediatric emergency room, supported by a 24/7 dedicated pediatric and neonatal transport team utilizing rotary and fixed wing as well as ground transport. And we recently began construction on the building of a new, comprehensive, dedicated 5-story Children's Hospital on our main campus in New Orleans, with expected opening at the start of 2028.

In addition to direct patient care, Ochsner Children's Hospital has an ACGME-accredited pediatric residency program and is also responsible for teaching pediatric residents from the Tulane-Ochsner Pediatric Residency program as well as medical students from both Tulane and the University of Queensland, Australia. Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana recently established a joint allopathic College of Medicine, the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM) which will enroll its first class in Fall 2027. Our faculty have an opportunity for academic appointment at the University of Queensland and XOCOM, participate in numerous research studies and multi-center trials, and publish hundreds of research papers annually.