Physician Assistant, Vascular Interventional Radiology and Image Guided Surgery

Physician Assistant Position

The Division seeks a highly motivated, clinically strong, and team oriented Physician Assistant to join a growing academic procedural service line. This position provides participation in the full continuum of image guided patient care: inpatient consultation, outpatient clinic evaluation, pre procedure assessment, obtaining procedural consents and informed consents, procedural assistance, selected minor procedures only under physician supervision, post procedure management, documentation, care coordination, medical student and resident education, and longitudinal follow up.

The Physician Assistant will work closely with interventional radiology attending physicians, residents, fellows, medical students, nurses, technologists, schedulers, nurse navigators, referring physicians, inpatient teams, and outpatient clinical teams. The goal is safe, timely, high quality, patient centered care across the full spectrum of the Division. The ideal candidate will have strong clinical judgment, excellent communication skills, attention to detail, interest in procedural medicine, and a desire to help build a modern image guided surgical practice.

The Physician Assistant will participate in the evaluation, management, and follow up of patients referred to the Division. Responsibilities include performing inpatient and outpatient clinical assessments for patients referred for image guided procedures, completing histories and physical examinations, reviewing prior imaging, laboratory data, medications, allergies, anticoagulation status, and relevant comorbidities, helping determine procedural readiness in collaboration with the supervising interventional radiologist, assisting with triage of inpatient and outpatient consults, coordinating pre procedure preparation, participating in outpatient clinics, managing post procedure follow up, and communicating with referring physicians, inpatient teams, outpatient providers, patients, and families regarding treatment plans, procedural expectations, risks, benefits, alternatives, and follow up care.

The Physician Assistant will support the clinical and procedural practice of the Division under the supervision of interventional radiology attending physicians and in accordance with state regulations, institutional policy, scope of practice, approved privileges, demonstrated competency, and supervising physician direction. Procedural performance by the Physician Assistant will occur only under physician supervision and will not constitute independent procedural practice. Responsibilities include evaluating patients before image guided procedures, discussing planned procedures with patients and families, obtaining and documenting procedural consents and informed consents, assisting interventional radiology attending physicians during image guided procedures, performing selected minor procedures only under physician supervision, participating in the procedural timeout process, sterile preparation, patient positioning, specimen handling, procedural workflow, and post procedure care coordination, completing procedure related documentation, providing clear patient education before and after procedures, and escalating patient questions, clinical concerns, unexpected findings, complications, or changes in patient condition promptly to the supervising interventional radiologist.

The Physician Assistant will support the consult based inpatient model. Responsibilities include reviewing inpatient consults and coordinating with attending physicians regarding procedural appropriateness, clinical urgency, and procedural planning, communicating with primary teams regarding recommended imaging, laboratory studies, anticoagulation management, procedural timing, anesthesia needs, and patient optimization, rounding on selected patients managed by the Division, helping reduce delays in care by ensuring patients are clinically optimized before procedures, and serving as a clinical liaison between interventional radiology physicians, inpatient teams, nursing teams, procedural staff, patients, and families.

The Physician Assistant will support the continued growth of outpatient Division clinics. Responsibilities include evaluating new outpatient referrals for image guided procedures and interventional radiology conditions, supporting longitudinal management of patients cared for by the Division, assisting with follow up after procedures to monitor outcomes, complications, symptom improvement, imaging response, and need for additional treatment, educating patients and families regarding disease processes, procedure expectations, recovery, medications, warning signs, and follow up plans, supporting clinic efficiency, same day procedural planning when appropriate, and care coordination across multiple campuses or practice sites.

The Physician Assistant will play an important role in coordinating care across a complex procedural service. Responsibilities include working closely with interventional radiology schedulers, nurse navigators, clinic staff, procedural nurses, technologists, anesthesia teams, and referring providers, helping ensure that required orders, imaging, pathology, cytology, cultures, laboratory studies, and follow up appointments are appropriately coordinated, communicating clearly and professionally with patients, families, referring services, inpatient teams, outpatient clinics, and administrative teams, helping identify barriers to timely care and work with division leadership to improve workflows, and supporting multidisciplinary programs involving image guided care across the health system.

The Physician Assistant will support a culture of quality, safety, accountability, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include participating in quality improvement, patient safety, outcome tracking, complication review, and process improvement initiatives, assisting with standardization of clinical workflows, procedure preparation, post procedure care, patient follow up, and communication with referring services, helping improve patient access, procedural efficiency, documentation quality, referring provider communication, patient satisfaction, and clinical outcomes, and practicing in accordance with institutional policies, professional standards, accreditation requirements, and regulatory expectations.

The Physician Assistant will contribute to the academic and educational mission of the Division. Responsibilities include working collaboratively with attending physicians, residents, fellows, medical students, nurses, technologists, and other members of the care team, participating in the teaching of medical students, residents, fellows, and other trainees in appropriate clinical, procedural, peri procedural, and patient care activities, helping orient new staff, trainees, and advanced practice providers to Division workflows, participating in educational conferences, case reviews, quality meetings, and multidisciplinary discussions when appropriate, and promoting a culture of professionalism, teamwork, respect, accountability, clinical excellence, and patient centered care.

Required Qualifications include: graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program, current Physician Assistant certification, eligibility for licensure as a Physician Assistant in the state of practice, eligibility for credentialing and privileging through the institution, current Basic Life Support certification, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support certification preferred or required within a defined period after hire, strong clinical judgment, professionalism, communication skills, and ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment, and ability to function in a fast paced procedural, inpatient, outpatient, and academic clinical setting.

Preferred Qualifications include: prior experience in interventional radiology, vascular surgery, surgery, emergency medicine, critical care, hospital medicine, oncology, hepatology, nephrology, cardiology, wound care, or another procedural specialty, experience with inpatient consults, outpatient clinic, peri procedural care, and multidisciplinary coordination, experience or interest in obtaining procedural consents and informed consents, assisting with image guided procedures, performing selected minor procedures under physician supervision, managing post procedure patients, and completing procedure related documentation, comfort reviewing imaging reports, laboratory values, anticoagulation plans, procedural indications, and clinical notes, experience with image guided procedures, procedural patient care, post procedure assessment, or procedural patient education, interest in teaching medical students, residents, fellows, and other trainees, strong interest in helping build a modern clinical image guided surgical service, and ability to work across multiple campuses or clinical sites when needed.

The ideal candidate profile includes: wanting to be part of a growing clinical and procedural specialty, understanding that modern interventional radiology includes full patient care before, during, and after procedures, being comfortable communicating with physicians, nurses, trainees, patients, families, schedulers, and administrative teams, being able to help create structure in a busy and expanding service line, being clinically curious, reliable, organized, proactive, and accountable, having the judgment to know when to escalate concerns to the supervising physician, treating patients with compassion and seeing themselves as part of a surgical style image guided care team, and being interested in procedural medicine, longitudinal patient care, and education.

Clinical environments include: interventional radiology procedure suites, inpatient hospital units, outpatient clinics, pre procedure and post procedure recovery areas, emergency or urgent care settings when interventional radiology consultation is required, and multidisciplinary clinical environments across the health system. The role may involve standing for extended periods, assisting in sterile procedural environments, wearing radiation protection, working in fluoroscopy based procedure rooms, and participating in the care of acutely ill patients.

Schedule responsibilities may include: weekday clinical and procedural coverage, outpatient clinic sessions, inpatient consult support, pre procedure and post procedure management, rotating coverage across campuses, and potential evening, weekend, or call responsibilities depending on future service needs and institutional approval.

The Physician Assistant will be expected to maintain the highest standards of professionalism and patient centered care, communicate respectfully and effectively with all members of the healthcare team, practice within approved scope, institutional policy, approved privileges, and supervising physician direction, maintain timely documentation and complete assigned clinical responsibilities reliably, support the Division's mission of clinical excellence, procedural innovation, education, quality, safety, and service line growth, and contribute positively to a culture of teamwork, accountability, respect, and continuous improvement.

Summary Vascular Interventional Radiology and Image Guided Surgery seeks a Physician Assistant to join a growing, clinically focused procedural service line. The Physician Assistant will work closely with interventional radiologists, trainees, nurses, technologists, schedulers, nurse navigators, and referring teams to provide comprehensive patient care before, during, and after image guided procedures. This role includes inpatient consultation, outpatient clinic, pre procedure evaluation, obtaining procedural consents and informed consents, procedural assistance, performance of selected minor image guided procedures only under physician supervision, post procedure management, procedure documentation, care coordination, teaching of medical students and residents, and longitudinal follow up. The Physician Assistant will help evaluate patients referred for image guided procedures, assist with clinical triage and procedural readiness, support outpatient clinics, participate in post procedure care, complete appropriate procedure reports for procedures performed under physician supervision, and help coordinate multidisciplinary care across the health system. The ideal candidate will have strong clinical judgment, excellent communication skills, interest in procedural medicine, and a desire to help