Neonatal Hospitalist (Assistant Professor)

Department Overview

The full-time annual base salary range for this position is: $209,142 to $222,009; commensurate with experience and rank. Base pay does not include incentive pay, hiring bonuses, or additional benefits such as retirement contributions.

About OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital With a strong tradition of teamwork, diversity and interdisciplinary care, we believe all children deserve the best. At Doernbecher, we built a hospital around that belief. It’s why we have more specialists in children’s health than anywhere else in the state. We offer the newest and most advanced treatments available, along with innovative collaborations and research opportunities. As Oregon’s only academic health center, we strive to offer the best medical care to every child across Oregon, Southwest Washington and beyond.

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Function/Duties of Position

The appointee shall provide services as assigned by the division head in furtherance of the university’s missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach and public service. This position provides clinical care coverage at OHSU’s Doernbecher Neonatal Care Center with additional coverage at any of our OHSU affiliated or partner hospitals: PeaceHealth in Vancouver, Washington, OHSU Hillsboro and Adventist Health.

The duties of this position include:

Leadership:

• There are multiple opportunities at regional neonatology facilities and at OHSU.

Clinical Activities:

• This position provides clinical care primary at OHSU’s Doernbecher Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and at a neonatal care center in Vancouver, Washington.. This position works with a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive care to neonatology patients.

Administrative Activities:

• As an OHSU faculty member this person would be required to participate in faculty meetings at the division and department level. All pediatric faculty members are expected to aid the division head and department chair in providing direction to the division and the department both on a day to day basis and as part of ongoing strategic planning and strategic planning.

Scholarly Activities:

• HSU faculty members are expected to have some scholarly activity. This may be limited to educating learners as outlined below, but may also include research, and other grant supported work or academic papers and presentations in disciplines related to their field of expertise. Faculty members are often called upon to partner with other providers and members of the department or division research support staff in research activity. Faculty members are expected to participate in clinical research as needed, often with the help of trained research support staff and senior faculty principal investigators.

Education:

• This position provides clinical education to fellows, residents, medical students, and nurse practitioner students participating in newborn care rotations. As part of the multidisciplinary team charged with educating learners in the neonatology environment, this person would be expected to provide feedback and evaluation, both formally and informally, of learners working in neonatology.

Other Activities:

• Faculty members may be called upon to serve on OHSU committees and in other activities as directed by the department chair or division head in furtherance of division, department, or OHSU goals and objectives.

Required Qualifications

• Applicants should be board-certified/board eligible in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Pediatrics.
• Must be eligible for or currently have Washington and Oregon nursing/medical licenses.
• Recent pediatric newborn experience and skills in neonatal resuscitation following the current NRP guidelines, as well as proficiency in the management of ill newborns is required.
• Applicants should have excellent communication and leadership skills and enjoy working collaboratively with families and other healthcare providers.

Additional Details

• **Apply here online. Please be sure to upload a Cover Letter and Resume or CV.***

Why apply to OHSU?

We are Oregon's only public academic health center. In addition to caring for patients, we lead groundbreaking research. We also train the next generation of health care professionals. As Portland's largest employer, we give you opportunities to learn and advance in a system of hospitals and clinics across Oregon and Southwest Washington. All are welcome. OHSU welcomes people of all ages, ethnicities, genders, national origins, religions and sexual orientations. We are striving to build an anti-racist, multicultural institution and encourage people with diverse backgrounds to apply.