Assistant Professor - CHofSA Pediatrics - Cardiology

Department: Pediatrics, Cardiology

Employment Duration: Full-time

Baylor College of Medicine and Department Summary:

Baylor ( www.bcm.edu ) is recognized as one of the nation's premier academic health science centers and is known for excellence in education, research, and healthcare and community service.Baylor is affiliated with multiple educational, healthcare and research affiliates (Baylor Affiliates).

The Children's Hospital of San Antonio has transformed into a world-class children's hospital - both inside and out. In a typical year, we project that we will provided inpatient care to 5,000 children, 80,000 emergency department visits (including our downtown campus and our freestanding pediatric emergency center in Westover Hills), and 73,000 outpatients visits. We were licensed as the first freestanding children's hospital in San Antonio by the Joint Commission on September 18, 2012.

Job Responsibilites:

Provide evaluation and management of children with heart defects, heart failure and other heart related conditions in the ambulatory setting. Admit, evaluate, diagnose, provide consultation to, and provide medical care to patients, including pre- and post-operative care, to correct or treat various conditions of the heart and related blood vessels. Provide complete care of critically ill patients with underlying cardiac conditions in emergency departments, pediatric intensive care units, neonatal intensive care units and maternal-fetal medicine units. Perform non-invasive imaging for patients with heart defects, inclusive of fetal echocardiogram, trans-thoracic echocardiogram, and trans-esophageal echocardiogram. Instruct medical students, residents, Fellows, echo-technicians and other students (e.g., nursing students, dietary students, and pharmacy students) in related fields to Pediatric Cardiology.

Job Qualifications:

Education: MD degree or its foreign equivalent

Licenses: Licensed by the Texas Medical Board (or eligible for same)

Must have completed a Residency in Pediatrics and a Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

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