Medical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease

On behalf of Dr. Marlene Miller, Pediatrician-in-Chief for University Hospitals and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital (UH/RBC), CareerPhysician, LLC, a leader in academic pediatric leadership recruitment, has initiated a national search to identify a leader to serve in the role as Medical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease.

The Director will have the responsibility to advance the regional and national reputation of the ACHD program and embrace a vision that encompasses the mission values of UH/RBC: To Heal, To Teach, To Discover.

Opportunity Highlights:

  • Currently, the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and the UH/RBC Heart Center has 21 faculty members (13 cardiologists which includes three board certified ACHD providers, three anesthesiologists, four cardiac intensivists, and one congenital heart surgeon), nurses and nurse practitioners, and fellowship trainees dedicated to serve the patients of Northeast Ohio.
  • Services provided include comprehensive surgical program for children and adults with congenital heart disease, state-of-the-art interventional and EP therapeutics, an adult congenital heart team, dedicated cardiac imaging, cardiac anesthesia, and cardiac intensive care.
  • The Heart Center has a dedicated cardiac step-down unit, a new hybrid catheterization and surgical suite within a long-established children’s hospital along with a network of community and regionally based outpatient services. 
  • The UH/RBC Heart Center is an internationally recognized program partner with the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Heart Center in Columbus, OH collectively forming The Congenital Heart Collaborative (TCHC).  This partnership joins resources in providing the most comprehensive highest quality care on both campuses. TCHC is a dedicated service line with a common executive administration and functions as one program on two campuses with the commitment to expand access to high-quality comprehensive cardiac care regardless of patient age to the communities we serve while equally embracing a scholarly and educational mission. TCHC provides excellent cardiothoracic surgical, cardiac interventional, electrophysiologic, and non-invasive services. An example of the success of our partnership is our fetal cardiac interventional service comprised of members from both campuses and based at UH/RBC.
  • Recognized as the top ranked children’s hospital in northern Ohio, UH/RBC is a 244-bed, Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center and principal referral center for Ohio and the region.
  • Academic affiliation with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

For more details about this opportunity, or if you would like to recommend an individual(s) who exemplifies the qualities we are seeking in a candidate, please contact Marcel Barbey at marcel@careerphysican.com, or at 817-707-9034. All interactions will remain confidential and no inquiries will be made without the consent of the applicant.

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