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Assistant Professor
The Pediatric Teaching Program at Cone Health, a community teaching hospital in Greensboro, NC, affiliated with the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, seeks a full-time or part-time faculty to join its 10 physicians.
The role is unique and centered around true general pediatrics. Faculty will be clinician-educators to residents and students in three clinical venues: a well-baby nursery, caring for term and late preterm babies with over 6000 deliveries per year, an 18-bed pediatric ward with over 2000 admissions each year, and resident acute care clinic.
We are seeking a dynamic and energetic educator who also loves providing patient care to a diverse population.
Responsibilities
Call coverage is approximately once in 7 nights. Other responsibilities include didactic teaching, mentoring, and quality improvement projects. There are no delivery responsibilities. Our decades-long partnership with UNC includes a Pediatric Primary Care Residency based in Greensboro, UNC Categorical residents, 3rd and 4th year medical students, and Hospital Medicine Fellows.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will be BC/BE in Pediatrics or Med/Peds, possess outstanding clinical skills and teaching expertise, and have at least 2 years of experience at the attending level. Board certification in pediatric hospital medicine is not required. Applicants are eligible for a faculty appointment at the UNC School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at the assistant or associate professor level. There are opportunities for clinical, QI, and educational administrative leadership roles.
Application Process
Please send a cover letter, references, and resume to suresh.nagappan@conehealth.com
About the Organization
Cone Health is a regional health system in North Carolina, comprising 5 hospitals. Inpatient pediatric services are provided at the Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, NC.
The teaching service is supported by in-house neonatologists who staff a 45-bed NICU in a state-of-the-art Women’s and Children’s Hospital, pediatric intensive care physicians who staff a 4-bed PICU, pediatric subspecialists, and an ambulatory clinic that serves as the home site for the UNC Pediatric Primary Care Residency. Both the inpatient ward and newborn nursery are supported by nurse practitioners.
About the area. The Greensboro urban area is the 3rd largest in North Carolina with a population of 300,000 people and a regional population of approximately 1 million. Greensboro offers excellent schools along with numerous parks, multi-cultural and sporting events, including the recently opened Tanger Center for Performing Arts, and much more. This family-friendly city is also one of the most diverse mid-size cities in America. For weekend getaways, Greensboro is within easy driving distance to the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area, as well as the pristine beaches of NC, SC, and VA.
Contact Name
Suresh Nagappan
Contact Phone
3368328060
Contact Email
suresh.nagappan@conehealth.com
