Pediatric Nephrologist - AST/ASO/FULL PROF

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Work type: Multi-Track Faculty
Location: Jacksonville Campus
Categories: Medicine/Physicians
Department:30090000 - JX-PEDIATRICS-JACKSONVILLE

Classification Title:

AST/ASO/FULL PROF

Job Description

This position was originally posted under requisition #85141. All previous applicants do not need to reapply.

University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville is accepting applications for a Pediatric Nephrologist to join the division of Nephrology in the Department of Pediatrics at the Assistant/Associate/Professor level on the multi-mission track.  Rank and Tenure status will commensurate with qualifications. 

The division provides a complete range of inpatient and outpatient pediatric nephrology services, including management of patients with acute and chronic kidney disease, inpatient and outpatient plasmapheresis services, and renal replacement therapy (continuous renal replacement therapy, peritoneal dialysis, and hemodialysis - with and without ECMO).

Our team currently consists of two faculty members, an advanced practice registered nurse, and dedicated Nephrology ancillary support staff.  The Division of Pediatric Nephrology works in close collaboration with the University of Florida Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, the Division of Pediatric Urology at Nemours Children’s Specialty Services, Wolfson Children’s Hospital, and the pediatric renal transplant program at UF Health Gainesville.

The candidate will be responsible for providing coordinated medical care for newborns, children and adolescents with complex nephrology disorders in an outpatient Pediatric Multispecialty Center, inpatient admissions and consultations, day-Hospital management including chronic hemo & peritoneal dialysis unit, and shared night and weekend call.  Education responsibilities include: teaching medical students, residents, and fellows, as well as participating in the development of the pediatric nephrology program.  Participation in monthly department faculty meetings, administrative functions and institutional committees as requested.

Inpatient services are provided at Wolfson Children’s Hospital, a 281 bed full-service tertiary hospital for children in the region, located in downtown Jacksonville.

The UF Health Kidney Transplant Program in Gainesville, Florida has more than five decades of experience in performing kidney transplants and performed the first kidney transplant in the state of Florida in 1966.  Today, UF Health performs solitary kidney and combined kidney and pancreas, liver, heart, or lung transplants. 

With more than 6,200 faculty and staff, UF Health in Jacksonville is the largest UF campus outside of Gainesville. UF Health physicians offer primary care and specialty services in practices throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, tallying more than 650,000 outpatient visits and more than 40,000 inpatient admissions annually.

UF Health in Jacksonville, Florida, is comprised of:

  • UF Health Jacksonville, an academic health center near Downtown Jacksonville and home to the area's only adult and pediatric Level I trauma program
  • UF Health North, a 92-bed hospital and outpatient medical campus in North Jacksonville
  • UF Health Science Center Jacksonville, which encompasses three UF colleges in Jacksonville: Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy
  • UF Jacksonville Physicians, Inc., a network of primary and specialty care centers offering exceptional patient care throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia

The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville is the largest of the three colleges at the Health Science Center Jacksonville. We excel in education, research and patient care that expresses our steadfast values of compassion, excellence, professionalism and innovation. The college's 16 clinical science departments house more than 450 faculty members, 1,560 staff and 384 residents and fellows, as well as medical students from UF and around the country. We offer an incredible breadth of clinical training programs and proud to train many of best primary care providers and specialists throughout the region, the state and the country.

Research, discovery and innovation are critical aspects of our clinical campus and we have some of the country’s leading researchers at our locations searching for and finding new treatments and clinical options.

The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville faculty, administrators, residents, fellows, students and staff work as a team in pursuit of our common mission — to heal, to comfort, to educate and to discover through quality health care, elimination of health disparities, medical education, innovation and research.

To learn more about our college, leadership, mission, faculty resources, and the city of Jacksonville visit https://med.jax.ufl.edu/administrative-affairs/faculty-orientation-guide/.

Expected Salary:

Commensurate with education and experience, based on AAMC salary guidelines for similar academic practices

Minimum Requirements:

Applicants should possess a MD/DO degree, be eligible for medical licensure in the state of Florida and for credentialing at area hospitals, be board-certified in Pediatrics, and be board-eligible/board-certified in pediatric nephrology.

Preferred Qualifications:

 N/A

Special Instructions to Applicants:

The final candidate will be required to provide official transcript to the hiring department upon hire. A transcript will not be considered "official" if a designation of "Issued to Student" is visible. Degrees earned from an education institution outside of the United States are required to be evaluated by a professional credentialing service provider approved by National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES), which can be found at http://www.naces.org/

If an accommodation due to a disability is needed to apply for this position, please call 352-392-2477 or the Florida Relay System at 800-955-8771 (TDD). Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the US. Searches are conducted in accordance with Florida's Sunshine Law.

This position is open until filled. Application review will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Please provide letter of intent and Curriculum Vitae. Send curriculum vitae, the names and addresses of three references and a letter of intent addressed to Frank J. Genuardi, MD, Search Committee Chairman, University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, 653-1 West 8th Street, Jacksonville, FL 32209

Health Assessment Required: Yes

 

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