Medical Director, PM&R Outpatient Rehabilitation – Brown Academic Appointment

Brown University Health has an opening for an experienced board-certified physiatrist with an interest in neurorehabilitation to join our growing, academically oriented Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department. Our outpatient locations are in Providence and Newport, RI.

About the job:

• Serve as the medical supervisor of outpatient rehabilitation services
• Time is split roughly 25% administrative, 75% clinical
• Provide direct patient care as well as management of the multi-site outpatient PM&R team
• Partner with the Chief of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Senior Vice President of Brown University Health, and outpatient PM&R staff physicians to set goals and priorities for program development
• Work primarily with general, musculoskeletal, and neurorehabilitation services
• Provide care on a lifelong basis, including related medical, physical, psychological, and vocational disabilities and complications
• Champion the transdisciplinary approach, providing evidence-based and goal-directed care across all environments
• Onsite dedicated therapists (PT, OT, SLP, Audiology and Aquatic)
• Partner with education, social, and community services
• Guided Ultrasound for office-based procedures
• Weekend Call for the acute inpatient rehabilitation unit (IRU) is 1:7 week
• Brown Academic appointment in the Department of Neurology
• EMR – Epic

 About you:

• Board certified in PM&R
• Fellowship training preferred
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Clinical and Leadership experience

The benefits:

• Competitive compensation 
• Malpractice Insurance covered with tail 
• CME/licensing/privileges/DEA allowance $3,500 per year 
• Excellent academic networking opportunities 

About us: 
The Department of PM&R includes multiple outpatient clinics, with a focus on neurorehabilitation, including concussion/TBI, spinal cord injury, and spasticity management. We also manage general rehabilitation patients with musculoskeletal needs, prosthetics and orthotics, wheelchair management, and oncological rehabilitation. 

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Formed in 1994, Brown University Health is a not-for-profit health system based in Providence, RI comprising three teaching hospitals of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University: Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children's; The Miriam Hospital; and Bradley Hospital, the nation’s first psychiatric hospital for children; Newport Hospital, Saint Anne's Hospital and Morton Hospital, community hospitals offering a broad range of health services; Gateway Healthcare, the state’s largest provider of community behavioral health care; and Brown Health Medical Group, the largest multi-specialty practice in Rhode Island.

Brown University Health teaching hospitals are among the country’s top recipients of research funding from the US National Institutes of Health. The hospitals received $145 million in external research funding in fiscal 2023. All Brown University Health hospitals are charitable organizations that depend on support from the community to provide programs and services.