Section Chief - Pediatric Hepatology, Medical Director of Pediatric Liver Transplant (M89496)

Section Chief of Pediatric Hepatology & Medical Director of Pediatric Liver Transplant - M89496

Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU - Richmond, VA

Mission or Goal of Unit: The mission of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology is to provide exceptional, accessible gastrointestinal and nutrition care for infants, children, and teens by delivering comprehensive services, timely testing, and urgent support across CHoR’s downtown and community locations—ensuring every child receives expert, compassionate care close to home.

Chief Purpose of this Position in Support of the Above Mission or Goal: The Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Children’s Hospital of Richmond (CHoR) is devoted to excellence in clinical care, teaching, and clinical, translational, and basic research. We are seeking a full-time BC/BE pediatric hepatologist to join our division. CHoR is a full-service children's hospital that offers robust pediatric clinical care, research, and education. Applicants should have experience in both pediatric hepatology and transplantation. This position will offer a faculty rank in the VCU School of Medicine with affiliation in the Department of Surgery and assist in the enrichment of a multidisciplinary pediatric transplantation core team at CHoR. Candidates will be part of a dynamic effort to enhance an academic gastroenterology center. Resources are available to assist in establishing a comprehensive pediatric team including availability of nursing, nutrition, and psychology support. Research and other scholarly activity are encouraged, and opportunities exist for collaborative research.

Responsibilities: 

• Teaching: Faculty member will have teaching responsibilities in the area of Hepatology. Faculty member will provide guidance and mentorship to Residents and Chief Residents in GI.
• Research: Faculty member will have experience in securing revenue through grants and contracts and will serve as a research mentor to other members of the division and the Department of Pediatrics.
• Service: Faculty member will serve on departmental or School of Medicine level committees when appropriate, as well as professional through journal review, conference presentations.
• Clinical: Faculty member will provide clinical support within the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology in support of clinical mission of CHoR of VCU Health System. 

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• Board Certification/Board Eligible in Pediatrics
• Board Certification/Board Eligible in Pediatric Gastroenterology
• Board Certification/Board Eligible in Pediatric Transplant Hepatology
• Experience with clinical care of patients ages birth to 21
• Experience with education of house staff, medical students, and others
• Experience with research
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated experience working in and fostering an environment of respect, professionalism, and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from various backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU

Preferred Qualifications

• Sub-board and or additional graduate degree
• Experience with advocacy at local, state, and national levels
• Success in generating revenue (grants/contracts)

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The Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Pediatrics is dedicated to providing comprehensive, compassionate, state-of-the-art pediatric health care, research and education at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU, a full-service children’s hospital within the VCU Medical Center. CHoR offers a robust continuum of pediatric services, research and education, and is the region’s only full-service children’s hospital. CHoR provides emergency, primary, secondary, advanced, tertiary and long-term care. CHoR has 11 locations across Central Virginia and provides more than 42 pediatric medical/surgical services.

There is energy and momentum around advancing children’s health in Richmond, and we have marked a new milestone. Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU recently opened a multi-story, high-tech ambulatory pavilion for pediatric services.  The new facility will meet the growing need for outpatient services for children in our community.

CHoR's outpatient pavilion is the largest, most advanced outpatient facility dedicated to children in the region. The new pavilion includes diagnostic and treatment services for children, bringing together the majority of outpatient pediatric services currently on the MCV campus to one location. It is designed to meet the unique health care needs of children, and to provide Richmond the most advanced and coordinated care possible:

The facility is a 640,000 square foot, multi-story building and includes a 7-story parking deck with more than 600 spaces.
The new pavilion houses 72 exam rooms arranged in clinic pods to optimize a multidisciplinary care model. Each pod includes 12 exam rooms, a treatment room, support space and a centralized clinical team.
The new pavilion features pediatric-dedicated imaging, surgical and endoscopy procedure rooms, as well as pediatric faculty offices.
The pavilion is designed with future expansion in mind. It can accommodate additional clinic pods and operating rooms, as demand for these services increases.

Virginia Commonwealth University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

When we break ground on a new facility, it’s about more than bricks and mortar. It’s just like we tell our children— it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Over the past three years, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU has increased pediatric faculty to more than 130 clinicians focused on 42 specialty areas and providing access to children’s health care from more than 11 locations throughout the region. It’s these dedicated physicians and an extensive network of pediatric-trained nurses, child-life specialists, therapists, social workers and ancillary medical staff, who will continue providing health care designed especially for children.