Academic Neonatologist

Step into a Neonatology opportunity designed with healing and comfort in mind.

The new Children’s Hospital goes above and beyond to address the intangibles of care. Every detail carefully planned to provide the best environment for our patients, their families and our staff.

If you are up for the challenge to reimagine the future of healthcare, join Dr. John Pardalos and the pediatric neonatology team and be a part of this exciting adventure as it unfolds.

Opportunity Highlights:

• New State-of-the-art comprehensive Level III NICU
• 62 private NICU rooms each with a couch so parents can stay
• Multi-disciplinary team approach
• Access to 30 pediatric subspecialties
• Clinical, research and educational opportunities to foster growth and expansion.
• Competitive salary, and great university benefits including 8% retirement match

Responsibilities:

• 24 weeks of service per year
• Rotate between 4 different teams
• Only 6-8 weeks coverage per year on the high acuity team
• Home call - 42 nights/ year
• Attending coverage in the Newborn Intensive Care unit
• Working with our excellent Neonatal Nurse Practitioners
• Teach medical students, residents, and fellows
• Participate in a follow-up clinic for high-risk patients that are discharged from the NICU to provide continuity of care
• Participation in outreach opportunities with Capital Region Medical Center in various locations throughout Missouri.

About Columbia, MO: 

Be surprised by what Columbia has to offer from picturesque parks to award winning cuisine to amazing art and superb shopping. Columbia is “more than a college town” and “surprisingly sophisticated.”

§  Rated as one of the Top 10 most livable college towns in America by Strategistico.com July 2022

• #6 Most affordable outdoorsy paces to live by Realator.com June 2022
• #28 of the Best Places to Live in the US from CBS News April 2022
• 20% Population growth since 2016, low cost of living and great schools

About Missouri University Health Care (MUHC) and University of Missouri (Mizzou): 

The School of Medicine partners with both MU Health Care (MUHC) and the University of Missouri campus. Highlights include: 

·         MUHC has one of the highest employee engagement scores in the Midwest

·         Recognized as one of the “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare” by Becker’s Hospital Review

·         MUHC has consistently been named one of the nation’s “Most Wired” health systems by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)

·         Missouri’s largest public research university with an average enrollment of 35,000 students

·         One of only five universities nationwide with law, medicine, veterinary medicine and a nuclear research reactor on one campus

If the prospect of changing the future of healthcare is exciting to you, please contact Lori Schutte at lschutte@health.missouri.edu.