Position Summary
The Department of Pediatrics at UNC Childrens is recruiting a Division Chief and Regional Campus Leader to lead and expand this multispecialty childrens specialty groups clinical education and research activities. The current Wilmington Pediatric Specialty Division is comprised of 25 MDs 30 APPs and 7 staff members spread across 6 inpatient and outpatient facilities. The Division Chief and Regional Campus Leader is expected to grow the current subspecialties and volume of patients at each of these sites while expanding into further clinical settings. The leader will also liaise with the UNC SOM Wilmington Campus to provide learning and training opportunities for medical students residents and subspecialty fellows. UNC Novant recently awarded capacity building grants across both institutions and the leader will be instrumental in facilitating clinical research and clinical trials in the coastal region. The Wilmington Pediatric Specialty Division is based in the large regional campus in Wilmington NC but also staffs outreach activities and regional hospitals in the area. This division provides a wide range of essential inpatient and outpatient pediatric care services has research and quality improvement programs and plays a central educational role for expanding residency programs at the NC Coast. This position will be hired by University of North Carolina UNC School of Medicine in the open rank variable term track. This multispecialty academic practice and childrens hospital is part of an innovative partnership between UNC and Novant Health to provide specialty care to children from communities throughout southeastern and coastal NC. The Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NH NHRMC facility and Betty H. Cameron Womens and Childrens Hospital is a full spectrum communitybased childrens hospital that serves as the tertiary care childrens hospital for southeastern NC. At NH NHRMC there are approximately 4500 deliveries per year and almost 3000 admissions with referrals from multiple other centers in our region. The pediatric care at NH NHRMC includes full spectrum specialty care including hospitalists neonatology pediatric critical care cardiology neurology pulmonology gastroenterology and endocrinology. The almost 80 clinicians in the group are clinicallyfocused but with increasing educational and research roles at a regional community childrens hospital with a strong connection to a large academic group and quaternary childrens hospital. Private physician groups provide pediatric specialty care in surgery anesthesia oral and maxillofacial surgery radiology and ophthalmology. There is a sixbed pediatric intensive care unit and an eighteenbed pediatric acute care floor. This campus has expanding trainee presence including up to 60 UNC SOM medical students for 3rd and 4th years and consideration of a pediatrics residency. The UNC NH partnership is also making significant investments in research at the Wilmington campus. Wilmington NC is a charming coastal city of 125000 people located in the southeastern corner of North Carolina between the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean. It is a popular destination because of its moderate fourseason climate historic preservation district annual cultural events and numerous championship golf courses. The historic downtown offers a 1.75mile River walk and the nearby Wrightsville Carolina and Kure Beaches are all within halfhour drives from downtown Wilmington. Candidates must be BC/BE in the respective specialty and have proven leadership skills. This is a fulltime faculty position but salary benchmarks will be at private/community levels. Appointment is as a faculty member at the UNC School of Medicine Dept of Pediatrics. Time will be supported for the leadership role. Clinical time will be spent providing pediatric specialty inpatient and/or outpatient care.
Preferred Qualifications Competencies And Experience
Preferred Qualifications: * Strong leadership effective interpersonal teambuilding and communication skills
Required Experience:
Chief