Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist

Akron Children’s Hospital is seeking a BC / BE hematologist / oncologist who will also serve as a clinical faculty member at the assistant / associate professor level.  The ideal candidate for this position has experience in quality improvement / clinical research, is interested in medical education, and has a clinical focus within benign hematology (especially coagulation and hemoglobinopathies).  Akron Children’s Hospital is a teaching hospital with an AGMCE-accredited Hematology / Oncology fellowship training program and a medical school affiliation with Northeast Ohio Medical University.

Programs at the Akron Children’s Hospital Showers Family Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders include hematology, oncology, stem cell and marrow transplantation, a state-funded sickle cell program and regional hemostasis and thrombosis center.  Hematology / oncology care is provided at our hospital in Akron, our Beeghly campus in Boardman, Ohio, and a monthly outreach clinic in the Amish Community.  The Hematology / Oncology team is currently comprised of 10 faculty members, seventeen advanced practice providers and an extensive team of nursing professionals and support staff.

Each year the center cares for approximately 95 new oncology patients, 15 stem cell / marrow transplant patients, 160 sickle cell patients and 540 bleeding disorder patients.  The staff also provides care through approximately 12,000 patient encounters annually.  Akron Children’s Hospital is a member of the Children’s Oncology Group, houses a pediatric stem cell transplantation center approved by the National Marrow Donor Program, and is one of only 9 pediatric cancer centers in the country verified by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer.