Exciting Opportunity : Join the Cornea Division at WakeForest’s Department of Ophthalmology as an Academic FacultyPhysician.

The Department of Ophthalmology at Atrium

Health Wake Forest Baptist / Wake Forest University School of

Medicine is recruiting an Academic Faculty Physician to join the

Cornea Division.

Department Description :

The Department of Ophthalmology at

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist currently employs 23 faculty in a

collaborative and congenial environment. The cornea division

includes three full-time clinical cornea faculty and one of the

premier corneal fellowships in the country. We have experienced

steady growth in clinical and surgical volume that will be

accelerated as we move into a new free-standing Eye Institute in

2026. We are a regional leader with established tertiary referrals

and a large catchment area that encompasses all of Western North

Carolina, as well as Eastern Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina,

and West Virginia. Moreover, we are part of the third largest

non-profit health system in the country due to our strategic

partnership with Atrium Health, now part of Advocate Health. As

part of this strategic alignment, Atrium Health Wake Forest

Baptist, located in Winston-Salem, NC, serves as the academic core

of the entire health system.

Our department

currently trains four ophthalmology residents per class, as well as

three vitreoretinal fellows, one cornea fellow, and one glaucoma

fellow. In addition, we plan to add a pediatric ophthalmology

fellow in the upcoming year. We have the responsibility of

educating Wake Forest University medical students both through the

general surgery clerkship and the 4-week elective in ophthalmology.

Our faculty have ample opportunity to participate in resident and

medical student education, and clinical research and

industry-funded clinical trials. Our department also has a strong

commitment to service. Members of our faculty, residents, and

medical students participate in two international trips to Honduras

each year, serve uninsured patients in a local free clinic, and

conduct annual vision and eye health screening in the community.

Candidate Qualifications and / or

Preferences : MD or MD / PhD

Board certified or board eligible in

ophthalmology

Completion of fellowship

training in medical and surgical cornea

North

Carolina unrestricted medical licensure or eligible

About Us

Wake Forest Baptist Health and Atrium

Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will

enhance care, transform medical education and create economic

opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a

part of that combination, the two health systems will be

integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites

Hannah Payne, hannah.payne@advocatehealth.org