Ochsner Children's Hospital in New Orleans is recruiting a pediatric cardiologist to direct our Pediatric Heart Failure / Heart Transplant Program .
This position includes care of patients with cardiomyopathies, heart failure, transplant, congenital heart disease, and ventricular assist devices.
Candidates would be joining two heart failure / heart transplant cardiologists and a newly hired heart failure / transplant physician assistant in the only pediatric heart transplant center in Louisiana.
The transplant team is supported by dedicated transplant coordinators, transplant psychologist, transplant social worker, transplant pharmacist, and palliative care team.
Ochsner Health has all pediatric cardiac sub-specialties including EP, ACHD, interventional cardiology, imaging including echocardiography and cardiac MRI and CT, and fetal cardiology.
We have 3 congenital heart surgeons and a dedicated pediatric cardiac intensive care unit.
Ochsner is an active participant in PHTS and ACTION. Interested applicants should be BC / BE in pediatric cardiology and have completed an advanced fellowship in pediatric heart failure / heart transplant or minimum of 5 years of experience in the field.
In addition to patient care, the physician will be responsible for the education of Tulane-Ochsner pediatric residents and medical students, and our own University of Queensland medical students.
Our comprehensive Pediatrics Program including primary care pediatricians and pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists (Ochsner Children'sTM) represents over 230 physicians.
The group is the region's leading integrated provider of multispecialty care for newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
We offer a full range of pediatric complex specialty services including congenital heart surgery and cardiac transplantation, liver and bone marrow transplantation, a comprehensive surgical sub-specialty group, and the region's only comprehensive multidisciplinary developmental center.
We recently announced the building of a new separate, comprehensive, dedicated Children's Hospital on our main campus, with expected opening in 2027.
We currently care for patients in an expanding 67-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 14-bed PICU, a 12-bed pediatric CV-ICU, and a 44-bed pediatric acute unit, with a dedicated pediatric emergency room, and full-time, region-wide in-house pediatric and neonatal transport teams.
In addition to patient care, Ochsner Children's Hospital has an ACGME-accredited pediatric residency program and is responsible for teaching pediatric residents from the Tulane-Ochsner Pediatric Residency program as well as medical students from both Tulane and the University of Queensland.
Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana recently announced an agreement to establish a joint College of Medicine.
About Ochsner Children's
Ranked #1 Children's Hospital in Louisiana for the third year in a row and as a top children's hospital nationally for the seventh year in a row by U.
S. News & World Report in 2023-24. Ochsner Children's Hospital was also recognized as a national leader in the most recent rankings in two specialties : Pediatric Cardiology and Heart Surgery, and Pediatric Orthopedics.
Ochsner Children's Hospital continues to be a top destination for pediatric care in the Gulf South region through an unwavering commitment to always putting patients first.
Ochsner Children's offers a full range of pediatric care from primary to quaternary care, with services offered in all subspecialties, including Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Advanced GI and Hepatology, Advanced Orthopedic Surgery, Hematology-Oncology, Cleft Palate / Cranio-Facial Surgery, as well as heart, liver, and bone marrow transplant.
Ochsner Children's is a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to complex conditions. Ochsner Children's Hospital is the top congenital heart program in the state (both in volume and outcomes) and has the largest and most comprehensive pediatric liver transplant program in the Gulf South.
Ochsner also maintains 28 primary care locations across southern Louisiana and 30 subspecialty locations (Including the Shaquille O'Neal Pediatric Super Clinic in Baton Rouge);
and the Boh Center for Child Development, a dedicated multidisciplinary developmental pediatrics center.
If you would like more information about our program or would like to discuss this position with Dr. Katya Boucek, Director of Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device Program , please contact Courtney Lawhun, Physician Recruiter, at [email protected] .
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