Illinois Cardiovascular Surgery Job

Physician Job Info.

Facility:	Advocate Christ Medical Center
Location:	Oaklawn, Illinois USA
Degree:	MD
Years Partnership:	N/A
Board Status:	Board Certified
Beginning Comp.:	Negotiable
Potential Comp.:	Negotiable
Perm/Locum:	Perm ASAP
Workload:	Full Time
Position Type:	Hospital
Skills:	Academic / Research Cardiovascular Surgery Invasive / Interventional
Company:	Advocate Christ Medical Center

Transplant Cardiologist

About ACMC:

Advocate Christ Medical Center, part of Advocate Health Care, is a leading academic medical center located in the suburbs of Chicago. ACMC is one of the nation’s leaders in VAD technology, including destination programs. Other notable accomplishments include:

The largest provider of cardiac surgery in Illinois.
First in the United States to implant a HeartMate2 LVAD for destination therapy.
One of the top five hospitals nationally for LVAD surgeries and the first program in Illinois (2nd program nationally) to receive Joint Commission disease specific VAD certification.
First in Illinois to perform robotically assisted mitral-valve repair surgery.
Perform more than 5,000 procedures each year in our cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs.
Recipient of Joint Commission disease specific certification for the treatment of patients with congestive heart failure.

Since January 2008, the ACMC Heart Transplant Center has performed five heart transplants with excellent outcomes and expects to perform 15-20 transplants annually.

Description:

Advocate Christ Medical Center (ACMC), seeks an experienced heart failure transplant cardiologist for our rapidly growing Heart Transplant Center. This position involves all aspects of evaluation and clinical care of heart transplant patients including but not limited to management of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), pulmonary hypertension, inpatient and outpatient cardiac transplantation, and ventricular assist devices (VADs). There are also significant opportunities for clinical research in heart failure and cardiac transplantation.

Qualifications:

The selected candidate must be board certified in cardiovascular disease and have a strong heart transplant / heart failure background with a primary focus in cardiac transplantation. The candidate should also meet the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) criteria for transplant cardiologists.

Interested candidates please contact: Geetha Bhat, Ph.D., M.D., F.A.C.C. Medical Director Cardiac Transplant and Mechanical Device Program Advocate Christ Medical Center System wide Physician Leader, Cardiac Transplantation Advocate Healthcare

About Illinois Cardiovascular Surgery Jobs

Cardiovascular Surgery jobs are regulated by the Illinois Medical Board. As part of the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation, the mission of the Illinois Medical Licensing and Disciplinary Boards is to serve, safeguard, and promote the public welfare by ensuring that licensure qualifications and standards for professional practice are properly evaluated, accurately applied and vigorously enforced. These boards advise the Department and the Secretary on the qualifications of applicants for licensure as physicians in Illinois as well as on the appropriate form of discipline for misconduct by medical professionals.

Source: http://www.idfpr.com/dpr/default.asp