Medical Director of Pediatric Advanced Heart Therapies

We invite you to explore an extraordinary leadership opportunity as the Medical Director of Pediatric Advanced Heart Therapies at The Congenital Heart Center at Levine Children’s Hospital
. As an experienced pediatric heart failure and transplant cardiologist, you’ll lead and join a thriving program and growing faculty at one of the nation’s premier children’s hospitals, located in Charlotte, North Carolina
.

Repeatedly ranked among the Best Children’s Hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report
– and ranked among the nation’s best for cardiology and heart surgery for the past 18 years
– Atrium Health Levine Children’s is the largest and most comprehensive children’s hospital between Washington, D.C. and Atlanta
, helping families stay closer to home. The hospital’s Congenital Heart Center, established in 2010, is ranked
in 2025-26 as #8 nationally for cardiology and heart surgery
.

When you join Atrium Health, you’ll be welcomed into an inclusive culture where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In this nationally renowned integrated health system, you can work alongside some of the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine, elevate hope and advance healing for all.

As Medical Director, you will lead and advance the strategic vision of the program, in addition to participating in clinical research and national committees. The Congenital Heart Center is an active participant in the Pediatric Heart Transplant Society and ACTION.

The Pediatric Advanced Therapies Program currently has two MD’s, two dedicated APP’s, 3 VAD/transplant RN coordinators, a dietician and a social worker. The Congenital Heart Team includes 17 cardiologists, three congenital heart surgeons, eight cardiac intensivists, three pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists, two pediatric cardiac radiologists, 20 APPs (including three surgical APPs), 16 sonographers, five nurse navigators and nine dedicated RN’s.

The center’s comprehensive congenital heart services include advanced cardiac imaging, dedicated cardiovascular intensive care staff members, and regional referral programs in heart failure/transplantation, cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, adult congenital heart disease and fetal echocardiography.

The Pediatric Advanced Therapies Program has experienced exponential growth, becoming the largest transplant center in the region for the past five years. Here you will have an active pediatric advanced medical support program and use all devices. In addition, a state-of-the-art two lab cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology suite was opened in 2017, with dedicated staffing and anesthesia teams. In December 2020, a new outpatient office complex opened which is designed to treat all patients from fetal cardiology to ACHD.

Plus, Levine Children’s has one of the most comprehensive Cardiac Neurodevelopment programs in the Southeast, providing many specialty services to congenital heart patients in the same office suite. Participation in investigator-initiated and multi-center industry-sponsored studies is ongoing within the Heart Center, with the support of an active clinical research department and close alignment with the Atrium Health adult cardiology counterparts within the Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute.

The Medical Director will work closely with the Chief of Pediatric Cardiology and the Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery Chief and will clinically rotate equally on Heart Transplant/Heart Failure Inpatient and Outpatient Services. You must also meet the qualifications as the primary pediatric heart transplant physician as delineated by the OTPN and oversee patient care, strategic vision, program development, administration, safety and quality of the program.

Levine Children’s Hospital is a state-of-the‑art,11 floor, 234-bed facility in beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina, and includes a PICU and CVICU covered 24/7 by in‑house intensivists, as well as a Progressive Care Unit, Inpatient Observation Unit, Pediatric Rehab Unit…