Hematologist – Malignant Hematology

Hematologist – Malignant Hematology (Vacant)
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Hematologist - Malignant Hematology (Vacant)
Description The Department of Medicine and the Division of Hematology (Ottawa Blood Disease Centre) at the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital is looking for a hematologist to join in our expansion and to lead in clinical care, education and research as a full-time academic faculty member.

The Division of Hematology (Ottawa Blood Disease Centre) is a large group of 41 faculty that work within a group practice plan within the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital academic centre. The Division has three well-defined and successful clinical and research programs:
Malignant Hematology, Thrombosis and Benign Hematology. Within the Malignant Hematology Program, the TCT Program is a FACT-accredited referral centre for allogeneic and autologous transplantation and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies. The program performs over 300 cellular therapy procedures annually for hematologic malignancies and non-hematologic diseases and includes research protocols.

The medical staff of TCT Program include 8 transplant specialists in a shared practice model and a large, dedicated support team made up of clinical associates, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioner, pharmacists, and allied health.

Academically, the division and department support undergraduate and postgraduate training, including subspecialty fellowship trainees in all three of our programs. Members have access to research services through the Office of Research Support and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute houses experts in broad areas of clinical epidemiology, statistical support, transfusion medicine research, patient decision-making, and knowledge translation. The Department of Medicine supports clinical academic work through a competitive academic incentive program.

The Ottawa Hospital is a 1150 bed tertiary-care hospital serving Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec at four inpatient sites (Civic, General, Heart Institute, and the Rehabilitation Centre) and one ambulatory centre (Riverside). There are approximately 50,000 inpatient admissions, 160,000 emergency visits and over one million outpatient visits annually. Ground-breaking medical research is conducted through The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.

We rank 5th in Canada for competitive, peer-reviewed grants from the prestigious Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Over 2,300 researchers are publishing more than 2,200 studies yearly, with hundreds being high-impact publications (top 10% or citations).The Department of Medicine is a research-intensive Department. Members currently hold 25 University Research Chairs. The Department receives approximately $60 million per year in external research funding and members publish approximately 1200 peer-reviewed publications annually.

The Faculty of Medicine is a nationally recognized leader, ranked among Canada’s top-tier medical faculties. As the most research-intensive Faculty at the University of Ottawa, the Faculty of Medicine contributes significantly to the University being ranked 5th in the country for total research revenues (Research Info Source), routinely 2nd or 3rd in Canada for research intensity in Medicine/Science grants (McLean’s), 4th in Canada for citations (2022 THE rankings) and 1st for overall growth in Tri-council funding over the past two decades.

The University of Ottawa is the largest bilingual (English/French) university in the world and the Faculty of Medicine first and largest bilingual medical school in Canada. The Faculty of Medicine has a long history of conducting the highest quality basic and clinical research, in close partnership with five affiliated academic hospitals and six research institutes. The Web of Science recently published a list of the most highly cited researchers in the world, where seven out of eight researchers identified from the uOttawa are from the Faculty of Medicine.

Together, these remarkable achievements are a strong testament to the competitiveness and excellence of our Faculty that extend to…