Pediatric Nephrologist

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Department: PCMG-MAIN | Nephrology

Location:

Phoenix

Shift: Mon-Fri, Days, 8am-5pm

Category:
Physician/Div Chief/Med Dir

Posting #: 837568

Employee Type:
Full-Time

Position Summary

Posting Note: Phoenix Children’s is seeking a pediatric nephrologist to join the largest pediatric nephrology program in the Southwest.

The group includes 6 board certified nephrologists and a nurse practitioner. The team provides clinic coverage in six satellite locations in the valley in addition to clinics in Tucson and Yuma. The physicians are active in multi-disciplinary clinics across the hospital including Spina Bifida, Fontan, Stone Clinic, and several others.

The Nephrology division is active inpatient care, providing inpatient service across 484 inpatient beds, including 153 intensive care beds (PICU, CVICU, NICU). Phoenix Children’s currently has Arizona’s only dedicated pediatric dialysis center providing outpatient and inpatient hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, including an active CRRT program. Phoenix Children’s also has the states only dedicated Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program.

Our physical footprint is expanding. It is all to ensure Arizona families have access to high-quality healthcare – right in their own communities. With a comprehensive qua ternary children’s hospital, a free-standing emergency department, two additional community hospital locations opening in 2024, and more than 40 sites of care and clinics, we deliver high-quality care for communities throughout the Southwest. We are made up of more than 1,500 medical staff providers who address health challenges from the everyday to the most complex and from the earliest years onward.

Alongside our colleagues, collaborators, and communities, we are elevating pediatric care, education, and innovation so we can all grow healthier together.

Phoenix Children’s has academic appointments at University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Mayo Medical School, and Creighton Medical School.

Position Requirements

Successful candidates must have:

• MD/DO
• BC in Pediatrics and BE/BC in Pediatric Nephrology
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively with other professionals to advance clinical programs and research.

• Patient Care Services
• Provide patient care services for which he/she is clinically privileged, including but not limited to:
• Provide direct patient care services on an inpatient and outpatient basis
• Provide subspecialty consultations and follow-up.
• Provide diagnostic and therapeutic services/procedures
• Provide these services for urgent/ emergent care as necessary
• Strive to achieve the best patient and family centered care
• Support Hospital’s patient satisfaction goals as well as division’s specific targets
• Support and adhere to divisional patient safety and quality of care standards
• Practices Contemporary Evidence based medicine or latest experience based medicine

• Divisional Responsibilities
• Establish and demonstrate effort to achieve annual physician goals and objectives (e.g. individual, division, hospital)
• Support the medical education programs and activities of the Division, including but not limited to:
• Provide direct supervision of trainees and allied health care professionals for the delivery of inpatient and outpatient services when applicable
• Conduct teaching rounds, lectures and conference for trainees
• Participate in the teaching and supervision of trainees and allied health care professionals assigned to the division
• Participate in the postgraduate continuing educational activities of the division
• Support the research endeavors of the division including the research initiatives by other members of the division
• Support programmatic growth of division
• Supp…