Liver Transplant Program Surgical Director Position Available In Shelby, Tennessee

Liver Transplant Program Surgical Director
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
Memphis, Tennessee
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Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare strives to be an employer of choice and establish a reputation for being a talent rich organization where Associates can grow their career caring for others. For over a century, we’ve served the health care needs of the people of Memphis and the Mid-South.
Working at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare means carrying the mission forward of caring for our community and impacting the lives of patients in every way through compassion, a deliberate focus on service expectations and a consistent thriving for excellence.
What you will do
The Methodist Transplant Institute, in partnership with The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), is accepting applications for a senior transplant surgeon to serve as the Surgical Director of liver transplantation. As a leader in the field of organ transplantation for more than 40 years, this transplant program provides liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation, living donor organ transplantation, and hepatobiliary surgery to patients with end stage organ disease in the Midsouth.
The ideal candidate for the surgical director would have greater than 10 years post fellowship experience in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. The surgical director should be a charismatic, skilled leader with a track record of supporting excellent patient outcomes, fostering program growth, and ensuring compliance with UNOS and OPTN rules and bylaws. The director should be able to build relationships with community and internal partners, as the director will be joining an established liver transplant program.
The current transplant program boasts an active practice in deceased donor adult and pediatric liver transplantation. There is an existing foundation to re-initiate this program’s living donor liver transplant program. The surgical director would work side by side with the medical directors and senior administrative director of transplant to ensure high quality patient outcomes while broadening the reach of the Methodist Transplant Institute.
The surgical director should be fellowship trained in an ASTS accredited abdominal transplant fellowship as well as be board certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery.
Participation in the training of medical students, general surgery residents and transplant surgery fellows is expected. Opportunities to participate in clinical and translational research exist through our endowed Transplant Research Institute.
Supervision of advanced practice providers is required.
The liver transplant surgical director will model behavior as exemplified in MLH Mission, Vision and Values.
Salary and benefits package will be competitive and commensurate with experience.
Education/Formal Training Requirements
MD/DO
• Completion of an accredited American Board of Surgery general surgery residency program and an ASTS-approved fellowship program in solid organ transplantation
Work Experience Requirements
Board certified with a minimum of 10 years of liver transplant surgery experience
Candidates must meet the

OPTN/UNOS

Certification for primary liver transplant surgeon and must be actively performing liver transplants in their current position
Proven leadership ability along with excellent team building, collaboration, as well as exceptional verbal and written communication skills
Licenses and Certifications Requirements
Licensed Physician Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners
American Board of Surgery Certification