Description
If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. We invite physicians to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds, and visionaries together in our blood and marrow transplantation section in Charlotte, NC.
Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, NC is recruiting a Board-Certified Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist with specialized training in pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BMT) and Cellular therapies to join their team. The hospital offers comprehensive transplant services and is an approved site for CAR-T therapies and sickle cell disease treatments.
Position Highlights:
State of the Art Facility - We currently have a dedicated 8-bed cellular therapies unit with a dedicated play space and ability to expand when needed. Perform autologous, matched sibling, unrelated donor, cord blood, and haploidentical donor transplants. We are also an approved site for CAR-T cell therapies with multiple commercial agents.
Well-Established and Diverse Program - for patients with sickle cell disease seeking curative therapy. This includes matched sibling and alternative donor transplants as well as being an authorized treatment center for Casgevy. The BMT program is FACT accredited and is a COG and NMDP Transplant Center.
Team Based Care - Collaboration with a large and growing adult BMT program. We currently have 4 BMT physicians, 3 Advanced Care Practitioners, 2 coordinators and a growing team to meet the needs of 40+ transplant patients/year.
Quality of Life - Responsibilities for the new physician will include patient care in both the inpatient and outpatient facilities. The inpatient service is managed by our APP’s and night hospitalist service.
Levine Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders is a growing center of excellence for pediatric hematology and oncology care and cellular therapies. Ranked in USNWR, we provide access to a full spectrum of therapies for hematology and oncology diagnoses including, but not limited to, gene editing, bone marrow transplant and cellular therapies, an expansive and diverse clinical trial portfolio, and proton beam therapy. We are a federally designated hemophilia treatment center, and an expanding Lifespan Sickle Cell treatment center. Our outpatient clinic is in a beautiful, newly-renovated space, alongside a large, newly renovated infusion center and adjacent to Levine Children’s Hospital. Our team is a large, growing and diverse team of providers, nurses, patient navigators, social workers, psychologists, supportive care staff, and integrative modality providers working together to provide comprehensive care and healing to all our patients.
Levine Children’s Hospital, a part of Atrium Health, has taken us to another level of service to care for the growing population of children in our region. Consistently ranked as one of the top Children’s Hospitals by U.S. News and World Report, it is the most comprehensive children’s hospital between Atlanta and Washington, DC, helping families stay closer to home. There are 12 floors with 234 patient beds, including a 20-bed PICU. Carolinas Medical Center serves as the Charlotte campus of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and all our faculty are appointed through the University.
Charlotte, NC is a rapidly growing and vibrant city with approximately 2.4 million people in the metro area. It is 2 hours from the mountains and 3 hours from the beach. Charlotte is the largest city in the Carolinas and is home to professional basketball and football teams. With several local theater groups, several renowned museums, a symphony orchestra and a performing arts center, Charlotte has something for everyone.
When you join Atrium Health, you will be welcomed into a culture that celebrates and respects the contributions teams can make together. Practice where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you receive the resources and support that you need to thrive personally and professionally. In our nationally-renowned integrated health system, you will work alongside advanced minds to improve medicine and redefine care for ALL.
Interested?
Please submit your curriculum vitae to Lexy.Doane@advocatehealth.org
Requirements
Ideal Candidate:
- Completed additional training in Pediatric BMT and Cellular therapies following Pediatric Hematology and Oncology fellowship.
- A focus on malignant disease is appreciated; however, we are a balanced clinically focused group, and all interested applicants would be considered regardless of clinical focus.
