Neonatologist (M67717)

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Physician (M67717)

Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU - Richmond, VA

Mission or Goal of Unit: Children’s Hospital of Richmond of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System has committed itself to transforming the NICU into a model academic unit devoted to excellence in clinical care, teaching, and clinical, translational, and basic research in neonatal disease and service delivery. The Division of Neonatal Medicine is comprised of 13 neonatologists whose expertise include medical education, quality improvement science, medical ethics, epidemiology, and clinical and basic research.  The Division oversees the only referral tertiary level IV NICU located within the Critical Care Wing of the VCU Health Medical Center, directly connected to the High-Risk Labor and Delivery Service.  The NICU serves families and high-risk infants in a state of the art single room designed 40 bed NICU at Children’s Hospital of Richmond.  Each room accommodates parents for overnight stays and couplet care.

Chief Purpose of this position: The Department of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System is seeking a full-time Neonatologist with interests and/or experience in neonatal medicine education, research, quality improvement or mentorship.  Expected responsibilities include clinical care, neonatal follow-up, ECMO, hypothermia treatment, and teaching responsibilities.  In addition, there are strong opportunities to continue or establish efforts and initiatives in fellowship education, including leadership, in program development or in clinical or bench research, depending on background and interest. Neonatologist who will provide a mix of direct clinical care, clinical or QA/QI activities, didactic and bedside teaching for students, residents and fellows, and pursuit of a plan of academic efforts that may include research or other activities that meet the needs of the division and the individual.

Position Responsibilities: 

• Teaching: Faculty member will have teaching responsibilities within the clinical services of the division. Faculty member will provide teaching and mentorship to medical students, Residents, Chief Residents, and Fellows when applicable.
• Research: Faculty member will participate in scholarly research activities that can include basic science, clinical, translational, or other research endeavors.
• Service: Faculty member will serve on divisional, departmental, or School of Medicine level committees when appropriate, and engage in professional activities through journal review, conference presentations, etc.
• Clinical: Faculty member will serve as a Neonatologist for the Department of Pediatrics. Clinical schedule will include weekends, holidays, and nights.
• Other: Faculty member will take on administrative duties associated with this role.

Required Qualifications:

• Board certified in Pediatrics and board eligible/certified in Neonatal medicine
• Experience with clinical care 
• Experience in an academic medical center
• Experience with scholarly research activities
• Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment or commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU
• NRP certification

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The Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Pediatrics is dedicated to providing comprehensive, compassionate, state-of-the-art pediatric health care, research and education at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU, a full-service children’s hospital within the VCU Medical Center. CHoR offers a robust continuum of pediatric services, research and education, and is the region’s only full-service children’s hospital. CHoR provides emergency, primary, secondary, advanced, tertiary and long-term care. CHoR has 11 locations across Central Virginia and provides more than 42 pediatric medical/surgical services.

There is energy and momentum around advancing children’s health in Richmond, and we have marked a new milestone. Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU recently opened a multi-story, high-tech ambulatory pavilion for pediatric services.  The new facility will meet the growing need for outpatient services for children in our community.

CHoR's outpatient pavilion is the largest, most advanced outpatient facility dedicated to children in the region. The new pavilion includes diagnostic and treatment services for children, bringing together the majority of outpatient pediatric services currently on the MCV campus to one location. It is designed to meet the unique health care needs of children, and to provide Richmond the most advanced and coordinated care possible:

The facility is a 640,000 square foot, multi-story building and includes a 7-story parking deck with more than 600 spaces.
The new pavilion houses 72 exam rooms arranged in clinic pods to optimize a multidisciplinary care model. Each pod includes 12 exam rooms, a treatment room, support space and a centralized clinical team.
The new pavilion features pediatric-dedicated imaging, surgical and endoscopy procedure rooms, as well as pediatric faculty offices.
The pavilion is designed with future expansion in mind. It can accommodate additional clinic pods and operating rooms, as demand for these services increases.

Virginia Commonwealth University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

When we break ground on a new facility, it’s about more than bricks and mortar. It’s just like we tell our children— it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Over the past three years, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU has increased pediatric faculty to more than 130 clinicians focused on 42 specialty areas and providing access to children’s health care from more than 11 locations throughout the region. It’s these dedicated physicians and an extensive network of pediatric-trained nurses, child-life specialists, therapists, social workers and ancillary medical staff, who will continue providing health care designed especially for children.