Heart Failure Cardiologist

The Heart Failure (HF) Section in the Division of Cardiology at The MetroHealth Medical Center is seeking a board-certified/board eligible HF Cardiologist to join a growing team of HF providers at the HF Care Center (HFCC). This is an academic position with an academic faculty appointment at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine. In addition to clinical efforts, candidates will have protected time for teaching and research.

The HFCC at MetroHealth is run by a collaborative team of providers including HF-trained, board-certified, cardiologists, HF trained nurse practitioners, HF-certified nurses and nurse coordinator, and a clinical pharmacist. This team has established multiple clinical programs for the management of patients with various types of HF, pulmonary arterial hypertension, cardiac amyloidosis, cardio-oncology, muscular dystrophy. The HFCC also works collaboratively with the heart transplantation centers in the region to identify and evaluate patients who may be candidates for advanced HF therapy, and to comanage patients after receiving left ventricular assist devices through the Shared Care LVAD program. The HFCC is an active participant in several multicenter randomized clinical trials. HFCC has been the recipient of multiple get-with-the-guidelines (GWTG) Gold-plus certification for implementing guideline-directed medical therapy for patients with HF.

Candidates must have completed post graduate training in both cardiology and heart failure, with preferred interest in cardio-obstetrics to meet a growing need in our patient population.

Interested candidates should submit a CV and Cover letter to:

Britt Artino, Provider Recruitment bartino@metrohealth.org

The MetroHealth System is an essential health system committed to providing health care to everyone in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and improving the health of the community overall. Its 7,500 employees deliver care to everyone at its main campus, just west of downtown Cleveland.

MetroHealth is an integrated health system with an acute care hospital housing a Level I Adult Trauma and Burn Center with full trauma surgical teams ready around the clock, a skilled nursing facility, and more than 27 locations throughout Cuyahoga County and Medina County with more on the way. Annually, we handle more than one million patient visits including more than 100,000 in the Emergency Department, one of the busiest in the country. That’s an average of 274 Emergency Department visits per day.