Gastroenterologist Hospitalist

Orlando Health Medical Group is seeking a Board Eligible/Board Certified Gastroenterologist Hospitalist to join our Digestive Health Institute.  

Location:  Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital

As one of the nation’s most highly regarded digestive disease programs, the Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute offers comprehensive and coordinated care to evaluate, diagnose and treat a wide range of digestive diseases.  Subspecialty services offered include advanced endoscopy, medical pancreatology, hepatology, neurogastroenterology and motility and inflammatory bowel diseases. The institute’s team of globally respected physicians are leaders in clinical research and postgraduate medical education. The institute boasts a very vibrant clinical research program that conducts cutting-edge trials in endoscopic tumor resection, pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, IBD and hemostasis.  The institute has recently secured ACGME approval for starting a gastroenterology fellowship and hosts several international symposiums throughout the year.  The position is most ideal for candidates wanting to practice clinical gastroenterology in a hybrid setting where you get to be in an academic atmosphere but with the efficiency and benefits of private practice.  

Role Requirements:

• Fellowship Trained in Gastroenterology. 
• FL Medical License or ability to obtain FL Medical License. 

Practice Highlights:

• Split time between inpatient consults, rounds, and the endoscopy suite.
• Alternate 7-day work weeks with time off.
• Physician will be scheduled to work on average 14 days/month, the schedule can be blocked to 7 shifts on/7 shifts off.
• Thriving physician-led, professionally managed healthcare system. 
• Excellent brand recognition, with new patients seeking out Orlando Health’s Digestive Health Institute for their care. 
• Integrated multidisciplinary and subspecialized practice environment. 
• Great pay-or mix with patients from top Orlando employers and Orlando Health team members. 
• Robust operational support and resources in a collaborative work environment. 
• Dynamic administration that fosters physician autonomy when it comes to clinical decision making and patient outcomes.
• Opportunity for growth and leadership development. 
• Opportunity to expand an active research and innovation program. 

Financial Package:

• Excellent compensation package, opportunity to make more based-on productivity.
• Benefits package includes time away for vacations and conferences, health/vision/dental insurance along with full malpractice coverage, disability coverage, deferred compensation and retirement savings options.
• Generous sign-on bonus with eligibility for an annual bonus.

Community Information:

• There is no state income tax. 
• Greater Orlando offers direct access to Florida’s world-famous theme parks and attractions.
• Our lifestyle options have something for everyone, from the downtown districts for those enjoying a trendy urban flair, to family-oriented communities with top rated public and private schools.
• Ample outdoor activities including large public parks for kids and pets, hiking and biking trails, abundant lake access for kayaking, fishing and paddle-boarding, with Florida’s beautiful beaches only an hour away.

Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital

Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital is a brand new, state of the art comprehensive acute care facility representing the next phase of growth for Orlando Health and its Lake Mary campus.

At 320,000 square feet, the hospital’s five-and six-story towers has a 240-bed capacity. The facility includes six state-of-the-art operating rooms, three catheterization labs with a dedicated interventional radiology and vascular lab offering comprehensive cardiovascular care, a 16-bed intensive care unit, medical-surgical bed units, an observation unit and an on-site outpatient pharmacy.  A key focus area for the new hospital is women’s health, including labor and delivery services, and a future neonatal intensive care unit.

Bringing together multiple healthcare services at one convenient location, the hospital will be connected to the existing Orlando Health Emergency Room – Lake Mary, which opened in September 2019 and features 25 treatment rooms with full imaging and lab services. Patients have access to full-service emergency care with advanced medical technology provided by top physicians and staff. Next door on the campus is the 60,000-square-foot Orlando Health Medical Pavilion offering several outpatient specialties, including pulmonology, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, orthopedics, general surgery, cardiology and cardiac rehab. Coordinated services from Orlando Health’s network of providers all in one location gives patients access to both comprehensive and convenient care.

Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute is a national and international destination for care, offering comprehensive and coordinated services to evaluate, diagnose and treat a wide range of conditions affecting the digestive tract and gastrointestinal organs, including the most complex cases. Led by renowned specialists in digestive health, the institute has distinguished itself worldwide in offering many diagnostic and treatment options available only at the most advanced centers, including artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that improve diagnosis, treatment and outcomes. The institute brings internationally recognized digestive disease care to a new state-of-the-art facility in downtown Orlando as well as several satellite sites conveniently located within the Orlando Health system. The institute’s scope of specialties and services include:

• Advanced Endoscopy
• General Gastroenterology
• Hepatology
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Motility
• Pancreatology
• Research and Physician Education

A few examples of what sets us apart include:

• A commitment to innovation, leading-edge research and global educational initiatives
• Among select facilities offering peroral endoscopic myotomy, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) and NaviCam technology
• One of very few programs in the world to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) with endoscopic ultrasound procedures to improve performance
• Development of technology, together with industry partners, that integrates AI with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) to reduce radiation exposure to patients and providers
• Collaboration with professional and industry partners to integrate AI in endoscopic technology to detect early cancer in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
• A team that includes authors of more than 2,000 peer-reviewed journals articles and the best-selling endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) textbook in the world, Endosonography

Future plans for the institute include:

• Developing an evidence-based protocol for the management of colon polyps utilizing leading-edge techniques and technologies
• Establishing a liver transplant program
• Becoming home to the most comprehensive motility unit in the southern United States
• Creating subspecialty fellowships in hepatology, motility and IBD, in addition to gastrointestinal and advanced endoscopy fellowships
• Hosting the largest institution-sponsored endoscopy/EUS congress in the United States