Nationally ranked Orlando Health Bayfront Health Medical Group is a BE/BC Gastroenterology Hospitalist - Digestive Health Institute in sunny Florida!

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

Orlando Health’s Bayfront Health Medical Group offers comprehensive and coordinated care to evaluate, diagnose and treat a wide range of digestive diseases.  Subspecialty services offered include advanced endoscopy, hepatology, neurogastroenterology and motility and inflammatory bowel diseases. The institute’s team participate with the Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute’s International Conferences with globally respected physicians. The position is most ideal for candidates wanting to practice inpatient and outpatient clinical gastroenterology with the efficiency and benefits of private practice.  

Location: Orlando Health’s Bayfront Health Medical Group in St. Petersburg, Florida

Role Requirements: 

• Fellowship Trained in Gastroenterology.
• Board Eligible/Board Certified 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.
• Must be comfortable supervising APPs.
• Thriving physician-led, professionally managed healthcare system.
• Ability to work with advanced scoping AI technology Genius GI in a level 2 trauma center.
• Excellent brand recognition, with new patients seeking out Orlando Health’s Bayfront Health Medical Group for their care.
• Integrated multidisciplinary and subspecialized practice environment.
• Great payor mix with patients from top St. Petersburg employers and Orlando Health Bayfront 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.

Financial Package:

• Excellent compensation package with guaranteed salary for the first two years, opportunity to make more based-on productivity.
• Generous sign-on bonus.
• 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.

Community Information:

• There is no state income tax.
• The greater Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater area offers access to theater, live music events, a world-famous theme park.
• Top rated private schools.
• Ample outdoor activities including large public parks for kids and pets, hiking and biking trails, abundant salt-water access for kayaking, fishing and paddle-boarding, with Florida’s beautiful beaches less than 10 minutes away.

Orlando Health’s Bayfront Health Medical Group

Situated in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, along Florida’s Gulf Coast, Orlando Health’s Bayfront Health Medical Group is a comprehensive emergency, medical and surgical acute-care facility, serving the residents of the region for more than 110 years. Bayfront Health’s Bayfront Health Medical Group has been part of the Orlando Health organization since October 2020.

Orlando Health’s Bayfront Health Medical Group is a 480-bed tertiary care center and the only Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. With advanced technology and expertise in numerous specialties, including cardiovascular, neuroscience, obstetrics, digestive health, orthopedics, surgery, emergency and trauma, and acute rehabilitation, Bayfront Health St. Petersburg offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary care. The hospital holds DHV-GL certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center and Joint Commission certification in hip and knee joint replacement. A 38-bed neurosciences unit has a dedicated neurology team with subspecialty expertise in stroke, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. Orlando Health’s Bayfront Health Medical Group has been accredited by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) as a Level 4 adult epilepsy center. This accreditation is reserved for centers providing the most complex forms of intensive neurodiagnostic monitoring, as well as more extensive medical, neuropsychological, and psychosocial treatment. Orlando Health Bayfront Baby Place offers full obstetrical care and, in partnership with Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, is a state-certified Level III Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Center (RPICC) — one of only 13 in Florida.

Orlando Health’s Bayfront Health Medical Group is committed to staying at the forefront of medical research and technology and, as a teaching hospital, provides an exceptional training and learning environment with residency programs in family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology and pharmacy; a fellowship program in sports medicine; and home to the NAACLS-accredited Bayfront Health St. Petersburg School of Medical Technology.

Recognized with many patient-care quality and safety ratings over the years, recent awards include:

• High-performing rankings in diabetes and stroke – U.S. News & World Report, 2023-2024
• Tampa Bay Best of the Best 2023 – Tampa Bay Times
• Best Place to Have a Baby
• Best Emergency Room
• Best Cardiology
• Get with the Guidelines®: Gold Plus Achievement - Stroke – American Heart Association, 2023
• Gold Plus Achievement - 10-Year Recognition
• Target: Stroke™ Honor Roll
• Target: Type 2™ Diabetes Honor Roll

Level IV Epilepsy Center through the National Association of Epilepsy Centers

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

Orlando Health Bayfront Medical Group

Situated in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, along Florida’s Gulf Coast, Orlando Health Bayfront Medical Group is a comprehensive emergency, medical and surgical acute-care facility, serving the residents of the region for more than 110 years. Bayfront Health has been part of the Orlando Health organization since October 2020.

Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital is a 480-bed tertiary care center and the only Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. With advanced technology and expertise in numerous specialties, including cardiovascular, neuroscience, obstetrics, digestive health, orthopedics, surgery, emergency and trauma, and acute rehabilitation, Bayfront Health St. Petersburg offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary care. The hospital holds DHV-GL certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center and Joint Commission certification in hip and knee joint replacement. A 38-bed neurosciences unit has a dedicated neurology team with subspecialty expertise in stroke, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. Bayfront Health has been accredited by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) as a Level 4 adult epilepsy center. This accreditation is reserved for centers providing the most complex forms of intensive neurodiagnostic monitoring, as well as more extensive medical, neuropsychological, and psychosocial treatment. Orlando Health Bayfront Baby Place offers full obstetrical care and, in partnership with Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, is a state-certified Level III Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Center (RPICC) — one of only 13 in Florida.

Orlando Health Bayfront Medical Group is committed to staying at the forefront of medical research and technology and, as a teaching hospital, provides an exceptional training and learning environment with residency programs in family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology and pharmacy; a fellowship program in sports medicine; and home to the NAACLS-accredited Bayfront Health St. Petersburg School of Medical Technology.

Recognized with many patient-care quality and safety ratings over the years, recent awards include:

• High-performing rankings in diabetes and stroke – U.S. News & World Report, 2023-2024
• Tampa Bay Best of the Best 2023 – Tampa Bay Times
  • Best Place to Have a Baby
  • Best Emergency Room
  • Best Cardiology
• Get with the Guidelines®: Gold Plus Achievement - Stroke – American Heart Association, 2023
  • Gold Plus Achievement - 10-Year Recognition
  • Target: Stroke™ Honor Roll
  • Target: Type 2™ Diabetes Honor Roll
• Heart Failure Accreditation – American College of Cardiology