Clinical Geneticist (F50150)

Pediatric Clinical Geneticist (F50150)

Children's Hospital of Richmond, VCU Health

Come join our growing team at the newly expanded Children's Hospital of Richmond, in Richmond, VA!

Mission or Goal of Unit: Children’s Hospital of Richmond of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System is devoted to excellence in clinical care, teaching, and clinical, translational, and basic research.

Chief Purpose of this position: The Children’s Hospital of Richmond (CHoR) at Virginia Commonwealth University is seeking a physician to lead the Section of Clinical Genetics. CHoR at VCU has a commitment to provide quality patient care and service excellence. The Section of Clinical Genetics offers inpatient and outpatient consultations and genetic counseling services for genetic conditions across the lifespan. CHoR is the largest full-service academic pediatric hospital in central Virginia, and part of a multispecialty hospital with 160 beds. Our Children’s Pavilion for outpatient services opened in March 2016. Our new 500,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art inpatient facility Children’s Tower opened in April 2023.

Position Responsibilities:

• Teaching: Will contribute to the clinical supervision and education of residents, medical students, genetic counseling graduate students, and ancillary staff. This will also include mentoring of junior faculty and Didactic teaching in MS Genetic Counseling Program and VCU School of Medicine.
• Research: Will engage in scholarship through presentations at national meetings, contributions to peer-reviewed scientific literature, and active participation in appropriate professional organizations. 
• Service: Will participate in regional, national, and international conferences with clinical colleagues. Participation in departmental, institutional, and national committees is encouraged, when appropriate.
• Clinical: Active participation as a clinician in various clinics and other settings, including telemedicine, and sharing call and consultative responsibilities with other Clinical Genetics physicians.  VCU Clinical Genetics sees patients across the lifespan, from preconception to end of life.  Candidates can expect to see both pediatric and adult patients with the majority of those appointments being held on our downtown Richmond campus in both our adult outpatient pavilion and our pediatric outpatient pavilion.
• Administrative:  Responsible for section growth and development, strategic planning, expansion, quality improvement, and fostering relationships within the Department and VCU Health and genetics community.  Supervision of section MD’s, APP’s and genetic counselors, metabolic dieticians and ancillary staff.

Required Qualifications:

• The applicant must exhibit dynamic and innovative clinical and teaching skills, including in teaching and training of graduate and medical students. The position requires demonstrated clinical and teaching experience.
• MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent degree with Certification by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG) in Clinical Genetics and Genomics.
• Candidates must be qualified for full, unrestricted medical licensure in Virginia.
• Candidates must have previous leadership experience or a minimum of 8 years of experience providing patient care.
• Must have demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment or commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AMBGG certification in Clinical Biochemical Genetics.
• Preference will be given to candidates with clinical experience and an interest and/or ability in research and scholarly activity as displayed through publication in professional journals and presentations at national meetings.

Virginia Commonwealth University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution providing access to education and employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, political affiliation, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability.

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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.