ASSISTANT PROFESSOR / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / PROFESSOR - CLINICAL PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGIST - CARDIAC IMAGING DIRECTOR New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Faculty Medicine Title: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / PROFESSOR - CLINICAL PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGIST - CARDIAC IMAGING DIRECTOR Employee Type: Faculty Department: Pediatrics Campus Location: CHILDRENS Job Summary/Basic Functions The Division of Pediatric
Cardiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) and the Heart Center of the Manning Family Children’s Hospital of New Orleans (MFC) is seeking a Pediatric Cardiologist to serve as the Director of Cardiac Imaging. The candidate should be an established subspecialist in Cardiac Imaging. Academic appointment will be at the rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor (non-tenure, clinical
track) and will be determined by the candidate’s credentials and experience. Other Information About the Position The Cardiac Imaging Section of the Division includes 5 imaging faculty with expertise in transthoracic, transesophageal and fetal echocardiography. The Echocardiography Laboratory is ICAEL-accredited. There are 10 certified cardiac sonographers assisting the faculty in the laboratory. In addition, the
Section provides cardiac CT and MRI expertise through a collaboration between two cardiac imaging specialists and the hospital’s radiology department. The Section actively participates in teaching LSU and Tulane students/residents and our 6 LSU Pediatric Cardiology Fellows. Finally, the Section has active research and quality improvement initiatives. Background and expertise in fetal cardiac imaging and / or
cross-sectional imaging would be suitable.Manning Family Children’s Hospital is the founding member of a 7-hospital health system titled LCMC (Louisiana Children’s Medical Center). The Heart Center Faculty includes a team of 19 physicians including seven cardiac intensivists, two cardiac surgeons, and 4 cardiac anesthesiologists. Subspeciality care in the Heart Center includes non-invasive imaging, interventional
cardiology, electrophysiology, expertise in Fontan management, home-monitoring, neurodevelopment, pulmonary hypertension, pediatric coronary artery disease, and heart failure. Currently, more than 200 heart catheterizations (75% interventional), close to 250-300 cardiothoracic surgeries, and 11,000 ambulatory visits are performed each year at Manning Family Children’s. The hospital is a 247-bed tertiary-care teaching
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