The Department of Pediatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine is seeking a full-time, Board Certified or Board eligible neonatologist at the Assistant, Associate, or Professor level to join fourteen neonatologists, a behavioral psychologist, seven neonatal-perinatal medicine fellows, and numerous advanced practitioners in the Section of Neonatology.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications: MD or DO, strong clinical and educational skills, and dedication to, and/or funded, scholarly activity in clinical, basic, or translational research or quality improvement.

The Section is part of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Brenner Children’s Hospital that manages infants in the Sisel Newborn Intensive Care Unit, a 79-bed state-of-the-art center that opened in 2019.

The Section has active research focused on neonatal follow-up, ELGANS, clinical trials, and fetal programming amongst others. The Level IV NICU serves as the referral center for the more than 28,000 neonates born in Northwest North Carolina’s Perinatal Region II with admissions of approximately 900 annually.

Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) is the education and research component of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a fully integrated academic health care system. WFUSM has 1,095 medical and science faculty members, 534 adjunct and clinical faculty in the community, and a budget of $373M (excluding practice plan income). Organizationally, the School of Medicine encompasses 32 academic departments.

The Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) ranks among the top third of American medical schools in total funding from the National Institutes of Health, with approximately $251M in extramurally funded research. The School of Medicine leverages its areas of strength and focus to improve integration of its research programs with population health, and to maximize multidisciplinary and translational approaches.

When faculty join Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, they are welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. Practice where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In our nationally-renowned integrated health system, you can work alongside the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine, elevate hope and advance healing—for all.