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Chief of General & Specialty Surgery Opportunity in Greenville, NC
ECU Health Physicians, ECU Health Medical Center, and The Department of Surgery at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, located in Greenville, North Carolina, are seeking a dynamic, academically oriented general surgeon with minimally invasive surgery training to serve as Chief of the Division of General and Specialty Surgery. The successful candidate will lead an active collaborative clinical, teaching, and research program consisting of four bariatric/general surgeons, one general surgeon and one bariatric fellow. Applicants should have an established record of academic productivity, a national presence, leadership experience in a matrixed healthcare environment, and have a broad knowledge of all aspects of complex general surgery. Individuals with MIS training and a clinical interest in a subspecialty area such as bariatric surgery, abdominal wall reconstruction/complex hernia, endocrine surgery, GI surgery including endoluminal therapy, foregut surgery, or other focus areas are encouraged to apply.
The division provides general and bariatric surgical care to an expansive geographic region consisting of 29 counties serving a population of over 1.5 million people. The metabolic surgery team has been an international leader in both clinical and basic research with continuous funding for over three decades.
Additional leadership opportunities exist for qualified individuals within the department, hospital, and surgical services service line.
Highlights:
- Employment by ECU Health Physicians-Academic Employment Model
- Hospital privileges at ECU Health Medical Center, a 974-bed level 1 trauma center
- Opportunity to operate at the ECU Health Surgicenter
- Established division inclusive of 5 surgeons and 1 fellow
- Division is clinically productive, highly respected and actively involved in training of medical students, residents and fellows
- High volume surgical program
- Access to three DaVinci Xi Robots with teaching console
- Academic employment at rank of Associate Professor or Professor
- Tenure track or fixed term appointments are available
- Comprehensive benefits including relocation assistance, vacation & sick PTO, CME days & reimbursement, malpractice (with tail), retirement benefits, state health plan health insurance, employer paid dependent health insurance, medical and dental reimbursements, employer paid AD&D, disability, and life insurance
- Additional supplemental insurance benefits options – Accident, AD&D, Cancer, Critical Illness, Dental, FSA for Healthcare and Dependent Care Expenses, Life, and Vision
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ECU Health ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. [Register to View] ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy. This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between. |
Greenville, NC
Widely recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is the 10th largest city in the state with a metropolitan population of nearly 100,000. The Dickinson Avenue Arts District offers a vibrant arts, music, culinary and festival scene in the Uptown Greenville district. Greenville is also home to East Carolina University, the Brody School of Medicine, and Pitt Community College. Excellent affordability, convenient location and natural resources combined with all of the amenities of a metropolitan university town, Greenville is the perfect place to live, work and play!
- Located inland off of the North Carolina coast, Greenville is 45 miles east of interstate 95, just over an hour to Raleigh, a little over an hour to the pristine beaches of the Crystal Coast of NC
- Home to East Carolina University (ECU), a vibrant university with an annual enrollment of more than 24,000 students
- Numerous waterways and the Greenville Greenway System are perfect for boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping
- Mild climate perfect for year-round outdoor activities
- Cost of living below the national average, diverse and affordable housing and excellent educational opportunities, both public and private
- Investment of more than $500 million in downtown Greenville’s revitalization bringing new restaurants, shops, businesses, and residents to the area
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