Researcher in Medicine
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
United States

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care.  Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve.  We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.  We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability.  We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service. 

OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine.  We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding.  Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.

OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve.  We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education.  We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.

Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources.  We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine seeks a clinical faculty member to join our pediatric critical care team at the large regional campus in Wilmington, NC.
 
This multi-specialty academic practice and children’s hospital is part of an innovative partnership between UNC and Novant Health to provide specialty care to children from southeastern and coastal NC communities. The Novant Health – New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NH-NHRMC) facility and Betty H. Cameron Women’s and Children’s Hospital is a full spectrum community-based children’s hospital that serves as the tertiary care children’s hospital for southeastern NC.

This is a clinically focused position with a strong connection to a large academic group and a quaternary children’s hospital. Candidates must be Board Certified/Board Eligible in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and will join two other full-time intensivists along with additional per diem providers. This is a full-time, fixed-term, open rank faculty position, but salary benchmarks will be at private/community levels. Clinical time is spent providing direct care in our 8-bed critical care unit. The unit operates as a closed unit for trauma or surgical admissions. The unit is staffed and supported by nurses, pharmacists, and respiratory therapists with pediatric and neonatal critical care expertise. In addition to advanced respiratory support modalities such as the use of conventional and non-conventional modes of ventilation (e.g.-high-frequency oscillatory ventilation and nitric oxide), complex medical and surgical diagnoses are supported by the multiple pediatric subspecialties in Wilmington and Chapel Hill, including board-certified pediatric surgeons and pediatric anesthesia – allowing for the ability to perform complex surgeries and recovery in the NH-NHRMC PICU. 

At NH-NHRMC, there are approximately 2700 total inpatient admissions and 4200 deliveries per year, with referrals from multiple other centers in our region, including a catchment area of approximately 200,000 children. The hospital serves as a Level II pediatric trauma center. The consultative specialties offer full spectrum specialty care, including neonatology, cardiology, neurology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, endo

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