Clinical Faculty, Pediatric Allergy and Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics

Description

The University of Virginia Department of Pediatrics and the divisions of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy, and Immunology and Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition invite applications for a Clinical Faculty member at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. This position will be tenure-eligible or ineligible. This position will be 75% Allergy and 25% Gastroenterology.

For the 75% Allergy component, this position will:

• See general pediatrics allergy clinic patients and supervise allergy shot and biologic patients.
• Attend on Allergy/Immunology inpatient consult service.
• Perform oral immunotherapy (OIT) and oral food challenges (OFCs).
• Utilize unique GI/Allergy expertise in caring for EGID, FPIES, Alpha-gal, and other patients whose disease processes overlap these two specialties.  Perform appropriate GI procedures including EGD, colonoscopy, transnasal endoscopy and EndoFLIP in the clinical care of these patients.
• See patients in satellite clinics, including Zion's Crossroads and Riverside & via telemedicine.
• Teach & supervise student, resident, and fellow trainees in outpatient clinic and the inpatient consult service.

 For the 25% Gastroenterology component, this position will:

• Serve ½ day of general GI clinic per week.
• Teach & supervise student, resident, and fellow trainees in outpatient clinic.
• Participate in satellite clinic coverage commensurate to clinical FTE.

UVA Health is a world-class academic medical center and health system with a level 1 trauma center, a NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center, Level IV NICU, and a Comprehensive Stroke Center.  UVA is the number 1 rated Children’s Hospital in Virginia. Its footprint encompasses 4 hospitals and 2 physician groups with an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics throughout Charlottesville, Albemarle, Nelson and Augusta counties, Culpeper, and Northern Virginia. Through its teaching and research, UVA Health continues to innovate and advance medicine while providing high-quality care.

 

Founded in 1819 as just the 10th medical school in America, the University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA School of Medicine) – with 21 clinical departments, 8 research departments, and 6 research centers – consistently attracts some of the nation’s most prominent researchers to develop breakthrough treatments that benefit patients around the world. Those research efforts are backed by more than $230 million in grant funding.

 

UVA Health is an academic health system that strives to provide excellence, innovation, and exceptional quality to the care of patients, the training of health professionals, and the creation and sharing of knowledge within a culture that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusivity. UVA Health is an expansive network comprised of the UVA Medical Center, UVA Community Hospitals, UVA Community Medical Group, UVA School of Nursing, UVA School of Medicine (SOM), University of Virginia Physicians Group, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, and other strategic partnerships and alliances. Physicians who work at UVA Medical Center are faculty in the School of Medicine's 21 clinical departments and are also employed by the UVA Physicians Group.

 

UVA Health Children’s is the No. 1 children's hospital in Virginia for the third consecutive year as ranked by U.S. News and World Report. Among children’s hospitals, UVA was ranked by U.S. News & World Report:

• #23 in neonatology
• #29 in pediatric gastroenterology and GI surgery
• #34 in pediatric diabetes and endocrinology
• #34 in pediatric orthopaedics
• #36 in pediatric cardiology and heart surgery
• #38 in pediatric pulmonology and lung surgery
• #40 in pediatric neurology and neurosurgery

People are at the heart of UVA Health and the system prides itself on the quality, integrity and engagement of its staff, faculty and community. To foster a happy, healthy, and productive work environment, UVA Health provides resources for its staff and faculty’s physical, emotional, and financial health. UVA Health also recognizes the importance of our relationships with our community and prioritizes engagement within the surrounding region. UVA operates two campuses in Charlottesville and Fairfax Virginia and provided $273M in charity care to the community in the past year.  UVAs employees are dedicated members of their communities with 168 faculty and learners supporting the Charlottesville Free Clinic and