Physician - Pediatric Palliative Care

We've made a lot of progress since opening the doors in 1942, but one thing has never changed - our commitment to serve, heal, lead, educate, and innovate.  We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways. 

At Ochsner, whether you work with patients every day or support those who do, you are making a difference and that matters.  Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today! 

Ochsner Children' Hospital is seeking an experienced, board-certified, Pediatric Palliative Care Physician in New Orleans, Louisiana. The successful candidate will join an established pediatric palliative care program within Ochsner Health’s regional health system, the largest not-for-profit academic health system in the Gulf South.

Key responsibilities of this position include:

Clinical Care

• Provide inpatient and outpatient palliative care services for children.

• Partner with medical, surgical, and mental health colleagues to serve children in multidisciplinary programs, including solid organ and stem cell transplantation, oncology, and cardiovascular diseases.

Teaching and Research

• Teach medical students, residents, and allied health students.

• Clinical research opportunities abound for qualified candidates.

• Academic appointment commensurate with experience.

Our comprehensive Ochsner Children’s program includes 88 primary care pediatricians in 27 locations in Louisiana and Mississippi - and pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists (Ochsner Children’s™) totaling over 270 physicians. The group is the region’s leading integrated provider of multispecialty care for newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. We offer a full range of pediatric complex specialty services including congenital heart surgery and cardiac transplantation, liver and bone marrow transplantation, a comprehensive surgical sub-specialty group, advanced GI and Hepatology, advanced spine surgery, Hematology-Oncology and AYA Oncology, Cleft Palate/Cranio-Facial Surgery and the region’s only comprehensive multidisciplinary developmental pediatrics center. 
 
Ochsner Children’s currently cares for patients in a 67-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 14-bed PICU, a 12-bed pediatric CV-ICU, a NAEC-accredited level IV 4 bed Pediatric EMU and a 44-bed pediatric acute unit, with a dedicated pediatric emergency room, supported by a 24-7 dedicated pediatric and neonatal transport team utilizing rotary and fixed wing as well as ground transport.  And we recently began construction on the building of a new, comprehensive, dedicated 5-story Children’s Hospital on our main campus in New Orleans, with expected opening at the start of 2028. 
 
In addition to direct patient care, Ochsner Children’s Hospital has an ACGME-accredited pediatric residency program and is also responsible for teaching pediatric residents from the Tulane-Ochsner Pediatric Residency program as well as medical students from both Tulane and the University of Queensland, Australia.  Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana recently announced an agreement to establish a joint allopathic College of Medicine, the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine which is in the LCME accreditation process currently.  Our faculty publishes hundreds of research papers annually and Ochsner participate in numerous multi-center studies and trials.
 
Ochsner Children’s is proud to have ranked in multiple subspecialties in US News and World Report’s top 50 Children’s Hospitals in the US for 8 years in a row. #1 Ranked Children’s Hospital in Louisiana!
 

If you would like more information about our program or would like to discuss this position with Dr. William “Billy” Lennarz, System Chair of Pediatrics, and Dr. Ryan Himes, System Associate Chair of Pediatrics, please contact Courtney Lawhun, Physician Recruiter, at courtney.lawhun@ochsner.org.

Are you ready to make a difference? Apply Today!

Ochsner Health does not consider an individual an applicant until they have formally applied to the open position on this careers website.

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