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The Department of Surgery and the Heart and Vascular Center at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville (UF COM-J), is seeking to hire a Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the non-tenure accruing level of Clinical Assistant/Associate/Full Professor to join UF Health St. Johns in St. Augustine, Florida. This position will academically report to the Chair of the Department of Surgery and operationally to the Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular Center at the –UF COM-J. The Department of Surgery and the Heart and Vascular Center boasts a team of board-certified and fellowship-trained cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and vascular surgeons who work side by side to care for patients with cardiac, thoracic, and vascular conditions
The Department of Surgery and the Heart and Vascular Center are extremely active clinically, academically and educationally. Pioneering innovative approaches to the management of patients with cardiovascular disease, we are poised for significant growth in heart and vascular care as we expand the elective surgical practice throughout the Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia region. The mission and vision of the department is to be the region’s most valued surgical health care asset, with the nation’s best surgical care at your doorstep.
UF Health St. Johns is a total care enterprise aimed at advancing the physical, social and economic health of Northeast Florida communities. UF Health St. Johns, is an extension of UF Health Flagler Hospital, a 335-bed hospital located on a 72-acre campus in beautiful and historic St. Augustine, Florida that has been ranked among the top 5% of all hospitals in the nation. UF Health Flagler Hospital has also earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ from the Joint Commission for primary stroke care centers, national accreditation for its total hip and total knee replacement programs, accreditation from the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer, and is an Accredited Center in Bariatric Surgery.
The successful candidate will receive a UF COM-J faculty appointment at the non-tenure accruing level of Assistant, Associate, or Professor level based on the background and experience. This is a full-time 1.0 FTE clinical faculty position, with the expectation that the candidate will perform teaching duties and clinical research commensurate with an academic appointment. The program encompasses the full spectrum of adult cardiac surgery including TAVR, Robotic thoracic surgery, TEVAR, minimally invasive aortic and mitral valve surgery. Ample opportunities for collaboration with UF College of Medicine (Jacksonville and Gainesville) surgeons. Candidate will participate in on-call schedule. He or she must be eligible for licensure in the state of Florida.
About UF Health:
UF Health is the Southeast’s premier academic health center and an integral part of the University of Florida. Our mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and research across the spectrum of basic, translational and clinical investigation. UF Health encompasses the Gainesville-based University of Florida colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary Medicine; the UF Health Shands family of hospitals in Gainesville; UF Health Jacksonville medical center; UF Health North; an academic campus in Jacksonville that is home to the UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville and includes degree programs offered by the colleges of Nursing and Pharmacy; UF Health St. Johns in St. Augustine; UF Health Neighborhood Hospital in Ocala; and our campus in Central Florida, which includes UF Health Spanish Plaines Hospital and UF Health Leesburg Hospital. It also includes primary care and specialty practices throughout Central, North Central and northern Florida and Southeast Georgia. The UF Health network of hospitals and physician practices manages more than 3 million inpatient and outpatient visits each year, and serves patients from all 67 Florida counties, from across the nation and from dozens of countries around the world.
About College of Medicine – Jacksonville (COM-J):
The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville is the largest of the three colleges at the Health Science Center Jacksonville. The college's 16 clinical science departments house more than 500 faculty members, 1,560 staff and 450 residents and fellows, as well as medical students from UF and around the country. We offer an incredible breadth of clinical training programs and proud to train many of best primary care providers and specialists throughout the region, the state and the country.
Research, discovery and innovation are critical aspects of our clinical campus and we have some of the country’s leading researchers at our locations searching for and finding new treatments and clinical options.
The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville faculty, administrators, residents, fellows, students and staff work as a team in pursuit of our common mission — to heal, to comfort, to educate and to discover through quality health care, elimination of health disparities, medical education, innovation and research.
To learn more about our college, leadership, mission, faculty resources, and the city of Jacksonville visit https://med.jax.ufl.edu/administrative-affairs/faculty-orientation-guide/.
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