University of Miami
The faculty member will provide patient care in pediatric nephrology including dialysis and transplant programs, educate fellows, residents, and medical students, and engage in clinical and/or translational research with a goal of obtaining extramural funding. The role involves working with a large residency program and an ACGME-approved Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program, and requires demonstrated clinical and scholarly expertise.
Key Responsibilities
- • Deliver excellent patient care in pediatric nephrology including dialysis and all modalities of renal replacement therapy
- • Participate in the active transplant program including kidney, liver, and multivisceral transplants
- • Follow children with all stages of chronic kidney disease in the Comprehensive Children’s Kidney Failure Center
- • Educate fellows, residents, and medical students
- • Develop and participate in original clinical and/or translational research
- • Seek extramural funding for research
- • Work efficiently and independently as part of collaborative groups
Required
- • MD/OD
- • Board certified/eligible in Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology
- • Licensed or eligible for licensure in the state of Florida
- • Demonstrated clinical and scholarly expertise
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred
- • Fluency in Spanish, Creole, and/or French
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The Division of Pediatric Nephrology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is seeking a full-time faculty member. Candidates must have an MD/OD, be board certified/eligible in Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology, and licensed or eligible for licensure in the state of Florida. Candidates will be at the professor level of the clinical educator track.
We have active programs in dialysis providing all modalities of renal replacement therapy. The Division of Pediatric Nephrology is fully integrated with the Miami Transplant Institute, and the Division has an active transplant program including kidney, liver, and multivisceral transplants. Our Comprehensive Children’s Kidney Failure Center follows a large number of children with all stages of CKD.
In addition to delivering excellent patient care, the faculty member will also be responsible for educating fellows, residents, and medical students. The Department of Pediatrics has a large residency program and the Division of Pediatric Nephrology operates an ACGME-approved Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program with 3 clinical fellows.
The physician candidate will have a strong interest in clinical and/or translational research as the position requires development and participation in original research for which extramural funding should be sought. The Division is currently involved in research related to nephrotic syndrome/FSGS, proteinuria, SLE nephritis, hypertension, ologonephropathy of prematurity, obstructive uropathy, HIV nephropathy.
The Pediatric Nephrology faculty member will have demonstrated both clinical and scholarly expertise and excellent written and verbal communication skills. The candidate must be able to work efficiently and independently as part of collaborative groups. Fluency in Spanish, Creole, and/or French is desired, but not required.
The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.
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