University of Southern California
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery-CHLA
The role involves assuming a full-time academic position within a collaborative, multidisciplinary team dedicated to pediatric plastic and craniofacial care. Clinical responsibilities emphasize advanced microsurgical techniques, including free flap reconstruction, functional muscle transfers, and nerve coaptation, with involvement in the Craniofacial and Cleft Center for complex craniofacial anomalies, cleft lip and palate, and general pediatric plastic surgery.
Key Responsibilities
- • Assume a full-time academic role within a well-established, collaborative, multidisciplinary team dedicated to the care of pediatric plastic and craniofacial patients.
- • Clinical responsibilities will emphasize deploying advanced microsurgical techniques, including free flap reconstruction, functional muscle transfers, and nerve coaptation.
- • The faculty member will also be part of the Craniofacial and Cleft Center focused on the treatment of complex craniofacial anomalies in addition to cleft lip and palate and general pediatric plastic surgery.
- • High-volume opportunity for microsurgical reconstruction of the craniofacial region in addition to thoracic, abdominal, and upper and lower extremity reconstruction at one of the nation’s busiest hospitals.
Schedule
- • Full-time faculty member
- • Full-time academic role
Required
- • Board Certified or Board Eligible plastic surgeon
- • Advanced fellowship training
- • Strong clinical focus in pediatric microsurgery
- • Fellowship in craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery
- • Dual expertise combining craniofacial surgery and microsurgery
Preferred
- • Completed a formal craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery fellowship combined with competence or a formal fellowship in microsurgery.
The Keck School of Medicine (KSOM) of the University of Southern California (USC) and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) in the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, are actively seeking a full-time faculty member for the position of Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery with dual expertise combining craniofacial surgery and microsurgery. The ideal candidate would have completed a formal craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery fellowship combined with competence or a formal fellowship in microsurgery.
The Division of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Keck School of Medicine of USC is recruiting a Board Certified or Board Eligible plastic surgeon with advanced fellowship training and a strong clinical focus in pediatric microsurgery with a fellowship in craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery.
The ideal candidate will assume a full-time academic role within a well-established, collaborative, multidisciplinary team dedicated to the care of pediatric plastic and craniofacial patients. This position offers an invested individual a high-volume opportunity for microsurgical reconstruction of the craniofacial region in addition to thoracic, abdominal, and upper and lower extremity reconstruction at one of the nation’s busiest hospitals.
Clinical responsibilities will emphasize deploying advanced microsurgical techniques, including free flap reconstruction, functional muscle transfers, and nerve coaptation. The faculty member will also be part of the Craniofacial and Cleft Center focused on the treatment of complex craniofacial anomalies in addition to cleft lip and palate and general pediatric plastic surgery.
The successful candidate will join the full-time faculty of the Keck School of Medicine of USC at a rank commensurate with experience and academic accomplishments. The Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Keck School of Medicine of USC is a comprehensive and nationally recognized training program with over 30 residents and 5 fellows spanning nine academic medical centers in one of the most vibrant cities in the country.
The annual base salary range for this position is $350,000-$550,000. When extending an offer of employment, the University of Southern California considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, federal, state, and local laws, contractual stipulations, grant funding, as well as external market as external market and organizational considerations.
Founded in 1901, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is one of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals and is recognized internationally for excellence in pediatric and adolescent healthcare. CHLA is one of only ten children’s hospitals nationwide—and the only children’s hospital on the West Coast—ranked in all ten pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report and named to the publication’s Honor Roll.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is a premier teaching hospital and has been affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California since 1932.
Contact Information
Interested candidates should submit a CV and cover letter to:
Mark M. Urata, M.D., D.D.S.
Chief, Division of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Job ID REQ20182949 Posted Date 11/09/2026
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The Division of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Keck School of Medicine of USC is recruiting a Board Certified or Board Eligible plastic surgeon with advanced fellowship training and a strong clinical focus in pediatric microsurgery with a fellowship in craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery.
The ideal candidate will assume a full-time academic role within a well-established, collaborative, multidisciplinary team dedicated to the care of pediatric plastic and craniofacial patients. This position offers an invested individual a high-volume opportunity for microsurgical reconstruction of the craniofacial region in addition to thoracic, abdominal, and upper and lower extremity reconstruction at one of the nation’s busiest hospitals.
Clinical responsibilities will emphasize deploying advanced microsurgical techniques, including free flap reconstruction, functional muscle transfers, and nerve coaptation. The faculty member will also be part of the Craniofacial and Cleft Center focused on the treatment of complex craniofacial anomalies in addition to cleft lip and palate and general pediatric plastic surgery.
The successful candidate will join the full-time faculty of the Keck School of Medicine of USC at a rank commensurate with experience and academic accomplishments. The Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Keck School of Medicine of USC is a comprehensive and nationally recognized training program with over 30 residents and 5 fellows spanning nine academic medical centers in one of the most vibrant cities in the country.
The annual base salary range for this position is $350,000-$550,000. When extending an offer of employment, the University of Southern California considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, federal, state, and local laws, contractual stipulations, grant funding, as well as external market as external market and organizational considerations.
Founded in 1901, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is one of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals and is recognized internationally for excellence in pediatric and adolescent healthcare. CHLA is one of only ten children’s hospitals nationwide—and the only children’s hospital on the West Coast—ranked in all ten pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report and named to the publication’s Honor Roll.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is a premier teaching hospital and has been affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California since 1932.
Contact Information
Interested candidates should submit a CV and cover letter to:
Mark M. Urata, M.D., D.D.S.
Chief, Division of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Job ID REQ20182949 Posted Date 11/09/2026
Apply
Current employees apply here
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