Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare seeks a Kidney Transplant Surgical Director

Job Description

If you are looking to make an impact on a meaningful scale, come join us as we embrace the Power of One!

Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare strives to be an employer of choice and establish a reputation for being a talent-rich organization where associates can grow their careers by caring for others. For over a century, weve served the health care needs of the people of Memphis and the Mid-South.

Working at Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare means carrying the mission forward of caring for our community and impacting the lives of patients in every way through compassion, a deliberate focus on service expectations, and a consistent striving for excellence.

What will you do

The Methodist Transplant Institute, in partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), is accepting applications for a transplant surgeon to serve as the surgical director of kidney transplantation. As a leader in the field of organ transplantation for more than 40 years, this transplant program provides liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation, living donor organ transplantation, and hepatobiliary surgery to patients with end-stage organ disease in the Midsouth.

The ideal candidate for the surgical director would have greater than 5 years post-fellowship experience in deceased and living donor kidney transplantation. Experience in pancreas transplantation and / or laparoscopic or robotic living donor nephrectomy would be beneficial. The surgical director should be a charismatic, skilled leader with a track record of supporting excellent patient outcomes, fostering program growth, and ensuring compliance with UNOS and OPTN rules and bylaws. The surgical director should be able to build relationships with community and internal partners, as the director will be joining an established, high-volume kidney transplant program.

The surgical director would work side by side with the medical directors and senior administrative director of transplant to ensure high-quality patient outcomes while broadening the reach of the Methodist Transplant Institute.

The kidney surgical director should be fellowship trained in an ASTS-accredited abdominal transplant fellowship as well as be board-certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery.

Participation in the training of medical students, general surgery residents, and transplant surgery fellows is expected. Opportunities to participate in clinical and translational research exist through our endowed Transplant Research Institute.

Supervision of advanced practice providers is required.

The kidney transplant surgical director will model behavior as exemplified in MLH's Mission, Vision, and Values.

Salary and benefits package will be competitive and commensurate with experience.

Education / Formal Training Requirements

• MD / DO
• Completion of an accredited American Board of Surgery general surgery residency program and an ASTS-approved fellowship program in solid organ transplantation

Work Experience Requirements

Licenses and Certifications Requirements

Physical Demands

Our Associates are passionate about what they do, the service they provide and the patients they serve. We value family, team and a Power of One culture that requires commitment to the highest standards of care and unity.

Boasting one of the South's largest medical centers, Memphis blends a friendly community, a thriving and growing downtown, and a low cost of living. We see each day as a new opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the people in our community.