Abdominal Organ Procurement-Transplant (Per Diem)

Overview

Division of Abdominal Surgery

This unique opportunity in the Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery entails the following:

• Primary coverage of multi-organ procurement procedures to include brain dead and DCD donors; including liver, kidney and pancreas procurement
• Coverage inside the primary DSA and for organs accepted in surrounding DSAs
• Opportunities for scholarly and professional development activities.
• Possible opportunity to participate in kidney and/or liver transplant service.
• This is a per diem position.

Job requirements

• Qualified candidates must be BC/BE in General Surgery by the American Board of Surgery
• ASTS fellowship training in multi organ transplant required
• Candidate must meet minimum criteria for independent organ procurement

Atrium Health and the Department of Surgery

The Department of Surgery has 75 full-time clinical faculty and 6 PhD translational and basic science researchers. The Divisions in the Department of Surgery are Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Acute Care Surgery, General and Gastrointestinal (GI) Surgery, Hepatopancreatic and Biliary (HPB) Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Surgical Oncology, and Urology.  LifeShare Carolinas has recently opened a freestanding organ and tissue procurement center.

The Division of Abdominal Transplant is an expanding service including clinical coverage in:

• Adult and pediatric kidney program
• Adult and pediatric liver program
• Normothermic machine perfusion in liver transplant
• Ex vivo liver resection with auto-implant
• Simultaneous kidney pancreas transplant
• Living donor kidney transplant
• Adult and pediatric dialysis access
• Transplant Oncology