Charlotte, NC, United States
Job ID: 121184
Job Family: Physicians
Status: Full Time
Department Name: 31741005730156-Surgical Services
Overview
If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina and South Carolina. We invite providers to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together
Seeking a full-time general surgeon with a strong commitment to emergency general surgery to join Atrium Health’s (AH) Division of Acute Care Surgery as member of the AH-University City Acute Care Surgery Service in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Atrium Health’s Division of Acute Care Surgery currently employs 18 full-time, academic faculty and 4 military faculty providing urgent care to acutely ill and injured patients at two AH facilities, the flagship Level I trauma center Carolinas Medical Center and University City. To advance the Division’s primary mission of providing highest value care for all acutely ill and injured surgical patients within our region, the AH-University City Acute Care Surgery Service was initiated in 2020. Since its inception, the service has grown substantially, now performing greater than 1000 cases annually, with a robust and expanding EGS robotics program, and recently expanded clinic access and surgical block time. The Division of Acute Care Surgery is recruiting a well-trained general surgeon to support the growth and expansion of the AH-University City ACS program as an academic faculty member of the Department of Surgery.
Atrium Health operates nine facilities within the greater Charlotte region that provide some aspect of Acute Care Surgery (ACS). Our integrated system has roughly 50,000 ACS admissions annually, of which roughly 30,000 are emergent general surgery (EGS) conditions. In December 2022, AH and Advocate Aurora Health merged to form Advocate Health. Headquartered in Charlotte, Advocate Health is one of the largest, most comprehensive and integrated, public, not-for-profit systems in the nation serving nearly 6 million patients annually. Advocate Health is comprised of more than 1,000 sites of care and 67 hospitals with more than 21,000 physicians and nearly 42,000 nurses. Additionally, AH and Wake Forest Baptist Health merged in 2020, began construction of the Wake Forest School of Medicine Charlotte Campus in 2023, with the first full class of students matriculating in 2025.
Qualified candidates should be:
When you join Atrium Health, you will be welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. Practice where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In our nationally-renowned integrated health system, you can work alongside the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine, elevate hope and advance healing—for all.