Adult Congenital Heart Disease Cardiology. Charlotte. Physician

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 qualified to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together at Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital in Charlotte, NC.

Atrium Health’s Congenital Heart Center at Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH) and Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute (SHVI), seek to recruit an Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Cardiologist to join their growing team in Charlotte, NC. The team currently includes: 12 cardiologists, 3 congenital heart surgeons, 5 cardiac intensivists, 4 pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists, 2 pediatric cardiac radiologists, 20 APPs (includes 3 surgical ACPs), 16 sonographers, 5 nurse navigators, and 9 dedicated RNs.

Responsibilities:

• Includes both outpatient and inpatient pediatric or adult cardiology, depending on primary board certification, and inpatient ACHD service
• Call/weekend coverage on a rotating basis including ACHD call split with two other ACHD providers

Requirements:

• Candidates will have completed an ACGME-accredited fellowship in pediatric cardiology or internal medicine, 
• BC/BE by the American Board of Pediatrics or American Board of Internal Medicine, 
• ABIM board certified in Adult Congenital Heart Disease.

The Congenital Heart Center, established in 2010, has been ranked as one of the top-50 pediatric heart centers in the country by U.S. News and World Report for the last nine years. Our comprehensive services include cardiac imaging, diagnostic and interventional catheterization, invasive electrophysiology, dedicated cardiovascular intensive care staff, and regional referral programs in heart failure/transplantation, adult congenital heart disease, and fetal echocardiography. Surgical and cardiac catheterization volume are growing at a rate of 10-15% per year. Our state-of-the-art two lab cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology suite opened in February of 2017, with dedicated staffing and anesthesia teams. Our new outpatient office complex opened in December 2020, designed to treat all patients from fetal cardiology to ACHD. We have one of the most comprehensive Cardiac Neurodevelopment programs in the Southeast, providing a multitude of specialty services to our congenital heart patients in the same office suite. Participation in investigator initiated and multi-center industry sponsored studies is ongoing within the Heart Center, with the support of an active clinical research department. 

Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute (SHVI) is one of the Southeast's largest cardiac and vascular programs. Sanger employs more than 110 physicians in a network of more than 25 locations to provide the highest quality care available to patients with cardiovascular disease throughout North and South Carolina. SHVI has more than 50 years of experience providing world-class, comprehensive acute and chronic cardiovascular services including the region's only heart transplant center and pediatric/congenital heart surgery program. 

Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH) is a state-of-the-art facility in beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina. LCH has 11 floors and 234 inpatient beds, including on-site PICU and CVICU covered 24/7 by in-house intensivists, Progressive Care Unit, Inpatient Observation Unit, Pediatric Rehab Unit, and Pediatric Emergency Department. We are committed to being the region’s leading provider of pediatric health care services. 

LCH and SHVI are both premier referral facilities within Atrium Health (AH), one of the nation’s leading and most innovative healthcare systems.  AH operates nearly 2,500 system-employed physicians, more than 60,000 employees and more than 7,460 licensed beds across the Carolinas and beyond. 

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.