Academic Faculty Physician - Pediatric Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine

Pediatric Sleep/Pulmonology Faculty

The Section of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine with Atrium Health Wake Forest School of Medicine and Brenner Children’s Hospital (BCH) is seeking candidates for a full-time faculty position in Pediatric Pulmonology/Pediatric Sleep Medicine. Candidates should be board certified in Pediatrics and board certified or board eligible in Sleep Medicine and Pediatric Pulmonology. Academic rank will be commensurate with experience.

The section of Pediatric Pulmonology at Brenner Children’s Hospital sees a diverse population with high acuity, including:

• patients with BPD
• patients requiring chronic ventilation or non-invasive ventilation
• neuromuscular respiratory weakness
• asthma
• cystic fibrosis
• sleep disorders
• interstitial lung disease
• sickle cell lung disease

About our section and services provided:

Pediatric Sleep:

• We currently have 3 sleep providers in our sleep clinic including one pediatric psychiatrist. We have 5 sleep center locations; Winston-Salem (4 beds), Lexington Adult (4 Beds), Lexington/Brenner Children’s (3 beds), High Point (4 beds), and Wilkes (2 Beds), totaling 17 beds.
• There is also a portable unit located on the main campus in Winston-Salem for pediatric inpatients.
• The sites operate with a 2:1 patient to tech ratio in the adult labs. Depending on the patient's age and severity, the pediatric staffing ratio may vary from 1:1 to 2:1.
• We are in the process of transitioning to Compumedics and adding Somnoware.

Pediatric Pulmonary:

• Our team includes: 5 pediatric pulmonologists, a dedicated CF physician, 1 inpatient/outpatient PNP
• We are an accredited CF center and a member of the TDN with a fully staffed CF team (providers, nurse coordinator, psychologist, RT, social worker, dietician and pharmacist).
• We run multidisciplinary clinics for patients with CF, ventilator-dependence, neuromuscular diseases, Sickle Cell Disease, and Pediatric Sleep.
• We perform both inpatient and outpatient bronchoscopy with on-call bronchoscopy technicians (RT’s) and have full lung function testing capabilities.
• We work in a multidisciplinary fashion with our adult pulmonary colleagues, Pediatric ENT section, the NICU, PICU, our pediatric surgeons and pediatric subspecialists.
• Pediatric Pulmonology has satellite clinics located in Clemmons and Hickory, NC.

Brenner Children’s Hospital:

Brenner Children’s Hospital is the focal point for pediatric healthcare at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. The hospital includes 175 inpatient beds, 11 PICU beds, 79 NICU beds, and admits 4,500 children annually. In addition, more than 50,000 pediatric subspecialty visits occur at our outpatient clinics and over 36,000 children visit the emergency room each year. Brenner Children’s became the first Level I pediatric trauma center in the state in 2011 and has maintained its verification ever since. Currently it is the only Level I pediatric trauma center in the region and one of only three in North Carolina. The hospital has also been recently verified by the ACS as a Level I Children’s Surgery Center, one of only 28 in the entire country, including 7 OR suites. Brenner Children's Hospital is staffed by 94 pediatric faculty including over 50 of the Best Doctors in America® that have expertise in the full range of pediatric care. Brenner also has consistently been ranked among the nation’s top pediatric hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist:

Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise, is the medical education and research component of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. The academic health system is comprised of an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, 300 plus primary and specialty care locations, more than 2,700 physicians and the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist has been nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in addition to Brenner Children’s Hospital.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina:

Located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, Winston Salem is the state’s fifth largest city and named one of “The South’s Best Cities on the Rise 2021” by Southern Living. It’s also the home of Innovation Quarter, an innovation district focused on research, business and education in biomedical science, information technology, digital media, clinical services and advanced materials.

The area features a moderate climate with all four seasons and a cost of living 31% below the national average. Residents of Winston-Salem enjoy a vibrant restaurant scene, a wide variety of indoor and outdoor recreational opportunities, strong public/private schools, enthusiastic support for the arts, close proximity to the Appalachian Mountains and Atlantic Coast beaches as well as an exceptional cost of living. Although the city is traditionally Southern in its friendliness, it has an international feel. The metro area celebrates its diversity during an array of festivals and through a variety of cuisines. You'll find a multitude of restaurants serving cuisine from around the globe, a thriving community of microbreweries and 42 wineries in the area.

As home to the first Arts Council in the United States, Winston-Salem paved the way for public-private support of the Arts and created the model for Arts Councils nationwide. We have numerous galleries, performing arts groups, theaters, collectives and collections that continue to attract and appeal to arts lovers worldwide.

For more information on Winston-Salem, NC please visit: www.visitwinstonsalem.com , www.winstonsalem.com & www.bestofwinston.com

Atrium Health Wake Forest School of Medicine and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to achieving diversity among its faculty and staff.

For questions, please contact: Jackie Aubert, Talent Acquisition, at Jaubert@wakehealth.edu .

EOE/AA: Minorities/Females/Disabled/Vets

Wake Forest Baptist Health and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.

Wake Forest Baptist Health ( www.WakeHealth.edu ) is a nationally recognized academic health system in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with an integrated enterprise including educational and research facilities, hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centers, and other primary and specialty care facilities serving 24 counties in northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia.

It comprises: a regional clinical system with more than 300 locations, 2,100 physicians and 1,535 acute care beds; Wake Forest School of Medicine; and Wake Forest Innovations, which promotes the commercialization of research discoveries and operates Innovation Quarter, an urban research and business park specializing in biotechnology, materials science and information technology. Wake Forest Baptist’s clinical, research and educational programs are consistently ranked among the best in the country.

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