The Department of Pediatrics at the University at Buffalo (UB), the John R. Oishei Children's Hospital (OCH), and UBMD Pediatrics is seeking 2 full-time BC/BE Pediatric Intensivists to join their team of 5 physicians and 4 advanced practice providers (APPs). Candidates must have completed a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine from an ACGME accredited program. Physicians provide ICU services in the state-of-the-art pediatric critical care unit at the John R. Oishei Children's Hospital, a regional level-one trauma and ECMO center.
As the only pediatric ICU in the Western New York area, the unit is well-equipped to care for the wide range of medical and surgical needs of its population. Board certified pediatric intensivists are available 24 hours a day to provide support. Under their care, patients have access to therapies such as high frequency ventilation, inhaled nitric oxide therapy, non-invasive ventilation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and general anesthesia.
The multidisciplinary team consists of physicians, advanced practice providers (APPs), nurses, dedicated respiratory therapists, clinical pharmacists, social workers, child life specialists and nutritionists, all working together to provide outstanding, family-centered care. In addition, medical and surgical subspecialists from a multitude of disciplines are immediately available to the team, lending their expertise across a spectrum that includes neurosurgery, pediatric surgery, acute and chronic respiratory failure, hematologic and oncologic emergencies, and multi-organ dysfunction in the setting of severe sepsis. The PICU also serves as the critical care arm of support for the region's only Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center, 1 of only 40 centers to earn that designation in the entire country.
The new, 20-bed private room PICU at the Oishei Children's Hospital in downtown Buffalo, NY is part of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Its location facilitates the PICU's ability to leverage invasive endovascular technologies available at the Gates Vascular Institute. The Pediatric ICU is home to approximately 1300 admission each year.
Vital Statistics and Innovate Services/Technologies:
• 20 bed state of the art PICU with intermediate care beds for surgical support
• Extracorporeal life support in neonates and pediatric patients with cardio-respiratory failure
• Dedicated Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team with both ground and air-support through our critical care ambulance and mercy flight partners, with more than 800 transports per year
• Dedicated helipad for pediatric air transports
• Pioneers in non-invasive ventilation especially negative pressure ventilation in patients with acute or chronic respiratory failure
• State of the art ventilation
• Isofluorane and Nitric Oxide treatment readily available. Heliox available at each bedside
• Apheresis service including plasmapheresis, leukopheresis and erythrocytopheresis therapies for different neurological, renal, sepsis-related, and hematological conditions and emergencies
• Continuous Renal Replacement Therapies (CRRT)
For Additional Information contact:
Shahzad Waheed, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and Division Chief, Pediatric Critical Care
Email: shahzadw@buffalo.edu
May apply directly on the UB Job Site: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/35593
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