Job Description: The University of Kentucky College of Medicine and Kentucky Children's Hospital are seeking to recruit an additional Board certified/Board eligible Pediatric Critical Care Medicine physician for their Division. The Heinrich A Werner Division of Critical Care currently consists of 9 ICU physicians and 4 advanced practice nurse practitioners who care or critically ill children in the 16-bed multidisciplinary PICU and Pediatric Cardiac ICU. The division also staffs the Children's Sedation and Procedural Unit (CSPU), providing sedation for procedures.
Clinical work will be within Kentucky Children's Hospital which is located in Lexington, KY and within UK Healthcare. Critical care physicians will actively participate in educating and training residents and medical students. In addition to clinical care, participation in medical education, quality improvement initiatives, and scholarly activity is strongly encouraged.
Kentucky Children's Hospital (KCH) serves as a tertiary subspecialty regional referral and pediatric care center for the state of Kentucky as well as parts of Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. KCH offers 205-pediatric beds, including a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center, 12-bed pediatric ICU, 4-bed cardiac ICU and 90-bed level IV Neonatal ICU. KCH is nationally ranked by US News & World Report as a Best Children's Hospital in Pediatric Cardiology & CT Surgery and Pediatric Orthopedics.
Interested candidates can reach out to Matthew Bacon, MD, Division Chief for Henrich A Werner Division of Pediatric Critical Care.
Last Updated: July 24, 2023