Open Rank Professor - Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation

Skilled leader with a track record of supporting excellent patient outcomes, fostering program growth, and ensuring compliance with UNOS and OPTN rules and bylaws. The Chief should be able to build and/or maintain relationships with community and internal partners. The Chief will also serve as the Director of the Methodist Transplant Institute and will oversee surgical and medical directors, as well as the senior administrative director of transplantation, to ensure high-quality patient outcomes while broadening the reach of the Institute.

Participation in the training of medical students, general surgery residents, and transplant surgery fellows is expected. Opportunities to participate in clinical and translational research exist and are highly encouraged through our endowed Transplant Research Institute. Supervision of advanced practice providers is required. 

Qualifications

EDUCATION: DDS/DMD or equivalent degree. Completion of ASTS Fellowship. 

EXPERIENCE: Experience in complex liver transplantation, including pediatric and live donor liver transplantation is desired. Trained in an ASTS-accredited abdominal transplant fellowship. Proven leadership ability, along with excellent team building, collaboration and exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Strong interest in laparoscopic or robotic living donor nephrectomy would be preferable.

LICENSES: Board-certified in General Surgery by the American Board of Surgery. Licensed Physician by Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER 

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is a statewide flagship, public, academic health institution in Tennessee. Founded in 1911, the mission of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is to improve the health and well-being of Tennesseans and the global community by fostering collaborative education, research, scientific discovery, clinical care, and public service. Employing more than 4,600 people on its faculty, staff, and not-for-profit corporation faculty practice groups, and with more than 3,200 students across the state, UT Health Science Center contributes $4 billion to the economy of Tennessee.

Part of the University of Tennessee System, the Health Science Center is headquartered in Memphis and includes all six of UT’s doctoral-degree-granting health science colleges -- Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Graduate Health Sciences, and Health Professions. UT Health Science Center spans the state with its four major, regional clinical health science locations in Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville, as well as more than 100 clinical education sites across Tennessee. UT Health Science Center is the largest educator of health care professionals in the state and operates the state’s largest residency and fellowship advanced training programs. 

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Memphis boasts attractions, including Elvis Presley’s Graceland, the Memphis Grizzlies, historic Beale Street, the National Civil Rights Museum, the second-largest urban county park in the United States, and the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.