What are the responsibilities and job description for the Abdominal /Kidney Transplant Surgeon (MD/DO) position at Inova Health System?
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus is currently seeking an ASTS fellowship trained abdominal transplant surgeon to join the abdominal transplant surgical team. The successful candidate will provide clinical and surgical care in the area of kidney and pancreas transplant within the Inova Health System. Working directly with the transplant surgeons and nephrologists who will assist in the care of patients with end stage renal disease. Maintains overall responsibility for the care of kidney, kidney/pancreas, pancreas patients and living kidney donors. The Transplant Surgeon will be a member of the Surgery Service Line and the Inova medical group.
Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
Featured Benefits:
Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
Retirement:Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
Mental Health Support:offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
Work/Life Balance:offering paid time off, paid parental leave, CME days and CME Allowance
Competitive Compensation Package: Includes a market-competitive base salary, comprehensive performance incentive plan, and productivity based RVU compensation structure designed to reward quality, patient access, and clinical productivity. Additionally, opportunities for Sign-On, Retention, and Relocation bonuses
Job Responsibilities:
- Provides quality care to kidney, kidney/pancreas and pancreas transplant recipients and living donors as defined by a one year survival rate equal to or above the expected outcomes as calculated by UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) for patient mix. Short term, statistical trends and volume issues will be disregarded when evaluating program outcomes.
- Responsible for quality selection of transplant candidates and donors.
- Provides quality care to kidney/pancreas transplant recipients.
- Assists with the collaborative practice committee and assists with clinical decision-making
- Rounds on hospitalized patients that are affiliated with kidney/pancreas transfer program.
- Develops, implements, and evaluates clinical standards, practice guidelines, pathways and policies/procedures
- Direct and coordinate patient protocols for kidney/pancreas patients as necessary.
- Participates actively as requested in the surgical residency teaching program and in educational programs conducted by the hospital, including but not limited to providing supervision and training to residents and fellows, and performing such other teaching functions with the hospital as the hospital may deem necessary or desirable.
- Supports marketing efforts to foster growth of the kidney and kidney/pancreas and pancreas transplant programs.
- Participate as required in risk management and quality assurance activities. The focus of the quality assurance activities will be on performance improvement not peer review.
- Participate as requested with regulatory, licensure and certification review bodies.
- Participate as requested in medical staff committees, taskforce, conferences and other work groups initiated to enhance quality patient care and the operations of the hospital.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: Graduate of accredited MD or DO program, Completion of a General Surgery residency accredited by the ACGME, Completion of an ASTS-accredited Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship
- Credentialing: Ability to be payer credentialed with Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurance carriers. Eligible for hospital credentialing and surgical privileges in abdominal organ transplant surgery.
- Payer Credentialing: Ability to successfully complete the credentialing process by third-party payors and Ability to enrolled as a CMS Medicare/Medicaid payor
- Certification: Eligibility for full, unrestricted medical licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia, ability to obtain and maintain DEA registration for prescribing controlled substances in Virginia.
As a recipient of federal financial assistance, Inova Health System (“Inova”) does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services or benefits under any of its programs or activities, whether carried out by Inova directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Inova arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This policy is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at 45 C.F.R. Parts 80, 84, 91 and 92, respectively.
Salary : $5,250