Academic Section Head, Pediatric Interventional Cardiology and Director of the Cath Lab
Irving, Texas, United States

Job Summary

Occupation Physician
Specialty Pediatric-Cardiology
Salary $400,000 – $425,000 yearly
Degree Required MD/DO
Position Type Permanent/Full-Time
Work Environment Hospital Clinic/Private Practice
Location New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Visa Sponsorship No

Job Description

Last Update: 4/26/24

Curative Executive & Academic Search has partnered with Children’s Hospital in New Orleans on

the national search for an outstanding physician leader to serve as Section Head for Pediatric

Interventional Cardiology with LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine. This incoming

Section Head will also hold the role as the Director of the Cath Lab with Children‘s Hospital.

As Clinical Director of Interventional Cardiology, this incoming leader will join an impressive team

of faculty at The Heart Center within Children’s Hospital. This faculty team consists of 18 full-time

pediatric cardiologists, 2 accomplished pediatric cardiovascular surgeons, and 5 dedicated

pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists. The Heart Center represents sub-specialty expertise in

Pediatric and Fetal Imaging, Electrophysiology, Interventional Cardiology, Cardiac Intensive Care,

and Adult Congenital Cardiology. The Heart Center is proud to be part of the only freestanding

quaternary care children’s hospital in New Orleans and Louisiana, and the top academic heart

program in the state of Louisiana.

The successful candidate for the role as Section Head, Interventional Cardiology will be one who

has demonstrated clinical excellence in interventional cardiology as well as academic success.

You will be responsible for continued development and growth in leading a comprehensive state-

of-the-art interventional cardiology program at Children’s Hospital.

Children’s Hospital in New Orleans is a 247-bed quaternary care teaching complex that is located

in the historic and virant Uptown Area of New Orleans. It serves the entire state of Louisiana and

the central Gulf Coast region. The hospital recently completed an over $300 million renovation

and expansion which included the brand-new 28-bed state-of-the-art dedicated and combined

acute care unit and cardiac intensive care unit, two (2) new and dedicated cardiac operating

rooms, and two (2) new and dedicated cardiac catheterization suites.