Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine in Detroit

Children’s Hospital of Michigan is actively seeking to recruit a Chief for the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. The Chief is responsible for overseeing the pediatric medical / surgical intensive care unit (PICU), the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (CICU), and neuro intensive care unit. The ICUs have a total of 48 beds and approximately 2,100 admissions annually, and is staffed by 16 attending intensivists and 9 fellows.

Ideal candidates :

• Must be certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
• Interested in a busy academic clinical practice with opportunities in medical education and research
• At least 10 years of experience working in pediatric critical care
• Administrative experience is preferred but not required
• Additional training and / or experience in cardiac / cardiovascular critical care or neurologic critical care would be a plus
• Ability to obtain a Michigan license

Position responsibilities include :

About the division :

Clinical : The Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine is a strong group of critical care physicians who pursue clinical excellence in their work. There is a strong relationship with the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, and there is cardiac trained / experienced intensivist coverage of all CV patients. Within the Children's Hospital of Michigan, there is availability of all pediatric medical and surgical subspecialties. Hospital programs working in close collaboration with the Division include the level 1 pediatric trauma center and pediatric burn center, and organ transplant programs including solid organ (heart, liver, and kidney) and bone marrow transplant, and the dedicated pediatric transport (PANDA) team.  Procedures available in the ICUs include ECMO, VAD, CRRT, HFOV, JET, and flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy.

Education : The Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship program founded in 1975 was the first ACGME accredited pediatric critical care program in the Midwest. CHM is home to a large pediatric residency program and an Emergency Medicine fellowship program whose trainees rotate through the ICUs. The Division also provides clinical rotations for external pediatric residency and emergency medicine programs in metro-Detroit, and rotations for medical students from Central Michigan University and Wayne State University.

Research : The Division offers a wide range of research opportunities in collaboration with Central Michigan University College of Medicine and University Pediatrics Clinical Research Institute. The division has been a funded site in the NICHD Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN) since the network’s inception in 2005. The Division is also active in the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators Network, the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium, and the Association of Pediatric Program Directors. Faculty members are active PIs in basic science research, clinical research, quality improvement science, and multicenter trials and have been recipients of K12 and K23 awards.