Advocate Aurora Health is recruiting for a specially trained physician with fellowship training and experience in both transplant infectious disease and critical care medicine.
Required:
Board certification or board eligibility in critical care medicine, and infectious disease, and clinical experience in transplant infectious disease including significant experience with solid organ transplant, and bone marrow transplant recipients- both autologous and allogeneic, as well as experience with recipients of newer generation of immunomodulatory therapies. Must have Wisconsin license.
- This is a full time position.
- Liver and kidney transplant recipients are cared for in the surgical icu (SICU), while bone marrow transplant recipients are cared for in the medical and respiratory icu (MRICU), and heart transplant recipients are cared for in the Cicu and Cvicu.
- This role will be fully integrated into the critical care service/team in the SICU, the MRICU, and the Cicu. Must be fully qualified to work in all three units.
- The critical care service is an integrated, multidisciplinary team of critical care physicians and advanced practice providers caring for critically ill patients in 5 specialized state-of-the-art ICUs within Aurora St Luke’s Medical Center, the flagship hospital of Advocate Aurora Health in Wisconsin, with about 125 icu beds. Our Physicians are board certified in critical care with primary specialization in anesthesiology, internal medicine, emergency medicine, neurology and surgery.
- The icu team has responsibility for delivering excellent comprehensive care to patients in the icu with respect and compassion, in close collaboration with other specialist services available throughout the hospital.
- The successful candidate will join a team responsible for delivering, co-ordinating, and over-seeing the critical care as well as the infectious disease care of our solid organ transplant recipients, our bone marrow transplant recipients, our heart transplant recipients as well as recipients of immunomodulatory therapies in the icu.
- Our critical care fellowship training program begins July 1, 2023, and active participation in the education of fellows is expected.
- We are also a university-affiliated training program for residents and fellows in select medical, surgical and radiology specialties. Residents rotate frequently in several of our ICU’s. We are a clinical site for rotating anesthesia critical care and medical critical care fellows from a nearby program.
- The tertiary critical care practice supports the Milwaukee-based TRIUMPH program for the University of Wisconsin medical students. Both physicians and APC’s have published in peer-reviewed journals.
About Milwaukee, Wisconsin
With a county-wide population of nearly a million, Milwaukee offers the best of everything you’d expect to find in a major city while retaining a hometown feel in its many and diverse neighborhoods. Culturally, Milwaukee has many options, ranging from performing arts centers, theaters and museums -- including an internationally designed lakefront art museum -- to one of the nation’s top 10 zoos. Sophisticated, scenic, affordable and event-filled, Milwaukee has an impressive array of public and private schools, including UW-Milwaukee and Marquette University, award-winning restaurants, world-class shopping, and one of the most convenient and “user-friendly” international airports in the world.
About Advocate Aurora Health
Advocate Aurora Health’s combined strength and stability drives us forward. Our integrated delivery model allows our clinicians to offer state-of-the-art, top tier quality care throughout eastern Wisconsin and northern and central Illinois.
Our supportive staff and leadership are committed to an autonomous practice environment and continuously strive to be on the forefront of managing the changing healthcare landscape, advances in technology and innovative approaches to providing impeccable outcomes for our patients.
Whether you’re looking to practice in the heart of a dynamic city such as Chicago or Milwaukee, a multi-specialty clinic in the suburbs, or a charming small town, Advocate Aurora Health has an opportunity for you.
Working at Advocate Aurora Health
Advocate Aurora Health is committed to diversity and inclusion every single day and in everything we do. Diversity lives in the differences, great and small, that matter to us and make each of us unique – from our age and the color of our skin, to our abilities and the things we believe in. We know that empowering our differences inspires creativity that leads to innovative solutions – for our team members, consumers and communities. And because health care is built upon relationships, it’s important for the people we serve to be able to trust us to meet their unique needs.
By cultivating an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion, we create a welcoming environment where our patients can heal, our team members can thrive and our business can grow. As a team member, working in a diverse setting allows you the chance to grow in ways that will broaden your perspective to deliver the best possible patient care.
