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Ochsner Children’s Hospital in New Orleans is seeking a Section Head of Pediatric Surgery as well as junior faculty to join their interdisciplinary team in New Orleans, LA. These people would be joining three other pediatric surgeons who are part of a high-functioning, rapidly growing tertiary/quaternary Children’s Hospital with patients on our pediatric acute floors, our PICU and our level IV NICU. The ideal candidate would have ECMO experience, as well as experience and/or training at a pediatric trauma center. New graduates and experienced Pediatric Surgeons are encouraged to apply.
Ochsner Children’s, comprised of 88 primary care pediatricians and 270 pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists in 27 locations across Louisiana and Mississippi is the region’s leading integrated provider of multispecialty care for newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. We offer a full range of complex specialty services including congenital heart surgery and cardiac transplantation, liver and bone marrow transplantation, advanced GI and Hepatology, Hematology-Oncology and AYA Oncology, and a comprehensive surgical sub-specialty group including Cleft Palate/Cranio-Facial Surgery, advanced spine surgery and the Gulf South’s only comprehensive, multidisciplinary developmental pediatrics center.
Ochsner Children’s Hospital includes a 67-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 14-bed PICU, a 12-bed pediatric CV-ICU, a NAEC-accredited level IV, 4 bed Pediatric EMU and a 44-bed Pediatric Acute Care unit, with a dedicated pediatric emergency room, supported by a 24-7 pediatric and neonatal transport team utilizing rotary and fixed wing aircraft, as well as ground transport. We recently began construction on a new 5-story Children’s Hospital on our main campus in New Orleans, with expected opening at the start of 2028.
Ochsner Children’s Hospital has an ACGME-accredited general surgery, and a pediatric residency program, and is also responsible for teaching pediatric residents from the Tulane-Ochsner Pediatric Residency program as well as medical students from both Tulane and the University of Queensland. Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana recently announced an agreement to establish a joint allopathic College of Medicine, the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine, which is in the LCME accreditation process currently. Our faculty publishes hundreds of research papers annually and lead numerous multi-center studies and trials.
Ochsner Children’s is a leader in healthcare innovation. Physician inbox messages are “co-piloted” with AI responses that reduce physician time responding to patient messages and Ochsner Children’s is introducing “Deep Scribe” ambient listening technology in our clinics, where the physician note is written in real time by AI during the patient encounter.
Ochsner Children’s is proud to have ranked in multiple subspecialties in US News and World Report’s top 50 Children’s Hospitals in the US for 8 years in a row. #1 Ranked Children’s Hospital in Louisiana!
If you would like more information about our program or would like to discuss this position with Dr. Vincent “Butch” Adolph, Chief Medical Officer, please contact Courtney Lawhun, Physician Recruiter, at courtney.lawhun@ochsner.org.
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