Opportunity Highlights
- Competitive salary and benefits package along with a robust faculty mentoring program for promotion and/or tenure
- Strong team including eight pulmonologists, two sleep specialists, advanced practice/specialty nurses, pediatric pulmonary medicine fellows, respiratory therapists, social workers and nutrition specialists
- Ranked in the Top 50 pediatric pulmonology sections in the nation for eight years in a row by U.S. News & World Report
- Pulmonary clinics in Little Rock, Springdale and Jonesboro, with more than 7,000 outpatient visits/year, specialty nurse support and full respiratory therapy support in all clinics
- State-of-the-art pediatric pulmonary diagnostic services, performing ~ 12,000 PFT/year, as well as bronchoscopy, nasal nitric oxide and other specialized testing
- Inpatient pulmonary service, pulmonary consultation service and strong collaborative NICU consultation service, with weekly pulmonary-neonatology care conferences year-round
- A large, innovative home ventilator program, with more than 12 non-ICU inpatient beds designed for children with chronic ventilator needs, large outpatient population of respiratory technology-dependent children, and unique telehealth ventilator weaning program
- Member of the National Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Collaborative, with active participation in and co-leadership of several multi-center projects
- Strong research productivity, with 15 peer-reviewed publications from Pulmonary in FY22 and opportunities to expand
- Active involvement in educating medical students, residents and fellows with additional opportunities for leadership, educational outreach, as well as basic and clinical research
- Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship Program, established in 2005, with three fellows and strong educational program
- Pulmonary specialists attend numerous multidisciplinary clinics, including the Severe Asthma Clinic, SMA Clinic, Muscular Dystrophy Clinic, Sickle Cell Clinic, Fontan Clinic, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic and Aerodigestive Clinic. Opportunities for further clinical expansion
- State-wide childhood asthma program in partnership with the Section of Allergy and Immunology
- The only Cystic Fibrosis Center in the state, including active participation in the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Development Network (TDN) for 12 years
- The only accredited Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Center in the state
- The only accredited Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center in the state, with more than 4,000 Pediatric Sleep Clinic outpatient visits/year and over 1,200 pediatric sleep studies/year. Currently planning expansion of sleep services and laboratory capacity
Practice Is Based at Arkansas Children’s Hospital
The Arkansas Children’s system includes two hospitals, a statewide care network of clinics and outreach programs, a research institute and a foundation. Arkansas Children’s is the only pediatric health system in the state of Arkansas, providing coverage to the state’s children from birth to age 21. The hospital staff consists of more than 500 faculty, 200 residents and 4,400 support staff.
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