Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiologist with Directorship

About the job

Providence is hiring a full-time advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist, with a medical directorship, for Providence Spokane Heart Institute and the Center for Advanced Heart Disease and Transplantation in Spokane. The role splits into 0.8 FTE of physician work and a 0.2 FTE medical directorship, working alongside heart failure cardiologists and nurse practitioners.

Providence Spokane Heart Institute has providers at five clinics and two hospitals and covers every area of cardiovascular care, including transplants, structural heart, and disorders of the heart, valves, arteries, veins and peripheral blood vessels. Providence Sacred Heart Hospital is a quaternary medical center for a large region that takes in Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, Idaho and Montana, and the team carries on more than 30 years of heart transplantation in the Inland Northwest.

What you'll do

• Work in a hybrid role: 0.8 FTE as an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist and 0.2 FTE as a medical director
• Practice within a service line that includes ambulatory clinics for advanced heart failure and transplant patients, with specialty areas in cardio-oncology, amyloidosis, sarcoidosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Be part of a heart failure program that runs a dedicated inpatient service for the full range of heart failure patients, including cardiogenic shock, heart transplant, ECMO, LVAD, TAH and percutaneous mechanical support
• Take advantage of research and education opportunities with residency programs and two regional medical schools

What you need

• Board certified or board eligible (BC/BE) as an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist
• Completion of an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology fellowship
• Experience as a physician

Preferred

• Leadership or directorship experience

Schedule

• Full-time (1.0 FTE), split between 0.8 FTE of physician work and 0.2 FTE as medical director

Benefits

• A signing bonus and relocation benefits
• Pay that can include call pay, extra shift incentives and productivity or quality/service incentives, as they apply to the position
• CME benefits may be available
• Eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, since Providence is a nonprofit
• No Washington state income tax (federal income tax still applies)