What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pediatric Endocrinologist position at Endocrine?
Job Description & Requirements
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Start Date : ASAP Pay Rate : $200,000.00 - $200,000.00
Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes
Assistant / Associate Professor
UT Health San Antonio, Department of Pediatrics, Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine is recruiting a pediatric endocrinologist at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor, to join a team of 8 providers in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes. Salary, rank, and tenure status are dependent upon qualifications and experience. The position requires strong clinical skills and a commitment to clinical research. The division supports a 3-year ACGME accredited fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology; thus, this position also requires the skills to precept our UT fellows, residents, and medical students. The candidate must be board-certified or board-eligible in Pediatric Endocrinology and eligible to hold an unrestricted Texas medical license.
The Pediatric Endocrine division has 8 faculty members and an active Pediatric Endocrinology fellowship program. There are 3 diabetes educators, 3 nurses, 4 MAs, and one social worker in clinic, in addition to administrative and inpatient staff. The candidate will share clinical responsibilities in outpatient clinics and inpatient consult service call. This individual will have the opportunity for protected time for academic clinical research in the Division. Current research includes NIH, private, and pharmaceutically funded projects focused on Type 2 Diabetes, Type 1 diabetes bionic pancreas pediatric clinical trial, comorbidities of genetic obesity, and social determinants of health in diabetes. Other ongoing investigations include 11 Center of Excellence Programs including one for pediatric thyroid nodules led by Dr. Francis, Pheo Para led by Dr. Dahia, and the awarded Therapeutics Development Network cystic fibrosis center of excellence with CF-related diabetes and liver disease research led by Dr. Rayas. Our division collaborates with the co-located adult diabetes care clinics and research facilities at the Texas Diabetes Institute led by Dr. Ralph DeFronzo. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to develop additional clinical research projects. We share fellowship resources with other pediatric subspecialty fellowships as well as adult endocrine and reproductive endocrine fellowships at UT Health.
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Salary : $200,000
