Description
Specialization:
Pediatric Cardiology
Job Summary:
Medical City Healthcare: Outpatient Pediatric Cardiology
Description:
The Heart Center at Medical City Children’s Hospital in Dallas, Texas has an immediate opening for an outpatient pediatric cardiologist with an interest in fetal echocardiography to join the growing Medical City Cardiology Specialists team.
Qualified Candidates:
- Board certification in pediatric cardiology
- Must see pediatric cardiology patients in an outpatient setting, as well as see consults and read transthoracic echocardiograms from one or more of our affiliate hospitals in Northeast Texas
- Additional experience in Fetal Echocardiography is desired
- The primary responsibility will be seeing pediatric cardiology outpatients in one or more of our outreach clinics in and around the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
Incentive/Benefits Package:
- Employed position
- Highly competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package
About Medical City Children’s Hospital and Medical City Children’s Cardiology Specialists:
- 225 bed pediatric hospital with the largest Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in North Texas
- 108-bed Level IV NICU, regionalized care model with 9 Medical City Healthcare affiliated NICUs
- The Heart Center at Medical City Children’s Hospital was re-established in 2019 and prides itself on excellent patient care and outcomes.There are 2 congenital heart surgeons who performed 173 index cases in 2023, and publicly report their surgical outcomes.
- Medical City Dallas the only hospital in North Texas with both a full-service children's hospital and obstetric hospital within the same facility
- The Medical City Children’s Cardiology Specialists currently has 11 physicians including 3 interventional cardiologists, 1 electrophysiologist, 3 advanced imaging physicians who perform fetal echocardiography, cardiac MRI and cardiac CT, and 4 outreach cardiologists who will join us in August 2024.
- Additionally, there are 5 outreach pediatric cardiologists who provide outpatient cardiology services and perform fetal echocardiograms with Heart Center for Children and Pediatric Cardiology of North Texas who are part of the Heart Center.The cardiac ICU is staffed by 6 trained cardiac intensivists and 9 advanced practice providers.
- Our new Heart Center is currently under construction and will be completed in early 2026.The Heart Center will include 24 dedicated cardiac ICU beds, 12 bed cardiac step-down unit, 2 brand new state of the art cardiac catheterization laboratories, new electrophysiology suite with advanced 3D mapping which allows us to perform electrophysiology studies and ablations with minimal or no radiation exposure, and 2 cardiac operating rooms, one of which will be a hybrid suite.
Dallas is the 9th largest city in the US and the third largest in Texas with a population of 1,281,047. Dallas is centrally located and within a four-hour flight from most North American destinations. It is served by two airports; Dallas/Ft. Worth International and Dallas Love Field that combined provide more than 2,200 flights daily. AMTRAK also provides daily service to Dallas via Union Station. The Dallas area is home to 21 Fortune 500 companies including Exxon Mobil, JC Penney, AT&T, Texas Instruments, and others. Dallas is home to five professional sports teams: The Dallas Cowboys (NFL); Dallas Stars (NHL); Dallas Mavericks (NBA); Dallas Wings (WNBA); FC Dallas (MLS) and the Texas Rangers (MLB) plus NASCAR and Indy racing. The area is also home to more than 200 golf courses.
