Candidates should contact:

Karl Desch, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Search Committee Chair

Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

8-621 C.S. Mott Children's Hospital

1540 E. Hospital Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-4254

Phone: 734 763-4109

E-mail: kdesch@med.umich.edu

The Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan is expanding. We are recruiting new faculty members to staff our affiliated NICU at Trinity Health Oakland (THO), in Pontiac, Michigan. Applicants must be board-certified in Pediatrics and board-certified or board-eligible in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine by the position start date.  Responsibilities will include active participation in interprofessional Newborn ICU Quality Improvement and protocol development. Our faculty collaborate closely with colleagues in Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine on-site, and virtually with Michigan Medicine Pediatrics faculty in Genetics, Nephrology, Cardiology, Neurology, Pulmonology, and other pediatric medical and surgical subspecialties.  Faculty members working at THO will work to harmonize clinical practice guidelines and care models with faculty at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and take part in teaching and academic activities at the University of Michigan's Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. 

Trinity Health Oakland is affiliated with Michigan Medicine and C.S. Mott Children's Hospital through a Joint Venture agreement.  Trinity Health Oakland has 29 licensed level III NICU beds, with an average 50% occupancy.  The hospital has 2000 deliveries annually.  In the current staffing model 2 neonatologists round in-hospital every weekday.  NNP's are in-house at night and the neonatologists take night call from home 1 week in 3; they are called in for any delivery <28 weeks gestation and as needed based on severity of illness.  Weekend coverage, including daytime rounding and night call from home, rotates among the neonatologists.  The Trinity Health Oakland NICU has approximately 320 annual admissions.  Trinity Health Oakland is affiliated with Michigan Medicine's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, which is ranked first in the state by USNWR, third in the region, and is nationally ranked in all ten specialties, including Neonatology, for which we are ranked first in the state. This appointment may include clinical service opportunities at both THO and C.S. Mott as mutually agreed upon.

Applicants must be board-certified in Pediatrics and board-certified or board-eligible in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine by the position start date. 

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