Assistant/Associate/Professor Pediatric Critical Care

Hiring Department: UICOMP-Pediatrics

Location: Peoria, IL USA

Requisition ID: 1029177

Posting Close Date: 4/9/2025

Salary: $240,000 to $270,000 per year

The University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria (UICOMP), Department of Pediatrics is seeking 1 candidate for Pediatric Critical Care physician position. with additional cardiac training or extensive clinical experience with post-operative cardiac care or dual training in cardiology and critical care for a position as Assistant/Associate/Professor of Pediatrics to enhance a growing division.

The ideal candidate will have completed 3 years of pediatric residency and be BC/BE in Pediatric Critical Care upon employment and will hold or have applied for an Illinois physician's license.

The position includes patient care services, teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. The faculty will provide clinical services for critically ill patients hospitalized in the unit including children with complex congenital heart disease. The ideal candidate will also provide consultation services for physicians and patients in the region with problems requiring critical care and supervising ground transport. There is a limited expectation to participate in the procedural sedation program. The faculties are encouraged (and will be supported) to pursue research endeavors and other professional development activities.

The Pediatric Critical Care Division encompasses 11 full time Pediatric Intensivists, 8 Advanced Practice Providers, Critical care fellowship, and APP-Critical care Fellowship. Medical Students, Pediatric Residents, and Emergency Medicine Residents rotate through the service.

Clinical activities of the faculty are primarily concentrated at OSF Healthcare Children’s Hospital of Illinois, which is the primary pediatric teaching facility for UICOMP and is a 142-bed facility that offers over 50 pediatric programs and services. These programs represent over 100 pediatric sub-specialists in 24 different disciplines, including a pediatric surgery program, and a congenital heart surgery program. Children’s Hospital of Illinois is the only full-service tertiary hospital for children in downstate Illinois with a children and adult congenital heart disease program, Illinois Perinatal Center, a Quaternary Care Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and is designated as a Level I trauma center. There is an active ECMO program, Renal Transplant and dialysis program, Home Ventilator program, and active air and ground transport services.

Position Summary

The Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria and Children's Hospital of Illinois at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center is seeking Pediatric Critical Care physicians with additional cardiac training, extensive clinical experience with post-operative cardiac care, or dual training in cardiology and critical care for a position on the non-tenure clinical track as Assistant/Associate/Professor of Pediatrics or of Clinical Pediatrics. The critical care division currently consists 11 intensivists who staff a 32 bed mixed cardiac and med-surgical unit with an ACGME accredited fellowship training program.

Duties & Responsibilities

• The position clinical duties include includes direct patient care to critically ill children, providing clinical consultation services for critically ill patients hospitalized in the unit including children with complex congenital heart disease, and providing consultation for physicians and patients in the region with problems requiring critical care.
• Provide consultation services for physicians and patients in the region requiring critical care services.
• Provide supervision as Medical Control for the Critical Care Ground Transport Team when on clinical duty, as well as a limited commitment to a Procedural Sedation Service
• Organize and conduct research programs in pediatric critical care medicine.
• Perform other duties of a University faculty member including committee assignments, curriculum development and administration.
• Participate in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education programs of the Department.
• Duties also include teaching medical students, residents, and critical care fellows. An advanced Practice Providers-Critical care fellowship program also exists. and opportunities to pursue research, professional development, and fellows mentorship exist.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• MD/DO degree
• Eligible for licensure in Illinois.
• Board certified/eligible in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care
• The position (tenure or non-tenure) requires the completion of 3 years of Pediatrics Residency and the completion of 3 years of accredited Critical Care Fellowship training at the time of employment.
  

About University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria (UICOMP) Department of Pediatrics and OSF Healthcare Children’s Hospital of Illinois:

UICOMP is one of the three regional campuses of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, one of the largest public medical schools in the country. UICOMP’s educational programs include 244 medical students and 300 residents/fellows in 21 different post graduate programs. The Department of Pediatrics is one of the largest departments at UICOMP. In collaboration with the OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois, the Department has 19 divisions and over 145 faculty members providing general pediatrics and subspecialty services to the pediatric population in Central Illinois. The current research infrastructure within the Department includes an office of research, a dedicated biostatistician and an internal research funding mechanism to support our faculty.

About Children’s Hospital of Illinois

The primary teaching hospital of UICOMP is Children’s Hospital of Illinois, a tertiary care facility serving a 37-county region with a population base of over two million. Children’s Hospital of Illinois provides comprehensive services to children, including Quaternary Care NICU and a state-designated Pediatric Critical Care Center. Children’s Hospital of Illinois is a major medical facility with 142 beds and a 32-bed critical care unit and the only Level 1 trauma center in Illinois outside of Chicago. There are existing resources through UICOMP and Children’s Hospital of Illinois for seeding research funding, quality and outcomes focused academic work and innovation in health education.

About Peoria, Il

One of the oldest communities in Illinois with a population of 113,150 Peoria is equal distance from Chicago and St. Louis. Here we have an enviable standard of living, exciting venues within a 15-20 minute drive from our homes, safe streets, quality and quantity shopping, our own symphony, our own ballet, Broadway Theater League, museums, art guilds, first-class medical facilities, the nation's oldest community theater and oldest Santa Claus parade.

Our vibrant riverfront showcases a multitude of festivals and celebrations that light up the summer nights much like our extraordinary Fourth of July Sky Concert fireworks show that draws well over one hundred thousand annually. Residents are flocking to live in the refurbished warehouses and lofts on Water Street that produce the perfect lifestyle for a 24/7 city.

We have many global businesses that allow Peoria to play all over the world through their products and services. Peoria has begun to diversify its economy with infotech industries as well. Thus our business community attracts some of the brightest graduates throughout the nation.

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For fullest consideration please apply by 1/30/2025.

The budgeted salary range for the position is $240,000 to $270,000 per year.

Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience, while also considering internal equity.

The University of Illinois offers a very competitive benefits portfolio. Click for a complete list of Employee Benefits, https://www.hr.uillinois.edu/benefits/

Please submit inquiries along with a CV to Dr. Madhuradhar Chegondi, MD; Division Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; e-mail: chegondi@uic.edu.

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