Physician - Adolescent Medicine

Ochsner Health System • New Orleans, LA, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 1m ago

Adolescent Medicine Physician

We’re seeking a Board-Certified Adolescent Medicine Physician for an exciting opportunity to join Ochsner Hospital for Children in New Orleans, Louisiana. The successful candidate will develop an adolescent medicine program within Ochsner’s Health’s regional health system, the largest not-for-profit academic health system in the Gulf South.

This position will include work with:

Gender Medicine Care:
- Integrate into a multidisciplinary pediatric gender medicine team within a larger gender medicine clinic serving children, adolescents and adults and provide consultation and follow-up care to adolescents.
Consultation:
- Provide consultation to general pediatricians, pediatric subspecialists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and family medicine physicians to help in the management of adolescents. Those consults will include, but are not limited to:
  - High-risk teens: High-risk sexual behavior, drug use, gang/juvenile justice, mental health, and chronic medical conditions with poor adherence.
  - Complex medical conditions: Conditions that have combined medical/psychosocial etiologies (e.g., chronic fatigue, autonomic disorders, somatization).
  - Solid-organ transplants
  - Oncology
  - Congenital heart disease
  - Transgender/gender-expansive youth
  - Reproductive health: Contraceptive care, menstrual concerns, sexually transmitted infections/prevention, provision of PrEP.
  - Substance use and treatment
  - Transition from pediatric to adult-based medicine
Leadership and Education:
- Training and education for medical students and pediatric residents.
- Provide consultation and teaching for outpatient and inpatient pediatrics teams regarding the care of adolescents and conditions that present frequently in adolescence.
- Provide leadership for and education in adolescent health locally and throughout the Gulf South.