Pediatric Hematology Oncology Faculty Position – Sarcoma

Cleveland Clinic, one of the world’s most distinguished academic medical centers, announces a search for a Pediatric Hematology Oncology physician to join our growing team in the region allowing us to care for even more patients This position provides the opportunity to work in a highly engaging and collaborative environment with the support and resources of the Children’s Institute and Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Institute  to provide the best care for our pediatric and young adult patients.

The selected candidate will join a vibrant and growing program that currently includes 18 Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologists, 2 PhDs and 10 nurse practitioners and dedicated disease-based care coordinators, providing more than 10,000 patient visits per year. Programs include full Hematology/Oncology services along with FACT accredited Blood and Marrow Transplantation. The program is part of many collaborative groups including but not limited to COG, NEXT consortium, NAPAAC, NICER consortium, Sunrise consortium, Beat Childhood Cancer consortium and Sickle Cell Disease Alliance. The department has a very well established ACGME accredited hematology oncology fellowship program.  Additionally, the department is part of the Children’s Institute and works in close collaboration with Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Institute and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. 

The candidate would join a team of 4 pediatric hematologist oncologists, 2 oncology orthopedic surgeons, 1 oncology surgeon, a nurse practitioner, and 2 care coordinators who actively treat patients with a variety of common and rare malignancies with a particularly large population of both newly diagnosed and recurrent sarcomas. These malignancies include, but are not limited to, osteosarcoma, Ewing Sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, Desmoplastic Small Round Cell tumor, other soft tissue sarcomas, paragangliomas, and neuroblastomas. The oncology team has leadership roles and connections with various foundations and consortia and run international tumor boards focused on sarcomas. The ideal candidate would help continue to grow program participating in the care of pediatric oncology patients and providing second opinions, both virtually and in person for patients throughout the country and internationally. They will also contribute to developing new treatment options for patients through clinical trials and contribute to our knowledge and understanding of pediatric cancers through prospective and retrospective analyses and other clinical research efforts. The candidate is also expected to be committed to teaching our fellows, residents, medical students and other trainees.

The candidate should be at the Assistant, Associate or equivalent level with strong clinical and clinical research interests in pediatric oncology, with an interest in sarcomas and other solid tumors. The candidate must be board-certified in pediatric hematology/oncology. A faculty appointment at a rank commensurate with academic accomplishments is expected at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Generous research opportunities are available within the Lerner Research Institute. Quality and Continuous Improvement efforts are also supported by Cleveland Clinic Children’s dedicated experts. Cleveland Clinic physicians enjoy a collegial work environment within the framework of a large group practice, with a competitive salary enhanced by a very attractive benefits package.

Cleveland Clinic Children’s is consistently ranked as one of the best children’s hospitals in the nation and is currently ranked in 10 out of 10 pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report. Cleveland Clinic Children’s is a tertiary and quaternary referral hospital on the Cleveland Clinic main campus with more than 360 physicians in 55 pediatric medical and surgical specialties providing over 1.1 million outpatient visits, 15,500+ in-patient admissions, 13,000+ surgeries, and accepting 840 transports per year from around the nation and globe. Cleveland Clinic Children’s has 389 in-patient beds in its network including its quaternary Children’s Hospital on the main campus, our free-standing Children’s Hospital for Rehabilitation, and 2 other satellite hospitals across Northeast Ohio.

Interested Candidates should submit their Curriculum Vitae to: http://www.clevelandclinic.org/physicianrecruitment

If you have any question about this position, please free to contact Dr. Rabi Hanna, Department Chair, Pediatric Hematology Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplantation at hannar2@ccf.org or Jennifer Friedler, Physician Recruiter at friedlj@ccf.org

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