Physician | Infectious Diseases | Duarte, CA

Overview

Physician | Infectious Disease and Hospital Epidemiologist | Duarte, CA

Department of Medicine | City of Hope National Medical Center | Duarte, CA

City of Hope Medical Group Seeks an Infectious Diseases Physician and Hospital Epidemiologist to Provide Services for our Duarte Campus

City of Hope is an expanding institution in both numbers of patients per year as well as infrastructure investment in clinical, academic and research facilities. City of Hope Los Angeles is transforming cancer care for generations. As an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center, City of Hope achieves exceptional outcomes difficult to obtain elsewhere. Our cancer center offers access to experts with unparalleled expertise in breast, prostate, lung, blood, gastrointestinal, and gynecological cancers, and more.

City of Hope Medical Group seeks an Infectious Disease Physician to provide services for our Duarte campus. Join our rapidly expanding, nationally recognized cancer institute as we seek to hire a full-time clinical faculty member at the Assistant-Associate Professor level. Seeking research and mission-minded physicians who provide exceptional patient-centered care through clear communication and collaboration with members of the subspecialty teams.

Highlights of the role include joining a dynamic group of infectious diseases specialists and APPs, dedicating most time to Hospital Epidemiology as the lead Hospital Medical Epidemiologist with remaining time for inpatient and outpatient clinical service, and opportunities for clinical research. The hospital is located on campus and work is performed out of one location.

Duties

• Clinical time is divided between inpatient and outpatient services
• Contributions to Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Control efforts at Duarte
• Opportunities for clinical research

Pay & Benefits

• MGMA-competitive salary and benefits package
• Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, AD&D, life, Malpractice, and CME allowance
• Permissive Time Away (PTA) program for eligible exempt employees with flexible paid time away for vacation, personal needs and incidental illness without accrual limits; seven paid national holidays
• Retirement contribution: City of Hope adds 20% of salary to retirement account each year; not a 401(k) match
• BASE salary range: $210k - $256k (base compensation; does not include incentive compensation or benefits; actual compensation will be adjusted for experience, training, hospital/community need and other factors)

Qualifications

• Active or eligible for California medical licensure
• ABIM board certification in Infectious Diseases
• Strong communication skills
• Experience in leading policy and protocol development and implementation for hospital epidemiology and infection prevention and control with a focus on cancer patients
• Experience in transplant infectious disease with emphasis on immunocompromised host infections (hematologic malignancy/HCT)
• 1-2 years working within hematologic malignancies (preferred but not required)

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer