Position Overview

Understanding the Role

Ochsner Health is recruiting an anesthesiologist to join the liver transplant team in the Department of Anesthesiology at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. You would provide anesthesia for one of the busiest and most experienced liver transplant programs in the country, and you would keep a general anesthesia practice when you are not on the liver service.

The position adds capacity and replaces senior physicians who are rolling off the transplant service. If you are interested in academic leadership, you can also pursue the Program Director role for the liver transplant fellowship.

Position Snapshot

Employer: Ochsner Health, Department of Anesthesiology

Location: Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA

Setting: Hospital employed, academic medical center

Schedule: 45 hours per week, Monday to Friday daytime

Liver Call: 1:8

Position Type: Growth and replacement

Leadership: Fellowship Program Director opportunity

The Liver Transplant Program

• Performed Louisiana's first liver transplant in 1984
• More than 4,000 liver transplants completed for adults and children
• Peak annual volumes above 200 liver transplants
• Patients referred from 37 states and other countries
• Both deceased donor and living donor liver transplants
• Normothermic machine perfusion used to preserve and assess donor livers before transplant

Your Role

• Provide anesthesia for liver transplants
• Manage an abdominal case mix while on the liver service, including liver resections and large general GI cases
• Maintain a broad general anesthesia caseload when not on the liver service
• Join transplant surgeons and hepatologists in patient selection meetings, with a voice in which donors and recipients the program accepts

Schedule and Call

Qualifications

Board certified in anesthesiology, or board eligible if completing residency or fellowship training

Leadership Opportunity

The liver transplant fellowship has an opening for a Program Director, and an incoming anesthesiologist can step into that role. Terms for the position are negotiated as part of the offer.

Reporting Structure

David Broussard, MD, Chair, Department of Anesthesiology

Melissa Russo, MD, Vice Chair, Department of Anesthesiology

Donald Ganier, MD, Director of Abdominal Transplant Anesthesiology

Ochsner's liver transplant surgeons take part in recruitment, so you will meet the surgical team you would work alongside during the interview process.