Job Details: Infectious Disease Physician Opportunity in Sunny Phoenix!

Description: Seeking a full-time, hospital-based infectious disease specialist to serve in a clinical, academic and administrative role in Phoenix, Arizona.

Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, a tertiary care teaching and referral center in Phoenix, affiliated with the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center is seeking a full-time, hospital-based infectious disease specialist to serve in a clinical, academic and administrative role.

This position will participate in a multidisciplinary team of physicians, pharmacists, nurses and a clinical microbiologist to develop and implement policies to ensure optimal antimicrobial use at BGSMC designed to be cost-effective, produce excellent clinical outcomes, enhance patient safety, and minimize resistant organisms within the institution. This unique opportunity also includes consultative ID practice for a diverse patient population including transplant recipients, a large critical care population and post-operative cardiac, neurologic and general surgical patients.

The ideal candidate will possess:
1. Excellent clinical skills in internal medicine and infectious diseases.
2. Critical thinking skills and knowledge of epidemiology and biostatistics.
3. Excellent interpersonal relationship skills and ability to work collaboratively with other clinicians and administration.
4. M.D. or D.O. degree with advanced training and Board Certification in Infectious Diseases.
5. Minimum of three years of practice/teaching in an academic environment.
6. Advance degree(s) in epidemiology, microbiology, public health, biostatistics or other relevant discipline is desirable. Banner Health is a regional and national leader in healthcare and committed to compassionate and high quality patient care. This position comes with a highly competitive salary and benefits package as part of a hospital-based academic physician group.

Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center is part of Banner Health, one of the largest non-profit healthcare systems in the country with twenty hospitals, six long term care centers and an array of other services, including family clinics, home care services and home medical equipment, in seven Western and Midwestern states.

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Holly Aurelio, Physician Recruitment Coordinator
Banner Health
3141 N 3rd Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85013
holly.aurelio@bannerhealth.com
Phone: 602-640-3688
Toll-Free 866-585-5418
Fax: 602-640-3652

Posting Date: Aug 26 08