Title:  Pediatrics - Allergy & Immunology (Assistant Professor)

Baylor College of Medicine and Department Summary:

The Austin Campus extends Texas Children's mission to create a healthier future for children and women to a large and growing population of children and women where there is currently a need for programmatically integrated healthcare. Our Austin Urgent Care opened in March 2018, fourteen pediatric practices currently operate in the Austin area, and our first Specialty Care Center opened in October 2019. The Specialty Care Center is located at 8611 North Mopac Expressway, approximately 10 miles south of the North Austin Campus. The North Austin Campus will provide a full scope of care for both pediatric and women's services. Texas Children's presence in Austin helps deliver regional coordination of care and is synergistic to the core services offered at our Texas Medical Center campus in Houston.
 

This position offers:

• A significant and exciting opportunity to advance your career in a new environment, as you help expand the reputable and trusted Texas Children's services in Central Texas.
• A clinically focused hospital experience with the backing and support of a premier academic medical institution.
• A chance to live and work in a vibrant, and fast-growing city with numerous extracurricular opportunities.
• The ability to benefit from the stability, resources, and long-term opportunities of a premier pediatric and women's health academic institution.

Summary

Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology, Allergy and Retrovirology (IAR) at Texas Children's Hospital, Austin Campus, is recruiting a qualified physician who will serve as full-time faculty for the Allergy/Immunology service at the new state-of-the-art North Austin campus. The North Austin campus is comprised of a 52 bed, 365,000-square foot inpatient hospital and an adjacent 170,000-square foot outpatient facility offering a full suite of specialties and subspecialties.

This selected candidate will fill a critical need for the Division of Allergy and Immunology. The Assistant Professor will provide medical care focused on the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of pediatric patients with clinical manifestations of Food Allergy and primary and secondary immunodeficiency disease who need curative therapy.

Job Duties

• Provide medical care for patients in the Allergy and Immunology Clinic.
• Provide care for patients in an allergy/immunology outpatient clinic.
• Participate in inpatient rounds.
• Integrate immunology expertise into inpatient hospital care through a consultation service.
• Provide immunology education to the allergy/immunology service.
• Perform clinical and translational research to advance the identification, care and management of patients with food allergies, immunodeficiency, immunodysregulation, and autoimmunity.
• Performs other job related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education Required: Medical Degree.
• Experience Required: None required.
• Certification/Licenses/Registration: Current license as a Physician by the State of Texas Physician Board. Specialty certification in Allergy and Immunology. Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification.