Job Description

How to Apply

Candidates should contact:

Karl Desch, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Search Committee Chair

Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Phone: 734 763-4109

E-mail: [email protected].

Job Summary

The Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan is recruiting a new faculty member entering at any academic rank who is an excellent and enthusiastic clinician and clinical educator. Responsibilities will include active participation in interprofessional Newborn ICU Quality Improvement and protocol development, and in the education of residents, fellows, neonatal advanced practice providers. Faculty also work collaboratively with faculty at UMHS-Sparrow hospital and Trinity Health Oakland hospital and interact with Neonatologists throughout the state and region. 

C.S. Mott Children's Hospital is ranked first in the state by USNWR, third in the region, and is nationally ranked in all ten specialties, including Neonatology. The Brandon Newborn Intensive Care Unit, a 58-bed single patient room Level 4 NICU, within the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital, an integral part of Michigan Medicine's main medical campus in Ann Arbor (4900 deliveries, 900 admissions annually, 70% inborn). Faculty round on three NICU clinical teams daily for all patients including those receiving ECMO support. An additional fourth attending Neonatologist manages deliveries, transports while a fifth attending directs inpatient and outpatient antenatal consultations. Neonatologists, collaborate closely with the Congenital Heart Center, remotely supervise APPs or fellows on medical transports in a large geographic catchment area, attend high risk deliveries, participate in prenatal consultation and care coordination in collaboration with maternal-fetal medicine, palliative care, and pediatric and surgical subspecialists in the Fetal Diagnostic Center, which offers advanced fetal procedures and fetal surgery. Attending neonatologist call is in-house. Our Division and Department offer opportunities to participate in clinical, translational, bioethics, health services, global health, bench, and educational research. Faculty have the opportunity to work with University of Michigan Medical Students, Pediatric Residents (and Medicine-Pediatrics, Neurology, and Genetics), Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellows, and Neonatal Nurse Practitioner students. The Brandon Transport team provides ground, helicopter, and fixed wing transport. 

Required Qualifications*

Applicants must hold an MD or DO degree and be board-certified or board-eligible in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine by the position start date. 

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Underfill Statement

Note: This position is posted as Clinical Instructor/Clinical Assistant Professor/Clinical Associate Professor/Clinical Professor. Rank of selected candidate is dependent upon qualifications.

Background Screening

University of Michigan Health System conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.  The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

Michigan Medicine seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the diverse people of Michigan and to maintain the excellence of the University. We welcome applications from anyone who would bring additional dimensions to the University's research, teaching, and clinical mission, including women, members of minority groups, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities. The Department of Pediatrics, like the University of Michigan as a whole, is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons and will not discriminate against any individual because of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, height, weight, or veteran status.   The University of Michigan is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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