To plan, implement and evaluate the provision of high-quality medical care, with appropriate resource management, to children and adolescents in the respective clinical area.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine are actively seeking pediatric emergency medicine physicians to join our division. Our team of pediatric emergency medicine physicians, acute care pediatricians, and advanced practice providers cares for children at Arthur M. Blank Hospital and Hughes Spalding Hospital. As a member of our division, you’ll be faculty at Emory University, one of the leading academic institutions in the nation, partnered with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, one of the largest pediatric clinical care providers in the country, with 673 licensed beds, more than 1.2 million patient visits and 46,300 surgical procedures annually.
• Children’s Emergency Departments are among the busiest in the nation. Our faculty manages more than 136,650 visits annually.
• The Arthur M. Blank Hospital Emergency Department has 69 beds, including rooms for behavioral and mental health and trauma patients. There is a Special Care Unit (SCU) for the treatment of patients with potentially highly infectious disease cases. Arthur M. Blank Hospital cares for the most vulnerable ill and injured children in the region as the only freestanding Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center in Georgia verified by the American College of Surgeons.
• Hughes Spalding Hospital Emergency Department consists of 36 beds, including a trauma room.
• We are recognized as one of the largest providers for pediatric trauma care in the country.
• We serve as the primary pediatric teaching hospital for medical students, residents and fellows from both Emory University and Morehouse Schools of Medicine.
• We oversee highly competitive fellowship training programs in pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric emergency medicine ultrasound and pediatric urgent care.
• We are the lead research nodal center for the San Francisco-Oakland, Providence, Atlanta Research Collaborative (SPARC) node in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN).
• Emory is a member of the Gulf 7 Pediatric Disaster Network (G7), which is working to improve regional capacity to provide pediatric care in large-scale crises.
• Emory is ranked No. 5 nationally in NIH funding for pediatric departments.
• We have significant faculty strengths in global health, injury prevention, quality improvement, pediatric ultrasound, wilderness medicine, sickle cell care, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and more.
• We are dedicated to hiring a representative workforce, and our leadership and staff reflect our commitment to racial and gender diversity.