Job Details

Open Rank Professor - Transplant Nephrology

Position Number: 6439653
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Position Type: Medicine - Physicians

Open Rank Professor - Transplant Nephrology
Memphis, TN, United States

Job Identification: 1409
Job Category: Faculty
Posting Date: 03/06/2025
Job Schedule: Full Time
Locations: 910 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN, 38163, US (On-site)

Job Description
Methodist in partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is seeking an experienced multi-organ abdominal Transplant Surgeon (tenure or non-tenure track at Associate or Professor level) to join our successful and large volume center. This position offers an outstanding compensation and benefits package and can accommodate most visa requirements.

Responsibilities
The James D. Eason Transplant Institute is a large volume transplant center performing approximately 130 adult and pediatric liver transplants and 200 kidney transplants annually and boasts an active hepatic and pancreatic surgical practice. Nationally recognized for its success with kidney, liver, kidney-pancreas and pancreas transplants, robust clinical activity, innovation and interdisciplinary research, the Institute has been a leader in the field for more than 30 years.

Transplant Surgeons are University of Tennessee faculty with a clinical appointment with the James D. Eason Transplant Institute at Methodsit University Hospital. Academic rank and salary are commensurate with experience.

Qualifications

Candidates must be American Board of Surgery certified/eligible or foreign equivalent and have completed an ASTS abdominal transplant surgery fellowship.

Departmental Preferences:

Preferred candidates will have experience with living donor liver transplantation and hepatico-biliary and pancreatic surgery, including robotic surgery.
Cross training in kidney transplantation, laparoscopic kidney donors and experience with pediatric transplants is required.

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Interested candidates should send their CV to:

Jason M. Vanatta, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Endowed Chair of Excellence in Liver Transplantation

Professor of Surgery, Program Director

University of Tennessee / James D. Eason Transplant Institute

1211 Union Avenue, suite 340

Memphis, TN, 38104 jvanatta@uthsc.edu and latasha.lovett@mlh.org

901-478-0589

For benefits information, please visit https://www.uthsc.edu/hr/benefits/documents/benefits-preview-packet.pdf

Applicants should have a demonstrated commitment to and knowledge of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action.

The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA/V institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is the flagship statewide, public, academic health institution in Tennessee. Founded in 1911, the mission of the University of Tennessee Health Science is to improve the health and well-being of Tennesseans and the global community by fostering integrated, collaborative, and inclusive education, research, scientific discovery, clinical care, and public service. Employing more than 4,600 people on its faculty, staff, and not-for-profit corporation faculty practice groups, and with more than 3,200 students across the state, UTHSC contributes $4 billion to the economy of Tennessee.

Part of the University of Tennessee System, the Health Science Center is headquartered in Memphis and includes all six of UT's doctoral-degree-granting health science colleges -- Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Graduate Health Sciences, and Health Professions. UTHSC spans the state with its four major, regional clinical health science locations in Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville, as well as more than 100 clinical education sites across Tennessee. UTHSC is the largest educator of health care professionals in the state and operates the state's largest residency and fellowship advanced training programs.

Located in West Tennessee on the banks of the Mississippi River, Memphis is the second-largest city in the state and among the largest cities in the Southeast. The Greater Memphis metropolitan area has more than 1.3 million residents, and the city ranks among those with the lowest cost of living in the country. It is home to a vibrant restaurant scene, a revitalized Downtown, the Midtown Arts District, many scenic neighborhoods, an active medical district, and a burgeoning airport in the midst of a $214 million modernization.

Memphis boasts attractions, including Elvis Presley's Graceland, the Memphis Grizzlies, historic Beale Street, the National Civil Rights Museum, the second-largest urban county park in the United States, and the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

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