Opportunity: Neurosurgical Hospitalist
 Opportunity Details
Specialty: Surgery, Neurosurgical
Location: Portland, ME,
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 Job Description

Maine Medical Partners - Neurosurgery & Spine is currently seeking an experienced BC/BE neurosurgeon for a full time weekday Neurosurgical Hospitalist role with excellent pay and limited call responsibility.

Maine Medical Partners - Neurosurgery & Spine provides compassionate, high-quality and personalized care to the people of Maine and northern New England with disorders of the brain and spine. This well-established practice offers patients the most innovative and sophisticated neurosurgical techniques with the highest level of expertise and experience.

The candidate will join 8 Neurosurgeons whose specialty training and areas of clinical focus complement each other and includes complex spine surgery, neuro-oncology, functional neurosurgery, cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery, and the only Pediatric Neurosurgeon in Maine.

The optimal candidate will have general neurosurgery and trauma experience.  The position will be primarily hospital based with minimal overnight or weekend call.  Current responsibilities include providing neurosurgical services (consultations and follow up) to appropriate individuals accepted by the hospital as patients; taking primary neurosurgical call at Maine Medical Center (MMC) during the day; Operating on appropriate trauma and neurosurgical patients as indicated during scheduled work hour; serving as the liaison for Neurosurgery to trauma management systems at MMC; providing neurosurgical follow up to trauma patients discharged from MMC, attending critical care/trauma rounds; and providing leadership to the APP neurosurgical service.

Neurosurgery & Spine is part of the Neuroscience Institute at Maine Medical Center, a regional center of excellence in neurosciences. The practice is an integral component of the Institute, providing the residents of Maine and northern New England state-of-the-art care for disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system.  The Neuroscience Institute is built on a partnership between Maine Medical Center and community-based physicians and focuses on three major areas: clinical/patient care, medical education and research.

Maine Medical Partners, an organization within Maine Medical Center, is Maine's largest multi-specialty medical group of more than 450 physicians providing a wide range of hospital-based, primary, specialty and sub-specialty care delivered through a network of more than 30 locations in and near Greater Portland.

Maine Medical Center has 637 licensed beds and is the state’s leading tertiary care hospital and a Level 1 Trauma Center, with a full complement of residencies and fellowships and an integral part of Tufts University Medical School.

Situated on the Maine coast, Portland offers the best of urban sophistication combined with small-town friendliness.  Just two hours north of Boston, this is an exceptionally diverse and vibrant community.

 Contact Information
Contact: Alison Nathanson, Director, MaineHealth Physician Recruitment Center

Email: nathaa@mainehealth.org
Phone: (207) 661-7383

If you are interested in learning more, or if you have knowledge of an individual who may be seeking an excellent practice opportunity, please contact us.