Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Great Lakes Cardiovascular, a part of Kaleida Health in Buffalo, NY, is currently searching for a BE/BC Cardiothoracic Surgeon

The successful candidate will be joining a group of three Cardiothoracic Surgeons at Great Lakes Cardiovascular. Our overall cardiology team at Great Lakes Cardiovascular includes non-invasive, electrophysiology, interventional and structural heart specialists.  We are part of Kaleida Health System, Western New York’s largest healthcare system, serving eight counties in the state of New York.

The Great Lakes Cardiothoracic surgeons at Kaleida Health perform surgery within the Buffalo General Medical Center/Gates Vascular Institute (BGMC/GVI).  The Gates Vascular Institute (GVI) features four floors dedicated to comprehensive vascular care, revolutionary neurological procedures, and cardiac services unavailable anywhere else in the region.

The physicians collaborate with scientists in University at Buffalo’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, housed on the upper four floors of a combined 10-story building. Together, they are accelerating progress toward medical breakthroughs and innovative treatments.

The Gates Vascular Institute and the adjacent Buffalo General Medical Center (an academic medical center) share a very busy emergency department designed to accommodate more than 60,000 visits each year, a helipad, 28 operating rooms, 17 interventional labs for procedures, and utilizes a state-of-the-art imaging center.  The Cardiothoracic program at Kaleida Health performs 800+ non-thoracic cardiac pump cases annually.

Our cardiac teamm is actively involved in many national clinical trials and work in concert with the Jacobs Institute at The University at Buffalo to discover new and better ways to treat the heart and bring those discoveries to patients.  The Cardiothoracic department is planning for future growth through the development of an aortic center of excellence, structural heart, and heart failure program.

The cardiothoracic surgeon opportunity is an employed position that is part of the physician led Great Lakes Cardiovascular Services Group with opportunities to pursue clinical research. Our physicians also have opportunities for teaching and academic affiliation through The University at Buffalo School of Medicine.

Opportunity Details

• Outpatient office in the hospital
• Strong established Non-Invasive Cardiology referral base 
• Call 1:3
• Inpatient APP support provided for both inpatient and outpatient services.

Qualifications

• Completion of a ACGME Accredited Fellowship  Required
• Must be BE or BC by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery
• NY Medical license upon date of hire
• Active DEA 
• Able to sponsor H-1B visa only

Package

• Salary Range: very competitive salary package

• RVU productivity in addition to base salary
• Sign on bonus
• Relocation allowance
• Paid PTO and holidays
• Comprehensive Benefits including health, dental, vision
• CME allowance and paid days off 
• Employer paid occurrence-based malpractice
• Retirement with employer match
• Fellowship Stipend

Unparalleled Support for Physicians

At Great Lakes Cardiovascular Services, we have an entire team ready to support you. We offer a Practice Operations Team of professionals to assist you with all your electronic health record needs, technology set up, staff recruitment, training, call center, access center and human resources support. This allows you to do what you do best: care for your patients.  Support for our physicians is important. Let us know what is important to you!

Our Cardiac Surgery Services Include:

• Mutliarterial CABG
• Minimally invasive CABG
• Mitral Valve repair and replacement
• Aortic repair and replacement via minimally invasive techniques
• Heart valve repair and replacement
• Internal cardioverter defibrillator placement
• Pacemaker and defibrillator implants
• Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) (on and off pump) with endoscopic vein harvesting
• Transmyocardial laser revascularization
• Repair of adult congenital heart disease
• Aortic aneurisms and dissection
• Excision of cardiac tumors
• Maze procedure and pulmonary vein isolation – for atrial fibrillation
• Multiple valves
• Septal myectomy for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysm stents and repairs
• Carotid stent and heart valve/CABG surgery
• Coronary stent and heart valve surgery
• Epicardial ablation
• Left atrial appendage ligation
• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)

APPLICANTS, PLEASE REACH OUT TO:

Mary Lynn Candella, RN, BSN, PHR

Kaleida Health, Buffalo, NY

Director of Provider Recruitment

(716) 343-3016,