Associate/full Professor

Description:

The Labatt Family Heart Centre brings together significant interdisciplinary and inter-professional activities within Paediatric Cardiology, Cardiovascular (CV) Surgery, Cardiac Critical Care, Cardiovascular Research and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Programs, thus allowing the Heart Centre to address the needs of patients and families from fetal life through to adulthood. The Heart Centre at The Hospital for Sick Children promotes these activities through seamless integration of research activities, academic performance, and exemplary clinical care.

The primary role of the successful candidate will be to perform cardiac catheterization procedures and oversee periprocedural care. The successful candidate will join an existing cohort of 3 active interventionalists and a multidisciplinary team based in a unit dedicated to catheterization, invasive electrophysiology, and cardiac MRI. The team includes rotating cardiology trainees as well as a dedicated senior interventional fellow. Responsibilities will include participation in the ambulatory cardiology practice, and a minimal amount of inpatient acute care coverage. This successful applicant would also be expected to conduct academic work, and to pursue non-clinical activity in avenues of potential professional advancement (e.g., research, quality improvement, medical education).