Section Head of Pediatric Neurology

Ochsner Health in New Orleans is seeking a board-certified Pediatric Neurologist to serve as Section Head. The successful candidate will possess proven leadership, team building, and managerial experience. Areas of administrative responsibility will include patient satisfaction goals, physician recruiting, budgetary performance, productivity, quality, and medical staff management.

The Department of Pediatrics and our pediatric subspecialists (collectively, Ochsner for Children ) represent over 200 pediatric physicians. The group is the region s leading integrated provider of multispecialty care for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. We offer a full range of pediatric services including bone marrow transplantation, solid organ transplantation, pediatric cardiovascular surgery as well as the region s only comprehensive multidisciplinary developmental center. We utilize a 54-bed Level III-C Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 14-bed PICU, a 12-bed pediatric CVICU, a 35-bed pediatric acute unit, as well as dedicated, full-time, region-wide in-house pediatric and neonatal transport teams and are actively planning expansions.

About Ochsner Hospital for Children

Ranked #1 Children s Hospital in Louisiana for the third year in a row by U.S. News & World Report in 2023-24, Ochsner Hospital for Children was also recognized as a national leader in the new rankings in two specialties: Pediatric Cardiology and Heart Surgery, and Pediatric Orthopedics. Ochsner Hospital for Children continues to be a top destination for pediatric care in the Gulf South region through an unwavering commitment to always putting patients first.

Ochsner Hospital for Children is a rapidly expanding 125-bed children s hospital offering a full range of pediatric care from primary to quaternary care, with services offered in all subspecialties, including advanced gastroenterology/hepatology, orthopedic surgery, oncology and heart, liver, and bone marrow transplant.

Ochsner also maintains 12 rotating satellite pediatric subspecialty clinics (eight in Louisiana, four in Mississippi); three permanent pediatric subspecialty clinics; and the Boh Center for Child Development, a dedicated multidisciplinary development pediatrics center. Ochsner performed the first pediatric heart/kidney transplant in the region and is the top congenital heart program in the state (both in volume and outcomes).