Liver Transplant Program Medical Director

About the Position

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, in partnership with The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), is seeking a Liver Transplant Program Medical Director. The Transplant Institute provides liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation, living-donor organ transplantation, and hepatobiliary surgery for patients with end-stage organ disease.

Responsibilities

• Lead the liver transplant program and support excellent patient outcomes, program growth, and compliance with UNOS and OPTN rules and bylaws.
• Provide care for patients with advanced liver disease, including pre-transplant candidate evaluation, donor selection, waitlist management, and long-term post-transplant care.
• Work with the surgical director, quality director, and senior administrative director of transplant to maintain high-quality outcomes and expand the Transplant Institute’s reach.
• Support re-initiation of the living-donor liver transplant program.
• Build relationships with community and internal partners.
• Train medical students, gastroenterology fellows, and transplant hepatology fellows.
• Supervise advanced practice providers.
• Participate in clinical and translational research through the Transplant Research Institute, with opportunities available.

Requirements

• MD or DO
• Current board certification in gastroenterology and transplant hepatology.
• Minimum of 5 years of post-fellowship liver transplant experience.
• Must meet OPTN/UNOS certification requirements for a primary liver transplant physician.
• Must currently provide direct care to hepatology and liver transplant patients.
• Proven leadership, team-building, collaboration, and verbal and written communication abilities.
• Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners physician license.
• ERCP skills are beneficial.

Physical Demands

• Ability to perform essential functions safely, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Medium work, including exerting up to 50 pounds occasionally and up to 25 pounds frequently.
• Activities may include climbing, pushing, standing, hearing, walking, reaching, grasping, kneeling, stooping, and repetitive motion.
• Good balance, coordination, and close visual acuity, including color vision, depth perception, and field of vision.
• Frequent invasive and non-invasive patient contact and potential exposure to body fluids and hazardous materials.
• Ability to respond quickly in emergency situations.

We Offer

Competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience.

About the Company

Methodist University Hospital is part of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, a nonprofit, faith-based integrated healthcare delivery system in Memphis, Tennessee. The organization is dedicated to the art of healing and to ministering to the whole person, reflecting a patient-centered commitment to compassionate, high-quality, safe care. Its network comprises six hospitals, including Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and Methodist facilities in Memphis and Olive Branch, Mississippi. A distinguishing strength is its Methodist Transplant Institute, which has more than 40 years of organ-transplant leadership and emphasizes clinical excellence, innovation, research, and individualized support for patients’ medical, financial, social, and educational needs.