Assistant/Associate Professor, Gastroenterology (Memorial Hermann/Harris Health) - Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School

Location: Texas Medical Center-Houston, Texas

Category: Faculty

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

Requisition #: 2400035S

McGovern Medical SchoolatUTHealth Houston, a leading academic health center is seeking applicants for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Medicine in theirDivision of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, to work as an academic gastroenterologist rotating between Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and Harris Health patient care sites including Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, ambulatory clinics and endoscopy centers.

Position Key Accountabilities:

This faculty member will serve as a general practice gastroenterologist and will be responsible for the continuity of a high level of clinical quality and efficiency for our gastroenterology inpatient and outpatient service line as well as focus on the development of an academic career through education of current fellows and active participation in research.

Qualifications:

• MD/DO

• Board-certified or eligible in gastroenterology

• Eligibility for full medical licensure in Texas.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)

Established in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is Houston’s Health University and Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery and excellence in patient care. The most comprehensive academic health center in the UT System and the U.S. Gulf Coast region, UTHealth Houston is home to schools of biomedical informatics, biomedical sciences, dentistry, nursing and public health and the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston includes The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, as well as the growing clinical practices UT Physicians, UT Dentists and UT Health Services. The university’s primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.

UTHealth Benefits

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