Glaucoma Trained Ophthalmologist - Academic Faculty Physician

The Department of Ophthalmology at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist/Wake Forest University School of Medicine is recruiting an Academic Faculty Physician to join the Glaucoma Division.

Department Description:

The Department of Ophthalmology at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist currently employs 23 faculty in a collaborative and congenial environment. The glaucoma division includes three glaucoma specialists and one faculty member with pediatric and pediatric glaucoma training.  We have experienced steady growth in clinical and surgical volume that will support the addition of a full-time surgical glaucoma specialist to our team. We are a regional leader with established tertiary referrals and a large catchment area that encompasses all of Western North Carolina, as well as Eastern Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Moreover, we are one of the largest health systems in the country due to our strategic partnership with Atrium Health, now part of Advocate Health. As part of this strategic alignment, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, which is located in Winston-Salem, NC, serves as the academic core of the health system.

Our department currently trains four ophthalmology residents per class, as well as three vitreoretinal fellows and one cornea fellow. In addition, we plan to add a glaucoma fellow in the upcoming year. We interact with a large number of Wake Forest University medical students both through the general surgery clerkship and the 4-week elective in ophthalmology. Our faculty have ample opportunity to participate in resident and medical student education, and clinical research and industry-funded clinical trials. Our department also has a strong commitment to service. Members of our faculty, residents, and medical students participate in two international trips to Honduras each year, serve uninsured patients in a local free clinic, and conduct annual vision and eye health screening in the community.

Candidate Qualifications and/or Preferences:

• MD or MD/PhD
• Board certified or board eligible in ophthalmology
• Completion of fellowship training in medical and surgical glaucoma
• North Carolina unrestricted medical licensure or eligible

About Us

Wake Forest Baptist Health and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and part of Atrium Health Enterprise. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

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Mission

To improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all.

Vision

To be the first and best choice for care. 

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We Innovate to better the now and create the future

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