Gastroenterology Physician

Vanderbilt University Medical Center s Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition is seeking a faculty gastroenterologist with interest in nutrition support, celiac disease, and capsule endoscopy at the main campus in Nashville, Tennessee.

• Vanderbilt s Gastroenterology Division is comprised of nearly 80 clinicians, clinician educators, physician-scientists, APPs, and investigators.

• This Clinician Educator track position offers a variety of clinical care activities that include general gastroenterology, nutrition support, celiac disease, and capsule endoscopy. Clinical time is divided evenly between clinic, procedures, and TPN rounds. Opportunity to learn and lead the division in small bowel deep enteroscopy.

• Great work/life balance general GI night call only one week per year, and TPN call from home only 4 weekends per year.

• The Center for Human Nutrition is the only intestinal failure program in the region and offers the only dedicated Celiac Disease Center in the Southeast.

• Our multidisciplinary in-house team includes pharmacists, dieticians, case managers, and highly trained nursing staff.

• Teach fellows, residents, and other learners with a faculty appointment to VUMC. Opportunity to participate in research, QI projects, or protocol development during protected academic time.

• Enjoy an academically rich and collaborative community where you will have strong leadership support to innovate and develop your career as an educator and leader within the organization and beyond. Vanderbilt offers an open and inclusive culture that supports faculty development, learning, diversity, and team-focused care.
  
  

Benefits:

• Commencement bonus

• Relocation allowance

• Incentive bonus

• Faculty salary supplement

• Professional Development allowance and CME time

• Immediate access to PTO

• Lucrative retirement match

• Tuition benefit for dependents

• No state income tax in TN

• High-quality, low-cost medical, dental, and vision insurance

• As a non-profit organization, our employees are eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs

• Wellbeing programs that include but are not limited to mental, physical, and financial health
  
  

Vanderbilt Health is one of the most prominent academic medical centers in the Southeast, with 7 hospitals, 180+ outpatient clinics, over 100 residency and fellowship programs, and NIH funding of more than $500M in 2023. VUMC is currently ranked in the top 50 nationally for GI care by U.S. News and World Report. The Center for Human Nutrition specializes in inpatient management of parenteral nutrition and outpatient management of celiac disease, intestinal failure/short bowel syndrome, small bowel enteropathies, obscure GI bleeds, microscopic colitis, and feeding tube placement and management. The Center has been recognized by both The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) and the Society for the Study of Celiac Disease.

Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.