Physician MD/DO - Thoracic Surgery

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center is seeking a Board-Certified Thoracic Surgeon to join our rapidly growing thoracic surgery service. This staff surgeon role focuses on delivering high-quality, evidence based, patient-centered care with an emphasis on robotic thoracic surgery. The position is clinically focused on multidisciplinary care and quality initiatives within a collaborative regional network.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Care

• Provide comprehensive thoracic surgical care including lung, pleural, mediastinal, and esophageal disease (as applicable).
• Participate in outpatient clinics, inpatient care, and shared call coverage.
• Ensure high standards of perioperative care and patient safety.
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration
• Collaborate with pulmonology, medical oncology, and radiation oncology teams within the region.
• Participate in multidisciplinary tumor boards and coordinated care planning.
• Support timely and efficient patient pathways for diagnosis and treatment.
• Quality & Program Participation
• Participate in quality initiatives including STS database reporting and outcomes improvement.
• Support comprehensive ERAS protocols and evidence-based perioperative care pathways.
• Engage in continuous quality improvement and patient safety activities.
• Education (Optional Participation)
• Participate in teaching activities for residents, students, and clinical staff as applicable.
• Support OR team education and robotic surgery training initiatives.
• Required Qualifications
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited thoracic surgery fellowship.
• Board Certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with robotic thoracic surgery.
• Eligible for Washington State medical licensure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with esophageal surgery is highly preferred.
• Experience developing multidisciplinary care models.
• Interest in quality improvement

Compensation & Benefits:

• Starting salary of $654,784 based on a 1.0 FTE with productivity incentives.
• Generous employment bonus
• Relocation financial assistance with access to relocation vendors such as home finding services, rental housing, and household moving services
• Educational loan reimbursement for those who qualify
• Select from one of three health and medical benefits plans to suit your personal needs
• Two retirement savings accounts, 403(b) & 401(a), with an optional third 457(b) plan for those who qualify

PeaceHealth has a clinician well-being program that includes:

• A dedicated medical director of clinician wellness
• Vendor relationships that provide free coaching, counseling, and concierge services
• Practice experience program (PEP), longitudinal New Clinician Education and Clinician Leadership Development programs that focus on efficiency principles, patient, and human experience, and include CME credits
• DAX – An ambient intelligent scribe solution to assists with completing ambulatory notes.

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About PeaceHealth: PeaceHealth, based in Vancouver, Wash., is a not-for-profit Catholic health system offering care to communities in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. PeaceHealth has approximately 16,000 caregivers, a multi-specialty medical group practice with more than 900 providers and 9 medical centers serving both urban and rural communities throughout the Northwest. In 1890, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace founded what has become PeaceHealth. Today, PeaceHealth is the legacy of the founding Sisters and continues with a spirit of respect, stewardship, collaboration, and social justice in fulfilling its Mission.

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