Portland, Oregon -- Providence Health & Services is seeking an exceptional Psychiatrist to join our team as an assistant medical director in Portland, Oregon. Will help lead our new Neuropsychiatry department and maintain a clinical practice at Providence Portland Medical Center (PPMC). Position reports directly to Regional Medical Director of Behavioral Health and will be 60 percent focused on providing assistant medical director support to our new Neuropsychiatric Procedures program. Will also participate in the direct provision of procedure services.

The procedures program will start by focusing on setting up an Electroconvulsive Therapy program at the PPMC site. Other psychiatrists who are existing members of our team have identified an interest in ECT and will help us provide 5 day a week services without interruption. Some of them have experience and some don't with ECT. Also responsible for the following: helping us establish credentialing and privileging requirements; training (or helping to provide training) and ongoing supervision of psychiatrists and allied staff; developing policies and procedures; and managing day-to-day services in conjunction with the nurse manager of surgical services. Will work closely with the operations managers to help us achieve operational goals for the program. Once the PPMC ECT program is well established, we will explore the feasibility of expanding to our other Portland campus, Providence St. Vincent Medical Cetner, with ECT or other procedures such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and evaluation for the applicability of Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS).

The remaining 40 percent of the position will be focused on providing general psychiatric outpatient clinical services at the PPMC site. There will be no routine call although initially the procedure psychiatrists may need to take some call regarding ECT patients.

Must be board certified in general psychiatry, and have extensive experience with ECT as well has some experience with program development and management. Expertise or certification in TMS and VNS is highly desirable. Excellent compensation (salary plus productivity model) and generous Providence benefits.

Providence Portland Medical Center is part of Providence Health & Services, a not-for-profit network of hospitals, clinics and physician partners in Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon and Washington. PPMC is one of three Providence hospitals in the Rose City. With 483 beds and a medical staff of 823, PPMC is one of the flagships of the Providence system. The medical center is ideally located just off Interstate 84 in northeast Portland, a bustling, colorful section of the City of Roses.

Portland, jewel of the Pacific Northwest, consistently ranks high in national "livability" contests. Popular Science magazine just named Portland the greenest city in America. No city of comparable size offers residents cleaner air and water and an all-around healthy environment, according to Earth Day Network. Portland has been named the most bicycle- and dog-friendly big city as well. With high urban culture and easy access to vast evergreen forests, the Pacific Ocean and sun-drenched central Oregon, it's easy to see why Portland is so popular.

Barbara Worthington Physician Services & Development 4224 NE Halsey Street Suite 320 Portland, OR 97213-1541 (503)216-5448 Direct (503) 216-5444 Fax Barbara.Worthington@providence.org www.providence.org/physicianopportunities

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