Lead Physician Assistant, Cardiac Surgery

MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute is seeking to add a board-certified Physician Assistant (PA) to its cardiothoracic surgery practice at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center in beautiful southern California. The selected PA will be employed by MemorialCare Medical Group, a for-profit multi-specialty group practice affiliated with MemorialCare Medical Foundation. The Lead Physician Assistant (PA) for Cardiothoracic Surgery provides leadership, direction, and guidance to Physician Assistants while delivering specialty collaborative patient management under the direction of the cardiac surgeons. The Lead PA implements and maintains PA requirements both programmatic and competency specific to Cardiac Surgery Programs. This position is clinically responsible and accountable for the application of the PA process, providing clinical guidance to the team, research involvement, consultative services, inter and intradepartmental liaison, education, leadership, and patient care management across the healthcare continuum from preventative care through discharge.