Associate Professor- Child Abuse (Physician )

Company: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Location: Lubbock
Posted on: March 10, 2023

Job Description:

Pediatrics opening in Lubbock, Texas.

• Serve as a key member of a multidisciplinary team including, physicians, medical social workers, psychiatrist/therapists, and sexual assault nurse examiners.
• Collaborate with the Multidisciplinary child abuse team which includes local law enforcement officers, district attorney, child protective services and victim advocates.
• Provide patient and family centric outpatient medical evaluations and care to infants, children, and youth with suspected child maltreatment, and to their non-abusive family.
• Inpatient and ED consults in both local hospitals are handled by the Child Abuse Physician in collaboration with the various hospitalists, ED, and PICU physicians.
• Provide testimony in both civil and criminal cases.
• Guide the development of the next generation of physicians; teaching resident, and medical students.
• Time and opportunity to pursue research and other scholarly activities and develop new, value-added services in our general pediatric and pediatric sub-specialty practices.
• Provide consultation and education for Children s Protective Investigations and primary care providers in our service region.
• Participate in quality improvement activities of both hospitals.

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