The University of Alberta is one of the top 5 research intensive universities in Canada serving 38,000 students with more than 15,000 faculty and staff. Founded a century ago, the University has an annual budget in excess of $1.5 billion and attracts more than $513 million in sponsored research revenue. Alberta Health Services (AHS) is Canada’s first and largest provincewide, fully-integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to the over four million people living in Alberta, as well as to some residents of Saskatchewan, B.C. and the Northwest Territories The Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, is a full-service pediatric hospital and centre for complex pediatric care and research. It is the only specialized healthcare facility for infants, children and youth in central and northern Alberta and has among the highest inpatient volumes of any children’s hospital in Canada, and serves a geographical area of over 500,000 km.

Responsibilities:
The Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition is recruiting an individual who will have a strong clinician scholar role. The position is 70% clinical with opportunity for education and research.
The successful candidate will join a strong service comprised of 10 pediatric gastroenterologists and a multi-disciplinary health care team who primarily provide clinical care at the Stollery Children’s Hospital with consultative services offered throughout the Edmonton Zone facilities. The division provides complete GI, hepatology/liver and intestinal transplant, and nutritional services to an expansive referral area including central and northern Alberta, northern British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. The Stollery Children’s Hospital is the Western Canadian pediatric liver and intestinal/multivisceral transplant referral center.

Work commitments will include inpatient care and consultation, outpatient medical clinic consultation and long term follow up, diagnostic and interventional endoscopy and after hours on call duties. The role will provide much needed uplift to existing general pediatric gastroenterology care as well as support of existing specialty programs such as IBD, EoE and Celiac Disease. As such, experience in the care of intestinal failure and transplant patients as well as training/expertise and certification in intestinal ultrasound would be desirable. A Clinical Academic Colleague appointment to the Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, would be an expectation with potential for engagement in both undergraduate and postgraduate education alongside minor research activities.

Qualifications:
Interested applicants must have:
– MD degree (or equivalent)
– Completed subspecialty training in Pediatrics and subspecialty training in Pediatric Gasteroenterology
– Must be certified or eligible to become a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. See the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada for more information on various routes of credentialing ( https://www.royalcollege.ca/en/eligibility-and-exams/exam-eligibility)
– Must be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA).
Considered an asset:
– Additional training/expertise in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease and training/certification in trans abdominal bowel ultrasound is highly desirable.
Interested applicants should apply below with their curriculum vitae and a letter of application. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. If suitable Canadian citizens or permanent residents cannot be found, other individuals will be considered.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.