Academic Medical Director, Center for Telepsychiatry and E-Behavioral Health Adult Psychiatry Opportunity in Greenville, NC - ECU Health

ECU Health Physicians and the Center for Telepsychiatry and e-Behavioral Health (CTeBH)  at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, located in Greenville, North Carolina, are seeking a BE/BC Psychiatrist to serve as the Medical Director for the Center for Telepsychiatry and E-Behavioral Health. The successful candidate will serve as the Chief Clinical Officer for the CTeBH Center and the NC-STeP program. The center currently serves 29 hospitals and 22 community-based clinics across the state of North Carolina. The members of the CTeBH are made up of a combination of professional personnel, faculty, and contracted external providers. The CTeBH reports to the Executive Dean of the Brody School of Medicine and works closely with the ECU Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine to recruit diverse faculty members to serve on the core leadership team, and to provide psychiatric and psychotherapy services. In total, the program includes 23 credentialed clinical providers, including board-certified psychiatrists and other advanced practice providers specializing in mental health fields.

The position emphasizes a leadership role and an active engagement in clinical, educational, and scholarly activities. Applicants should have a demonstrated track record in telepsychiatry and psychiatric administration.

Highlights include:

• Employment by ECU Health Physicians - Academic Employment Model
• Hospital privileges at ECU Health Medical Center, a 974-bed academic medical center
• Administrative responsibilities (40%) include developing initiatives to expand the program footprint, oversight of an outcomes monitoring system, improvement in patient outcomes, oversight of a peer-review program, supervision of APPs, and identifying and implementing evidenced based practices
• The Medical Director will also spend about 60% of his/her time providing clinical service
• Requirement to live in or near Greenville, NC
• Fixed Term clinic faculty appointment available at the title/rank of Assistant, Associate, or Professor rank depending on qualifications

Benefits:

• • Relocation Assistance
  • Vacation
  • CME Days & Reimbursement
  • Malpractice (with tail)
  • 401k
  • Insurance
  • State Benefits
  • Disability
  • Life Insurance

ECU HEALTH

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. 

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

GREENVILLE, NC

Widely recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is the 10^th largest city in the state with a metropolitan population of nearly 100,000. The Dickinson Avenue Arts District offers a vibrant arts, music, culinary and festival scene in the Uptown Greenville district. Greenville is also home to East Carolina University, the Brody School of Medicine, and Pitt Community College. Excellent affordability, convenient location and natural resources combined with all of the amenities of a metropolitan university town, Greenville is the perfect place to live, work and play!

• Located inland off of the North Carolina coast, Greenville is 45 miles east of interstate 95, just over an hour to Raleigh, a little over an hour to the pristine beaches of the Crystal Coast of NC
• Home to East Carolina University (ECU), a vibrant university with an annual enrollment of more than 24,000 students
• Numerous waterways and the Greenville Greenway System are perfect for boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping
• Mild climate perfect for year-round outdoor activities
• Cost of living below the national average, diverse and affordable housing and excellent educational opportunities, both public and private
• Investment of more than $500 million in downtown Greenville’s revitalization bringing new restaurants, shops, businesses, and residents to the area