On behalf of the Cook Children's Health Care System (CCHCS) and the Jane and John Justin Institute for Mind Health located in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, CareerPhysician, the national leader in child health executive search, is pleased to announce the inception of a national search for qualified candidates for its child neurology center in Lubbock, TX.  The new associate will play a key role in the development of neurological services and in the coordination of high-end subspecialty services across West Texas.  

Cook Children’s has established a strategic clinical relationship with Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock. The new neurologist will be responsible for outpatient neurology care and inpatient consultations at Covenant Children’s Hospital and for working with leadership from both organizations to build the clinical practice in Lubbock.  Subspecialty clinics for epilepsy, headache and movement disorders will be provided monthly by staff from the Fort Worth and Amarillo campuses with telemedicine consultations available for additional neurological subspecialty care as required. Call responsibilities will be shared by Cook Children’s neurologists serving West Texas and Prosper campus faculty. 

CCHCS is a not-for-profit, nationally recognized pediatric health care organization comprised of two Medical Centers, Physician Network, Home Health company, Pediatric Surgery Centers, Health Plan and Health Foundation.  The Cook Children’s Medical Center is a freestanding 462-bed quaternary care pediatric hospital that is consistently ranked by US News and World Report.  The integrated system has more than 60 primary and specialty care offices throughout North and West Texas, serving a 23-county referral network. The Cook Children's Physician Network is the largest pediatric multi-specialty physician group in its service area with over 700 employed specialty and primary care providers. 

The Institute for Mind Health is committed to the delivery of easily accessible, well-coordinated, comprehensive evaluation and treatment for children with neurological diseases through patient-centered care. This collaborative care environment includes the departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Developmental Pediatrics, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuropsychology, Pain Management, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Although not a university-based program, clinical research is an important program component supported by a multi-million-dollar Neuroscience Research Endowment providing all necessary elements for research development, data acquisition, analysis, and dissemination.

Key Programmatic Highlights:

• Joining a highly subspecialized specialized regional group of 21-Child Neurologists, 8-Nurse Practitioners, 3-Pediatric Neurosurgeons, 1 Physiatrist and 4-Neuropsychologists.
• Opportunity for appropriate candidates to serve as Medical Director for West Texas.
• Subspecialty support from nationally ranked programs in Epilepsy, DBS, Movement Disorders and Headache. 
• Future development of a Lubbock epilepsy monitoring unit and support from the Cook Children’s epilepsy surgery program (average 40 surgeries/year) with available unprecedented technologies including 3T and intraoperative-MRI, Magnetoencephalography, PET, SPECT, fMRI, TMS, and HD-EEG.
• Ability to follow your complex patient at the Fort Worth campus including access to a 26-bed state-of-the-art Neuro-Rehabilitation unit.
• Participate in established comprehensive clinical and research programs in headache, stroke, movement disorder and epilepsy.
• Great quality of life with call coverage 1 in 5 shared with physicians at Amarillo and Prosper campuses.  
• Interested candidates will have faculty appointment and teaching opportunities with Texas Tech University.
• Highly competitive compensation and benefits package including:
• Base salary at the 80^th percentile.
• WRVU productivity-based incentive program.  
• Qualified candidates may participate in the fellow’s retention program that will provide a monthly stipend of $2,500 from the time a contract is signed through the start of practice with Cook Children’s 

Covenant Children’s Hospital:

Covenant Children’s Hospital (CCH) is part of Covenant Health, and its parent Providence-St Joseph Health, which has a history of over 100 years of service to the West Texas/Panhandle Plains and eastern New Mexico region. Covenant Children’s is a 275-bed facility and is the only licensed freestanding children's hospital in the area. CCH operates a level IV NICU and is verified as the only level II Pediatric Trauma Center in the region. CCH is also a regional provider of high-risk maternal care. CCH has over 175 physicians on medical staff, representing nearly all major pediatric subspecialties (neurosurgery, neurology, cardiology, GI, ENT and ENT trauma, Endocrine, ID, hem-onc, pulmonology, adolescent medicine, among others).

CCH plays an active role in the West Texas/Panhandle Plains region’s provision of pediatric care via partnerships with regional facilities, primarily in the Midland and Odessa area via providing pediatric hospitalist services for two hospitals.  CCH has also begun to partner with Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in Amarillo. Historically, CCH has a close relationship with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, with CCH acting as the primary teaching site for pediatric education for the Health Sciences Center. Each year CCH trains approximately 24 pediatric residents, with many providers also serving as faculty of TTUHSC, engaging in academic teaching, and/or research.    

Minimum qualifications:

Must have completed an accredited pediatric specialty training program and be board certified/board eligible in Child Neurology. Must be qualified to obtain an unrestricted Texas Medical License before commencing employment.   

For more information about this outstanding position, please contact Marcel Barbey, Vice President, CareerPhysician, at (817) 707-9034 or via email at marcel@careerphysician.com for additional details.  All inquiries and referrals are treated as and will remain highly confidential without your prior approval. 

Cook Children’s Health Care System is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.