Job Description
The Mayo Clinic Arizona (MCA) Department of Psychiatry and Psychology seeks a full-time psychiatrist with a passion for patient care, commitment to excellence, and experience in transplant psychiatry. This outpatient position is primarily focused on the pre-transplant psychiatric evaluation, participating in transplant selection committee meetings, and post-transplant treatment of psychiatric disorders. MCA is the largest solid organ transplant hospital in the area, with expansion to add a lung transplant program to the well-established kidney, liver and heart transplant programs. The Department's primary mission is to provide evidence-based and personalized mental health services for the medically ill populations. The successful applicant would join a vibrant collegial work environment with a dynamic clinical team of psychiatrists, clinical health psychologists and neuropsychologists. As an academic position, it would include teaching medical students, residents, and fellows as well as opportunities for engagement in clinical research. The Mayo model of care involves multi-disciplinary teams offering evidence-based biologic and psychosocial treatments in a patient-focused, highly professional, and compassionate environment. Fellowship training and certification in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry or Addiction Psychiatry is preferred, though not required. Our practice is exclusively outpatient, apart from a hospital consultation-liaison service, which has a rotational, cross-coverage and call schedule
Dept. Chair - Dr. Osama Abulseoud
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Qualifications
Board-certification in Psychiatry through the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology is required. If not already board certified, achievement of certification is expected in the first three years of employment. The practice functions in two settings, an outpatient multi-specialty clinic setting at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale and Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. The successful applicant should expect the possibility of coverage of services in both locations. There is regular contact with the psychiatric practices at other Mayo Clinic locations including Rochester, Minnesota; the Health System in Minnesota and Wisconsin; and Jacksonville, Florida.
