Academic/Clinical Surgical Oncology - Physician

Outstanding Surgical Oncologist Opportunity to Join Drs. Mark Cohen and Claudius Conrad at Carle Foundation Hospital with Academic Appointment through the Carle Illinois College of Medicine in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

Carle Cancer Institute and Carle Illinois College of Medicine are excited to add an academic surgical oncologist to their team. The candidate should have experience with a broad range of surgical oncology conditions and have expertise in GI malignancies, such as stomach, liver, pancreas, and biliary tract cancers, as well as small bowel cancer, adrenal tumors, melanoma, soft tissue sarcomas, and when occasionally necessary assist oncology team in Urbana with rare excisional nodal biopsies and feeding tube placement. Training and interest in Minimally Invasive Surgery are preferred.

The candidate will enjoy a very generous compensation package in a stable, vertically integrated Carle Health System, while practicing in a multi-disciplinary setting. The health system has over 17,000 employees across several hospitals, covering a population of about 2.5 million people. The candidate would participate in our weekly Upper GI Tumor Board, outpatient clinics at the Carle Cancer Institute, and have strong support from Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology and Advanced GI Endoscopy. Carle Cancer Institute has strong clinical cancer research with an NCORP Grant (PI: Ken Rowland, MD) from the National Cancer Institute and currently > 100 open clinical trials.

This candidate will work with two other surgical oncologists in practice. Carle is at the forefront of technological advances in medicine and surgery through its collaboration with the Carle Illinois college of Medicine, the world's first fully accredited engineering based medical school leading the world in integration of AI, data science, and global health medical innovation. These technological advances have already found their way into daily clinical practice such as AI-generated note taking, virtual organ modelling for surgical planning, and others.

The ideal candidate would have post-fellowship clinical experience, be board-certified in general surgery and complex general surgical oncology and have excellent interpersonal skills for program building. The Carle Illinois College of Medicine (CI COM) was founded in 2015 and has graduated the best medical students in the country who over 92% have obtained their #1 program choice in the match. The medical school is part of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC), with over 60,000 students, UIUC is a vibrant college town with nationally ranked sports teams and academically was recently ranked as one of the top 20 Universities in the world. The Grainger College of Engineering ranks top 10 in the country and its computer science program and the campus' national supercomputing center are unparalleled. Opportunities for interdisciplinary research and collaboration are unmatched and an academic appointment in the college of medicine will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

The position will include dedicated time for teaching CI COM medical students and General Surgery Residents at Carle's General Surgery Residency Program. For candidates with a strong academic background, a 0.2 FTE of protected research/academic time would be available. For clinical research, Carle Cancer Institute is a home of Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute with an existing opportunity to support investigator-initiated studies. For basic science and translational research, UIUC Basic Science Cancer Center of Illinois houses over 75 basic and translational cancer investigators bringing in over $50M annually in federal and industry funding grants as well as a new $145M partnership with Deerfield Partners to develop new drugs for the clinic using AI-infused chemistry and synthesis around molecular targets for drug development.

Interested candidates should contact Kirstin Walder, Physician Recruiter for Carle Health System via email kirstin.walder@carle.com. Interested candidates may also directly contact Claudius Conrad, MD, PhD, PhD, Surgical Oncologist, Medical Director for Surgical Strategy and Innovation at Carle, and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation at CI COM, at claudius.conrad@carle.com, or Sinisa Stanic, MD, Medical Director, Carle Cancer Institute at sinisa.stanic@carle.com and learn more about this exciting opportunity.

Carle Foundation Hospital is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusive excellence through diversity.

Champaign-Urbana is a uniquely cosmopolitan college town with a population of 150,000, offering not only international cuisine, world-class performative art through the Krannert Center, but also houses one of the only university airports in the country (American Airlines). Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis are easily accessible by car or public transportation.