Physician- Acute Care Surgery- Charlotte, NC

If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina and South Carolina. We invite providers to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together.

Seeking a full-time general surgeon interested in an academic acute care surgery practice, providing Level I trauma care, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care in the metro region of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Atrium Health’s Division of Acute Care Surgery (ACS) currently employs 18 full-time, academic faculty and 4 military faculty, and 20 advanced practice providers (APP) providing urgent care to acutely ill and injured patients at two AH facilities, Carolinas Medical Center and Atrium Health University City. Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) is AH’s flagship 874-bed hospital, and an American College of Surgeons verified Level I Trauma Center, serving as the region’s only Level I center. Our division provides advanced clinical care including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), a surgical stabilization of rib fractures program, robotic surgery, complex abdominal wall surgery, and trauma sequalae surgery, as well as a robust clinical and outcomes research program and leadership development programs. CMC supports its own fellowship and residency programs and serves as the largest clinical facility for the Wake Forest School of Medicine. CMC’s F.H. “Sammy” Ross, Jr. Trauma Center leads regional trauma system development and the Metrolina Trauma Advisory Committee, providing robust trauma education, simulation curricula, innovative injury prevention programs, quality programs, and working closely with the Trauma Survivors Network. Our division also collaborates closely with pediatric surgeons to provide care for injured children in our verified Level I Pediatric Trauma Center. The Division of ACS supports fellowship programs in Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery and maintains a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring, mentoring, and promotion. The Division of ACS is recruiting a well-trained acute care surgeon to join our team.

Atrium Health operates nine hospitals within the greater Charlotte region that provide some aspect of Acute Care Surgery (ACS). Our integrated system has roughly 50,000 ACS admissions annually, of which roughly 35,000 are emergent general surgery (EGS) conditions and 13,000 are trauma conditions. Advancing and elevating the care for all acutely ill and injured surgical patients from across our rapidly growing region is the AH-Division of Acute Care Surgery’s primary mission.

Qualified candidates should be:

• Board certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care
• Interested in patient-centered, value-based delivery of care
• Willing to support the Division’s primary mission across the region
• Interested in system development
• Expected to participate in clinical research and resident / fellow education

More about Atrium Health:

In 2020, AH and Wake Forest Baptist Health merged and in 2023, construction of the Wake Forest School of Medicine Charlotte Campus began, matriculating its first full class in 2025. In December 2022, Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health merged to form Advocate Health. Headquartered in Charlotte, Advocate Health is one of the largest, most comprehensive and integrated, public, not-for-profit systems in the nation serving nearly 6 million patients annually. Advocate Health is comprised of more than 1,000 sites of care and 67 hospitals with more than 21,000 physicians and nearly 42,000 nurses. 

When you join Atrium Health, you will be welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. Practice where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In our nationally-renowned integrated health system, you can work alongside the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine, elevate hope and advance healing—for all.

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