Assistant Professor of Clinical - Medicine, Interventional Pulmonology

Position Summary

The Interventional Pulmonologist serves as a full-time, clinical-track faculty member within the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Memorial Health System. The position is jointly embedded within the Miami Transplant Institute (MTI) and the Lung Center at Jackson Memorial, reflecting the dual programmatic mission of supporting a high-volume lung transplant program and a comprehensive lung nodule and thoracic oncology service.

Organizational Relationships

The faculty member reports directly to the Program Director of the Lung Center and Lung Transplant Program at Jackson Memorial Health System. The Miami Transplant Institute (MTI) and the Lung Center at Jackson Memorial constitute a unified programmatic structure, and this position operates across both missions as a single integrated appointment. The role functions within a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary environment and maintains close working relationships with Thoracic Surgery, Lung Transplant Surgery, Transplant Pulmonology, Medical and Thoracic Oncology, Interventional Radiology, and Pathology.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated competency in advanced bronchoscopic procedures is required, including flexible and rigid bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound with transbronchial needle aspiration, robotic-assisted bronchoscopy, airway stenting, tumor debulking, bronchoscopic lung volume reduction, and pleuroscopy.
• Experience in the pre- and post-procedural management of lung transplant candidates and recipients, and familiarity with the multidisciplinary evaluation of indeterminate pulmonary nodules, are strongly preferred.

Clinical Duties And Responsibilities

Bronchoscopic and Procedural Services

• Independently perform and supervise the full range of advanced diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopic and pleural procedures appropriate to a high-volume academic interventional pulmonology program.
• Procedures are performed across the bronchoscopy suite and operating room, with complexity and modality determined by clinical indication.
• Maintain procedural proficiency across the scope of contemporary interventional pulmonology practice, including advanced bronchoscopic techniques for airway evaluation and management, tissue sampling, and therapeutic intervention.

Inpatient Consultative Service

• Provide daily inpatient consultative services at Jackson Memorial Health System, encompassing the evaluation and management of complex pulmonary conditions requiring interventional expertise.
• Consult rounds are conducted each weekday morning and serve as the primary mechanism for inpatient case identification, procedural planning, and continuity of care for hospitalized patients.

Outpatient Subspecialty Clinic

• Maintain a dedicated outpatient interventional pulmonology clinic, providing consultative evaluation, procedural planning, and post-procedural follow-up for patients referred from thoracic oncology, transplant pulmonology, primary pulmonology, and other subspecialty services within the Jackson Memorial Health System network.

Lung Transplant Program Support

• Provide bronchoscopic services for lung transplant recipients as clinically indicated, including surveillance bronchoscopy and management of post-transplant pulmonary and airway complications.
• Serve as a core procedural resource for the transplant team and engage with the broader multidisciplinary lung transplant clinical structure as appropriate.

Multidisciplinary Tumor Board and Lung Nodule Clinic

• Serve as the interventional pulmonology representative on the Thoracic Oncology Multidisciplinary Tumor Board and actively participate in the Lung Nodule Clinic.
• Procedural planning and coordination for patients with thoracic malignancies and indeterminate pulmonary nodules, conducted in close collaboration with Thoracic Surgery, Oncology, Interventional Radiology, and Diagnostic Radiology.

Academic And Educational Responsibilities

• Contribute meaningfully to the teaching and training mission of the Division, primarily through direct supervision and mentorship of Pulmonary and Critical Care fellows and internal medicine residents rotating through the interventional pulmonology service, bronchoscopy skills training and simulation-based procedural education, participation in weekly divisional didactic conferences, and case-based teaching in the bronchoscopy suite and operating room.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the planned Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship program, including participation in curriculum design, trainee case log oversight, and structured competency assessment.
• Engage in departmental Grand Rounds, Morbidity and Mortality conferences, quality improvement education, and scholarly activities including peer-reviewed publication.

Effort Distribution

Activity Percentage of Total Effort Clinical activities 90% Academic and educational responsibilities 5% Administrative duties 5%

Job Status

This position is contingent upon successful completion of credentialing and privileging at the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Health System, full medical licensure in the State of Florida, and a satisfactory background check in accordance with University of Miami policy.

Job Status

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.