Geriatrician - Geriatric Primary Care/Consultatative Memory Care - Academic Faculty (Open Rank)

About the role

The Medical College of Wisconsin’s Division of Geriatric & Palliative Medicine is seeking a Faculty Geriatrician to provide geriatric primary care and consultative memory care. This position will be located in Milwaukee and the greater Milwaukee area. Our geriatrics clinical practice spans geriatrics specialty care, memory care, and geriatrics primary care in the ambulatory, inpatient, and post-acute/long-term care settings. The focus will be on providing comprehensive, longitudinal care to older adults in two ambulatory settings: the MCW Geriatrics Memory Disorders Clinic (on-campus), and one of Froedtert & MCW's clinics in the greater Milwaukee area (off-campus).

Responsibilities

• Provide geriatric primary care and consultative memory care across ambulatory, inpatient, and post-acute/long-term care settings
• Evaluate and manage patients with memory disorders while helping advance the delivery of comprehensive, evidence-based care
• Engage in teaching, patient care, research/scholarly activity, and administrative engagement tailored to individual interests and career goals
• Participate in the education of medical students, residents, and fellows
• Collaborate with an interprofessional team including nurses, APPs, fellows, residents, students, social workers, and psychologists
• Contribute to the rapidly evolving field of dementia care as a clinician-educator and investigator
• Opportunity to build new geriatrics community practice
• Potential for additional clinical training in neurologic memory disorders with potential dedication of portion of on-campus clinical time to the Neurology clinic

Schedule

• Full-time days
• Eight half-days of clinic per week with dedicated academic time
• Night, weekend, and holiday call for Froedtert Hospital and the Zablocki VA Medical Center in rotation with other faculty: 5–6 weekends per year and approximately 1 holiday per year

Department & Division Highlights

• Expanding division with highly collaborative, mission-driven faculty
• Diverse and rewarding patient population supported by strong infrastructure and a true team-based model of care
• Deeply committed to improving the lives of older adults and patients facing advanced or life-threatening illness, and their caregivers
• Collegial, respectful, supportive, and interprofessional culture
• Educationally innovative and highly efficient team
• 26 clinical faculty members and 11 advanced practice providers
• All clinical faculty are fellowship-trained and board-certified in Geriatrics and/or Palliative Medicine
• Long-standing, combined Medicine Residency/Geriatric Fellowship Program — the first of its kind in the US — a 4-year program with 2 trainees admitted each year
• Outstanding nursing support in clinic
• Access to robust mentorship in memory care, including involvement with cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic approaches
• Extensive opportunities for mentorship and professional exploration

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• MD or DO degree
• Completion of Internal Medicine residency
• Completion of Geriatrics fellowship
• Wisconsin MD or DO license
• ABIM Internal Medicine board certification or eligibility
• ABIM Geriatric Medicine board certification or eligibility
• DEA registration

Preferred Experience

• Geriatric Medicine and Memory Care experience
• Palliative Medicine board certification or eligibility (a plus, but not required)

About the Medical College of Wisconsin

The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is the state’s only private medical school and health sciences graduate school. MCW consists of a School of Medicine with campuses in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Central Wisconsin, a School of Graduate Studies, and a School of Pharmacy. MCW is a major national research center ranking in the top third of U.S. medical schools in NIH funding and is the second largest research institution in Wisconsin. Approximately 1,780 MCW physicians and approximately 905 advanced practice providers care for more than 484,000 patients of all ages annually at Froedtert Hospital, Zablocki VA Medical Center, Children’s Wisconsin, and many other hospitals and clinics throughout eastern Wisconsin, representing more than 5.1 million patient visits annually. The Milwaukee Regional Medical Center (MRMC) campus houses Froedtert Hospital, Children’s Wisconsin, Curative Care Network, Versiti Blood Research Institute, and the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division, sharing a common mission of excellence in patient care, medical education, biomedical research, and community service.

Location

Milwaukee, the largest city in Wisconsin, is located on Lake Michigan’s western shore. A metropolitan area with more than 1.6 million people, Milwaukee is an affordable, comfortable place to live, work, and play — big enough to be exciting and uncongested enough to get around easily. Milwaukee’s many neighborhoods have incredible charm, accommodating a variety of lifestyles, from high-rise apartments to small farms. Nestled along a magnificent bluff overlooking Lake Michigan, Milwaukee’s downtown is home to botanical gardens, lakefront museums, a theater district, the Milwaukee Bucks, the Milwaukee Brewers, bustling nightlife, and award-winning restaurants. The lake and its harbors are skirted by scenic parklands and provide first-class opportunities for recreation, including hiking, cycling, and boating. A recent study ranked Milwaukee as the 15th most walkable of the 50 largest U.S. cities.