Physician - Clinical Heart Failure Attending

About the role

The Cardiology Section at VA Boston Healthcare System (VABHS) in collaboration with the Cardiovascular Medicine Division of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) invites applications for a Heart Failure Cardiologist. More recently, we started an LVAD Program in 2025 supported by a multi-disciplinary team of advanced heart failure cardiologists, advanced practitioners, cardiac surgeons, critical care physicians, advanced imaging specialists, electrophysiologists, and support staff at the West Roxbury campus of VA Boston, which is affiliated with MGB-Brigham & Women's Hospital.

Responsibilities

• Participate in heart failure care at VABHS with a focus on advanced heart failure and the new Mechanical Support and Heart Transplant Program in close collaboration with the Cardiovascular Division at BWH.
• Engage in clinical activities on the heart failure and transplant services at BWH, including inpatient cardiology, advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support and heart transplant services, and outpatient ambulatory continuity care clinics.
• Teach and mentor residents, Cardiovascular Disease Fellows, and subspecialty Fellows in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.
• Provide service time on the VA general cardiology ward service and outpatient cardiology responsibilities.
• Involvement in overnight on-call and weekend on-call responsibilities.

Requirements

The successful candidate should have a track record of research and publication in clinical cardiology including health equity and quality of care, or equivalent academic area. Academic appointment at Harvard Medical School (HMS) as Instructor, Assistant Professor or Associate Professor will be provided commensurate with experience and accomplishments.

Qualifications

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Residency Training: Physicians must have completed residency training, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification.
• Board certification or eligibility in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. Training and experience in a high-volume mechanical circulatory support and heart transplant center is required.