Job Description

Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is offering an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Pediatric Ophthalmologist to join our highly collaborative team. The ideal candidate will have the ability to build a busy surgical and medical pediatric ophthalmology practice and manage cases such as strabismus, amblyopia, and other pediatric ophthalmic conditions. Opportunity:

• Physician-led, professionally managed healthcare system.
• Commitment to patient care: Physicians should demonstrate a genuine dedication to delivering high-quality patient care and improving patient outcomes.
• Contribute to practice growth, supporting quality and safety, driving and maintaining clinical excellence and innovation.
• Provide and perform corrective and advanced surgeries, as well as diagnose and treat pediatric eye diseases.
• Call is required

Qualifications:

• Education: M.D., D.O.
• Completion of an ACGME or AOA Ophthalmology Residency and Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellowship
• Board Certified or Board Eligible by the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO)
• Unrestricted FL medical license (or the ability to obtain one) and DEA

Benefits Package:

• A full portfolio of benefits, including health/vision/dental insurance, along with malpractice coverage, disability coverage, deferred compensation, and matching retirement savings options from day 1
• Annual CME stipend
• Eligible employer under the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program

Orlando is a thriving metropolis with numerous activities and plenty of sunshine to enjoy year-round. Whether you prefer professional sports, theatre and ballet, world-class golf courses, or theme parks, it is easy to see why Orlando is America’s most visited city. We are also a wonderful community in which to raise a family, offering education from award-winning public and private schools, diverse neighborhoods, beautiful beaches, no state income tax, and an international airport. You, too, can call Orlando home! Providing comprehensive medical, surgical and emergency care to the children, teenagers and young adults of Central Florida for more than 30 years, Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is a nationally recognized and trusted name in children’s healthcare. Located on the downtown Orlando campus, the 156-bed hospital’s expert and compassionate team of caregivers provides award-winning care in more than 30 pediatric specialties in an environment built just for kids and delivered by a comprehensive staff that includes pediatric subspecialty physicians and a nursing team that is “Magnet” recognized for excellence in patient care. Specialty areas include heart care, cancer and blood disorders, neuroscience, orthopedics, endocrinology and diabetes, nephrology, digestive health and nutrition. Its numerous centers include subspecialty clinics and programs that focus on specific diseases and disorders affecting children, including a Level 4 Epilepsy Center, the highest rating by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. As part of the Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center Level I Trauma Center, the Bert Martin’s Champions for Children Emergency Department and Trauma Center is the first and only facility in Central Florida to provide the highest level of emergency trauma care exclusively to children. The hospital’s numerous quality and safety recognitions most recently include:

• Best Children’s Hospital – U.S. News & World Report, 2023-2024

• Tied for the No. 3 spot in Florida and No. 12 in the Southeast region 

• Nationally ranked in four specialties: neonatology pediatric diabetes and endocrinology, pediatric orthopedics, pediatric pulmonology and lung surgery

• Magnet Recognized – American Nurses Credentialing Center

• Beacon Awards for Excellence – American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 

• Pediatric Hematology Oncology Unit – Gold

• Pediatric Orthopedic/Neurology Unit – Gold

• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit – Gold

• Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care – Gold

• Acute Pediatrics – Gold

• Verified Children’s Surgery Center – American College of Surgeons

• The Committee on Trauma, Verified Trauma Center – American College of Surgeons

• Echocardiography accreditation – Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC)

• Get with the Guidelines®: Gold Achievement - Resuscitation – American Heart Association, 2023

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About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $8.1 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States. Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows. The 3,238-bed system includes 23 hospitals and emergency departments – 18 of which are currently operational with five coming soon. The system also includes nine specialty institutes, more than 100 adult and pediatric primary care practices, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patie ... nt behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 60 outpatient facilities that include imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,000 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 25,000 team members and more than 1,200 physicians. In FY22, Orlando Health served nearly 142,000 inpatients and 3.9 million outpatients. The healthcare system provided more than $782 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more in FY 21, the most recent period for which this information is available. We encourage you to visit our website at and view our video:

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