APP Manager 24 Hour Surgical - Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Position Summary: The Medical College of Wisconsin’s Department of Department of Surgery , Division of Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery , is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) to serve as the APP Manager 24 Hour Surgical.  Additionally, this APP will provide care within the Operating Room, Inpatient and Outpatient settings.  The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) works as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team who will contribute to excellence in program administration, patient care, patient safety, research, quality improvement, and teaching.  Position Highlights: Practice within the Herma Heart Institute (HHI), Wisconsin's largest pediatric cardiac care center and a nationally recognized leader in pediatric cardiology and heart surgery. HHI performs annually: Over 450 pediatric heart surgeries More than 22,000 diagnostic procedures Services delivered across 16 locations throughout Wisconsin Multidisciplinary program consisting of approximately 87 providers. Strong academic and research environment with: Multiple NIH-funded investigators Robust quality and outcomes program Affiliation with the Children's Research Institute (CRI) National collaborative research partnerships Opportunity to contribute to research, quality improvement, education, and innovation in pediatric cardiovascular care. Pediatric and adult congenital heart disease patients from fetal diagnosis through adulthood. Surgical and medical management of complex congenital cardiovascular conditions. Inpatient, ICU, perioperative, operative, and ambulatory care settings. Exposure to highly complex congenital heart surgery patients, including ECMO and ventricular assist device (VAD) populations. Required: Reporting: APP Manager, Division Administrator) Leadership Responsibilities: Serve as a point of contact for clinical and administrative issues, ensuring the highest standards of care and professional development.   Consider a program-wide approach to supervision and coordination of APPs, supporting the implementation of policies and procedures to maximize efficiency within the program and the Advanced Practice Provider model.   Assist with recruitment, training and evaluation of the APPs, serving as a liaison between APPs and leadership, and actively participate in division activities as an APP representative. Administrative duties as directed by the leadership team. Schedule: M-F Days Evening, Weekend and Holiday Call (rotating) Ability to pick up extra call shifts   Required: Full time FTE   Required: Salaried (Exempt) Department/Division Highlights: Herma Heart Institute (HHI) The HHI at Children’s Wisconsin is the largest pediatric cardiac care center in the state of Wisconsin and is a national leader in pediatric cardiology and heart surgery with over annually over 450 heart surgeries, 400 heart procedures, 22,000 diagnostic procedures in 16 locations across the state of Wisconsin.  The program includes 87 providers from multiple disciplines.  In addition, the HHI includes 7 principal investigators with multiple current NIH funded projects, and a robust quality and outcomes program. In 2023, the HHI published numerous impactful articles and has more than $56 million endowed funds with Children’s Wisconsin Foundation.  We care for patients with congenital heart disease from fetus through adulthood, and we consistently report some of the best surgical outcomes for even the most complex types of heart disease.  The HHI runs one of the largest adult congenital heart disease programs in the United States with physicians specially trained to treat this population. Children’s Research Institute (CRI) As a children’s hospital within an academic medical center, research is interwoven into the care we provide every day.  Children’s Wisconsin (CW) allocates a portion of its annual budget to pediatric research to stimulate research activity which is focused solely on improving child health outcomes.  This research is focused on improving diagnostics, discovering, and testing new therapies, and improving the way we prevent and manage some of the most complex medical conditions.  Physician-scientists, nurse-scientists, researchers, and technicians at the Children’s Research Institute (CRI) seek answers to the toughest questions in pediatric medicine. This innovative culture helps to attract and retain the best and brightest minds to our organization.  Since its inception in 2003, the CRI has grown to include more than 150 researchers spanning all diagnostic, medical, and surgical specialties. Together they form the largest "concentration of 100% pediatric research” in Wisconsin. The CRI provides infrastructure and financial support for pediatric researchers conducting child health research.  CRI’s academic partners include the Medical College of Wisconsin, UW-Milwaukee, and Marquette University. Types of support include the following: • Supplemental Grant Support for Early-Stage Investigators • Competitive Pilot Grants to help investigators test new ideas. • Shared services, including a pediatric translational research unit staffed by pediatric nurses trained on the complexities of regulated clinical research. • Dedicated laboratory space for pediatric researchers • National Landscape • Resources to support successful scientific writing. Children’s Wisconsin engages in several national research partnerships with other children’s hospitals including Children’s Oncology Group (COG), Pediatric Heart Network (PHN), Midwest Pediatric Surgical Consortium, and Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PeCARN).  CW’s support of pediatric research is ~$16-17 million annually inclusive of philanthropy and overhead.  Much of CW’s philanthropic support for research is targeted to specific diseases.  The areas with the most significant donor support of research include pediatric cancer, congenital heart disease, and juvenile diabetes.  A more recent gift p