Endocrinologist-Nemours Children's Health, Lakeland

Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida is seeking a Pediatric Endocrinologist to join our team at our partner hospital, Lakeland Regional Health, in Lakeland, Florida.

We are seeking an outstanding clinician of either junior or mid-career level to join a talented team of 5 physicians and 3 nurse practitioners to assist us in the care of our patients. The division is supported by an excellent team of endocrine nurses, certified diabetes educators, registered dietitians, and social workers. Nemours provides robust research opportunities for interested candidates. The partnership between Nemours and The University of Central Florida College of Medicine, in addition to the Pediatric residency and Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship programs at Nemours offer excellent teaching opportunities.  

Other Nemours services onsite at Lakeland Regional include outpatient Cardiology, Gastroenterology Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Nephrology, Urology, Rheumatology, and Maternal Fetal Medicine.  Nemours Inpatient services include Cardiology and MFM Consults, PICU and General Surgery Medical Directorship services, and Neurology.  

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, Nemours provides medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Nemours’ pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. Nemours generates annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.  Nemours offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes productivity and quality based financial incentives, relocation, health, life, dental, CME, 403B Retirement Plan with matching, 457-retirement savings plan, licensure, and dues allowance. Nemours is not-for-profit; employed physicians qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. 

With 892 beds, Lakeland Regional is one of the largest independent Hospitals in Florida, seeing over 200,000 ER visits (54,000 Pediatric) and 43,000 admissions per year.  As a level 2 trauma center, Lakeland has over 2800 trauma visits annually.  Built in 2018, the Carol Jenkins Barnett Pavilion for Women and Children is the ideal destination for quality healthcare for women and children.  As a level III Joint Commission Maternity Level of Care Verified center, Lakeland Regional has over 4100 deliveries annually along with 300+ (30-bed) level III NICU admissions to support deliveries from 22 weeks to post-term.  The Pavilion hosts 300,000 square feet of stare-of-the-art inpatient and outpatient space including an 18-bed pediatric medical/surgical unit, a 12-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, to support our promise of keeping care local. 

For confidential consideration, qualified candidates should contact and submit their most up to date CV and cover letter to: 

Kristina Coveney

Physician Recruiter

Kristina.Coveney@nemours.org